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gle for the esta5l3 Siment OF a better
order of things. wherein the elemen-
tary problems OF food shelter and
clothing will have been correctly or
ganized and rele5as2d TO the back
ground CT our lives. leaving our time
free fer Gu 5u-c and sports. Have VIC
not learred that We are to carry over
tire "tec-lniqUcH @ capitalism into
the socialist system?
There is a technique OF food and
clothing, too. Oh, yes, the capitalists
have been busy discovering what is
good and why. But their discoveries
have been plsstered over with mass
of ex5raneous addition: fashions
have degencratad into a racket. to
make lis by new clothes; fanny
spp2.ite5 for fco5s have been devel-
opsd, through advertising, in order
to dispose of food commodities.
Our task is to separate vital from
Insignificant. and to learn the value
of a knowledge of proper feeding
and practical clothing.
AS to food. The object is to replace
the wear and tear on our bodies; and
so we eat foods of various chemical
competition in approximately the
proportion in which the body needs
them. In cooking school. in 1918 and
1914, my classmates and 1 were
taught simple and sensible formula.
1t YVES this: Eat about 2-3 calbohy-
drates (starchy food, such as pota-
toes, bread rice. macaronD and 1-3
txrp
fish, cheese, also beams. In addi-
ton, there must be small amount
of fat (Which you get in butter,
meats, cheese and cream, and some
minerals which occur in various veg
etables, in fact in nearly all foods;
so that you can scarcely eat at all
without getting your minerals.
Lastly, in order to avert constipa-
ton you must take in a generous
amount of "roughage,' fibrous mat
ter, something for the intestines to
grasp in order to push along the
waste matter; this is most important.
Too much "pasty" and concentrated
nourishment will play the devil with
your intestines; so get the roughage
in potato skins, all vegetables, espe-
cially celery, string beans, and the
like. Thus they taught us in 1918
And then. along came vitaminsl
There has been so much "Sturm
and Drang' in all the public prints
on the value of vitamins, I'm sure
every comrade is vitamin- conscious.
They assist the body in assimilating
other foods, in building resistance to
disease, and in children in growth.
They are present in most vegetables,
especially those of which we eat the
part that grows above the ground,
and in fruits; that is, we get indi-
rectly the sunshine they absorbed.
Now along comes Harpers Bazaar
with the sad news that the stomach
must be alkaline to digest one kind,
ard acid to digest another kind of
matter, so we mustn't have starches
and proteins at the same meal. No!
This really is too muchl And after
I'VE been SO carefully balancing my
2-3 and 1-3 all these yearsi How
have I survived? I rebel! If 1 must
COUNT calories, and make each meal
3ither protein or carbohydrate, then
give up the struggle here and now.
Life isn't worth 1t, and I'm through.
Nc. J. think It's b9t1er for the
"homan system" that we just go
long eating something of everything
in sight as palatably prepared as
POSSIBLE, for | know by experience
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
I.S.U. Pirates Invade
Ships to Hi-Jack Dues
BY a Marine Worker Correspondent

By Marine Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md.-"Delegates" Of
the International Seamen's union are
boarding ships collecting signatures
for their code" which contains no
thing but that the IS.U. should be
authorized to represent the seamen
at the code hearings These dele
gates" do not dare go aboard ship
where the conditions are the worst,
for fear of being thrown overheard.
They only board ships where they
have few members, then hijack
these members out of dues money.
If these members who pay dues
would follow these delegates" ashore
they would see what the dues money
is used for They would discover that
the delegates" would be found seated
in a hooch joint, hosting one beer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

IongShoremen only ST cents per hour.
A longshoreman unloads close to
$500 tons a day, getting about 81
for it. And when he gets IL hours a
week he is lucky.
They force the men to overload the
hand trucks and thus hurry up the
work. The man is usually followed by
curses and abuses. Gangs in the hold
have been cut to such an extent that
a man is hardly able to clear in case
of break in the slingload while
working in the square hatch doing
the work of two.
Many Accidents
Especially hazardous is the posi-
ton of the longshoremen moving
cargo between lighters on a sheet of
steel placed on "a sloping angle, so
that, when the cars are ready to
transfer, the worker behind the heavy
loads driven at a tremendous speed,
slips and often gets seriously in
jured. Compensation starts only after
seven days of injury, unless it lasts
more than 40 days.
The shaping occurs at all hours
and when you get hired you work
from one to a few hours-and not
every day. When you try the next
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Ey PAUL LUTTINGER, MD.
Answers to Questions.

