The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24

country. And as he offered me a ride
out l took a chance on it. However
was too late-another slave had
gotten it.
Nevertheless it gave me an oppor-
tunity to talk with a few of the farm
ers and learn that the little farmer is
also getting it in the neck. Taxes
are high, and produce is cheap, i.e.,
when the producers have it to sell.
incidentally I asked one of the farm
ers what land was selling at around
him. "You see that ten acres over
there adjoining my place on the left,
he said, well they are asking $1,000
for it with only that board shack of
a house on it." 81 should think they
would sell cheap if they can't make
anything off it," "Well, neighbor,
you don't understand" said the farm
er. "You see he paid a whale of a
big price for the place during the
BOOM and only a small payment
Gown. Hence he has pig mortgage
against it and must get big price
or loose the first and all subsequent
payments made on il"
"Now it's different with me. have
a little business in town that l look
after while my wife and kids run the
farm" Children not in school?" l
asked. "Well 1 have had to keep the
oldest ones out to harvest the crops,
you see. I can't afford TO hire a
hand"
The next morning 1 got ride back
into the city. And as 1 was going
down toward the railroad station I
met a group of angry unemployed
workers. I saw that they were much
excited and that something was
wrong, and ventured a word of in
quiry.
"You see, stranger" said work
err, cts like this: Every once in a
while the fisherman's boat gets in
after the fast express has gone. AS
the fish won't keep until the next
day, they have been giving them to
whoever would come down and get
one. We have all been going down at
such times and getting mess for
the wife and kids. 1t helps lot you
know, when we amt got any work.
"But," he continued, "when we went,
down this morning we got none, as
some of the high-ups from the Cham
Der of Commerce or the merchants
association had been there protesting
that such acts were hurting business
and that the city couldn't stand for
it any longer. So we are coming back
empty-handed, as the catch Of fish
will have to be taken out and dumped
into the gulf" Looks like damn
shame" l say, "when so many of the
men are out of work and their fam
lilies often going hungry"
Eyes, it's hard" I said, "but you
know we're living under the Profit
system, and nothing must be allowed
to interfere with the capitalists pro-
fits"
"Well it amt going to be this way
always" my friend ventured.
mo, that's true" l said, "but it
will be this way until the city work
ers and the poor farmers organize
and take charge of things as they
have done over in Russia, where they
are just now celebrating the tenth
anniversary Of the workers and
farmers victory"
Besides" says I, "from the looks
of those eight or ten hydroplanes I
see over there in the air the capital
lists can't all be broke"
ooh, them belong to our govern
ment, stranger. They are being
used to train young fellows to fly.
You see we got government naval
station here and flying school"
eyes, my friends, they are training
them for the next war, guess. Learn
ing them how to swoop over and drop
bombs and poison gas on their fellow
workers and their families Of some
other country, just as they nave been
doing down in Nicaragua.
81 don't think the American peo-
pie will stand for another war like
they did last time" commented my
friend.
ooh, yes they WILL" I said, "they
will have to, unless the workers and
farmers of America get together and
get so we'll organized that they turn
the capitalists out of power and es-
tablish here Soviet Union of Work
ers and Farmers, as has been done
over in Soviet Russia"
"Well so long stranger, we must
be going, glad to have met you"
Goodbye, 1 must be going too.
must find that job l am hunting for
if l have to search all over sunny
! Florida for it.
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