The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Poor Farmers Struggle for
Bread Will Be Supported by
Unemployed Workers
statement by the National Board of the Trade
Union Unity League.)
By BURCK


statement by the National Board of the Trade
Union Unity League.)
THE fight for bread of the Arkansas white and
Negro impoverished farmers, 500 of whom
with rifles in their hands raided the stores in
demand for food is sign of the developing
movement among the poor farmers against the
Hoover Wall Street starvation program directed
against the poor farmers as well as against the
workers, ten million Of whom are unemployed.
The poor farmers of England, Arkansas gave the
lead to the poor starving farmers throughout the
country on what they must do in order to get
relief. This condition is not limited to Ar
kansas but is the lot of million of farmers
throughout the country among whom the poor
Negro farmers of the South are the worst suf-
ferers. The militant action in Arkansas will
spread and embrace ever larger areas and num-
berS of farmers.
The fact that the Arkansas farmers, Negro
and white, presented joint front against starva-
ton and the Hoover Robinson Norris program
shows that the poor farmers are becoming con-
scous of the role of the republican and demo-
cratic parties as well as the So-called progress
sives and that they realize the policy of dividing
the Negro and white toilers is part of the starva-
ton program of Wall Street and its government
The starving farmers have in their fight swept
aside the agent of finance capital and the rich
farmers in the person of the town lawyer, thus
making clear that the only ally of the poor starv-
ing farmers is the working class. both employed
and unemployed. BY exposing the role of sste
Red Cross charity program of Hoover and Woods
as program of starvation, the Arkansas farmers
have helped to further the movement for imme-
date farmers relief and unemployment relief
as against the bosses program of charity and
starvation.
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is sign of the developing struggles of the poor
impoverished farmers. In these struggles the de-
mands of the workers on the land, the agricul-
tural laborers, must be put to the forefront. The
farmers suffering from starvation will find in
the agricultural workers the most militant and
reliable allies in their fight for bread The poor
impoverished farmers must help the agricultural
workers organize into unions just as they must
organize themselves into the United Farmers
League and jointly carry on the fight against
Wall Street md the rich farmers who exploit
them.
In this struggle the poor Negro and white
farmers will have the full support of the grow
ing movement of the unemployed organized by
the Trade Union Unity League. The unemployed
workers. supported by the entire working class,
will support the poor farmers struggle. The
fight for immediate relief and unemployment in
surance which the Trade Union Unity League is
carrying on has already in the last few weeks re-
suited in big and militant struggles, hunger
marches demonstrations that are constantly grow
ing in number and militancy. The recent dem
onstrations in Youngstown, Detroit, Newark,
Cleveland, New York, st. Paul, Sacramento, etc,
and the dozens of other demonstrations and
hunger marches scheduled throughout the coun-
try are going on side by side with the collection
Of signatures for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill that Is to be presented to Con-
gress at Washington on Feb. 10th. The poor
farmers must help in the fight for unernploy-
ment insurance They must help in the organ
ization of the state hunger marches to the state
captols. They must utilize the experiences of
the workers in order to carry on and develop
their struggles for relief. The poor farmers must
demand relief, as against measly charity crumbs
and loans that will only further enslave them to
Wall Street bankers and the rich farmers.
Poor farmers, fight for relief! ~
Organize relief committees Of the United Farm
ers' League!
Fight for the demands Of the agricultural
workerst
Support the workers struggles for unernploy-
ment insurance and immediate relief
For the united struggle of the workers and
poor farmers!
Against the Hoover Robinson Red Cross starva-
ton program!
y1 NATIONAL BOARD,
"a TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE.
W. z EostsE. General Secretary.