Let the Child Remain Vegetarian.
Mrs. L. G., Hicksville.-As your
child is in good health and seems to
be thriving on his vegetarian diet,
we should advise you to let him con-
tinue. Furthermore, the yolk of
eggs contains quite an appreciate
amount of assimi1able iron. 1t will
be time enough to change his diet
when and If he shows signs Of be-
ginning to slow down in his develop
ment. Only strict vegetarians who
do not eat eggs are liable to become
anemic and not all of them, at
that. Most of those who live in the
country, with plenty Of sunshine, are
doing very well, indeed! Our re-
marks referred to city jewellers who
are cut off from the beneficial influ-
ence of the suns rays.
Eve Glasses Free of Charge.
d. RIFF you are Party member,
unemployed and have no money to
buy glasses, DR.. Sommers, 624 West
164th Street, New York, will supply
you a pair free of charge. You must
bring prescription for same.
Prevenception
X. X. Chicago.--We are glad to
hear that you like our humor and
that it helps to digest the dry por-
lions of this column. Unfortunately,
the law against dissemination Of in
formation on birth control, although
a ghastly joke, cannot be treated with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Govt Lets Its
Contractors
Cheat Workers
By a Worker CorEespondent


NEW YORK-The firm where
am now employed. the Bouker Con-
tracing Co., Inc, Of II State St., be-
fore the depression received q con-
tract from a firm which had previ-
ously contracted with the United
States government to construct a
breakwater at Rockaway Point at
Far Rockaway Inlet (some times
called Atlantic Beach,.
The contract was based on the pre-
depression wage scale. The wages
paid to the workers should therefore
be at the previous scale, but instead
those fat bellied robbers took advan-
tage of the crisis and reduced wages
from $23 a week to from S. and So
per day.
Most of the time you are allowed
two to four days work at the So scale,
and the remainder of the week at 81
per day.
This firm is doing government
work, the government has issued its
MIRA. dictum. If this MIRA. was
actually for the workers wouldn't the
government, through the MIRA, in
sist upon firms holding their con-
tract, whether contracted before or
during the depression, to pay their
employees the standard wages. But
no! Instead of doing that, they per-
mitted them to pay less wages than
others doing private work.
Now, fellow workers, since we now
know the real meaning of that great
est of misleading propaganda, the
MIRA. and what it stands for, what
further use of us kidding ourselves
about returning prosperity, knowing
fully well that with the machines
going full blast in displacing the
workers more and more each day,
the only way out is to join the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union, read
the Marine Workers Voice and the
Daily Worker.
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PROTEST ABSENCE OF
INSTRUCTORS
New York Cit.

lNCW l. VI n Why
Comrade Editor:
We, the students of the Young
Communist League Week End School,
protest the continuous absence of our
various instructors. Comrade Blom-
field, in particular, should be critic
lied for his failure to deliver pro-
missed lecture on the Soviet Union.
The students have been very enthu-
siastic about the arrangements of the
school till our teachers began to miss
classes.
The irregular attendance by the
teachers began to have a demoraliz-
ing effect upon the students, and
caused a sharp drop in the students
attendance. Therefore, We, the STU
dents, sharply protest and criticize
our various instructors for negligence
of their attendance and instruction
of our classes.
Comrade Overgaard was absent on
Aug. Is.
julius Fieldberg.
Bloomfield, Overgaard Explain
l was not the instructor when the
classes started. ! was called to take
over the class in question when Com
rade Markoff took sick.
At the first session that I attended,
I asked, How many here studied
your assignments?" Five hands went
up in class of about At students.
The discussion proved that no one
y studied 1T the second session
1 conducted, ! asked the same a
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which never permits his salary to go
over s14 or SIS. 1t works like this:
There is no standard percentage Of
commission; it is changed around,
so that if the income OF the news
stand gets bigger, the percentage is
reduced, so that the worker should
remain within the s12 salary
However, in the slower season,
when the income drops considerably,
the company delcatsly ignores this
phenomenon, so that a worker can
get a pay check Of SO or SO after
putting in 70 hours work per week.
ITO be continued Next Monday
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Doctor
LuHn4eh
QdUda:

levity We. are writing you privately
explaining the law to you and urg-
ing you to. have more children, SO you
can all starve more and more and
become better and more docile slaves
for the masters of this country.
Sea sickness
d. c., Baltimore-We have a lisa
of remedies against sea-sickness
numbering 1919 different drugs and
medicines. The very fact that there
are so many. shows that none Of
them is any good. My advice is to
take nonessasJ especially to avoid
any 'infalliblep \. NEEDY recommended
by the ship captain or steward. The
only thing that may help is to avoid
eating anything sold the day you
board the ship, except orange or
grapefruit juice. at the rate Of one
glass every two. hours.
AS to the pimples and the other
thing, you'll receive letter in due
time. ~
Has Anybody Got, a Monkey?
Does any of our readers happen
to have a monkey or an ape which
he would like to give away? A poor
devil who is suffering from exhibit
tionism has been advised to obtain
one for curative purposes. 1t is easy
for rich man to make a monkey
Of himself, but you cannot buy one
without money.
-
Readers desiring health information
should address their letters to Or. Paul
Luttinger, CO Daily Worker. IS 3. 18th
ST.. New York City
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business of the entire country. Such
figures are collected by organizations
supported by, the big capitalists; we
can be sure that they will show the
situation as favorably as possible.
Such an institution, for example, is
the Index Numbers Institute, Inc,
whose figures are published In big
newspapers all over the country. At
random we pick up the Pittsburgh
Post Gazette, for Sept. II, which pub
fishes these figures. What do they
show?
Economic activity for August, 1898,
production, business, etc., is repre-
sented by an index figure of 49, This
means that if all economy of 1925 is
represented as 100, then Aug. 1888,
would be 70, or 81 per cent less. Or
if it is compared with a five-year
period of pre-crisis times, which
showed combined index Of 125,
that means we are 40 per cent below
normal"
That is certainly not prosperity"
as yet, is it?
sspUT things. are better than they
II were, say the newspapers, mo
matter how bad they are now, they
get better, and move towards pros
perity"
Is that SO? True, things we're going
up for while; now they are going
down again; up and down, up and
down, that is the way the capitalist
system is always going. But how
far up? n9'7@
Remember last year, during the
presidential election, Herbert Hoover
also told us things we're getting better.
And they were-in the same way as
in April to July this year. Hoover's
boom rose almost as high as the
Roosevelt boom this year-up to the
index of rs. But that did not mean
that we were approaching prosperity
again: instead We we're coming to
new crash, which followed in Deem
Der, January and February, the worst
the country ever saw.
Remember also, that Hoover's boom,
(Which went almost as high as Roose-
velt's boom this year, was brought
about without much effort. Hoover
did not do much of anything. Roose-
velt's boom cost thousand times the
effort, and required initiation, going
off the gold standard, the MIRA, the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, the new
banking law, the codes, the Blue
Eagle, and so on-and still it went
only 3 points higher than Hoover's,
and now is already dropping below
We cannot say, with any truth.
that things are getting better" until
at least things get better than in the
last year of Hoovers administration.
HnvERPRODUCTION, which caused
v the crisis, is now being over
come" say the newspaper headlines.
Is it true? Has the MIRA reduced
the extent of "overproduction"?
Unfortunately, the facts do not
show it. On the contrary. No one
will deny that last December there
was "overproduction," that is, great
stocks of unsold goods with nobody
to buy them, which was the reason
that more factories than ever closed
down last winter. Are things any
better in this respect as we approach
the winter Of 1933-34? No, things are
worse. Today there is twice as much
goods in the warehouses as in De-
cember, 1882.
Production did go up in April 10
July. But instead of making things
better, it made them worse, because
most of the goods went into stor-
age, increased "overproduction." The
goods were not being sold Tor
consumption.
fCoutipuod ToYnOrvovN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Negro LongsilOre-
man BIameS ILA Of
fiic;.aIS for Lay-Off
~ ? W2-'-or Correspondent

