The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1935, Page 4

Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 19 HOME LiFE i= Ann Berton cia are a series of pamphlets Railway Labor Jobless Insurance Fight Heads Block | ™ Buline Claws Bu Redfield Soviet Workers’ Vacations | _ Described by Telegrapher YOUR HEALTH — By — Medieal Advisory Board Proof | | | about women and the woman! paoiiroad employment for Janu- wages and call it a ory. This is |By a Soviet Worker Correspondent | with the single addition that they | "THE response to our appeal for on just published by Workers s almost 2,000 below |far from the provisions of the | MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R—In my travel. With these boats you stop| 1 subscriptions to Health and Publishers that once word nth in 1934, record- | Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827, for ‘ull | Sadie Shcaatt he | 2% many ports and you are led by | Hygiene, magazine of the Medical of them gets around, will be con- ion of the merciless | wages for the entire period of un- first letter I mentioned that the| competent guides to see historic| Advisory Board, proves, we believe, : LSS NER roads to ensure profits | employment : | telegraph operators here get one places of interest. The trip usually| that there is a need for such a Ss. mand fewer men. f for | hailed this tlen s a victory, . | ris is | Dai or! lieve tha e work our woman January was 958,905 workers on the but for the B. & O., stating that year. The question ee itself | development of hiking and moun-|of the Medical Advisors ee payroll “a new impetus had been given the {then how does’ the oscgp os Chet | tain climbing. |should be extended in this manner, The Association of Railway Labor | drive to consolidate rail facilities by | Soviet. telegrapher a ie from that) who owns the various resting |We are setting for ourselves goal, n a Kind of Executives, meeting in Washington | this agreement.” The Wall Street Te crker in a capitalist country. places described above? How does a| We hoped to have 500 subscriptions opedia on the woman the week of Feb. 11 to 16, took no | Journal lets the cat out of the bag To answer this question I must de-| 5 question, and contain a real wealth You can get them sa piece from the y Publishers, 41 East New York, w: hese pamphlets will take them up in much more detail But in brief—“What Every Woman by Grace is a ly w he ne cond de Ss of the jobless woman. The pamphlet “Women and Equality” by Margaret Cow! It makes a theo- the background nan and es it into the clearest sim- y. It touches the position of former societies, and com- n the Soviet Union, it draws e very practical conclusions ‘he Position of Negro Women” by Eugene Gordon and Cyril Briggs has gath 8 little known facts on ions of Negro women on the farms and ‘in in- dustry. “Women in Action” by Sasha Small is a fast moving tale of women’s struggles this past year nd before. The pamphlet “Mother r” needs no explanation. Her friends will want to know more about the exciting life of this work- ing class leader. Preparat: for International Woman's Day meetings must in- clude the wide sale of these pam- phiets, as well as the special March issue of the Working Woman. (By the way, have you sent your order in for this yet. Send it to Working vi East 13th Street, New York, N. Y., at once.) This well organized material cannot heip but give impetus to increased organiza- tion of women. E haven't had a poem for a long time. Here’s one from R. L., a member of the Woman's Council. Oh, you persecuting henchman We warn you again, Take your bloody hands Off the workingman. Long enough, u despots ike inquisitionists of old Spain, You've tortured, jailed and starved us Your bloody profits to gain. . it bread and our battle cry freedom For Le our great leader, Taught us how to live and die. + See our fi re clenched Clenched with workers’ might. For we are determined To win the final fight. Burck’s cartoon book, “Hunger and Revolt” is now offered in a $1 edition with renewals and new subscripti Can You Make "Em Yourself? Pattern 2193 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38, Size 16 takes 312 yards 39 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Il- lustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. ~ of ad Nb 2193 Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams patttern (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 Gtreet, New York City, part in the hearings for the Work- Social and Unemployment In- urance Bill, H. R. 2827, addressed by representatives of trade unions om all over the country. They ignored the mandate