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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-24
Tax Delinquency In
Farm States Grows

While the department Of agri-
culture is forced 70 admit the
growing tax delinquency among
the farm masses it tries to cover
this up by lying statistics. 1t tries
also to conceal the growing mill
tant action that is developing a
mong the farmers against the tax
burdens Of the capitalist state
Douglas Jackson, Of the Bureau Of
Agricultural Economics Of the u.
S. department. of agriculture has
attempted this in his article on
LAND Delinquency q Growing
Problem"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-24

italist class that tax strikes by the
small and middle farmers are
neither numerous nor wide
spread" He wants, at the same
time to prevent the farmers from
recognizing the fact that this is
the only effective means for get
ting tax relief.
Legitimate protests by local
tax associations and citizens com
mittees, it seems, are usually rec
ognized as a NOR useful form Of
tax relief endeavor. These
STRIKES" suggest that the matter
of attachments and accommoda-
tions to particular individuals may
prove q delicate matter 10 handle
in such way as to give the in
tended relief without demOralizing
the body Of taxpayers who are
able to pay"
LEGITIMATE PROTESTS
The Legitimate protests by local
tax associations and citizens com
mittees, it seems, are usually rec
ognized as a more useful form Of
tax relief endeavor," useful to the
capitalist class because they him
der the organization of the tOiling
farm masses for EFFECTIVE re-
lief from burdensOme taxation
thru the tax strike. By one means
or another the department Of ag-
riculture tells the tax collectors
they should avoid "demoraliing the
body Of taxpayers who are able to
pay" that is they should squeeze
every last cent out Of the toilerS
without permitting a militant spir-
it to arise.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-24

also W COlCtdL the BIOH4l4B mn
tant action that is developing a
mong the farmers against the tax
burdens Of the capitalist state
Douglas Jackson, Of the Bureau Of
Agricultural Economics Of the L.
S. department. of agriculture has
attempted this in his article on
Land Delinquency Growing
Problem
FALSE STATISTICS
In order 10 hide the extent of
The tax delinquencies among the
farm masses he gives the tax de-
linquency on all property subject
10 direct taxation In Minnesota,
for example he finds that at the
"beginning of 1881 Minnesota
property taxes payable in 1880
were 77% unpaid" He just
Jumps together the taxes paid by
the steel trust and the capitalists
with those of the farmers and gets
this low percentage Of delinquency.
Actually the great mass Of the
farm taxes in Minnesota were
delinquent though Jackson says
nothing about it.
40, 900, 900 ACRES DELINQUENT
The department Of agriculture is
forced to admit though that near
/ ly 40 million acres in five states
alone michigan, Minnesota, Wis
consin, South Dakota and OregOn)
on which taxes were delinquent in
1881. This is about IS per cent
Of the total area of these states"
Jackson does not say what per
centage of the FARM area Of
these states this delinquency con-
stituted.
In speaking of "fir.t year of
temporary delinquency" the de-
partment Of agriculture states
that present indications are, how
ever, that a smaller proportion
than usual of these taxes will BE-
paid with penalty, and that an in
creasing amount will be allowed 10
become absolutely or permanently
delinquent. Large acreages of this
are being offered at tax sales;
private buyers of tax certificates
are not plentiful Tin some states,
in fact, are very scarce indeed;
and considerable areas of land are
reverting to the counties and
states. Four states show 10000
900 acres az % Of their total
area) which have passed or are
passing into public ownership as a
result of delinquency" :
DELINQUENCIES INCREASING 3
- ;:;;..--sszsszcNXm-S
Even these data of the depart
ment of agriculture do not tell the ;
rea lcOnditions as far as tax de- !
linquency are concerned. A large ,
amount of taxes on mortgaged
farms which have not been paid
by the owners do not enter the d,
records as delinquent because the
taxes have been paid by the mort
gage holder. Furthermore, since
the early part of 1881 TO which :,
the department of agriculture data :
relate, the tax burden on the OPP 4,
pressed farmers has been intensi- :
fled sharply.
Out of the fact that at is for i
the most part the poor lands n
which are going delinquent" Jack t
son draws the vicious conclusion t
that "this is usual, and indicates t
a relative over-assessment of land
Of low productivity. 1t emphasize .
es the fact that real estate tax de- y
linquency is to no slight extent a t
problem of equitable assessment" Q
He tries to cover up the tax plum v
der Of all the telling farmers that u
has gone on under capitalism by +
of it a question of equit-
able assessment. n
TRIES TO PREVENT TAX n
STRIKE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-24
MOSCOW WORKER SPORTSRC READY FOR htO DE117E
TRIES TO PREVENT TAX
STRIKE

