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them were unable to pass the physical examinations. In many of these cases bad teeth were one of the chief reasons for failure. Bad teeth are largely the result of lack of milk and lack of ability to pay a dentist's bill.

Malnutrition, as any doctor can testify, is one of the major causes of illness. The cause of malnutrition, which means simply not getting enough to eat, is not having enough money to buy a sufficient amount of necessary foods. The cause of not having enough money is not getting enough wages.

Newspapers were quick to blow up a faked story about workers in Bridgeport who "spent their wages on champagne." But the Intl. Labor Office in a study of workers' nutrition and social labor policy found that wherever wages were increased, additional food was bought.

So a minimum health program for America today would include demands for higher wages as well as demands for the unshelving and passage of the Wagner Health Bill.

Such a program should also include a demand that medical students be allowed to continue their studies and draft exemption for internes and doctors so that what hospitals there are would not be even more understaffed than they are now.

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Women's Gains Under Attack

TODAY there are two campaigns slowly gathering momentum which would effectively destroy the gains women in industry have made through organization and through protective legislation governing hours, wages and working conditions of women.

The first and most ominous of these campaigns is the one sponsored by the Military Training Camps Assn. to draft women into industry in much the same way that the men are being drafted into the army.

The second campaign, sponsored chiefly by the National Women's Party is to pass an amendment to the Constitution which would provide for "equal rights for women throughout the United States." Although the proposed amendment sounds innocent at the first reading, the majority of trade unions and progressive women's organizations are strongly opposed to it because, on the grounds of "equal rights," it threatens all the legislation that has been won to protect women workers.

Both these campaigns are a part of the larger drive on the trade unions as a whole and the women can best defend their interests by defending and strengthening the trade unions and auxiliaries.

Today there are 11 million women at work, more than three million unemployed women and a million and a half who work only part time.

The job of organizing women has been started in practically all fields which employ women and has gone ahead rapidly since 1936, but there is still much to be done.

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