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make soldiers-only six lessons o.
a Springfield rifle and week on
a Vicas machine gun you are O.K.'d
and sent up to be slaughtered.
The bes awakening came when
we talked with a bunch of German
prisore"7 who were being taken
back to build roads for the Allies.
These workers asked US why we
were so enthused about shooting
off workers. They asked US if we
were not workers from Amer
too. They told US they were glad
be prisoners as they would not hA.
to kill any more workers for the
capitalist class and would get a
chance to eat more often while
building roads. And believe me OF
not, these words Slapped in ou
thick heads deep for we often ha
a talk about the lesson those Ger
mans gave us.
So workers, when the war NOR
gers arrange another capitalist ws
for you do not shoot any of yoI
brother workers from other cou
tries down, and they too, will T
shoot you down. But let all tho
capitalist war-mongers who pre-
by wars do all their own shootin.
and ] assure you, there won't be 81
many wars arranged. So always re
member that all workers are GU
brother workers regardless wha
country they belong to, and le
the workers all fight for the work
ing class, let the capitalist class
fight their own damned wars.
Fight for the defense of the
Soviet Unionl Help to make a real
workers and farmers government in
all capitalist countries by fighting
and sticking with the working classl
Build and sell subscriptions to a.
the working class papers.
Blacklisted Unemployed World
War Soldier.--T.J.R.
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HANNAH, Idaho

HANNAH, Idaho
Daily Worker,
Comrades:
Since / wrote you some time ago
a local capitalistic concern has
"gone belly up" AS l was one of
the stockholders I will give you a
few figures to show the country
here is passing into the control of
Wall St. and why.
In October, 1918 we organized a
farmers store,". Into this we
poured over S13,5O0 of our hard
earned cash. The farmer stock
holders imagined there was no
limit to the amount of debt the
company could carry and the whole
salers were willing to unload the
war price stocks on credit. Because
it was immaterial whether they lost
the accounts or reduced prices after
the 1920 panic and were willing te
take loss in order to foreclose or
the farmers store, so they allowed
it to continue until 1925 when they
cleaned up and part of the stock.
holders organized a new company
and bought the assets and assumed
the liabilities.
June 10 last the second company
into which we poured over $685.
was turned over to the creditors
thus over $4,000 have been squan-
dered in our fool attempt to relieve
our economic misery by trying to
be capitalists, and play the capt.
alists' game with a deck of theil
marked cards and in a game where
the rules are against us.
This has taught me that the only
defense for workers is non-partici-
patton, incorporation and boycott
and clean-cut opposition to all cap
italistic operations. Besides the
loss of money I have discovered
that our managers and business as
sociates on the inside have not been
honest with the farmer members
of the company, that they misman-
aged the business and then hid the
facts from us, and tried to deceive
and force us into losing more money
in order to pull their chestnuts out
Of the fire, and betrayed us into
giving property as security for the
debts of the concern; and that while
originally they had honest and hon
orabie intentions when they saw
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Brennan, Texas

