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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

manent betterment is revolution
and Workers and Farmers Soviet
Government. Can't you get your
neighbors-the poor farmers, not
the rich ones, to meeting?
Farmer: Sure! I'll get them to
the1 school house a week from to-
night. Can you be there and give
us a talk and show us how to or
game?
Communist: Sure thing! The
Communist Party is always ready
to help the poor farmers in their
struggles. I'll bring a copy of the
Farmers Relief, Loan and Insur-
ance Bill" which we support to get
poor farmers real relief when
drouth or flood and so on wipes you
cut, to obtain loans without interest
which are cancelled if you lose the
crop, free crop insurance.
Farmer: Well fight all right
We have nothing to lose!
Communist: And you have lot
to gain! But l must be going on.
And don't forget to vote Commu-
mist, so that a real Bolshevik will
go to Congress to put up a fight
that is fight for all workers and
poor farmers. So long!
Farmer: So long! I'll vote Com
munist from now on, you bet! See
you next week at the meeting.
We've got to have a fighting or
ganization. So long!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

sells us out. but political takers of
the capitalist Glass;, like the Farm
Bloc crowd. Who could sell out a
collective farm under a Workers
and Farmers Government? It's
impossible, because it's different
system.
Farmer: I guess you're right.
We've got to fight, got to make a
revolution. But right now I and
the rest of us are in fix-in rags,
in debt, and can't sell what we raise
for enough to live on.
Communist: So you keep running
around in circles looking for a way
to raise your prices of what you sell.
Poor farmers have been doing that
for years and never get them. If
prices do go up, the marketing
trusts hog the gain, or it's taken
from you in higher rents, taxes or
higher prices on what you buy. The
big marketing trusts have the edge
on you when you sell, no matter
how you scheme. Then, the main
things, wheat, cotton and so on;
prices on these are subject to world
market demand; and since over
100000 workers have lost their
jobs in all capitalist countries and
many more have had wages cut,
they can't buy and you can't sell.
Farmer: So there's nothing we
can do right now? Won't tariff
help?
Communist: Tariff won't help
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
Wanted ZEE a Job

ize the workers! You ought to join
trade union.
"That amt none Of them black
shirts, is it? Co.'S if it is / amt
agoin' to jine 'em. Pm not fer no
Blackshirts."
mo, of course not. Why don't
you "o down to our union hall at
1871 Main st. and speak to the
trade union organizer?"
You ought to help
fight for the Unemployment Insur.
ance Bill put forward by the Com
munist Party"
81 sure will"
Il stopped at one house the other
day, and the lady says, 4 amt got
no time to give you no food right
now But, lady, I haven't had
nothin' but clear water to drink and
not drop food for the last two
days. So l stuck roun' a bit, and
she gimme sompin.
"They's nobody does nothin' 70
the pc man.. The Salvation Army
goes roun' c'lectin clos from folks,
and when pc man goes in one Of
them Good Will stores they want a
dollar fore they'll give you any kim
o clos. You gotta pray a couple
hours fore they'll give you some
slop they call coffee, and some corn
mush thew call bread
~f I don't get me job in Shreve-
port, | got me good gun at home,
an, I'll know whut to do with it. l
won't stand by and see my wife and
children starve. An / amt afraid
to steal either, If it's gonna keep
'em alive.
well, goodbye. I guess III stop
down to that Their union hall, and
see what they got to say"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
By HARRISON GEORGE

by dARRlSON GEORGE
Farmer: What you said about the
Farm Board is correct. It's a
swindle. But you say we can't stop
being swindled unless we poor farm
ers and the city workers make a
revolution. And that don't look
easy. The poor people won't stick
together. And somebody's always
selling US out.
Communist: Who says it is easy?
But it is necessary. It's easy to
vote the republican, democratic or
fake "socif It" ticket, but it don't
get you anywhere. Even voting the
Communist ticket won't make a tev-
olution. That takes a lot of real
scrapping by big masses of people.
But Communist in Congress helps
the fight outside of Congress by
raising the demands of the masses,
waking up more masses to join the
struggle. And they stick together
more than you think. This is capt.
talist bunk that the poor people
won't stick together. Each poor
farmer thinks the other one won't.
They will when they follow the
guidance of the Communist Party.
THEY DID IN SOVIET RUSSIA
AND THEY CAN DO 1T HERE.
And it's not just Somebody" who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
LABOR
SPORTS

