The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-07
FARMERS MOVED
OUT, BROOKHART
MOVED TO WASH.
Iowa Senator Typical
Real Estate Shark
BY J. E. SNYDER.

BY J. &. SNYDER.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Nov. Cit is
said. that the old line farm-owning
republicans of Iowa moved to south
ern California and the tenants they
left behind elected Smith Brookhart
to the United States senate from that
state.
There grew up united front" be-
tween the established trade unions of
the state and the tenant farmers to
the extent that they voted and con-
tinued to vote for a would-be re
former of capitalism"
It was not a class united front
from any conscious standpoint, but a
rebellion against railroad rates on
farm products, farm machinery on the
part of the small farmers and tenants
and the high cost of living and receed-
ing wages on the part of the wage
workers.
Near Rebellion.
It can be said that the entire west
and south is in a state Of mind
near rebellion against an enemy
called "Wall Street" They would
march on this enemy with gun and
sword and destroy the monster with
out quarter. Little thought or reason
is given to this rebellious spirit ex-
capt by the Ku Klux Khan that says
wall Street" is made up of Jews and
catholics, and should be driven out
of power. By which 1t is implied that
the protestants are to be put in power
because Of the, exceptional virtues of
some of their number, like John D.
Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Mr.. Mellon
and company.
In all of Iowa perhaps one-half of
one per cent of farmer-labor has some
conception of a class united front.
OF this small percentage three-fourtns
of that number are miners and other
wage workers, leaving the number of
farmers that are class conscious al
most nil
A Change of Masters.
At one time the socialists polled
quite a vote in Iowa, but in looking
UP this membership we find that they
were hardly good populists and stood
for no more than the reformism now
advocated by Smith Brookhart who is
hell bent on running the rascals out
and putting good" men, like himself,
in. We understand that in Iowa many
widow and orphan could testify to
BroOkhart's brand of honesty, were
his real estate deals all brought to
light.
Iowa has many towns of from forty
to one hundred thousand population.
These towns contain packing houses,
small stock yards, elevators, and milk
depots, as well as all sorts of smaller
Industries. Many of the workers in
these Industries are young men and
women born on Iowa farms and in
the small villages. They carry with
them to the industry all the theology
Of the country church and capitalized
school besides belief in advertising
the quality of their" coal character
lied by signs on auto windshields,
Buy Iowa Coal" Buy Monroe Coun-
ty Coal" when it is well known that
coal can be loaded in other states and
shipped cheaper than they dig it out
OF most of the poorly equipped i'll
ventilated mines in Iowa.
Not Easy Job.
Much of this rebellion could be
coined into class united front by
an extensive propaganda and inter
probation of the market, the wage sys-
tenn and an attack on the ethical
teaching, the populace has been fed
on these past hundred years in the
middle west. 1t will not be done in
day, nor a year and to do 1t, other
sections must pay large part of the
expense Of education.
That 1t is necessary to educate these
people stands to reason for from the
central west and south of these
United States will come many an in
nocent youth with prejudice burned
INTO his brain to break the strikes of
the workers in the large industrial
senters. A united front is possible If
We institute a propaganda for the
union front before attempting to or
Eanize the impossible and non-exist-
ant