DICIldlllJ CAdS
Daily Worker:
am enclosing an editorial from
an Austin, Texas daily paper. The
editor should read Cheap and Con-
tented Labor" by Sinclair Lewis.
Down here in Texas the damn pro-
moters are climbing to fame on the
backs of the Texas river bottom
farmers.
We have splendid pecan groves
and many farmers have budded
their trees with finer variety OF
pecans.
But all must be cut down or sub
merged by damned waters--chair
dams, chain lighting, and chair
farms. Wipe out the individual
farmer.
We don't want the damn money
we want our pecan groves anc
those who have farms want theil
farms. But we have corporation
owned government. 1t is not fol
the people, nor by the people.
1t is needless to think r. owing
a house because a home is moi
secure. Any political group or cap.
italist group or auto group car
make you move when they want
your property or a road through
your property.
And taxpayers paying, paying
paying. Heavily burdened with
taxes, taxes, taxes and yet mus
give sidewalks to widen streets anc
the lovely trees that have beer
cared for by years by their owners
must be cut down.
In Llano where the people have
sold to Dam Corporation they are
taking up their loved ones bodies
buried many years and will have tc
move them, 20 miles away. Not
even the dead are safe from The
capitalist class. We need Moses
down here to help us.
If we had equal rights t?) Their
laborers and farmers could injunc.
ton the corporations.
Some of these folks threatened to
bring deputies and put US under a
peace bond because many farmers
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STORES CUT OFF
CREDIT OF ILL.
JOBLESS MINERS
Pr ep are Convention
National Miners Union
Sparta, III.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade:-Just few lines
on conditions in the Sparta coal
fields. Miners here cannot get any
credit from any store in town. They
only work two or three days per
week (pay comes every two weeks
Out of this the takers of the United
Mine Workers of America get S.
or Sc check-off. When the coal OPP
orators find a militant fighter
working in the mine the superinten-
dent gets him to one side and wants
to buy him off. He tells him: II
will give you $50 if you will quit
this town never to return, or even
attempt to get a job from this COM
pany." The mine T., ere is owned by
the Moffat Coal Co. The men are
divided-half Negro and half white.
The boss has succeeded in getting
a couple of them to quit. But the
National Miners Union has sew
eral members here Eho keep up the
fight and who have told the super
intendent to jump into the lake
with his $50, that they will remain
and fight it out to the end.
The local of the N. M. U. here
has already elected delegates to the
National Convention of the Ma
tional Miners Union, and has also
elected young miner delegates to
the Illinois Youth Conference to be
held on July 20, where a strong
delegation of young miners from
every part of the state is expected
and where the basis will be laid for
the building of strong youth sec
ton of the National Miners Union
in this district.
The young miners see that both
factions of the U. M. W. A. takers
will never attempt to better their
working conditions. The young
miners saw that the recent rank
and file" Belleville Convention, that
was held May 20, was only maneu-
yer of bunch of petty crooks who
are trying to dig their noses into
the feed bag" of the takers, which
is nothing else but the eck-off.
They use progressive phrases about
frank and file" only to mislead the
miners. But the miners will not
be misled by these crooks. They
look forward to the only rank and
file union of miners, the militant
National Miners Union.
Forward to a mass convention of
the N. M. U. and a successful strug-
gle of the miners under the lead
ership of the N. M. u. in Septem-
Der, Support the strike of the
anthracite miners-against wage
cuts, unemployment, etc., must be
the central slogan of all Illinois
miners and the working class
throughout the country.
Comradely yours,
LEO l.. BRONX,
Acting District Youth Organizer,
Illinois District.
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my fellow workers IN the Soviet
Union.
When we landed there very little
fighting was done while We were
-. o"r company and some of the
others advanced but very little into
t"e anterior. Then we were called
back to Archangel. There we were
stationed long time to protect a
lot of lumber which was put there
by Russian imperialists while they
were one of the allies. but when
things were turning towards victory
for the bolsheviks, the lumber was
loaded on steamers for Great Britain
and after the lumber was all ship
ped, we returned home.
1t was said by some of our soldiers
who advanced farther into the in
terror that the bolsheviks instead of
fighting tried as much as they could
to avoid it whenever it was possible.
A few bOlsheviks would come over
and pretending to surrender would
bring in leaflets secretly telling them
to go back and fight our own bosses
and establish a Workers Govern
ment like they had. / did not be-
lieve those reports were true at first
as our bosses were telling us very
much different story.
JOBLESS AFTER WAR.
True democracy as our boss called
it. They promised us we would al
ways get jobs with our honorable
discharges, but they also urged us to
join the American Legion. After
being with them for a while they
aided us in getting jobs, but times
were different, then a man could
find job himself without their aid.
Later things got quite dull, for a
time, and ! could not find a job in
my home town. I left for the North
Michigan woods. There I met fell
low, who belonged to the I. W. w.
He showed me where they raided the
] w. w. Hall in Seattle, Wash.
shooting down workers in their
union meeting. Joined the |. W. w.
shortly after believing they were for
a workers and a farmers govern
ment. / remained with them until I
came back to the city.
After finding conditions growing
worse and worse for workers through
unemployment getting more tense,
found no /. W. w. organized as it
should be, but to a greater amaze
ment / found there was an Auto
Workers Union. but thinking it a
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blood heated to the boiling point and
instill hatred for Germany. l too
got this feeling.
One day, a brother-in-law and l
went to Pittsburgh, Pa, to enlist in
the U. S. navy. I was turned down
flat because I was IL inches too
short. My brother-in-law did not
then attempt to enlist as he was
16 years old and six feet tall and
thought they may tell him he was
too tall. l was then drafted and did
not claim any exemption on &C.
count of my job or on account of
being married. So 1 was called in
the first draft from the county OF
Clarion and passed all examinations
OK, and was plenty tall enough
then even though l was turned down
only a few months before.
I spent several weeks in camp
Lee, Virginia, learning how to wall
twenty miles a day and learning q
lot of war songs and spent some Of
my time converting the conscien
tious directors (the conscientious
DIRECTORS were the men who hat
refused to fight and do the cap
italist class killings. They said they
wont kill anybody.). We used tt
get much kick out of running these
men aruond the drill field, and then
when one of the cos would fal
down exhausted, one of us poor
patriotic fools would souse a bucket
full of cold water on him, other:
would kick him in the ribs and gel
him on his feet to do some more
running and in this way we forced
some to say they would do the Kill
ling for the capitalists. But those
more determined would not agree
to kill so they would get all the
dirty work in camp and be put
through the conversion test eacf
day until they would agree to xii
workers for the capitalists.
All my friends passed the over
| sea tests in due order. One Mr.
Butch Rosser passed all examinat
ing doctors with only one eye ant
un-noticed, but after coming bacl
he was held up and had to do lot
of explaining about where his Other
eye was as they had no record o.
him with one eye.
Anyway, my first surprise came
when I was .ent into a machine
gun schc7l run by the Massachu
sets division, and in one week
time I passed as a machine-gunne
and sent up to the front lines t,
fight against soldiers with man,
years of experience. My experienc
in Camp Lee as six trips to a riff
range with Springfield.
So think how fast capitalists ca
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TEXAS FARMERS CRISIS
Being Goneed by Bankers, Promoters