News from the busy headquarters
of the Labor Sports Union indicate
that there will be large delegation
to the National Convention in Cleve-
land. Two buses have been chart
cred in N. Y. which will take dele
gates from New England, New
York and Philadelphia to the Cleve-
land convention. Trade Unions,
sport clubs, and athletic teams in
terested in workers sports should
get in touch with the L.S.U., at Sc
Fifth Ave. on the organization of
sports and the sending of repre-
sentatives to the convention.
Take look at this for workers
sports activity this winter. Teams
in the N. Y. L.S.U. soccer League
played their first games last Sun
day. Eight workers soccer teams
were seen in action playing fast and
exciting games.
Basketball season will soon start.
Preparations are under way for
district and national tournaments in
basketball.
Another form of sports will be
boxing. This will build husky
bodies and develope powerful punch
es to defend the interests of the
workers. Trade unions--what about
some boxing in your trade union
halls this winter?
New York sportsmen take notice.
The N. Y. district convention will
be held on Nov. End. Workers! At
tend this interesting convention.
Send delegates.
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considered belonged to the move
ment. 1t is he who keeps his fellow
prisoners in good spirits by the let
ters he manages to smuggle to
them. Meanwhile he is using this
time of Imprisonment to begin his
monumental work on "The Develop
ment of Capitalism in Russia"
We see Lenin and Krupskaya Gag
erly following up the correspondence
to the Party paper, "Iskra (The
Spark, and with what care they
kept in touch with each worker
correspondent.
No tasks were ever too small for
Lenin, for he realized how each part
fitted into the whole. He would
work for hours over the details of
shop bulletin, to be sure that every
fact was correct and so put as to
appeal to those inside the plant.
We see Lenin pouring over the
works of Marx, Engels and other
writers, re-reading them in the light
of fresh developments in the revo-
lutionary struggle. We follow him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
By HARRY ALAN
POTAMKIN


>casket and lock you in, as you de-
serve"
The Red Bear tied him stoutly
and put him into the casket through
which no moan, no groan, no sob,
no sigh and no whine could escape.
The Red Bear locked the casket
tight with a strong lock and took
the key with him.
The Red Bear jumped thordgh the
window and went about from door
to door saying: Tonight, a meeting
in the woods. Tonight, meeting
in the woods. In unity. In soli-
,darityw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
By ISABELLE KLEINMAN.

1t was one of those dreary, rainy
days, and l was sitting by the win
dow reading Daily Worker, when
l saw a young man with a very
dirty face and ragged appearance
knock at the door.
He asked me, "You got some food
left over from breakfast" He
wasn'tsthe first one to come to the
door. Several times a day men and
women, old and young, come to the
door asking for left overs. In Chat
tanooga, almost half the population
is unemployed.
He came. in and after he had
washed and had begun to eat he
told me the following: "Been max
ing the freights from Macon, Ga.
That's where / live. Coin to
Shreveport La. Done heard they's
a good chanc't for a job down there.
/ gotta do somethin'. Got wife
and two kids, an the little baby
only three months old. Gotta sup
port my wife's mother, too.
"Pretty tough maxim them
freights, tho. Nigh to so and 60
men waitin' on any freight comm
by. Things is mighty hard. So
many men out O. work. Everywhere
l go, the same thing. Don't know
what this country's comm to. Must
be Hoover, l guess"
"But," l told him, "things are as
bad one place as another. Work.
ers must organize together and
make the bosses pay them living
wage when they are thrown out Of
jobs. Haven't you heard about the
8 young people who are under the
shadow Of the electric chair in At
lanta because they tried to organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

