The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1935, Page 4

URN about How about letting column today? s fair piay readers D. M., ! Relief Head Makes Clamp Down on Fascist Threat By a Worker Correspondent } By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill.—Fascism lifted its NEW YORK.—The government loathsome head and snarled in des-| Home Loan Corporation is begin- Home Loans NAILY WORKER, 'W YORK, M By Redfield | DAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1985 The Way By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Colo.—A young Ameri- can worker, unemployed and on re- |Mexicans Show _Relief Applicants | Increase | | | By a Worker Correspondent | EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.—The Madi- | son County Unemployment situa-| Whai to Eat OME people think that they will turn yellow if they eat too many New York. “On ¢ q a | tion is unchanged. There are more| carrots; others won't sit in ti ROM New Yo snded | Perate fear and murderous hatred ning to quietly put the screws down lief, has been getting two quarts) people on relief than a month ago.| came oom with somecne cho es as Robert Dunham. chairman Of| ypon small home-owners who re- | |of milk each day for his children.| A few weeks ago, I dropped into| eating a pork chop because the pig the ani Relief oe ceived loank |Recently the milkman quit leaving | the rind to See ed name} had a mother too. Some people neces oln's birthday by an- inite tens 5 |for work. ere are to some} won't put cream or milk in their ; i 6 re of | . the milk- | won't put cr in. their Avatcine inet loyes| Without the blare of publicity | milk so the worker asked y < fc 0 found to have any connection what. |which began its campaign to pay | |man why he didn't leave any milk.|PUblic works jobs to start in the | coffee because they were once told | County in a few weeks. All of the|that this makes coffee indigestibl {unemployed in each town are to|others won't eat an apple within |register. At that time there were | twenty-four hours after drinking a | 12,000 workers who had already | glass of milk because they belizve |The milkman said he had been de- livering relief milk to about forty | families, but, recently about one- |half of the families were cut off or| private mortgage companies mil- of dollars on frozen mort- be gages it is threatening foreclosures if interest and principal payments Communist act ities, ‘otherwise enemies of our | lions i who are ent Government,” would we ente-s = summarily discharged ve er ig | | i 5 is is an increase of|the milk will sour in the sto: h. at the Fo : De ests i | and when he looked over the list, to| registered. This _ e stomach. St hat relief rolls would be) are not met 4 | group after group of women|.o°btened considerably” if “allens”| A letter signed by J. D. Menkes, |his astonishment he found only eres OWn ee, ae ee hes fain bid marched in with red banr which were dealt with under “existing | assistant service manager of the Mexican families left while all the | ahene ee oe ihe Maier aver 7200 Ry nesgrens Ped afce Huis eld high and proudly. The tay,” he urged the strictest en- |Home Owners Loan Corporation, 500 Americans had been cut off. When} : ; wn. ig families or around 25,000 people.| the There are 20,000 who have no pens | se women were the most that I ever ass movement first issue, HEALTH AND HYGIENE, the Medical Advisory Board’s magazine. will have a series this American worker protested at the relief station he was told in- directly that if the American work- forcement of deportatior Boast, laws. Fifth Avenue, received by a home ig that he had fired several owner in Long Island last week, for attempting to organ-/| threatens that “unless arrears is had of support who are unable to re- ceive relief. The relief in the County if Te ne Limi a That is why we support it. That f ee ee Gall Worker jedimings. = : | Limitations of Fratemal Help. | wrong method of raising funds for |of lack of funds, At this moment Provide these means ig Why we ack this committee to|| emmeiate contribution to the |-+ tern Dauartenent. est 17th But such efforts can at best only We who are working in the fra- the insurance. Then they make ac-/it is not a qutstion to kill people Soarce of Furds report it out favorably. That is why yaaa ore-Herndon rl ar Street, New York City, serve emergencies. They cannot, ternal organizations are daily faced| tuarial deductions as to how far,and to destroy property as it was| It is clear that the masses of, we demand of Congress to pass it. ac ie f ef € » » 4 1 ’ relief workers and for I. began to feel like a hu- being for the first time since a be class conscious. I = nt at a so-called “Com- demonstration, he an- ced that investigation was be- paid up at this office within the next few days it will be necessary to start legal proceedings to pro- tect