refused to let surveyors in on their
places. Wonder why they didn't
call out the National Guard7
TEXAS FARMER
Editorial Note: The farmers
have been hard hit for many years
by the chronic agricultural crisis.
The present crisis has impoverished
many more thousands of poor farm
ers, swept hundreds of thousands
foreclosed farmers into the cities to
starve, and has witnessed the grow
ing grip of Wall st. upon the tillers
of the soil.
With the price of all food staples
falling, with thousands of farmers
ruined and wiped out, with Wall
SITS government gouging them
through its Big Business tariff, the
farmers are cropping around for a
solution to their problems. AS the
Texas farmer from Brennan says
looking for "A Moses"
The pauperization of the masses
of working farmers is part of the
capitalist system. Serfdom to the
bankers of Wall st. is today the
lot of millions of struggling farm
ers. Today the only force capable
of leading the workers in alliance
with the poor farmers into a revo-
lutionary struggle against capital
ism is the Communist Party. As
the farmer in Kamiah, Idaho con-
cludes, no more dilly-dallying with
capitalist enterprises, but clear cut
fight against the capitalists. revo-
lutionary struggle and not collab-
Grafton.
In the Communist Party the
poor farmers will find their cham
pion in their day to day struggles
and for the final overthrow of Wall
| Streets rule.
Today the poor farmers have no
alternative but to fight side by side
with the revolutionary workers in
the cities for immediate demands
and for the destruction Of this sys-
tenn and the establishment of a
Workers and Poor Farmers Gov
eminent that will guarantee life,
land and peace.
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Install Machines and Lay
Off $50 Harrisburg Miners

going to give every man chance to
work. Each man must wait for his
turn. Which means that we work
only one week in 27.
If the mine only works one day
during the week your shift comes
around. that means you only work
one day in 27 weeks! Well, the
men have stopped the mine from
working despite what the takers told
US to do. We are going to stay out
until the coal operators will take
the machines out.
What we need here is some organ
izers for the N.M.U.. The men are
all ready to fight. They don't give
a damn for Lewis and they don't
give a damn for Fishwick.
Comradely yours,
A HARRISBURG MINER.
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Los Angeles T.B.
Workers PIE dye
Their Solidarity
Los Angeles, Cal.

