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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-07
HOOVER PLANS
DROUTH RELIEF
Nation Aroused Over Loss
Suffered with Little
Hope of Change

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10
Preparations TO extend relief to the
drought suffering nation went on
apace today under direction OF
President Hoover while reports
pouring in to government agencies
indicated possibility OF damages
approaching the billion dollar marx
unless rains fall soon.
With nothing but local showers
indicated by the weather bureau
for the suffering sections ] the
immediate future, the farm ooaro
was studying a possibility Of ex-
tending substantial credit TO live
stock and cotton farmers through
emergency Interpretation Of q
federal marketing act.
Secretary Hyde, Fastening back
from the west, planned a con-
ference with the president I'M
mediately upon his return today.
Assurance reached the president
from the railroads Of the drought
areas that they would cooperate
in any measures determined upon
by the administration 10 get feed
and cattle together. Reduction OF
freight rates on hay and feed into
the cattle growing areas and pos
sibly free transportation Of live
stock to unaffected grazing lands
are under contemplation but a
decision will await the detailed
report on conditions which the
Agriculture Department has prom
ised to give Mr.. Hoover on Mon
day.
The Farm Loan Board placed
itself on record as willing 70 dc
all possible to extend credit
through intermediate credit banks,
farm land banks and joint stock
land banks. From congressional
quarters came many requests -or
help and to these has been added
the offer Of Senator Robinson OF
Arkansas. the Democratic leader,
TO undertake a refund by Congress
to the Farm Board If the latter
would divert all Its available funds
10 drought relief
Carl Williams, member represent
ing cotton, had ready for study OF
other farm board members an
analysis OF means available for
getting production credit into the
hands Of farmers. A conference
OF the board to determine whether
his suggestions could be employed
was not in prospect. however. until
after the return OF chairman Legge-
now on a tour Of the northwest
scheduled to end August 20.
Under the Williams plan. 1t is
understood. farmers would be
enabled to put up livestock as
collateral for money TO buy feed.
They would be obligated to market
their stock through the National
Livestock Marketing Association.
The latter would borrow from the
Farm Board. in turn loaning the
money to its subsidiary feeder and
finance corporation for distribu-
ton to regional credit organiza-
tons operating in federal INTERIM
ediate credit bank districts. The
process would involve a pyramid
ing OF $1,000. 900 OF farm board
funds into $50. 600. 900 Of credit.
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4. Mrs. Timmins lives in
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North Mission
MEMBERS ACCEPT
INVITATION

The North Mission Home DEM
onstration club met at the home
Of Mrs. r.. G. Pope, Friday, August
/. After a short business meeting
conducted by the President. Mrs. G.
Darlington, a very interesting lee
ture was given by Mrs. p. B. But
Ter of Mission on Good Pictures
In the Home" Roll call was on
lone Picture / Like and Why"
At the close Of the meeting delic-
ious refreshments we're served TO
the members and guests Of the club.
Mrs. Updyke and Mrs. A. j. Barga.
An invitation to attend the an
nual picnic OF the Sharyland club
TO be held at Lions Park August Is
was accepted and each invited club
Is asked to furnish a stunt during
the recreation hour.
The next regular meeting will be
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The tire pictured is
the handsome netc
Goodyear Heavy Duty
in the 4.5O-21 sise,
formerly 80 6 A50)
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Houston
Houston.
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held at the home Of Mrs. Clarence
Jewett. August 5. IL will be Maya
zine day and the following will give
q magazine review: Mesdames A. l..
Goble, James Nash, George Jones,
r. G. Pope. Claude HiIburn and Le-
roy Tryon.
Roll call will be on Something
Helpful I Have Read in a Maya
Zine.'
PERSONALS
Misses Mary Katherine and Alice
Fine accompanied by Dorothea Rig
Ter attended a meeting OF the Junior
Catholic Daughters at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Walcn OF Nc
Allen, Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. w. II. Mier and fam
lily OF Dallas are guests at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Polhemus.
G. B. Amyx of San Antonio was
a guest at the home of Nh. and Mrs.
L. II. Smith recently.
Mrs. Harry Harrison and daugh-
ter. LESSEE. are spending some time
with relatives at Wichita and Port
Arthur.
Sunday guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
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Valley
Society
Weslaco
TWO HOLD
JOINT MEETING