the collateral afforded the cor- jers had half as much (guts) as the| | Mexicans have they would get bet- | ter treatment. | Another American worker, unem- ployed and in urgent need of food, has been cut the last month. Tr surplus food order has been cut in half. Many people are being de-! nied relief if there is any income of articles on diet and nutrition by one of the members of the Board who has made an intensive study in this field of health. Subscribe now. The svecial advance sub- t ? made and “necessary action” | norati iment.” being brought into the family. | scription rate of one dollar is good e1 fraid t ght for fear : poration for its investms s | : 5 “one. Here 1 knew that 1) WOuld be taken on the charge that |wnen the Home Owners Loan ectepesfomegoiat eran THe! Work relief started on a smalt/only until March 16. ‘I walked out of | lef stations had assisted in the! Corporation was created,” stated |bor, a Mexican, who is also unem.| Scale. The average family of four eA Ne that no mat-| @stribution of “cut-rate” tickets to|ine home owner, “it was supposed Baht Sper: 2 |receives from $11 to $13 a week|. that rio mint | Oo" crease “oo ah ces SB | | ployed and who went to get relief |! a saat Medical Care and the Relief Doctor of the next |® ommuUnIS, Propaganda” stage | to be for the purpose of saving the| | also was told they could not do any-|+/,they work for their relief. | mean, I would join the | Production. The “cut-rate” tickets | homes of people, who through no thing for him, so he said to the|. Te Illinois Workers Alliance here | 7. F., SOUTH BEND, Ind—We are ; and the “Communist propaganda” | rau of their own could not meet relief worker, “Well, 1 get it myself, | Edwardsville, which is controlled |I' sorry ahat we can tell very little refer d_ to were the FREE Hickets the payment on their mortgages. | tonight.” He was called back im-|2Y the A. F. of L. has done nothing about your condition, as you say | distributed to Chicago's unemployed |r. law was an emergency mea: |mediately and. given a regular|' better the conditions of the un-|nothing more about it than that it Now it is one month| PY the Theatre Union for the great |e to overcome a disasterous situ Denkly muccuuk ot ialiad, | employed. They say they are against | is located between your shoulder before another International Wo- | WOrKINg class play, “Stevedore,” at| ation and you might say to save When the American worker heard | se work relief jobs. They have| and elbow. It is as if you were to : ‘cata gna 4 : the Selwyn Theatre, which was to okie 2 t tht ir jd nothing to stop them except | s AW r \ m Day. I plan to go, not alone, pany of these loved x. | the last worthy possession in the | |about this he almost became fran- | ne ig stop ‘cept | say, ive between 3rd and 4th but with gs many other women as| Or the frst entertainment ther nad | World we had remaining. | | tie with rage. He told it to so many |tht they have refused to allow | Streets.” Obviously, we cannot find possible on't you think it would \ ¥ % “Now the emergency has not | |people that the Globeville Unem- members of the A. F. of L. to go| your house unless you describe it. be a good idea to start asking other women what they think about this rallying day of all toiling women?”) (We do ask.) ‘ROM Stamford, Conn. “Enclosed « is a contribution for the Daily Worker from the United Councils of Workingclass Women of Stam- ford... We, who receive the Daily Home Life column. been permitted to enjoy in years. Legislator Evades Insurance Issue McMECHEN, W. Va.—I wired the important it is to have this column | West Virginia, requesting quick ac- and extend our revolutionary greet- | tion on H. R. 2627, 74th Congress, | 68 also endorsement by all members} past,” he went on, “many people who have received loans are on home or work relief or not working at all. Many peoplpe working are not earning enough to meet the monthly payments.” The thereatened home owner, a Democrat has sent letters to Sena- tor Wagner, and Senator Copeland, and received empty form acknowl- We realize how man from the second district of | must band together and protest our interests similar to the farmers in the West when they were being | “Let's have a pajama party f | Vanderlips.” ployment Council got wind of it and | they asked him to join the council, or the unemployed—I can get the (which he did, A committee from | the council composed of quite a lot. [Epidem ic of Meningitis Sweeps | | Through Southern Transient Camps Worker are sure to turn to the Hon. Jennings Randolph, Congress-|edgements. He now sees that “we| |of Mexicans got relief for this American and it has opened his eyes to the fact that the Mexicans have been showing more guts than the Americans and that is the rea- son the relief workers fear the Mex- icans more than the Ameritans. | By a Worker Correspondent