Los Angeles, Cal.
Dear Comrades:
We are workers whose vitality
has been sucked out of our bodies
by capitalist exploitation and
thrown on the scrap heap of
charity. We are patients at the
Ex-Patients Tubercular Home of
Los Angeles.
Although sick and penniless
we feel we must continue to
fight in solidarity with our fell
low workers. Recently two
patients of this institution were
discharged because they were ar
rested during the Unemployed
demonstration, February 26. We
also participated in the demon
stration on May Day and for the
Imperial Valley agricultural
workers.
~Now our Daily is in danger.
Take our nickles and dimes. Our
Daily Worker must not go under.
Enclosed find check of four dol
lars. It's all we got.
GROUP OF T. B. WORKERS
AT THE EX-PATIENTS HOME
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Mass Starvation
Faces Thousands
Cleveland Workers
Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Editor:
FAIRY Screw Cabinet laid off 500
men. Cleveland will have IS per
cent of men out of work by fall.
Cleveland needs some real organ.
izers and builders up-the Trade
Union Unity League.
Construction work here in
Cleveland is put off until 1881.
All hopes of work this summer
are shot to pieces. Conditions
here are getting worse every day.
By July q thousands of men will
be laid off by some plants like
White Motors, Ford, Peerless,
Hub and steel mills.
NJ. J. PATRICK,
Cleveland Worker.
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Flour Bombs Tn
War Rehearsal

Santa Cruz, Cal.
To the Daily Worker
A SAMPLE Of capitalist wantt
waste! Thousands of pounds
white wheat flour wasted in max
believe war. Bags of wheat flol
are used as "bombs" to be droppe
from planes in mimic war now &
ing on around here.
Multitudes of iobless workers ask
ing for "Work or Wages" are al
swered with bombardment of Rag
Of flour dropped to make "spectacr
lar hits"
A battle royal will be waged wee
OF July ~ at Santa Cruz.
We ask for bread and they 9TH
bosses) give us flour "bombs."
GEO. D. HERSOM
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RailrOa d Men Are
Getting Axe
in n. Y.

New York.
Editor Daily Worker:
Here's more of HOOver's "pros-
perity." The New York Central
Railroad, in its Both St. yards,
laid off three engine crews and
four yardmasters. The yardmas-
ters in the past used to get $3.50
a week. Now they are getting
$47.50.
Where they used to have eight
foremen in the freight sheds now
they have only one, and he is pull
ing a truck.
The Robe Bros. butcher con-
Germ here in this city is going to
discontinue killing cattle on the
Goth.
-JOBLESS WORKER.
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W A R VET. WIFE
And KIDS STARVE
ASKS WHAT TO DO
Not Suicide But Fight
On Hunger
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Comrades:

DSIEOlIs mlCU.
Dear Comrades:
Will you kindly publish this let
ter in the Daily Worker paper?
would like to write a small
article about conditions in the city
of Detroit. I am down and out,
tramping over Detroit looking for
job. am out of work since Aug
ust. l amt got job yet. am get
ting dam good and hungry. Further
more l don't know what to do with
myelf.
My wife and two children are
getting hungry too. No job, no mo-
ney, no clothes. I amt got even
money to buy writing paper. l just
simply don't know what to do.
Every time l hear my kids cry
ing to get something to eat and ]
can't get it, 1 feel like committing
suicide.
The only thing l can get is go to
some Jewish bakery and get stale
bread. Sometimes | get soup bone
pound or two, that is what we lived
on for the last three months. That's
what people are eating today in
this bloody Hooverian prosperity
Free country, yes, you can starve
if you please.
I am a 100 per cent American.
used to think all those foreigners
came here and packed this country
but see the difference now. Today
I have to go to them and ask them
for some stale bread! If it wasn't
for them would starve long ago
l spent four months in France
where l was a horse messenger. Fol-
four months I was getting a new
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Harrisburg, Ill.