given them by over 500 railroad lodges to support only bill before Congress offer- railroad men real security inst unemployment. While rail- road lodges continue to pass en- dorsements of H. R. 2827, the labor executives flirt with Eastman’'s pro- posals for lay-offs “cushioned” by a dismissal wage, which will do noth- ing whatever for the 900,000 rail- d men already cut off from their jol or for the thousands being added to the relief rolls each month as the roads eliminate more and more men from the payrolls. Dodges Insurance Issue “Labor,” weekly paper of the 21 by showing how the B. & O. is saving $53,000 a year by the initial Payment of one year’s wages to 50 men. The Brotherhood officials are not interested in getting unem- | ployment insurance for these 50 workers after their year of grace is up. When these 50 members stop paying dues into their lodges the union officials will wash their hands of them, as they have done | in the case of their 900,000 broth: Again referring to the B. & O. settlement the Wall Street Journal comments: “Rail executives here feel that the compromise is proof that unification of facilities can be | undertaken despite Section 7 of | the Emergency Transportation Act,” which the union officials claim re- stricts lay-offs through consolida- tions. Sham Legislation Fight This makes a sham of the whole | lroad labor unions, in discussing ! ne Washington meeting of the campaign of the labor executives, railway labor executives, does not | Who say they will “appeal to Con- mention unemployment insurance ss to write into any railroad or a “dismissal wi the chief ation it may pass a provision similar tothe Section of the Emer- gency Act, which expires June 16, and which undertakes to stabilize | employment.” The proof of the pudding is in the eating. “Labor” reports what the | union chiefs SAY. The Wall Street | Journal what the ” as part of program. But ” organ of the rail- road bankers, sums up the attitude of the labor executives in one line. Tt states that “A delegation repre- senting the Railway Labor Execu- tives’ Association conferred with worker secure a place? exer scribe bziefly the various vacation | places, by whom operated and who Trade Union: Control: pays for the upkeep. The sanitariums and the all-union | In the Caucasus and the Crimea| *€st homes were divided up among there were a number of resorts,| the central trade unions. The local where the rich used to go for their | Test homes among the local trade | rest and cure. It is understood that | Unions. These organizations equip | after the revolution, when the work-|®2d maintain’ their particular | e:s began to receive vacations, these | Paces. | few resort places proved insufficient.| Zach and every worker undergoes So, all palaces were converted into | # Physical examination by a special | rest homes and equipped with all| Commission that may recommend | modern improvements. Also, a vast| im either for a rest-home or a number of new ones were built, | cure. With this certificate the | worker applies to the vacation sec- | Types of Vacation Grounds | tion of his trade union. Due to| The above may be subdivided into | the insufficient number of places as several groups: yet, not all workers are placed ex- 1—Sanitariums. — Most of these | actly where they may desire. The | are located on the shores of the|Sheck brigader gets the preference | Black Sea and at the mineral water | OVer the non-shock brigader. | centers of the Caucasus, These| The Union of Electrical Commu- places are fully equipped for the nication, telephone, telegraph and | tion of the first issue. QF. “Give the bum a nickel, sweetheart. of million on the war.” After all, you made a couple | treatment of various diseases such | | as rheumatism, heart, stomach, lung | and other ailments. They are at-) tended by a competent medical | | staff. | 2—Rest' homes. — There are local | rest homes where the worker spends | | two weeks of rest near his city. | These rest homes may be found all radio, has a number of very fine sanitariums in Odessa, Sebastopol and Kislavodsk, and also a number of beautifully located local rest) homes. As no organization can have san- | itariums for every cure, the trade | union may buy a number of places in other sanitariums through the | Postal Workers Hit! By Wage Cuts | President Roosevelt at the White rae py og hear een House on Feb. 7, regarding its | chiefs i ‘he fig! for the six- | : ‘egislative program. ... The labor | hour day, for train length limita- | By a P. 0. Worker Correspondent | tion and other measures put for- | leaders asked for a plan of dis- | ward by the labor executives (and missal compensation but object to NEW YORK—I am a carrier in| one of the terminals of the New Mr. Eastman’s proposals for further co-ordination projects which would displace employes.” Why ask for missal compen- sation” if no additional employes they have put these forward for the | past five years), as a smoke screen to hide increasing unemployment, is a battle of words! While the chiefs talk, speed-up are to be displaced? Because the railroad labor executives do not take serious steps to prevent lay- offs. They have just accepted a settlement with the B. & O, in Pittsburgh, where 50 men were per- manently laid off through a con- solidation in return for payment of one year’s wages. In other words, after lay-offs through consolida- power, The Railway Labor ixecu- tions are already a fact, after those | tives will never choose this method | men already laid off and others | until they are pushed into action by threatened by future lay-offs pro- | the insistent pressure of the rank test, the chiefs retrieve one year's | and file. Teachers Win | increases, trains are lengthened, | full crews are dispensed with, lay- | | offs go on! There is only one way | to stop lay-offs and win the de-j| mands to reduce unemployment | | (six-hour day, etc.). That way is |to unite the half million members of the railroad unions to back up these demands with their organized Violation York Post Office. I have been buy- ing the Daily Worker for quite a | while and have read about the different problems which the work- | ers in outside industries come up against. I’ve learned quite a lot. too. The people on the outside think | that everything is rosy for us be cause we're working for the govern- | | 200,000 hectares of forests, different C.W.A. Jobs By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK.—I would like to in- | form your readers of something 1) feel sure they will be interested in. | It concerns the C. W. A. teaching projects. For several months I at- tempted to see Mr. Gurdy, the man who is in charge of the teaching | projects. At times I was successful, IN. R. A. Ignores | By a Food Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N. J.—When the Bel- | more Cafeteria opened here in| Newark about 2 months ago, I was} hired as a bus girl at $11.50 a week, The prevailing conditions in e Cafeteria made me susceptible to the approaches of the organizers of | ment, But we have our share, tco. Last year we got a beautiful cut and} a furlough—which is only a fancy! word for a “lay - off,” | showed any Lake Seamen Fight Forced Labor By a Marine Worker Correspondent | CLEVELAND, Ohio—The seamen | of the Port of Cleveland began Picketing relief headquarters at East Ninth Street last Friday, During the latter part of Janu- ary, the relief officials announced that the seamen would start work | on Feb. 1. This work was to con- sist of building a road from the Coast Guard Station to East Ninth | Street, twenty-four hours per week for one dollar. Immediate action was taken by the seamen, and to date the relief fakers have not made | a success of the program that was| to start Feb. 1. } Labor organizations, along with | | the unemployed organizations of the Corporation, the company that runs | | city, stood behind us one hundred | | per cent. The local delegate of the! | International Seamen’s Union, Sul. liven, was the only one within the | A. F. cf L. thet refused to take ony | | stand against the forced labor. In the past week, any seamen that militancy were taken out of the project and given rooms on the outside. A seaman that made | @n announcement during breakfast was arrested but was later released, When he returned to the project for ‘dinner he was told that he couldn’t | get it there, seamen ¢ but over one hundred d the mind of the faker, and the seaman had his din-| whichin-~ ondq his ticket was given back | at others I wasn't. But whether I) the Cafeteria Workers Union here| amounted to one-third of our sal-! to him. sew him or not, he did nothing but | stall me off. Finally I went to see him with a} which is a local of the Food Work- j ary. But this isn’t all. It's no cinch ers Industrial Union. | getting up on a freezing morning When the bosses fired me for be-| at four o'clock, come into work and The demands of the seamen are: 1. No forced labor—all work done to be paid for at the rate of sixty delegation of unemployed teachers | longing to the union, the union took | have to take all the kicking around | cents per hour. 2. Meal tickets in from the Unemployed Teachers As- | | sociation. He saw the entire dele- | tion and gave those of us who/| were on Home Relief, applications. | But this time the applications were not thrown into the waste-paper basket. Within three weeks we were | | placed on a teaching project and we | are now teaching. | | Unemployed teachers, follow our | example! Only by going down in| | large delegations can we get these | | jobs for ourselves. i @hildrea Ara Gaased | In Ohio Rubber Strike WILLOUGHBY, O., Feb. 20 (UP).