jtreated in Men@>his hospitals. Moral: American workers join an to work on these jobs. Those work- | ers in the A. F. of L. who do go | to work on any of these jobs are | dropped from the A. F. of L. The |leaders do not care if the unor- | ganized workers do go to work. They say that William Green will see that the scale is paid to the |A. F. of L. workers after the 15th of February and those who do not| | belong to the A. F. of L. will be | working for 30 cents an hour. | | LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Yesterday | This is a disease caused by filthy | unemployment council if you don’t | Buea ok | Punch Clocks Tell us how long you have your condition. Is there pain? When is the pain more intense? When is it less? Does it go away by itself and come back. Answering such questions will give us a clue as to | the possible condition you may have between the elbow and the shoulder. The relief doctor may very well be giving you medicine just to ree lieve pain, because you cannot af- ford other more expensive treat- It is not a limitation of medical knowledge that keeps you from getting cured, but a limita- ment. poser ti ” in and rat infested holes which ings. ‘ m foreclosed! |wWe checked in at the Little Rock | verm: SET REE é ROM the Anthracite, Pennsyl- ae ae ae and ievertarn ca When told ppoi the Beat Home| Transient Bureau with the idea of|the transient bureau is putting R re {R f ¢ 1 I M: 3 factities for oe oe ie raring *-vania, from “Stella.” “I have | “0M to ¢ Ss approving this bill.) Owners Protective Association in /families into, and deliberately kill- | in cys 7 3 vty “a8 Bay, It ae not like aj _ 1 received a letter from Mr. Ran-/ Cleveland he was enthusiastic about staying here a while. Well, this/ berately ene eluses U0a a ry. adequacies of the capitalist system. year ago. Then I didn’t know how | G0lph thanking us for our views on building a Small Home Owners is impossible. We are getting out|ing children by placing them in! | muchI could do. Now we have or- ganized nine Unemployed Councils and the comrades send me here and there, for I speak Polish and Eng- lish, I like to do this kind of work better than to wash and scrub the floors.” ee * Ct ROM “E.K.,’ New York, “I think in your column you should men- tion that the women should read ‘Lenin on the Women Question,’ by Clara Zetkin. When I opened it, the words almost spoke out loud to me. Why dont you ask the readers to tell us how to shorten our home work so we can have more time for talks with our children, organiza- tion activities, etc.” * . . ROM “A. S.” “My mother makes the dish of stufled cabbage, (the recipe for which you printed Mon- day, Feb. 4) ‘sweet and sour’ by add- ing about two tabiespoons sugar and the juice of two lemons to each head of cabbage.” = . The Working Woman because of the flood of work with the prepara- tion of International Women’s Day, needs volunteer clerical workers and typists to give them a hand. Any- one who can volunteer some time see Margaret Cowl, ninth floor, 50 East 13th Street, mornings. Can You “Make Em Yourself? Pattern 2189 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40, Size 16 takes 4% yards 39 inch fabric. Illustrated step-b: ep sew- ing instructions included. HR. 2827 (W. Va. Peoples Welfare | Protective Association in Ass'n, McMechen Local.) and as-/ Island as the only immediate means sured us he was in favor of old|to safeguard his home, together age pension and is hopeful that} with thousands of others, once well some kind of old age pension legis- | fixed people, who face eviction. lation will be passed this session. | —___—____—__— I hope, Mr. Editor, that you can see how he evaded our issue and trying to sidetrack us to favor {his plan instead of doing as re- quested by his constituency. | This is just a mere example of | eur, representatives represent us in Washington. Social Worker’s Reaction a By a Social Worker Correspondent — RS NEW YORK.—I am compelled to Tt pays to save—15 coupons and | write to you because of the horror $1 will get you a copy of Burck’s | and repuenance that I felt when I | Musser and Revolt. ployment Councils so brutally 1 beaten at the order of Administra- tor Humphries of the Bronx Home Relief Bureau. Up to a few weeks ago, I had the opinion that the Unemployment Councils were merely trying to stir up trouble and did not really have |the troubles of the unemployed at |heart. I want to apologize publicly for this. | I want to further state that you have my whole-hearted sympathies |in your work and as far as being | a social worker is concerned, I think | that your efforts to correct mal- practices in the Home Relief Bu- reau are more consistent with what social workers are the pract: and his case rice Levine. The latter is a huge fat person, very much like your cartoons of the heavy and slothful capitalists. | Her