Harrisburg, Ill.
Daily Worker,
Dear comrades:
1 want to write about some Of
the rotten conditions that are ex-
listing here in Harrisburg. l work
in the Peabody No. 8 mine. This
mine was down since the 10th OF
March. Now the company opened
in the mine again. In fact has al
ready tried to do so.
Before the mine closed down there
were 780 men working in the mine.
Now the company has put in more
machinery-especially 2 big cutting
machines and is only going to work
80 men on a shift. In other words
the company wants to produce the
same amount of coal with 80 men
as they have done with 780. But the
company is "kind hearted" and is
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small individual union, did not look
into it, but as time went on Commu-
mist activities growing more and
more, later picked up one of their
leaflets calling for an open meeting.
] attended, found it a true workers
organization. Immediately Joined
finding out that they really carried
out what they said, and that it was
an organization for all nationaIities
and races of the entire world.
AS short as ! am in the organiza-
ton l discovered one thing, that the
bosses are preparing another imper-
ialist war for which they will ask us
e4-soldiers to go and again defend
bosses democracy"
But l say not a single man and
not a penny for the bosses war!
Workers, turn your guns against
your real enemy, the boss.
Long live the Soviet Union thru
out the world
AN EX-SERVICEMAN.
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One of Many
War Rehearsals
Now Going On

More and more war vets are be-
ginning to understand that they
fought the last world war for the
glory and profits of Wall Street.
Now they are determined to fight
the bosses who exploit, then throw
them on the streets to starve.
Photo shows a section of a sham
battle staged on Governors Island.
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Demand the release of Eos,
ter, Minor. Amter and Ray,
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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ONE OF The Mich. BOYS WHO REFUSED
TOFIGHT The SOVIET WORKERS Tells
or WALL Street Intervention IN '19
Calls on All War Vets to Prepare to Turn Next
Imperialist War Into War Against Bosses
Detroit, Mich.
To the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades

have served in the world in North Russia with the S In
fan 85h division When there they told
things had be democracy"
the Imperialism bshevsm which
German according what the capitalists democratic United
States said those Michigan boys who refused fight
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AUTO EXPORTS DROP.

Observation-Disclosures ex-
ports from the U. S. during May
dropped $14,00C,000 for May below
1929, according to the Department
Of Commerce announcements.
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FOOLED ONCE TO FIGHT FOR WALL ST.
PROFITS, next WAR He WILL FIGHT
FOR Overthrow OF HUNGER SYSTEM
Worker Is Now Jobless and Blacklisted After
Helping Make ''World Safe for Democracy"
Portage, Pa.
To the Daily Worker:


during whipping its working class into
calling for volunteers under the gnise
of Saving the democracy"
working the Baltimore Ohio Railroad firing passenger
Pa, along this line heard
rendering Americas workers
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Forward to Mass Conference
Against Unemployment, Chicago
July 4th.
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Editorial Note:-Suicide is the
last refuge of those workers who
do not understand clearly the cause
of their misery and have been de-
moralized ideologically by the cap
italist system.
Not suicide but workers revolu-
tionary struggle against the hunger
system, under the leadership of the
Communist Party. The life and
death problem facing millions OF
workers and their families will not
be solved by self destruction (Which
is what the bosses want) but by
revolutionary struggle TO- the over
throw of capitalism and the estab-
lishment of a workers revolutionary
government that will guarantee
bread and life to the working
masses.
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horse every sixteen hours because
the horses were no good. But l had
to be on the job day and night.
was a hero then.
This bloody bourgeoisie made us
fight poor workers and told us to
flight for your country" and they
would give us all we needed. Yes,
today we have "enough"-we can
go hungry!
Last time I was wounded on the
head in France, with the First Cav
airy troop, so they took me to Lon
don. I was there for nine days. l
was almost dead. I was fit to walk
so I requested to go back. They put
me in Jail where I stayed for forty
days. That was nice rest for me
and a good lesson.
Comrades and workers, in the
next war we will not fight the work
ing masses, but we got to fight the
bosses back.
fought for IS months. Today
my family goes hungry. I call spe-
cial attention to the workers to
join the Trade Union Unity League
and the Communist Party. Best we
can do is to read the Daily Worker
and other working class literature.
This way We'll know exactly what
to do in the It war.
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refused to let SURVIVORS in on their
places. Wonder why they didn't
call out the National Guard'
TEXAS FARMER