JOINT MEETING
Tive two circles of the Methodist
Missionary society met at the
church in joint session Monday af-
ternoon for their regular monthly
business and mission study meeting.
Mrs. w. r. Andersen was in charge
Of the business session.
The mission study was led by Mrs
william Clifford. Mrs. George
Hoefer. Mrs. T. w. Class and Mrs
<. B. Guthrldge discussed The
Kingdom of God in Japan"
The meeting closed with a praye-
led by Mrs. A. A. Snethen. Tnei
were about fifteen present.
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One trip Of q tri-motored mail
passenger transport over the Chi
cago-San Francisco route. the ma
tons longest airway. requires 1.400
gallons OF gasoline.
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w. NJ. u. MEETS
AT CHURCH

The Baptist w. NJ. u. met at the
church Monday afternoon for their
regular business meeting. The meet
ing was in charge Of the president,
Mrs. w. L. Forbes. with Mrs. David
<. Moore leading the devotional.
There were about fifteen present.
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PERSONALS

Mrs. T. A. Leonard returned Sun
day from Bryan. where she went
as a delegate to the Llano Grande
Home Demonstration club to the A
and NJ. short course.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Hathaway re-
turned Saturday from a two weeks
vacation in Del Rio and other
points.
Leslie Lewis Of Mt. Calm. spent
several days last week as the guest
CT Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Sugg.
Miss Alma Reeves left Sunday for
San Antonio where she will spend
several days and will attend the
style show.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Robertson
spent Sunday in Mercedes with rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Hankal and
Miss Mary Condra spent Sunday in
Corpus Christi. guests Of MI. and
Mrs. r. w. Warren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25

NOW religion is nothing but the fantastic re
~ Election in mems minds of the external
forces which dominate their everyday existence,
a reflection in which earthly forces take the
form of the supernatural. In the beginning
Of history it is the forces of nature which first
produce this reflection and in the course of
development of different peoples give rise to
manifold and various personification. This
first process is capable of being traced, at least
as far as the Indo- European people are con-
cerned, by comparative mythology, to its source
in the Indian Vedas and its advance can be
shown among the Indians, Greeks, Persians,
Romans and Germans, and as far as the ma
terial is available also among the Cets, Lith-
uanans and Slavs.
zBut beside the forces of nature, the social
forces dominated men by their apparent neces-
sity for these forces were, in reality, just as
strange and unaccountabe to men as were the
forces of nature. The imaginary ferns in
which, at first, only the secret forces of nature
were reflected, became possessed of social at
tributes, became the representatives of his
torcal forces. BY a still further development
Of the natural and social attributes of num-
Der Of gods were transformed to one all-power-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
The Amalgamated in Chicago

The Chicago "Amalgamated Centre" is a
modern million dollar building and each official
has big light and airy room. There is even
special room for Hllman-nobody knows
what for But for the employment bureau
they fixed up dark room with low ceiling
that can hold about twenty workers In that
sman dark room you will find every day sew
eral hundred unemployed standing around, hop
ing that they will get chance to make few
days, and in the meantime each. one tell his
hard-luck story, and how much he or she is
in love with the Hillman-Levin administration.
The other day one of the unemployed opened
window to get little fresh air into the over
crowed room. Mr.. Christian, the boss Of the
employment department noticed it and jumped
up exclaimng "Any one that is too warm can
60 outside" and then turning to one of the
unemployed that happened to be near the win
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
BY JORGE PAZ.