| —Twelve school children were af- fected by tear gas and ninety other | pupils were driven back into Henry W. Longfellow Township School to- day when Ohio Rubber Company guards laid down a barrage of tear | gas at strikers, Mayor C. B. Tood was booed by | strikers when he failed to with- draw twenty-five guards. Conjointly with the order of mar- tial law just promulgated by the Army General Staff of Roumania, as well as the dissolution of the 37} anti-fascist organizations due to the general unrest and the increasing upsurge of the Roumanian masses, a feverish preparation for war h been going on in this fascist- tarist country having as its primary aim an attack against the Soviet Union, this in spite of the non-ag- gression pact existing between the | two countries, Bessarabia Plundered | The war base, the depot for war) armaments, the camp for war ma- neuvers is Bessarabia. Bessarabia is that rich province which the Roumanian army with the aid of that gangster of the “Moldavian National Bloc,” Ivan Inkuletz, in- |vaded during the 1917-1918 period |and snatched from Russia. It has |@ population of about four million |and covers an area of about ten | million acres of land. It is one of | the richest provinces of Roumania. | Nearly all the land is fertile and cultivated. There are approximately kincs of waters, outlets to the Black Sea and the Danube, cattle, sheep, | vineyards, tobacco, sugar refineries; | over 200 industrial enterprises, al- cohol distilleries, cloth and other factories. All. these riches were seized by the Roumanian bour- | a | cisions? g from the foremen. reeted with that con- ‘Tie out—get out! Tie} With the loads we} my case to the N.R.A. and two and swea weeks later the N.R.A. decided that; We're alway the Belmore violated that holy of| tinuous yell: holies, Section 7a. The N.R.A, or-| out—get ou dered the Belmore to reinstate me|have to j within seven days. To date the Bel-|is plenty. | more has not yet reinstated me.|to them giving us parts of two or Now I ask you Comrade Editor,|three routes to carry out _ When what is the use of the N.R.A.? Was/| someone bangs it up, or singling ‘Us it ever meant for us workers? Why|out on the second and last trip. do we have to go to the N.R.A. if|If they want the mail to get out, the decisions that they make re-|let ‘em give it to a sub. main on paper and they refuse to} But this paper is beginning to make the bosses carry out the de-|teach me that grumbling about these and the rest of our rotten I for one have learnt the answer | conditions amongst ourselves won't to all these questions. The N.R.A.|get us anywhere. We've got to get was never meant to do us any good.| together and do something. I’ve The only thing that we can get re-| been a member of the NALC, affili- sults from is the combined strength| ated with the A. F. of L., for a of all the workers in Belmore Cafe-| couple of years, but up until re- teria. our conditions, It pays to save—15 coupons and $1 will get you a copy of Burck’s “Hunger and Revolt.” geoisie and the boyars (the rich landowners). Yet in spite of these riches the peasantry and the _ Bessarabian masses “suffer from terrible eco- nomic crisis,” according to the same Ivan Inkuletz, who together with the other Roumanian and Bessara- bian exploiters is responsible for this situation. Bessarabian peasants and workers are starving, dying of disease and | hunger, The oppression, the terror, the atrocities of the gendarmes and the police against the workers and peasants of Bessarabia are unbear- able. The lynchings, the exploita- tion, the pillage of the kulaks, the usury and rapaciousness of the Roumanian landowners, and bour- geoisie are indescribable. It is a fact that the population in Bessa- rabia is literally dying out. “Dur- ing the years 1925-30," says Viata Romaneasca, organ of the National Peasant Party, “the number of in- habitants in Bessarabia has de- creased four per cent. In several |cities (Soroka, Hotin and others), the population has decreased to half during these five years. The ex- tinction of the population since 1930 continues at an alarming pace.” During the period of Roumanian rule we also find that thousands upon thousands of workers and peasants emigrate to Ukraine, to ( If they all get together