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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
PATERSON, N. 1.-THE United
Piece Dye Works in Hawthorne, N. j.,
ere said to be putting in some new
machines. That will put a lot of
workers out of jobs. The machines
only take a few workers to run them,
and will do the work of about 20
workers. The workers can plainly see
the bosses do not care about the
workers, so long as they get the work
done with a profit. The bosses do
not care if the workers have to walk
the streets all day looking for a Job,
so long as they can get their work
done. That is why the workers, have
organized in unions, so as to protect
their Jobs and to fight for their
rights. The workers viii have to fight
us so there will be no layofs in this
shop.
III the Blue Bird Dye Shop the
bosses have laid off about % workers
since the Bosses claim the work is
getting slow and they will not need
so many workers now. One of these
workers that were laid-of has only
worked two hours for this pay, which
S SI15. It will be very little money
TO last until this worker can get an
other job. The bosses do not care
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28

Al the risk OF seeming repetitions, ]
a wish to advance the discussion as
TO the IutiliCy Ct feminism as a road
70 liberty ana equality for women
under capitalism.
Communism guarantees the liberia
ton Of ali oppressed and eXplot ed
classes and groups, socially. polit-
1cally, economically; therefore 1t
means the complete emanciuation
socially, politically, economically, Of
tire doubly oppressed proletarian
women. This cannot take place IN
der capitalism. Such liberties or
concessions as are won for women
under captain are limited in ex-
cent or remain c+ories only on
paper, due to economic conditions.
Those bourgeois feminists, writer's
Or groups who try to blind or con-
fuse the working-class women on this
point are mislesders and must be
exposed and fought as such Their
hopes and theories lead into blind
alleys every time.
Some bourgeois women apparently
at least are satisfied to remain chat
tells 50 long as their cages are gilded
tnickly enough; others, while living
luxuriously, resent their subordinate
position and turn TO feninisn, cher
ishing vain dreams Of matriarchy
"a capitalist matriarchy, Of course.
The ladies Of the "Altrusa Club" long
ago vigorously applauded Joseph
Hergesheimer when he told them
that natriarchy was coming).
Like the frantic search Of capital
ism for way out Of the crisis, which
leads to war, this frantic feminism
also leads to war-a war Of the sexes.
The feminist position, blindly
ignoring the fact that the liberation
CT women is inseparably bound up
With the emancipation Of labor-is
20 untenable basically that its eX-
ponents simply can't talk much with
out falling into the maze of contra
Siictions characteristic of capitalism,
OF which feminism is one Of the
numerous growths.
Yesterday we quoted a paragraph
from the tract ''Women's Superiority
Seen Implied by Nazi," by Gretta
Palmer, editor of the N. z. World
Telegram women's page, paragraph
ia which she carelessly made burnt
offering of the health and well-being
of working women and their children
on he altar OF Good Sportsman-
ship" before the God Of Capital.
Here is the conclusion of the same
article, which urges s. tooth and
nail" competition between men and
women in business:
sThe Nazi women are too eff
Client to please the Nazi men? They
might win mems jobs away from
them? Very well then. II the Nazi
women have a spark Of spirit or
gufnption they will.
"And the German man, con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
BY D. z. NIANUILSKY
Article X

DUT now the world crisis appears
y with all its awful consequences
for the workers, while the process OF
fascination becomes more rapid both
in the apparatus of the capitalist
state. and in the whole system Of
bourgeois political parties. Otto
Bauer deliberately slurs over the pro-
cess Of revolutionization going on
among the masses, and in his cele-
brated speech describes the situation
as counter Revolutionary stu
alton" That same party which did
not so much let slip, but rather de-
st-oyed, the revolutionary situation
existing in Austria in 1918 for the
winning Of socialism, considers a
counter revolutionary situation" to
be the most suitable for the winning
Of socialism by democratic paths!
This characterization is not a chance
slip OF the tongue on the part of Otto
Bauer, because the Socialism" Of So
oial-democracy in a "counter-revolu-
tionary situation" is nothing more or
less than the economic program Of
fascism. For example, when Otto
Bauer announced the bandit meas
ures Of the Austrian bour1eoisie IN
transferring the liabilities Of the bank
rupt Creditanstalt bank onto the
shoulders of the workers and peas
ants by means Of naturalization to
be a step on the way to socialism, this
is defending the fascist socialism Of
q counter revolutionary situation
When another social-fascist cynic,
Hilferding, saw a "bit OF socialism" in
the DEGREES of Bruening for the re-
Guction OF wages, because they repre-
sented state interference, this ex-
pressed the organic fusion Of the pro-
grams Of fascism and social-demo-
cracy. The whole theory Of modern
social-democrscy on state capital
ism" is nothing but the theological
Justification of the fascination Of
bourgeois dictatorship. 1t is exactly
adjusted to the practical measures Of
capitals offensive against the working
class.
But how can we reconcile the state
merit Of Otto Bauer on counter
revolutionary situation" with his
other thesis that in Austria the bour-
Feoisie % not ut present enjoy IN
limited domination. 1t is precisely in
"ccr1ter-r 0vo- utioncrv situation"
that all the features of unlimited"
bourgeois dictatorship stand out in
especially sharp relief.
Is There a Counter Revolutionary
Situation in Austria?
Il is another question as to whether
there is a counter stu
alton in Austria at all. What are
the characteristic signs Of the victory
OF counter-revoIution? There are
three.
Firstly, when the bourgeoisie. with
the collaboration Of social democracy,
have defeated the working class and
the tciling population in ooen strug-
sic, temporarily crushing the revolu-
ton hey consolidate their rule
ouoyed up on the wave Of on improv-
ing economic situation-an improved
situation which helps the counter
revolution to grow into q more or less
stable regime of bourgeois dictator
skip.
Secondly, the intermediate classes
ana social groups, above all the ur-
ban ELECTROMAGNETIC and the peas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
$1.2O to s. A Week
In Needle Trades
OF Puerto Rico
(Bv a VORTEX CORRESPONDENT