idea of case work is to “inter- |pret policies” and that means cut- | ting relief allowances to such low | standards that I don’t see why you | people don’t come down in thou- | sands instead of in hundreds, A RESOLUTION The following resolution should 02 sent to: Dist. Attorney N. McAllister, Att. General U. S. Webb, | Governor Frank E. Merriam, | Superior Judge Dal Lemmon } All at Sacramento, Calif. I (we), the undersigned, pro- test against the frame-up of 18 || Workers in Sacramento, Califor- || nia, under the vicious anti-labor Criminal Syndicalist Law. I (we), demand their immedi- ate, unconditional release; and | further demand that the Crim- | inal Syndicalism Law be wiped off the statute books of the State of California, | This law denies workers their || || fundamental rights to organize |] strike, and picket, and the right of free speech, press, and as- semblage. of Mr, Humphries apervisor, Miss Beat- Individual or ‘Organization. | On Tuesday, Feb. 12, the General | solve the problem. In the first place ‘Secretary of the International| all help supplied by the fraternal | organizations is limited by the lim- saw the delegations of the Unem-| should be doing than} | workers Order appeared before the | sub-committee of the Committee on | Labor of the House of Representa- | tives at Washington, D. C., to argue in favor of the passage of the Un-| employment and Social Insurance Bill 2827, The text of his argument | jited ability of the workers to pay | dues. The lower the worker's in- come, the less able he is to pay dues, but the more frequent and the more intense is his need for help. In the second place, fraternal and mutual help can be organized Address orders to Daily Worker | age, they cannot earn wages. When | by individual workers, to be solved {Of the workers, The purpose of social insurance din’ fraternal Attensa Bush as } Batter Depariment, 248 West 17th | they stop earning, wages their ¢co- iby those workers. individually. Tt Gleigated ia) Gikes: sae Heitently. tha: peorsiing opinion et He the estsbllshimant of & SURFENIED| cubsidies would eat lsse momey than oe ee i reet, New York City. | nomic source of life stops flowing. | was a social problem that the work- all th ins} ic als and 3 Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins Seek Security |ers depend on wages for & living, the citoles "of capitalists ‘and War! workers. As long as the worker ese insurance propos un or stamps (coins preferred) for each Année Adams pattern (New York ner-Lewis Bill, insofar as they pro-|'They say: When it was a question But neither such a measure, nor f { tak for chet patios cgi, one cent | @ continuous flow of thelr economic thelr jobs and over their wages, Tt vide any kind of insurance at all, lof providing Billions to Mil’ and to | yg orkins Well, and ooe id nit all_ other existing unemployment || Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, Hx ior Cach pattern order). Write |source of life. ‘Through sick bene-| was a social problem that the work-| provide for serious limitations in| destroy, these billions were provided, control he can no longer provide |isurance, old age pension, etc.,|| New York City Plainly, your name, address and | fits and similar mutual aid features ers do not control the economic, the periods for which insurance is|No one called in an actuary to prove | schemes, solve the problem. House Style number. BE SURE TO STATE | SIZE WANTED. |interruptions in the flow of their follows: | by the workers only for a limited number of categories of emergencies —for sickness, accident, etc, It cannot be organized for old age and for unemployment, The workers never clearly saw I am representing the Interna- tional Workers Order. The Inter- national Workers Order is a mutual | benefit society, a fraternal order | ment insurance measure as Now eM- | were told that it was up to them bodied in House Bill 2827. In their/to put aside reserves during the name I submit to this committee an| days of prosperity and to prepare urgent request for the reporting out/ for the rainy days of depression, of this bill. In their name I give| They did prepare for this rainy you reasons for this request. |day. They put money in the banks, The masses of members of our} They bought homes. But when the organization are workers. These rainy day did come the workers workers seek in the fraternal or-! found to their astonishment that not earn wages. When they get they were facing a social problem. old and are refused jobs because of toh y Theirs was not a problem faced only The workers join fraternal organi- |It was a social problem that the zations as an effort at establishing | workers do not have control over they want to tide themselves over | sources of their lives, ganizations a measure of economic | the carefully provided for umbrella | Long | of here at once as this