NORFOLK, VAL am a hard
working man when 1 can get it to
do. And am taxpayer of Norfolk.
I came here in 1915, and worked at
the Norfolk Western, and left here
for a time, but came back in 1920
and have been here ever since and
have not worked in any other place.
In 1888 I was put of the job.
In 1920 I joined the lila, Local
978. paid 500 to join that union;
and have done all 1 could, and now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
ALL. HEADS SELL OUT CABMEN
BY a Railroad Worker Cn:.resnnndert

LOUISVILLE, KY like the en-
larged Daily" and am doing ev-
erything I can TO push it.
l am employed by the City Railway
Co. We haven't got our Blue Buzz
card yet. I can see wage cut for us
when we do.
The A. F. of L. sold out the Brown
Cab men here. will write you when
we get our code.
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1 am put off the job and it has put
me in very bad shape. have fam
lily of five, am without a job, and
have no food, and have been put out
in the street. The way we men are
treated on that jobl I feel that the
officers of this local are somewhat
to blame for this condition.
lila. LONGSHOREMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Western Union Forces
Messengers to Parade
By Telegraph Worker Correspondent

BY Telegraph Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-On September 2, the
Western Union Telegraph Co. dis
played N.R.A. signs in all their Of
flee windows. They did not shorten
the hours of work or increase the
pay of their employees. Messengers
earn So week. On September 10,
1888, the company compelled all mes
engers that could be spared to par
ticipate in the MIRA. parade or lose
their jobs. The messengers were paid
20 cents an hour to keep quiet.
A Western Union Employe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Can You Make 'em
Yourself

Pattern '5l9 comes in sizes IL, Ia,
16, 10 and 20 Size IL takes l 7-8
yards 54-inch fabric and So yards
36-inch contrasting Illustrated STEP
by-step instructions with this pattern.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Fire Militant
Workers by Fake
Examination
By a Marine Worker Correspondent

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
DULUTH, Minn.-The longshore-
men Of Duluth and Superior we're
this spring forced to go through a
fake medical examination ana
through this the company was able
to blacklist % workers. This, how
ever, was done only in one company
Of tie two that are operating in
these ports in the line Of package
freight, because the company that Is
weaker is testing the feelings of the
workers and will next spring try the
same stunt.
The fight Of the rank and file has
mainly been to rellire these % men
that were laid off from the gangs on
the Great Lakes docks Although we
have a union, what has it done to re-
place these men? The president OF
the union, Ola, Local 1870, has
been telling us that we can do no.
thing about 1t. The company even
refused to tell what was wrong with
these men, but finally gave out the
reports when the workers indicated
what they thought of this examina-
ton.
All of the reports that were given
were that they had varicoSe veins.
I have seen most of these men in
Steam bath houses and on the beach
and there are several other cases
that are far more serious and they
were not let out. Why? Because the
company wanted to fire the men who
were striking against wage cut in
1881 and won several demands. The
workers at that time also organized
100 per cent into an organization
which this spring showed its colors
to the workers by betraying them and
acting as a tool in the hands of the
bosses. CThe IL.A)
President Stalls
The president OF our local has been
5talling off all summer any of the
proposals made in regards to work
ing agreement. At the last meeting
he was unable to get out of it any
longer. and said we already have a
man working on a SET Of agreements.
This man = Nconan, the district sec
ratary CT the lila. for the Great
LAKES District, and all Of the work
srs know what to expect from him.
Howsye-, at the last meeting the
rank and file we're able to set up a
committee to draw up an agree
incnt which got the demands out to
the men on the docks.
We must support these demands
100 ner cent, as they are ours, not
those Of the takers like Noonan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Letters From Transportation Workers
Get About So for Unloading
L5OO Tons at Morgan Line
BY S. RIGER. Marine Worker