W. a FNOAt-~A AG0II2AAAEAAbl
NEW YORK. II am translating
part Of a letter I received from my
mother in Ponce, P. r., stating their
conditions in that island. My idea
is to tell the workers in the U.SA.
not only the economic conditions of
my folks on the other side, but the
general conditions OF the workers and
peasants at the Model Colony"
My father used to be a shoe manu-
facturer about 80 years ago, but the
penetration Of Yanlse imperialism in
the different activities of the econo-
mic life Of Porto Rico and the con-
centration of industries and capital
in fewer hands every year, forced him,
like many others, into the ranks of
the workingclass.
He has been struggling for the last
20 years and every day he made less
wages, to the extent that since 1927
he Is blind poor man without the
chance of making a penny.
We four children are all une1n-
ployed today, without the chance of
AAS-kAAAS OAA pOOA 4RSAAN1s
My brother worked IL years for an
American concern and he was laid
off two years ago. In the meantime
he received few pennies from his
boss just because they needed him
as an instructor if they ever started
to manufacture again. My brother
substituted for three Americans who
made S125, $110 and SIS weekly EACH
lie worked making $25 for six years.
Today he is laid of, having gotten
for three years whatever the boss felt
like giving him.
My sister, fine dressnaker, never
made more than $6 week. The last
year she worked for a firm by the
name of Klein for 81 a week for so
hours week. She was laid off at
Christmas.
My other sister is married to an
engineer who only makes $50 q
month.
My mother wrote me in plain Span
ish that they are all sick and prac-
tically starving. To-day in Puerto
Rico" my mother wrote me, "Unem-
ployment embraces even professionals
and intellectuals."
Workers in the sugar mill make
from so to 80 cents q day and on the
plantations from So to go cents daily
only for few months during the
crop season.
an the needle trades here, hun
dreds of girls are without work and
those working make $1.2o to 81 a
week.
about the MIRA. can tell you"
she says, that we, the poor class,
have no benefit. On the contrary,
people that do not need 1t get the
jobs and relief. I give you an idea
just imagine that all the daughters
and family OF E. Fagot (former mayor
and landowner) got positions from
the MIRA. Our sister filled out an
application long ago, but didn't get
any reply.
Conditions are terrible and we are
waiting for a great Communist leader
to come here SO We can learn the
way out OF these terrible conditions"
Editors Note.--NOt by waiting for
a great Communist leader" but by
organizing in shops and among the
unemployed for daily demands is
G real struggle developed against
the conditions described above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Drooklyns IN. l.
I've Just returned from a trip
South, where l was connected with
the C.C.C. and have been reading
the "Daily Worker" for one whole
week after an absence of two
months, with ever Astounding pride.
The amazing improvement in the
Masthead, Mike Colds "Change the
World" a title of revolutionary
command and inspiration, is an i'm
provement over the defeatist, ex-
asperatei "What World"
However, one grievance which has
in the past prevailed, still disap-
pointingly persists and that is DR..
Luttinger's column. Don't get me
wrong. The contents are as educa-
tional, and enjoyable and instructive
as ever. But one can see how the
comrade doctor struggles to keep
within the bounds of the space al
lotted him. Since we have but one
"Daily Worker" and but one fine,
witty, fearless, and competent class
conscious doctor, who through the
"Daily" successfully and devastat-
ingly reduces to an absurdity the
parasitic quacks, isn't it important
to allow him an entire column to
continue more fully and freely his
rreplaceable contribution to thu
building of a mass revolutionary
movement? My comrades in the
Young Communist League section
in Brownsville, and all other persons
| have discussed this with, agree.
Let me close therefore, wishing
the greatest success to the further
Improvement of our "Daily Worker
and for consideration Of our heart
felt proposal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
Become A Worker
Correspondent
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN. COMM rega~d to
Worker Correspondence. I would like
to say that onvone with even part
grammar s"ho"l education can be a
worker correspondent. I only went to
the sixth grade. I was working in a
factory when I was only II years of
age.
ANY worker can go down to the 5
and 10 cent st"re, set writing tablet
for a nickel, a bunch Of envelopes for
another nickel, a good lead pencil, ons
that writes black, writing pen and a
bottle Of ink NOW you are all set tet
work. The rest is as easy as pie.
Go and ming'e with the down and
outs, listen to them tell OF their eX-
perisnces. They know; they know the
class struggle on the park benches
There you will hear many tals
listen to the sky pilots defending tbs
rich mans wealth, hear what he has
to say. Attend the Salvation Army
meetings; you will see plenty to write
about there.
Attend the board Of aldermen
meetings, there you will see plenty to
write about for the Daily Worker. A
rect place to go is the employment
cfices. -.
The worker correspondents are get
ting more popular with the workers
every day. 7 know people who started
eff with reading correspondence have
become affectionate towards the
Daily Worker The more the better.
Editors NOte-And most in1por-
tant of all, write of your own ex-
perience, especially In the shop,
about conditions there and what
you and the other workers are do
ing about 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
EYES OPENED
Lakewood, N. ].