camp is un-| Such foul conditions. healthy and most every one is quarantined for meningitis. | Several transient centers were esis Deca ten days ago and it is | uncertain when the ban will be | lifted. Six deaths have occurred since the discovery of the first case several weeks ago—and we flee for our lives. At Memphis, Tenn., we organized 66 familes to fight against the ter- rible, conditions imposed on tran- sients there. The police swooped down on us and threatened to ar- rest the leaders, Now the Memphis transient hell- holes are under quarantined for Meningitis and ten cases are being ‘Hold Relief Parley ‘in Colorado By a Worker Correspondent DURANGO, Colo—For the first time in the history of the labor movement of Durango, a definite Program was outlined for the pur- pose of assisting the unemployed the th unemployed | Ata meeting called by the South- | western Unemployment and Social Insur- gate to the National Congress for | Unemployment and Social Insur- taneously in Washington. | with the limitations of our fraternal |help. On the one hand we see the needs of workers who are victims of incurable diseases and we hear their | Pitiful demands for help. Their need for help goes far beyond the reserves established by cofiective ef- forts of the workers in the fraternal organizations. On the other hand we see in our ranks the workers who thought they had established for themselves a certain measure of security by membership in the fra- ternal organization. They become unemployed for months at a stretch /and can no longer maintain their |do a great deal, we cannot come within any reasonable distance of a solution of the problem, That is why we in the Interna- tional Workers Order come to the conclusion that only a measure of adequate social insurance can help. Only a united social effort can hope | to solve the problem. We are of the conviction that @ social insurance bill, all talk of social security is a cruel deception All other proposals submitted to Congress heretofore, like the Wag- supplied. They all start with an inadequate and fundamentally For Sick Child By a Worker Correspondent | When we have a peaceful assem- jbly and attempt to petition the government for redress of these | wrongs, when we dare to elect our) MASON CITY, Iowa.—About five |own representatives, the police de-| and a half weeks ago I received a |partment is set upon us with all|Check of three dollars from the | the terror and brute force and vio- |Iowa Emergencey Relief Adminis- | lence. | tration. That check was supposed We won’t have our children die | to last me a week and a half. Ever of Meningitis without a struggle.|Since thén the relief has been We won't go to work hungry, with- | Steadily cut. out any pay. We won't stand for! I have a baby that has suffered this police terror and cruelty and | from two severe atacks of pneu- imprisonment, depriving us of the | Monia this winter. All T have been rights of free speech, peaceful as- | able to get out of the relief for her |sembly, and the right to petition Care Was one milk order and some the government for redress of these | COd liver ofl. For several days, dur- wrongs. We'll fight to the last | ing the bitter cold we had no coal breath of our lives. in the house while the baby was $$ __|sick, The nurse told them that I | « |had to have coal, but they said I (Small Family Men woud nave to wat ta a certain ‘Off Relief * I couldn't get any clothes for my By a Worker Correspordent children so I kept them out of MADISON, Me.—"And so if you/ “y’ committee of sympathizers and men with small families don’t get|/ members of the A. F. of L. went any work you will know it’s because | with me to see the relief admin- some one with a larger family is|istrator, A. C. Peters. Peters said | getting the work.” With these words | that he had heard that I was keep- | Trainor, the district E.R.A. admin-| ing my children out of school be- intendent why they were being kept out. school and notified the school sup- | | weather, » If you single men and workers with | ‘unemployment and hunger, just | that some one with a larger family is getting half enough to live on. happy and well-fed. those inadequate funds will go.) Since very little can be collected | from the workers because they do not have anything, and since the rich refuse to have much collected from them, the funds upon which the actuarial figures are based must of necessity be totally inadequate. The result is that all these schemes provide help only to some workers in some distant future, and then only for a miserably few weeks. The | rest of the workers, or all of the workers the rest of the time, are doomed to misery and starvation. Such insurance is no help at all. private relief, you can readily imag- ine that this kind of social in- surance will make matters worse for the workers instead of better. The problem