CONSIDERING the problem of the presiden-
tial succession in a country dependent on
English economy, until yesterday, as Brazil
was, we must necessarily touch the economic
forces that press for total possession of that
country
Brazil was an economic dependency of Eng
land, one may say, five days after the 7th of
September, 1922, the so-called Day of hide
pendence of the country from Portugal.
With the intro auction of steam in industry,
England then in full possession of Brazil, de-
veloped railways, street cars, electricity, and
the important textile industry.
With the Capitalization of industry and COM
merce, and the formation of trusts, England in
the first part of the present century and in the
last part of the past century, started chain
of banks throughout Brazil, Transforming the
forests into plantations, installing factories,
using for this work the slavery of the Negroes
that ended only formally in 1889.
From that date until the World War, there
was a long period of imperialst penetration
by the United States which, as is known, is
on an almost equal plane with British imperial
ism.
But it is certain that in Brazil, the yankees
who had nothing to commence with, by the
penetration carried out in the frozen meat
region of the southern states, had in 1917,
$3.50, 0O0,0 900.
From then to date, the governmental posi-
ton of Imperialism in Brazil varies each four
years; 1882, supremacy of yankee imperial
ism over British imperialism. The British, by
means of the progressive democrats" of that
country made revolution in 1922 in the latter
part of the regime of the Pessoa government,
and Arturo Bernardes British imperialism)
r. L r c.. n.
melted by the Wall Street bankers and per-
fectly "fertilized" by them arose in arms
against the government of the Republic. This
was another small revolution that ended by
the complete defeat of the nsurrectionists
(yankees) and the government of Bernardes was
constituted formally. In all this period there
was being creatcl (1922), in the field Of con-
flict, the revolutionary Communist Party, and
from the day of its birth until now it remains
in semi or complete illegality
In 1926 Washington LUZ was elected pres
ident of Brazil, after the same fashion as Ortiz
Rubio was elected" in Mexico, with the diff
ference that the LUZ is loan agent contractor
of Whitehall, while Rubio is the agent Of the
White House-Wall Street bankers
This constant and close linking with capital
list Imperialism created the background for the
rise of class of anti-imperiaist intellectuals,
who many times took much too seriously their
role as "saviors" of Brazil, although at other
times they gave a very valuable aid in the
fight against imperialism.
New elections are coming. Against the Con-
sentative Party British mperialist) in the
elections that are to take place on March 6,
is presented the candidacy Of the Liberal AL
lance that flights" the government and reac-
ton. the dictatorship, etc. The government
e'--'~n"47 Julio prestes, conservative, and the
Liberal Alliance has nominated Gertulio Vargas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25

of competent women comrades, slogans, de-
mands, building of circles womens. page in
shop paper, mobilization for unemployment.
international Women's Day, propaganda for
joining shop committees, etc. Work should
also be assigned, that is specific tasks for the
esctions for outside factory such as literature
distribution, factory gate meetings, neighbor-
hood meetings.
3. Working out special demands for the
shop based upon general demands of the Party
and the Trade Union Unity League taking in
special grievances against factory authorities,
wage cuts, speed up, lack of sanitation, etc.
paying special attention to the Negro women
4. Popularizng these demands in shop pa
pers and "Working Woman"
5. Shop papers to have a special woman's
page.
6. Electng standing committee from the
section of the shop nucleus territory to cover
periodically the factory with literature to ar
range periodic factory gate meetings, speakers
to popularize the demands advanced in the press
and to arouse the working women inside the
factories for action.
7. To build around the shop nucleus SYM
pathetic circles of social, educational, char
acter, to organize workers correspondence from
the factory. Fractions in trade unions and
sympathetic language organizations are to be
8. In shops and factories where members
of Negro workers are employed, the nucleus
should be on the lookout for instances of racial
discrimination within the factory Examples
of such discrimination would be: lower wages
for Negro workers doing the same work as
white workers; discrimination in hiring and
firing The action of Wanamakers Depart
ment store in segregating all colored employees
in a separate cafeteria which aroused much
anger on the part of the colored workers, was
an excellent issue for a shop nucleus to take
up, had there been nucleus of the Party in
this store.
should appoint responsible organizer man or
woman comrade) fro mits midst for trade
union work among the women.
8. The trade union organizer must work in
closest association with the factory nuclei of
all the factories in which working women are
employed nj the trade represented by the union
concerned.
1t is only through carefully planned system
attic work in the shop that we will be able to
mobilize working women and arouse them to
action under the leadership of the Communist
Party.
We must fight the reluctance for work
among women in the Party. We must fight
the existing ideas, remnants of social democ-
racy, that women cannot be organized. We can
and must approach the working women on the
political and economic demands of the Party
and the Trade Union Unity League making use
of special methods of approach to gain the
confidence of the women workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
The Revolutionary Workers of
Brazil and the Coming Elections

