The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14
California Indians Are Starving, Hun
dreds Dying Of Disease
BY ANNE ALDEN.

from time to time excerpts from some reports
L are seen about California Indians, but very
vague The ruling class and the yellow capital
list sheets which serve them are mum on this.
Exploitation white mans Crulers) greed and
terror are killing off 10000 Indians in the state.
Never such discrimination and terror ragged as
at the present time.
One Indian family living in Oakland dump
told of hardship and suffering in Lake County,
Yolo County, and other bordering counties.
Discrimination against Indians is very marked
here At labor camps and employment places
the Indians dare rot even enter. In Yolo beet
fields Filipinos and Indians were run out this
past season with threats of 100 percenters, who
worked UP nobs of white workers against them
themselves (the white workers. getting wage
cut of from Is to 80 1-3 per cent This resulted,
that the only means of livelihood was picking of
wild berries and angling-and then only SPAR
ringly as they we're driven off everywhere. Hun
dreds of families are living roots and grasses.
Many dying from starvation and diseases 1t
brings, especially the children are hit. They are
dying like flies mo burial ceremonies for US
Just bury anywhere in the fields. This horror
and starvation is making us nomands again.
HUNDREDS are tramping the fields and valleys in
search Of food. My family and find ourselves
in Oakland no better Off We are reminded of
our .inferiority" by police threat to move on
or be put at chain gang"
State Director of Health Admits Dire Need.
To substantiate this statement DR.. Giles Por-
ter state director of health. has sent report to
O. Iipps supervisor of the Sacramento Indian
Agency as follows Plight of hundreds of Cali
fornia Indians found living in the squalor of un-
sanitary settlements are tragic.
Conditions are deplorable in many districts.
In one little settlement near Clear Lake en-
countered tribe of Pono Indians living on the
rocks like primitive Mexicans in filth. The
rocky ground could not be cultivated and the
bucks were compelled to go distance of 80 miles
to find occasional work.
There was an old man called Chief Mateo
who fell and broke his hip year ago and he
was still lying on bed of boards suffering from
the fracture attended only by his 60-year-old
daughter tuberculosis and trachoma is taking
a big toll of these peoples all through the
state"
Another report is given by Miss Mossbacher,
social worker Of Berkeley. 1.-THE housing cond-
tons Of the INDIANS are deplorable, health con-
ditions are very poor and school attendance ir
regular.
Most of the Indian ranchers chose few that
are called sol are located so far from the public
schools and the roads are so bad that it is i'm
possible for the children to attend"
Further glazing truth OF suffering or Indians
Is shown in baby deaths in the state. Statistics
show that 63l deaths per thousand
births was California toll in 1880; of this,
cording to classification by Indians top all
with death rate of 14ol per thousand, with
Mexicans following with 1851 and Negroes next
744 while the white race was A63.
All these facts prove how discrimination with
a view of exploiting more these peoples is car
RED on in the Golden state
Hundreds Of children OF these families together
with other children of the workers win never re-
cover from the blight put upon them by this
starvation program Of the Hoover government.
The only time the workers will put an end to
discrimination and starvation is when they seize
the power of the state and establish workers
and farmers government. Let's organize under
the banner OF the Communist Party, which is
the vanguard OF the workers.
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