you bit, nor any spool" or Eek
port debenture." If it helps any,
body, it will be the big marketing
trusts-they run the government,
and the poor people don't. But
you're darned right there's some
thing you can do right now. Not
by fooling around waiting for some-
body else to save you, but by your
selves organizing and forcing land
lords to reduce rents, by tenant
strikes, strikes against high taxes,
by everybody refusing to pay mort
cages or interest on them, by
forcing the trusts to cut prices on
things you buy and making the rail-
road thieves cut freight rates.
What's the matter with that?
Farmer: Darned if that don't hit
the nail on the head! How couud
we do it?
Communist: Write to the United
Farmers League, New York Mills,
Minnesota, the only organization
that is organizing poor farmers all
over the country to make this kind
of fight. Organize the poor farm
ers in your township and elect a
Township Committee, affiliated with
the United Farmers League. The
Communist Party and the revolu-
tionary unions of the Trade Union
Unity League will help you in your
struggles. It's the only way you
may better your conditions. Of
course, the only guarantee Of per-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

a"Here'S one OF EN- to get. He
doesn't believe in angels" "I'll tell
Preacher Polecat," said the Weasel.
The Red Bear smelled Rat. The
Rat was poking his nose into the
Bats nest. He was looking for
signs of rebellion. The Red Bear
walked down to the Pond. He saw
the Goldfish abusing his poorer rela-
tive, the Carp. Red Bear walked on
thinking. He must get his thoughts
together, write them down clearly,
and present them to the animals.
He must make clear to them that
they all suffered together and must
stand together.
Red Bear reached his home and
sat down. He thought and thought,
then wrote. When he was through
writing, he read what he had writ
ten. He read it aloud to himself:
"There are those WHO work and build
and yet
Out of their Iabors nothing yet
But wOrrimcnt and fear
From the beginning to the end of
year
He who works should well enjoy
His Iabor's fruits, not be the toy
OF Black Gears whim.
Belongs to hin,
All that he yields
BY his own vim
From rocky fields.
Therefore must we
Together be
In Unity,
To fight
For right
Against the parasite.'
Suddenly the face Of the Haywood
Bruin peeped in at the window. He
was spying. Red Bear turned and
caught the clown and dragged him
in.
"You sneakw cried the Red Bear.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!
I'll tell you everything" The Hey
wood Bruin whined and wept.
"Ill tie you first! You won't get
away!"
ooh! Oh! Oil" wlined the Hey
wood Bruin. cts the Black Bears
fault. He sent me. The Pigs-the
Hog and the Sow-want more to
eat. So the Black Bear is going to
take more away from the animals !"
"The besst!"
preacher Polecat will blind the
animals with the word of heaven"
"The Skfnk!"
"The Beaver will handle the build
ing workers. The Weasel, helped by
the Stool Pigeon, will settle with
the Chickens. Grover the Crocodile
and Leech in the waters. The Shiny
Worm and Snake in the grass. The
Rat everywhere. The vulture in
the air."
The Red Bear tied the Haywood
Bruin tightly. "You are not to be
trusted. You would surely go back.
and tell the Black Bear what you
heard"
The Haywood Bruin whined and
whined: II didn't hear you. I don't
remember what I heard. won't
tell the Black Bear what heard"
"You can't be trusted! You have
stolen the honey of all the Honey
Bees and licked the Black Bears
boots. You have sung to the Black
Bear and helped him against all
the animals. I'll tie you so you
can't escape and hide you in my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
"a STORY FOR WORKING CLASS CHILDREN

was running under the bridge. Red
Bear knew that the wrath of the
animals was gathering! The Great
ures of the sea and the lake, the
wood and the meadow, the mountain
and the valley, weres burdened be-
meath oppression. The Red Bear
came into the Black Bears barn
yard. He saw the Rooster bossing
the Chickens. He heard the Rooster
say to the Eider-Duck: "Do you
know, Duck, / can talk with the
angels?" Duck said: "There are no
angels" The Red Bear heard the
Stool Pigeon telling the Weasel:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