But our comrades tell US that Gertulio Vargas
is a candidate that is aided by yankee imperial
ism, and really it is not coincidence" that
the state of Minas Gerass, that supports Ger
tulio Vargas, is the state where U. S. imperial
lists have investments of 500 900 and in
which they have promised to invest more, up
to S250,000,000 (Mnas Geraes, as the name
indicates is the richest mining state in Brazil.
1t has an area of 100000 square kilometers
The investments of U. S. capital has been sunk
in mainly by the United States Steel corpora
ton in exploiting the rich iron ore deposits in
this state).
Negro Worker for President.
The Worker AMI Peasant Bloc has named
also its candidate, Negro comrade Minervino
de Oliveira, marble worker, the general sec
rotary Of the General Labor Confederation of
Brazil.
But if there exists problem of two imperial
isms in Brazil at present, there exists also an
intense interior fight of the small agrarians
ruined by the fall in the price of coffee, by
the depreciation in the vauta of Brazilian
money and by the general economic crisis. To
avoid catastrophe the government of Washing
ton Luiz has been obliged to resort to loan
from London, which has conceded 500 1000, 900
for this purpose.
Throughout the countryside of Brazil there
boils a revolutionary effervescense among the
brutally exploited mass in what they call the
"fazendas" and 'usinas' (the first meaning
coffee plantations, AMI the latter sugar CEN
trals), an exploited mass that constitutes the
real agrarian proletarat
The anti-imperialist revolution is on the road
to realization in Brazil, but this anti-imperialist
revolution is able also to be seized upon by the
yankee imperialists, who fight against what
they call "impositions" There are "imposi-
tions," true enough, in regards to the ''impo-
sitions" of both imperalsms upon the coun-
try, and "mpositions' upon the classes exploit
ed of this country, yet it is term that con-
fuses the minds of some workers that find
themselves in such countries under conditions
prior to a petty-bourgeois revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
Engels on Religion

full god who is, on his part only the reflection
of man in the abstract.
So arose monotheism which was historically
the latest product of Greek vulgar philosophy,
and found its impersonation in the Hebrew ex-
clusively national gor Jahwe. In this convent
ent handy and adaptible form religion can con-
tinue to exist as the direct, that is, the emo
ional form of the relations of man to the DOM
ination outside, natural and social forces, as
long as man is under the power of these forces.
But we have seen over and over again in mod
ern bourgeois society that man is dominated
by the conditions which h. had himself created
and that he is controlled by the same means of
production which he himself has made.
The fundamental facts which give rise to
the reflection by religion therefore still persists
also. And just because bourgeois economy has
a certain insight into the relations of the orig
inal causes of this phenomenon, it does not al
ter it particle. Bourgeois economy can neither
prevent crises, on the WHOLE nor can it stop
the greed of the individual capitalists, their
disgrace and bankruptcy, nor can it prevent the
individual laborers from suffering deprivation
of employment and poverty. Man proposes and
God Ito wit, the outside force of the capitalistic
method of production) disposes.
Mere knowledge even though it be broader
avail to upset the social forces of the master
of society. That is fundamentally social act
Let US support that this act is accomplished
and society in all its grades freed from the
slavery to the means Of production which it has
made but which now dominate it as an out
side force. Let us suppose that man no longer
merely proposes but that he also disposes I'm
der such conditions the last vestiges of the ex-
ternal force which now dominates man are de-
stroyed, that force which is now reflected in
religion. Herewith. the religious reflection it.
self is destroyed owing to the simple fact that
there is nothing more to reflect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25