and/ cently, like the majority of the car- join the Cafeteria Workers Union| riers, we can secure our jobs and improve| with Ferdie Douglas on top couldn’t I thought that the NALC, | do anything for us. I’m beginning to |change my mind fast. It’s our or- | ganization and we can make it im- | prove our conditions. That’s what | it’s there for. The next time Branch '36 meets, I'll be there and show the Soviet Autonomous State of Moldova, and to other countries. To cite Viata Romaneasca again: “There is everything, but there are no buyers. . . . Interhal market is dead. Neither money, nor buyers, nor sellers. There is merchandise in the stores, wheat and wine in the warehouses, but there is nobody to buy them.” A War Depot ‘Against the Soviets This province which has so many natural resources which is being used by the Roumanian bourgeoisie as a colony with all that colonial exploitation connotes, has another phase, another significance for Roumanian imperialism. It is used as a depot for war armaments in a possible war against the Soviet Union. How is it since the Rou- manian government and the bour- geoisie have for so many years bombarded the foreign powers with the notion that Bessarabia is Rou- manian territory and the population is very glad to be under its aegis, how is it that to this day the Rou- manian soldiers and officers “con- sider military service therein as equivalent to the service in the Col- onies or Siberia?” Because the Bes- sarabian peasants and masses have from the very inception of Rou- manian rule led a constant fight against the occupation and exploita- tion of Roumanian capitalism, be- cause the working masses have on restaurants of our own choosing, 2. Hotels of our own choosing,| back the wage-cutting attack of . Return of incidentals and to-|the Collier Service Corporation. bacco. Otherwise, if we squawk alone and (Sirned) UNITED COMMITTER | Separately, we'd all get the gate. AGAINST FORCED LABOR. NOTE: Every Friday we publish letters from workers in the transporta- tion and communication indus- tries; marine, railroad, trucking, taxi and« traction, telephone, tele- graph, post office, etc. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week, Ferdie I mean business. But I don’t think I can do very much by myself because the machine will try to put the skids under me. That's why all the carriers should be up there next time and all together, I'm positive we can do something to make our lousy conditions a lit- tle easier to work under. the border of Bessarabia their brother republic “the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of Mol- dova,” which prospers in freedom and culture in the Soviet Union, teaching the Bessarabian masses the way out. In view of this internal situation, Roumanian imperialism has con- centrated one-third of its army in Bessarabia. At this very moment railways are being constructed with purely strategic aims: To facilitate the transportation of troops over the Dniester River (the Soviet border) and at the same time to strengthen operations within Bessarabia in case of internal uprisings. The roads which are under construction are being built by the army and its spe- cial technical sections. Special at- tention is given now to the southern part of Bessarabia; roads and rail- way tracks are being constructed. The Roumanian government intends to mobilize the entire rural popula- tion for a period of five days in the fall of this year in order to rapidly conclude the construction and re- pairing of the roads, Whereas un- til recently there was only one new railway—from Revaka to Kainary, and this too was a pure strategic railway—now the Roumanian goy- ernment proposes to build another starting from Tatarbunar, by way of Tuzey and Budati to Bongaz, which is the new port on the Black Sea, This new railway will serve i & z centzal distributing organization of over the Soviet Union. These places | the Department of Health, which is are usually palaces or large estates | supervising all of them of the former nobility. All these places the shock- Then there are rest homes in the | prigader gets free of charge. Also| Crimea, Caucasus and a few other|a low paid worker, even though he | places. These we will call all-union| may not be shock brigader, gets rest homes. In these places, the! these Places free of charge. He may | worker or peasant rests a month. 