of unemployment, old age and disability of the work- er must be approached like the gov- ernment approached the problem of the war. The question then was not how many cannons can we buy Are the needs of the working masses and their dependents less profiteers considers these needs less important. Well, the masses do not. that the expenditures for war ma- terial have to be cut down because workers, the aged, the destitute and | jstrator, dismissed a group of work-| cause they had insufficient clothing | intelligentsia in| ers who had been working outside, | and that the teachers told him they struggle for the necessities of |laying a water piper, in sub-zero had fine clothes. This was a lie. T asked the school principal whether this was so and she said that it Colorado Conference for small families are suffering from | wasn’t. Five minutes after I had gotten | ance, Allen O. Herring, elected dele- console yourselves with the thought | home, the truant officer was there and said that if I continued keep- ing the children out of school he ance held in Washington, D. C.,| Mix that consolation with one can| would have to serve me with papers. Jan. 5, 6, 7 contrasted the twojof beef and one can of fish per|I still refuse to send my children Congresses, which occurred simul-| week and see if it makes you feel|to school and the ‘unemployment council is taking up my case. in the war. The question now is to feed and to maintain the masses. By a Macy Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.— For white-collar workers who have had drilled into lus that we are “superior” and | “above” factory workers, it is a) |revelation to find that the base-| jment has installed a punch-clock which will no doubt become the} form of timekeeper for all the floors. | | The time-sheet evidently can no) longer be trusted. It would seem the section-managers and superin- tendents have been too “lax.” We} who have been forced to steal a few precious minutes for relief “ac- cording to Section Manager's dis- |cretion” (Macy Manual Regula- | tions); those of us who kngw the | pittance on which we survive see in this only a new “foreman,” only a new tyranny common to stricter surveillance throughout the place. Those who have been here long} |enough to feel that organization is | the only step to protect OUR inter- ests ought to inquire into the ad- dress of the Department Store Sec- tion of The Office Workers Union at 540 Sixth Avenue. The Klein workers have gained through their union activity. What are we wait- ing for? Presents Plan To Lessen Unemployment By «2 Worker Corresvondent NEW YORK.—Mayor LaGuardia | wants to give the city to the bank- ers and let the people pay sales | taxes. Stop this one-man system on buses, trolley cars and subways and you will put twenty thousand men to work in the city, and each man can support two more people, and that means sixty thousand people off relief. STATEMENT OF I. W. O. GENERAL SECRETARY ON H. R. 2827 workers cannot be the source of funds for such insurance. The na- tional wealth must provide this That is more important. Against : this need alf other needs must stand source. The workers with their la- aside, If the prevailing national econ- omy cannot provide the necessities to feed and to maintain the masses of workers, then it is hopelessly bankrupt. It should acknowledge this bankruptcy and go into a re- ceivership, I am sure that the work- ers are ready to take over the re- ceivership, If, however, the existing national economy refuses to declare its bankruptcy it must stop acting maintenance of the working masses. The masses are entitled to this maintenance. Congress must recognize that the masses of workers have only the proceeds of their labor power to live on. Whenever through no fault of their own they are unable to turn their labor power into an income, when unemployment deprives them income for the masses. himself can guarantee his existence and the existence of his dependents | the means of his and his dependents’ Lexistence, the government has to bor produced this national wealth. Those who control that national wealth must be made to contribute the necessary share to the main- tenance of the workers. The rich, the capitalists, must pay for this social insurance. We in the fraternal movement are particularly anxious to get an un- employment and social insurance bill that will really insure the worker and his dependents against contributions. We want no such social insurance, Such social insur- ance would make matters worse for the workers. While it would elimi- nate public and private relief, it would hardly improve the actual in- surance that the worker does get today from his fraternal organiza- tion, Besides, it would deprive him of the right of management and security. They know from experi- | had mysteriously disappeared. The | House Bill 2827 is the