of "Qaestions and Answers" on the aoorId
crisis, unemployment and the tasks of the
revolutionary trade unions, issued By the Red
International of Labor Unions.-Editor).
Question 2. How will the crisis develop!
Will it grow deeper or will the depression be
gradually ameliorated and outlived?
The continued dispatches received from the
U. S. A. and the capitalist countries in West
ern Europe on the curtailment of production,
the closing down and winding up of enter
prises and the discharge of workers, ETC., show
that the world economic crisis is only begin
ming.
For example, the newspapers on January
rs were full of reports on the mass discharge
of workers and the closing down of enter
prises in Poland and Czecho-Slovakia and that
the world economic crisis had now hit Sweden
where the manufacture of ball-bearings and
several other engineering enterprises were
winding up operations.
The crisis has also affected the colonial and
semi-colonial countries.
Thus, the view given currency by certain
bourgeois economists that the crisis was over
and an improvement had set in is contrary to
the facts. During the next few months we
must expect an intensification, extension and
deepening of the world economic crisis.
In studying the present crisis we have to
solve another question: is the present depres-
sion typical economic crisis, seen during the ,
pre-war period when we had livening up of
industry, period of prosperity, to be fol-
lowed by over-production, slump and crisis,
the economic cycle having turned full round?
1t is true that we have today all the fea-
lures of typical economic depression, but
the crisis today is aggravated still further by
the fact that it is occurring during the gen.
eral postwar crisis of capitalism with its
chronic over-production, chronic industrial
stagnation and chronic unemployment, etc.
In analysing the situation we should not
lose sight of the present complicated character
of the economic crisis, for here it is not
question of a profound depression after per-
iod of prosperity, but of marked worsening
of an economic situation which was already
depressed in whole series Of countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25

dow, shouted "Are you hot, then get outside
and cool off"
One Of the unemployed workers standing
around who was fed up on Hillman prosperity
jumped up to Mr.. Christian and told him that
II am warm and will not 60 outside but stay
right here and keep the window open. 1t is
we who have paid for this building and we are
sick and tired to have you treat US like bunch
Of mules, and if you know what is good for
you, you will beat it as fast as you can"
Mr. Christian looked around and saw in the
eyes Of the unemployed that it may soon be
too late, so he quickly retreated to his office,
keeping his mouth shut for the rest Of the day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
Questions and Answers on
Unemployment

BeloW is given the second Of a series
of "Questions and ANSWERS" on the aoorId
crisis, unemployment and the tasks of the
revolutionary trade u,1ions, issued by the Red
International of Labor Unions-Editor).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
Notice on Membership Drive
Chart.

Due to the delay in receiving mail as a result
of Saturday, February % being legal holiday
the regular weekly chart and comment on the
Party Recruiting Drive will appear in the
Daily Worker on Wednesday, February &C.
ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-25
ENROLL WORKING WOMEN
IN SHOP NUCLEI

the shop nucleus executive committee chosen
for concentration, organization secretary, agit-
prop secretary, industrial secretary and wom-
ems work secretary to be present at this meet
ing, where plan of action should be worked
out for work inside the factories. Colonization
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street,
New York City.
l, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
name '.'...'.'.'''''''.'...
Address .............,-... City.........
Occupation ...................... Age.
Party. AZ East 125th ST., New York. N Y.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
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Fight the Right Danger. A
Hundred Proletarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!