The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
Farmers Must Build An
Alliance With Industrial
Labor Against Capitalists
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE forces of capitalism hold the
L leadership over the farmers, al
most unchallenged, even in the pres
emit crisis in the cotton and corn
belts. The profit takers jealousy
guard and promote this leadership.
This is especially true in the
South, at the present moment,
where the formerly free trade" and
then tariff for revenue only" demo
Gratis are crawling on the high pro-
tective tariff" bandwagon. This
change is entirely due to the indus
trial development of "The South"
but the tariff democrats will advo-
cate this policy change as a cure
all for the ills Of the cotton grow
ers.
Manipulation of the tariff will not
solve the farm problem any more
than it will alleviate the ills Of in
dustry, growing out of the bitter ex-
ploitation of the wage workers. 1t
is only as the farmers, especially
the tenant and mortgaged farmers
and farm workers realize this that
they will break with the leadership
of these capitalist forces and join
with the city workers on lsbor's
side of the class struggle.
The industrialization OF "The
South" has been going forward ever
since the Civil War. Within recent
years 1t has been receiving an in
creasing impetus.
"The South" was originally free
trade because it wanted to sell its
products, especially cotton, in for
eign markets, primarily in England,
and buy the manufactured goods it
needed without having the price in
fiated by northern manufacturers I'M
der the workings of friendly tariff.
"The South" wanted to buy abroad
as we'll as sell abroad. 1.-THE North"
with its tariff stood in the way.
Hence the tariff issue has been bit
terly fought between the repub-
licans and democrats these many
years. But the change has now burst
into full flower causing Arthur
Sears Henning, the Washington cor
respondent of the high tariff" Chi
cago Tribune to ask, "Is the tariff a
dead issue?" Henning concludes:
There are significant develop
ments indicating that the tariff ques-
ton either is destined to fade out
Of the picture in the next national
election or assume a new aspect
creating new alignments in both
parties"
The most recent development in
the industrial drift toward the South
has been the closing of numerous
textile mills in New England to re-
open south of the Mason and Dixon
line. The compelling motive driving
textile barons southwark is no phil
anthropic desire to benefit 1.-THE
South" or to relieve the mill slaves
of 1.-THE North" OF the crushing
burden of toll. The move is born
exclusively of the struggle to in
crease profits thru the more bitter
exploitation of the cheaper labor in
Southern states, where the demo
cratic party protects child slavery
at its worst.
Labor has always been told that
the high tariff signifies "the full
dinner pail" This has been slogan
of the high-tariff republican party
in "the North" in every election. La
Dor has been told that the tariff was
its protection against cheap labor
abroad. Yet it was in the most high
ly protected industries that labor
was forced to accept the worst con-
ditions, in the steel mills, in the
wooden mills, in the cotton mills,
where every effort OF the workers to
organize has been ruthlessly crush
ed. The high tariff meant high pro-
fits but not high wages. Thus, in
the textile industry, there have been
repeated rebellions of the workers in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
In Connecticut and Rhode Island,
and most recently at Passaic, New
Jersey.
Moving the textile mills to 1.-THE
South" the further industrialization
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