NEW HORKCaSua peed-up akeoffs
general conditions of Line Piers 49, 49
3D. The Morgan Line by the Southern Pa Of the largest
United million dollars
in the
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Forced to Sign Lunch Hour
Away on Subway Newsstand
By a subway Worker CORRESPONDENT


the September is write
terrible
Collier president is
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f -AN 81
lfYIna fEac EkaplBl@.G
ISS$#HsN - n
BY HELEN LUKE

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dress pasierns proetsr,at ae$c-
clohing still
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
What Workers Should Know
About the Roosevelt NRA
The NRA Promise to End "Overproduction"
Proven False by the Actual Facts; Piled Up
Goods Now Greater Than Ever

following first of series by Comrade
Secretary the Communist Party all
these articles Comrade BrowdeF,
reveals the MIRA
the country the second art
appearing tomorrow examines the question imitation
VIVA to their everyday lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
BY EARL BR "VVDER
NsESNt 4 ~, /

EVERY writing the ion Recovery Act and the
and propaganda Speak
homes visited by
Blue are at from window
signbcard.
about? What all in the daily life
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

after another, and talking about the
prospects and live wires on some
other ship that is due. lib.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
>eamen Gum Up Hitler Party
Given on the S. S. ResOlute
Jet Aboard Nazi Ship; Talk to Members of
Crew Who Say Its Not So Good in
Germany" Flood Ship With Leaflets
(By a Marine Worker Correspondent

YORK"Wht beautiful ship" This of the best ships
bah" We had this idle
Steamship Co., where
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Why Was the N.R.A. Made A
Law By Act OF Congress?

Law by AcL vi SOitgTeSS!
Because the economic system of
America had broken down. Four
years of crisis, closed factories. mil
lions unemployed and starving, banks
unable to pay and closing the cvo-g,
wages being slashed strikes breaking
out-these things forced everyone to
see that something was fundamen-
tally wrong with the whole system.
The thing simply wouldn't work any
more.
Nobody believes any more in the
old system. Everybody demands a
new system. Everybody demands
that a way out of the crisis shall be
found.
The NRA was the Official recogni-
ton that the old system was smashed,
that the masses of people who work,
when they can get job, and who
depend upon a job in order to live,
must be given something new.
That is why we have the New Deal
and the NRA.
What Does the N.R.A. Promise
To Give To the Workers?
1t promises to remove the cause of
the crisis. 1t promises to reopen the
factories, restore production, bring
back prosperity. 1t promises to
remedy the disorder, the chaos, the
anarchy of the economic system, and
put in its place a planned economy
without crisis. 1t promises higher
wages, shorter hours, and the right
of the workers to organize, according
to their own desire.
All these things would be very fine,
if we could get them. They would
make life easier, they would remove
the terrible conditions which today
make life a horrible nightmare for
millions of people.
These are wonderful things that
have been promised Even the simple
promising of these things, before any
of them are realized, made Roose-
welt a popular hero with millions of
people.
The masses want these things.
They need them in order to live.
Therefore it becomes very i'm
portant question, as to whether these
things are being realized through the
NRA.
We don't want to be fooled again
as we were fooled with the promises
Of Herbert Hoover. when he was Pre-
s.dent and promised us prosperity in
5;--ty days"
We have a right not to trust in any
bcdy's words any more. We have
been lied to so much, that we would be
stuo:d fools to believe in any words
tbet cannot be proven by facts.
So let us examine what facts we
can find.
WHEN we look for facts, it is no
" lorrer enough to read the news
rauer headlines and front pages, or
listen to the speeches of big men.
IN such places we don't find those
facts which show the true conditions.
We must turn to the financial and
business pages, read the economic
journals. and get reports from the
workers in the industries all over the
country.
Newspaper headlines tell us: Roo
sevelt and the NRA have started the
factories to producing again. Pros
perity is coming back.
Is it true? Millions Of workers wish
it to be true, but if it is lie, then
it is a cruel one, raising high hopes
only to dash them to the ground
again.
To Judge this question, one must
study the collected figures OF the
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answers to these questions from all
the mass of writing and speaking.
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LA. LONGSHOREMAN