This is the story of a hundred
presenter whose eyes have beer
opened by his experiences as a sol
der in the world war and by events
since then.
Ny great-great-grandfather and
his brother were two boys in the
wealthy Knickerbocker family OF
/ New York City, who joined Wash
ington's army against Britain. They
fought ''for freedoms sake" while
their two cider brothers and the
rest of the family remained Tories.
Although the American Revolution
airy army won the war, these two
revolutionary brothers were disin-
herited pronto and their descend
ants forced forever after into the
working class. These two militant
lads helped obtain the freedom of
American merchants and capitalists
from British tyranny and were re-
warded by being made wage slaves.
Yes, I come from a very pa
triotic family. 4 couple of my
grand-uncles lest legs and things at
the second battle of Bulls Run;
another, now ninety years old, has
been totally blind ever since he
marched with Sherman to the sea
this time to rid northern capitalists
from southern competition where
slave labor was cheaper. Some still
closer relatives were in the Spanish
American war to help free the Su-
gar Trust from paying duty from
Cuba.
Being at an impressionable age
at that time, I can well remember
the war feeling being worked up
in the newspapers, and how the
Maine was blown up in Havana
harbor. (Later it came out that it
was blown up from the inside.)
Also, propaganda cartoon S
were plentiful, showing Spaniards
sticking swords through little Gu
ban children. Now we know that
the bloody Wall Street Machado
government does worse than that,
and howl And in Haiti, and the
Philippines, too.
Glass Lines in the Army.
Then came the war, and the draft.
In training camps even the dumbest
of US could see the class lines
sharply drawn-the sleek middle
class officers, the working class
privates for cannon fodder.
Our treatment near home, though
bad enough, was much better than
after we started across and the Of
ficers began to censor our mail SO
we couldn't tell our folks about it.
We were crowded on to an Eng
fish boat so thick that there was
scarcely room to sleep. We slept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
TROUGH THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN in THE SPIRIT OF LENN
MEMORIES OF LENIN

as he Systematically sets about col
lecting wealth of factual material
on Russian conditions and outlook,
learning from their self-initiated
and elementary forms of struggle,
and so applying MARKHAM theory to
the concrete conditions of Russian
life. One illustration of this is
Lenin's immediate recognition Of the
significance of the Soviets which
the workers and peasants created
during the revolutionary events of
1905.
Lenin realized even in the early
days of his activities the imperative
necessity of tying up revolutionary
theory with revolutionary practice.
As his ye- rs of experience grew,
he attached an increa ing inn or-
lance to this principle--a principle
which we in the American party are
beginning to apply with seriousness
for the first time. There can be no
revolutionary practice, said Lenin,
without a correct revolutionary
theory. Also, revolutionary theory,
no matter how correct, is of use
only in so far as it is put into prac-
tice, and serves to build the move
ment.
Krupskaya's Memoirs brings one
close to the throbbing life of the
movement and characters of the
early underground days, the years
of exile in Siberia, the period of the
building of the central organ,
"Iskra" (The Spark, and of the.
first Party congresses and the 1905
revolution. 1t was during these
years that the fundamental prin-
ciples of theory and organization
were worked out, and the Bolshevik
(majority) grouping consolidated
on this basis.
The book makes very clear how
vital and necessary were the fights
which Lenin led against opportunism
in all it's forms, such as the theory
of economism, and for a disciplined
Partyebased on the principle of dem
ocratic centralism, and for the union
of the workers and peasants and
the hegemony of the proletariat in
the struggle.
This is book which all Commu-
mist and militant workers should
read and pass around among their
shopmates. If you can't afford to
buy the book alone, get five of your
fellow-workers to chip in a quarter
with you and get it on the co-opera-
tive plan. --MYRA PAGE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
By DoZIER W. GRAHAM

Hundreds of columns of news
paper space have been devoted to
tellin the world generally, and the
workers of New Jersey particularly,
what a "good fellow" Dwight W.
Morrow is. Many newspapers of
other capitalist political shades, in
their efforts to keep on the good
sida of Morrow and the Public Ser
vice for advertisement purposes,
have also helped to tell us mice
things" about this plundering "gen-
tleman."
But who is Morrow! What do
they tell US about him? Let US see!
They tell US that he began life as
q Poor Boy. Of course the reason
for such a tory is to have workers
keep on reading Horatio Alger
stories. Also it is intended to make
workers believe that there exists in
this world Of capitalism a chance
for us, too, to become rich. You
know the old bunk about equal op-
portunity.
Well, We will tell you that he was
not poor boy, the son of a worker,
but the son Of a college president.
Now he is many times a millionaire
and Mullins are not made by work.
They are made by robbing and plum
dering the workers, by speeding up
the workers in their employ and
cutting their wages. And at this
game Morrow is past master. He
learned it from ]. P. Morgan in the
blouse Of Morgan" on Wall Street.
Serves Wall Street.
Leaving college as a lawyer and
later creeping into the financial
game with J. P. Morgan, Morrow
was soon recognized as one un-
scrupulous enough to rob and plum.
der the workers, so he was slated
for bigger game. In 1922 we see
him headed for Cuba as the repre-
sentative Of Wall Street and the
sugar interests. There, with the
pressure Of Wall Street money, he
soon lined up Butcher Machado, the
Cuban president, and caused the
slaughtering Of many and the Jail.
ing Of hundreds of Cuban workers
VIII orefused to accept willingly the
wage-cutting and speed-up schemes
imposed upon them by Morrow and
his partner, the Butcher Machado
Since that time the working elias!
of Cuba has suffered misery anc
hunger, because Machado's job il
to use the governmental authority
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
(Continued.)
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