only measure | for the money we have, The ques- jobs, when sickngss or disability | administration of his own insurance |} Name . ence that their only income is the banks had closed their doors. ‘Their | ¥et Proxosed that attacks this prob-| tion was, how many cannons do we HaNee them, pear aa age din. funds, wages they can earn. If they are own homes were turned from places|1¢m. This Bill puts no limitation! need. Then the necessary money | qualifies them, it must provide for| In this respect none of the exist- Address unemployed and cannot find jobs, of shelter into unbearable and fore-|to the period in which help or in-| was gotten by any and all means. (them an income other than wages,| ing proposals aside from House Bill a they cannot earn wages. If they|closed mortgage burdens. It was|SUrance is supplied. This is funda- This income must be social insur- | 2827 contribute one iota to the im- get sick and cannot work, they can-|then that the workers found that |™netal. Without such a provision in For War or Peace? ance. House Bill 2827 provides this|Provement of the worker's position. || City...... A much better result could be ob- tained. by government subsidies to would supply a much more adequate insurance? provision for the workers. Bill 2827 will, It is this inability of the poor to get the best (and often more expensive) care and treatment that drives them to seek relief from their ills in the supposedly less ex- pensive ways, such as, self-treatment with patent medicines or “treat- ment” by non-scientific faith heal- ers and “system” healers. A “sys- |tem” healer is one who claims that all diseases come from one single system in the body and if you set the system right, then everything else is also set right. Thus, the naturopaths claim everything comes from the digestive system—eat, cer- tain foods and you are cured; the chiropractor claims everything comes jfrom pressure on the nervous sys- tem; remove the pressure and you remove the disease, It just happens that both of these claims are scientifically unfounded and untrue and that is why phy- sicians do not credit their claims of cure. Scientific medical men do not undertake any “curing” until they have definitely investigated all the systems and make a definite Pproveable diagnosis. Chiropractors undertake to “cure” everything without proving their diagnosis. They have neither the desire nor the training to make an adequate diagnosis. Their luck lies in the fact that many “ailments” are not real, but are due to worries and mental upsets and these “ailments” are always “cured” by sympathetic healers who can impress their worry- jladen patients with a very unusual and special procedure which takes their mind off their worries for a while. Thus, in your own case, if your ailment is of mental origin, we can say that the chiropractor will very likely make you forget your pain. If your ailment is due to a real in- volvement by a special disease or condition, then the chi cannot cure it. Finally, in the So- = Union there are no chiroprac- * seiore Operation or Pessary @. S., New York: Your mother ts evidently suffering from a par- tial prolapse ‘or descent of the uterus (womb). If nothing is done about it, it will gradually descend further. The only way to cure this condition is by operation. Prolapse can be temporarily relieved, but not cured by holding the uterus up with properly fitted pessary. If, however, the prolapse is at all severe, even partial relief can~ not be well obtained with a pessary, and operation becomes essential, Operation at either of the hosvitals you mentioned should be satis- factory. A three week’s stay in the hospital will be necessary. with over 62,000 members. I aM | these limitations until the present | Membership. They ask help so they| When in this connection you con-|the bankrupt and must meet its/his economic insecurity. We know speaking in their name. Both in| crisis arose. Up to 1929 they thought |™ay maintain at least the limited | sider that the establishment of such | obligations. Its first and foremost | how inadequate and how pitifully convention assembled and in refer-' it within their power to provide|aid which membership in the fra-|a measure of “insurance” will seri- | obligation is to feed and to house|insufficient an insurance must of SUBSCRIPTION endum vote they have unanimously | against all their economic emergen- | ternal order does secure for them. | ously cut down and even eliminate |and <o clothe ali of the people. This|needs be twat bases itself upon endorsed the social and unemploy-/| cies, They believed it when they | But no matter what we do, and we| entirely other forms of public and| obligation demands of them the funds accumulated out of workers’ 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 International Labor Defense 1 enclose $............a8 my SE SSE eae A ae