Dear Editor:
Until two months ago I did not
know what was going on in this
world concerning the worker, what
constitutes a strike, and war, except
for what I've read in the bourgeois
papers. But since I've come in con-
tact with a few C. P. members in
our strike for the Resort Hotel Work
ers, I never believed the horrors that
go on in this world. and how it is
suppressed by the capitalist papers,
and now, since reading the Daily
Worker" in contrast with the CAPT
talist papers, my eyes have been
opened All that I've ever cared for
was the stage, and nothing else mat
tered in my life. But to see the
hardship and struggles of the work
ers. how they are framed, beaten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
VETERAN REVOLUTIONARY
WORKER DIES

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. - Matthew
Barbarich. aged IS, died Feb. 70 in
the local hospital. He was a mem
Der Of the Communist Party up I'M
til his death and worker. When
employed as a brakeman for the US.
Steel Corporation mills, he suffered
an accident which cost him leg. He
suffered for six years as result, I'M
til his death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
A Tip to Chronic Worriers

All chronic worriers, hypochon-
driacs, neurasthenics, nervous indi-
viduals and even normal people need
ing relaxation who have been plan
ming to visit our office, are hereby
advised to first try Bob Minors l7c-
ture and the play put up by the
Theatre Of Action at the Renaissance
Casino, 138th st. and Seventh Ave.
The office hours are to IL, Thurs
day, March I, and the Harlem Work
ers' Club which dispensss the treat
ment, will charge a fee of only Is
cents. We plan to go there ourself,
disguised as bourgeois physician,
with a small red goatee and accom-
panied by our favorite monkey, Mona.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
Good News 10 Our Correspondents
= BY PAUL LuTTINGER, MD.

Il Good News TO Our Correspondents
We are planning to acquire a dc
taphone, which will enable us to die
tate our replies, late at night. when
patients and our secretary have gone
home. 1t seems to be the only solu-
ttcn to the ever-increasing number Of
letters which we receive daily and
which we are physically unable to
answer otherwise.
Ii any of our readers happen to
have an idle dictaphone with a
transcribing unit and a shaver for
cylinders, we should appreciate II
he or she would loan it to us, the
price of a new set being over $500
and beyond the means of q prole-
tartan physician.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28

We publish letters from textile,
needle, shoe and leather workers
every Wednesday. Workers in those
industries are urged to write us of
their conditions of work, and of
their struggles to organize. Get the
letters to us by Saturday of each
week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-28
PARTY LIFE
Non Party Railroad Workers
Explains Laaity in Detroit
Concentration Units Do Not Make Sufficient Use
Of Members and Contacts