(C0nClnueQ.)
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
The Black Bear, angered by the
taunts and threat of the Red Bear,
has commanded the Haywood Bruin,
his soft and fat Jester, to sing to him.
The tune puts him in good spirits
again and he calls his henchmen In
Weasel, skunk, Rat, Snake. Leech,
Shiny Worm, Beaver. Grover the Croc-
OdiIe, Vulture, Stool Pige0r-and as
signs them to tasks against the Red
Bear and the oppressed animals.
Now go on:
The Red Bear knew he had to act
upon his threat. He had threatened
because he had known what was
happening. Hawk, his comrade of
the air, had told him what was in
the air. Minow had told him water
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
Communist and Farmer
Talk Things Over
Size Up the Farm Board and Present Election
Issues Facing Farmers

(This is the last in series of
talks between Communist and
Poor Farmer.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-03

NTRONG with a strength scarcely
% OF this earth. bitter and torn
with the struggle 70 find the
secret Of existence and mould II in
marble for all the world TO under
stand. Michelangelo stands forth a
colossal figure in the world OF art.
The subjects upon which he worked.
with chisel or paint are all pro
foundly serious. David. the paint
ings OF the Creation. the tombs "
the Medici: Moses. massive figures.
which awe and inspire. ard. perhaps.
dismay the beholder.
His creations are strong. too
strong. for without sweetness.
strength overpowsrs. overwhtlms,
but here and there, IN a Madonna
and Child or in Pista. tenderness
sweeps forth. the deep. hidden gen.
tleness OF the man IS shown
a life, Lonely and Bitter
And 80 II was In his life. a life
Of bitterness. OF quarreis against
unfair enemies. OF and IN
ceasing effort. with. toward its
close. the serene. but. a. the same
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-03
The Stars Saw
! Thursday. September 4
Rx GENEVIEYE KEMRLE

A PARTICULARLY active and
interesting day in 80 far as
business is concerned Is fore
cast from the predominant lunar
transirs. The breaking up OF old
crystallized and frustrating condi-
tons may be expected to make way
for definite progress. through dill
gence. perseverance and practically
conservative methods. Writings,
publishings. trade. real estate and
solid investments should thrive IN.
der this lively stimulus. and new
contracts or agreements nay be prof.
ftably made.
Those whose birthday II is may
anticipate a very lively and progress.
eive year. with new contracts. new
business ard general speeding up Of
affairs after the removal OF crystal
Iized and frustrating conditions. II Is
a time for constructive effort and
practical industry in the direction Of
fha desired lines Of achievement
pnhlishlngs. real estate. industry and
labor should flourish. But purely
nrlvate relations may be a cause for
concern.
10 brilliantly clever and versatile
.no If the same time practical. me
thndlcal and industrious It's per
ronal associations may not be s.
gratifying.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-03

lot of truth in this extreme view.
If our poor feet ere given bet
ter care, we would be better men
and women.
The welfare and usefulness OF
the individual dlpend TO a very con
siderable degree upon the feet. Com
fort. good nature and real efficiency
may be ruined II the feet hurt.
On each OF those very rare occa-
rions when I have come n contact
with A cross and irritable clerk 1
have wondered II her feet hurt. Poor
thing. she cant be agreeable IL they
do.
once IN a great while somebody
will look al your feet. Little thought
will be provoked by such glances II
your shoes are neat and clean. Your
feet may be small or particularly
well formed. but really nobody gives
a seconds consideration 20 such
matters.
How we poor mortals flatter our