3—A new kind of rest homes are | the so-called swimming palaces. | These are boats especially built and | equipped for vacationists. They} even get his railroad fare free. Fellow telegraphers, I repeat, Please desczibe your conditions of work. Also if you have any ques- tions send them to the Worcorr De- have everything a rest home has,| partment, c-o of the Daily Worker. Railroads Fight Labor Bill By a Railroad Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa, — Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad and other roads, are carrying on an in- the newsstands in the subway, got | tense campaign to break the soli- @ raw deal two wesks ago when they | darity tee the railroad workers, | |smash their unions, in order to de- Ce |feat the Trainmen’s Full Crew and We agents are always afraid as Short Train Length Bill, which |scon as we take in more money | promises some relief to the rail- News-Stands Cut Pay By a Werker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Most of us agents, who work for the Collier Service | then Colliers will cut our commis- | |sion, ie. our wages. I know that | la lot of fellows working along the line a:@ grumbling, and are sore ; because Colliers doess't give them | |@ chance to make a little money. | And the point is we worked harder and longer the last few weeks on account of the cold weather and | |snow. Thus if we work harder, make more profit for Colliers, we get less. ’ The only way we could get back | the wage-cut (and the future wage- cuts, because if you weren’t cut as yet, you surely will be soon) is if we had an organization of all us workers which could resist and fight Force Increase In Relief By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— The Un- employment Councils of West Phil- adelphia have recently gained a number of concessions for the job- less workers. This they were able to accomplish because of their per- sistent struggle on behalf of the Negro and white jobless workers who are discriminated against. A few days ago, a delegation of Negro and white workers took Mr. Druso, a Negro jobless worker who has been ill for many months, to the relief station at 3110 Market Street and demanded an increase in relief. A long argument followed, and the relief officials seeing that BESSARABIA AS A WAR BASE AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION | By Paul Green for military purposes exclusively. Besides, over the whole province of. Bessarabia, air ports are being con- structed in order to increase the air flotilla of Roumania, Attack on Anti-Fascists Like Nazi Germany, Roumania is trying to prepare the Bessarbian Population ideologically for the war against the Soviet Union and also against the native workers. In order to do that the Government through the different fascist organizations (which the government formally outlawed) are forming fascist youth organizations, These schemes how- ever do not work out very well with the workers and peasants, so that the Government using all sorts of tricks, is expelling thousands of workers and in many cases doing it by force. In their stead, from Roumania proper they bring regi- ments of gendarmes and retired officers, This is done especially with the population living along the Dniester. Not only are they pre- paring for an attack against the Soviet Union but they even have Plans for the annexation of “the Odessa Region, the southern part of Ukrainia up to the ‘natural’ frontier of Roumania and the Au- tonomous Socialist Republic of Moidova,” witness also the concen- tration of treops in Bessarabia, building of new railways, the re- jin Harrisburg as | 138 S, 8th Street, Philadelphia, has |begun the campaign for a united road workers, A high powered drive by company lawyers is bringing pressure on the State Legislature against the Bill. They are likewiseforcing many rail- road workers to sign petitions | against the Bill and piling these up | “evidence” of workers’ opposition to the Bill. It is becoming constantly more cbvious to many railrad workers that the only effective means of meeting these attacks is a strong, solid, militant united body or rail- road workers with a clear under- standing of the necessity for carry- ing on a militant and organized campaign against the companies, their lawyers, and the company unions. The Railroad Unity Committee, rejlroad workers’ organization to meet the attacks of the companies. It has distributed a leaflet in every railroad yard in the city, and in the railroad centers at Reading, Baltimore, Lancaster, Scranton, Easton, etc., exposing the corrupt methods of the companies to force workers to refrain from supporting this Bill. It calls on all Railroad Unions to pass resolutions in their lodges demanding the passage of the Full Crew Bill, and to flood Governor Earle and members of the | State Legislature with them. they could not get rid of this case, increased the relief order $1.70, Finding this was still insufficient, the delegation of the Unemployment Council again went to the relief of- ficials and again secured an in- crease, this time of $1.45, Roumanian armaments — all this after the non-aggression pact be- tween the Soviet Union and Rou- | mania had been signed. This new war policy against the Soviet Union, this plan for con- quest has been worked out in full detail with the close cooperation of the Foreign and War Depart- ments of Nazi Germany, the “Garda de Fer” (the Iron Guard—the fas- cist organization of Professor Cod- reanu and Cuza of Roumania and the Roumanian Government). The fact that the “Garda de Fer” works hand in glove with Rosenberg, Hit- ler & Co., is nothing new. As a matter of fact these fascist gang- sters are being supported by Nazi Germany and the plan of conquest, as recently revealed in the press, makes this plan a direct link in their own aims. The plan of attack has however one drawback—the masses of Bess- arabia and Roumania proper are in @ state of revolt; they are ready to defend the Soviet Union and estab- lish their own Soviets. That.is why the Roumanian Government has promulgated martial law all over Roumania, irfluding Bessarabia and the other provinces—Bukovina, Transylvania, etc., that is why the colonization of Bessarabia is in the hands of the Kulaks; that is why by March 20, the date of publica- Because of the rate at which the subscriptions are coming in, we now want at least 750 advance subscriptions by that date. We will nublish from time to time the progress of this subscription drive. We hove that we can once more raise this quota to reach 1,000, double the original figure. Sub- scribe now. If you have already done so, get your friends and fellow workers to subscribe. One dollar a year for advance subscriptions. em Sugar in Urine and Frequency (es M. R. of St. Louis, Mo, writes: “My urine contains slight traces of sugar. I try to combat this by drinking a lot of water. I am forced to urinate very frequently and in the winter es- pecially am forced to get up two or three times at night to pass water. What is your opinion?” Our Reply The presence of sugar in the urine and the symptom of frequent urination of large volumes of urine, suggest the diagnosis of diabetes, In order to be certain it may be necessary to have blood tests and Special urine tests. Obviously this can cnly be done by physicians. If you have diabetes, it may be so mild that proper dieting will con- trol the disease. The desire to urinate frequently during the night is not usual in Diabetes. The urine should be ex- amined whether there is any pus or blood in it to account for your frequent urination. Zine Poisoning EF M. H., of Staten Island writes: “Would appreciate very much your comment on and analysis of the effects of galvanized fumes on the workers who come in contact with same?” The fumes, which are caused when an oxyacetylene touch is used on galvanized steel or iron, are com- posed mostly of the oxide of zinc, It was encountered in the ship work during the war and is a defi- nitely recognized disease. It is similar to what is called “brass founders ague.” When zine is added to molten copper (which melts around 1,000 degree Centi- grade) some of the zinc “boils” off because its melting point is mueh lower (400 to 500 degrees Centi- grade). In the air the minutes and Particles of metal become “oxi- dized” and the fumes inhaled are zinc oxide. After a big dose 10 to 25 milligrams inhaled in one day, the worker, after leaving work, may be taken with a chill like in malaria. There can be headaches, pain in the extremities, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in a severe case. Com- mercial zine contains varying amounts of lead which also pro- duces disease. Even small amounts of arsenic may be present. The chill is supposed to be caused by the breaking up of cells which have taken up the zinc oxide in the lunes. It predisposes the worker to pneumonia and, if done long enough, to tuberculosis. The use jof zinc in industry, though wide- spread, has not been studied over a long period to show ultimate ef- fect. In England ship cutters, who work on galvanized steel and iron which has been painted, have been re- ported to suffer extensively from lead poisoning. This is because the acetylene torch volatilizes (drives into air) at high temperature not only the zinc but the lead in the paint as well. The real cure for these occupa- tional diseases is prevention. Either masks or artificial ventilation or power fans should be used to carry away the fumes. * . OMRADE L. 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