The following letter was written
to the Central Committee by a
non-Party railroad worker. We call
this letter to the attention of the
Detroit D.stri3t, as well as the COM
rades responsible for railroad work.
We would like the Detroit District
to write reply for publication in
this column as to what steps they
are taking to remedy the situation
pointed out in this letter.
While we print the letter in fun,
at the same time we must state
that we do not agree with the
COmrade RS reason for not being
a Party member. Com-ade can
and shou,d-5oin the Party and
learn how to work more effectively,
how to carry on his work among
the railroad workers without being
victinized by the bosses.
Detroit, Mich.
February 81, 1873:
Fellow Workers:
About two weeks ago, in two issues
the Daily Worker had a third-pagf
article on the railroad question. L
did not mention D2t-oit activities
and I think there is a good reason
namely the Detroit activities are
mostly minus.
Now, in the Daily Worker of Feb
Goth, on page 6 is VERY good edi-
torial on R. r. Concentration. I hope
that you will take the following s,~ort
report as basis for q new ant
REAL attempt to get the Party mem
bers on the Detroit west side tt
carry out the provisions of the Oper
Letter and the Feb. goth article.
Without Dragging I think I car
safely say that Detroit rail work j;
tagging because practically all Of the
planning, and day-to-day propagan.
dizing among the rail workers in De.
troit has been one man job and 6
non-Party member at that. It tool
a year of patient work with one
Party member to get him active but
it has borne good results. I under.
stand that there is now PARTY
member on the west side RIGHT N
THE VERY GROUP with which
am now concentrating on the west
side.
The first Party member mentioned
has done good work and we now have
a very good opposition committee n
his local (the Garment. This is or
the east side. On the west side
now have found one good sym
pathizer who is intensely interested
and doing our work and also thres
good militants who want to gel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBElN'-

EOR many years all sorts of specific remedies have
Il been tried on the tuberculous. and millions of
dollars have been mulcted from these sufferers for
patent medicines
Among the first of the new scientific remedies to
be announced Kochs tubercun which was
developed in 1890 This is not specific remedy
and there many experts who feel that it is
worthless.
However some doctors who use it very carefully
and who study their patients find it useful in some
cases.
number of remedies have been introduced. con-
Sistng of combinations of copper of gold and of
other metals All these remedies are experimental
and, although they have been reported as effective
IN some cases, the vast majority of the evidence
does not seem to indicate any special value for any
of them.
Because the LESSONS of tuberculosis heal by calc-
f1catlon it has been customary with many physicians
to prescribe great deal of calcium In fact it is
commonly believed that workers in lime dust do not
have tuberculosis yet the evidence for this is not
particularly convincing
THE more recent studies seem to indicate that
some change must take place in the tubercu-
losls itself before cacication begin, and that
in the vast majority of there is plenty of
calcium in the body for the needs of the situation
when the mechanism of healing starts.
Cod liver oil has been used in tuberculosis for
several centuries 1t has the advantage of supplying
large amount of fat and also provides vitamins
which are of great Importance to the body
If cod liver oil is to be taken it is usually best
of tuberculosis, the whole liver is believed
to be preferable to any of the extracts of the
vitamins.
For years creosote and guaiacol we're considered
to be specific remedies in tuberculosis and they still
are used in some cases to produce expectoration
lessening of tightpess in the throat, and for the
relief of coughing.
DERSONS with tuberculosis suffer frequently from
fever and sweating at night. When these symp-
toms become oppressive, the doctor can prescribe
drugs which will control them.
An alcohol rub at bedtime a sponge bath
with ukewarm water containing about one gram OF
alum to the ounce is helpful in preventing night
sweats
One of the most severe symptoms that may occur
in Q person with tuberculosis is bleeding from the
lungs. The appearance of this symptom is danger
signal which should the patient to lie down
Immediately and to get medical attention at once
In sanatoria where persons are treated for tuber-
culoss, one OF the most useful remedies thus far
developed is artificial pneumothorax This involves
the injection of air into the chest cavity, which
serves to put the lung at rest
The same effect is also achieved by cutting the
nerve which leads to the diaphragm or by perform
ing operation on the ribs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25

is impossible to deny that such
expenditures can not be sustained
forever. 1t is impossible to deny
that private investment to re-
place them has not as yet shown
any real promise.
If this is the correct diagnosis
of the existing pessinism in the
midst of actual recovery, it be-
comes highly important to make
it clear to ourselves what are the
impediments to the resumption
of private investment?
In the process of a managed
recovery like the one we are hav-
ing, the transition from govern
ment spending to private invest
ment is the critical point. 1t is
not clear as to how transition is
to be made. Yet on the making
of it everything depends.
Moreover, it is not clear that
the administration and congress
are fully aware that this is the
critical problem or that they are
sufficiently impressed with it's i'm
portance to be willing to deal
with it effectively.
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