Jackson tries 10 console Ia cap-
Evening star., 1932-02-05

Truly remarkable dress sale Why? Because there are
stunning canton repes triple sheer Spring prints rch
plain print combinations Gall of gorgeous quay) Because
there styles and such elookng ones for
occasion-even thrilling dance rocks of tafeta satin
there details that accustomed
seeing ocks this price! Last but not least
because the range every you know
G. Second
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
BY B 81.

out for special attack.
Seventeen persons, among them
Communist leaders, we're jailed. In
court, they opened an attack on the
Jim-Crow laws and ordinances, and
the whole system of segregation.
They put forward their Commu-
mist program of full equality-eco-
nomic, political and social.
Milliken, Manager of Safety, is
sued statement:
The Negroes of Denver, who have
always been quiet, peace-loving and
peace-abiding citizens, have been
the victims of a vicious Communist
propaganda. This was caused en-
tirely by Communists. We feel
confident that the Negroes will re-
alise this and will not lend them
selves to further disturbances. We
will show no quarter to the Com
munist agitators."
0R IN other words: 1.-THE Negroes
" of Denver, who single handed
S~A@0 oAOAiSB nNAO tAl1dO1C W pun ally
effective struggle for their rights,
have now found allies, white and
Negro Communists. The fight for
their rights was made at the in
stigation of Communists. Smash
the Communists, and we smash the
leadership in this struggle"
But at this very moment, the
fight for the rights of Negroes in
Denver is going forward. New sec
tons of workers are coming for
ward to defend the jailed Negroes
and whites. New plans are being
laid. More white workers are she'd
ding their prejudices and their
boss-inspired hatreds. More Ne
groes are coming to realize that
the leadership of the Communist
Party is the only effective leader
ship in the battle against jim
Crowism and segregation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
The Question

A worker asks us: What do
you mean by two classes in So
ciety?"
Answer: A class is big group
OF people whose way of making a
living gives them a common rela-
ton toward the whole of society,
common needs, common dangers,
and, if they are class conscious, an
organization and political program
for the whole class.
Capitalist society is built on the
ownership of the machinery of
production, the factories, mines,
railroads, ETC., but a few owners,
and these hire millions of workers
who own nothing to do the work.
The class which makes its living by
owning and exploiting workers, is
one main class, the capitalist class.
The class that makes its living by
working for wages, and not by own
ing, is the other main class, the
working class.
There are subdivisions within
each class, there are industrial
capitalists, bankers, merchants, ETC.,
in the capitalist class. There are
craftsmen who own their own tools,
white collar workers, and manual
workers, etc, within the ranks of
the working class.
There are also remnants of older
classes, like big landlords, who usu-
ally line up with the capitalists,
and, like land-owning small farm
ers, who can be brought into yalli-
ance with the working class But,
as Marx said in the Communist
Manifesto, Society as a whole is
more and more splitting into two
great hostile classes directly
facing each other" That means,
the capitalist class and the work.
ing class. All their most important
interests are directly against each
other. High wages for the worker
means less profits for the en-
ployer The struggle between them
is what we ordinarily mean by
class struggle" II must end some
day in a victory for the workers,
and the destruction of the capital
list class, and that means the de-
struction of capitalism. The CAPT.
talists can not get along without
workers, but the workers can get
along without capitalists.
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guns, not to fight our enemies but to
keep us in tune with the Leaders
songs.
Mayor Hoan
And as for Mayor Hoan, he looks
as if his mouth is open shouting war
like speeches, but he sings what a
fine city this is, and how nice the
streets are for Lincolns and Cadillacs,
but he doesn't say anything about
how the unemployed are pulling their
hand wagons filled with relief junk.
Mayor Hoan is openly telling us
there is no harm in voting for
La Toilette. You cannot conceal,
Mayor Hoan, that all four parties,
Republican, Democrat, Socialist and
Farmer Labor, are working together
against me and all the masses OF
poor people in this country, and after
II years of voting Socialist l will now
vote Communist, for the G. P. is the
only party that stands for the eman-
cipation of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

The young workers began to act
firmly; they began to agitate openly
for shorter hours. The admins
tration, accustomed to their quiet
security, did not scent the danger
and paid little attention to the
wild talk" of the young fellows.
OUT FOR THE NINE-HOUR
WORKING DAY
The preparations for winning the
nine-hour working day went apace.
Not only a considerable section of
the youth, but also the older work.
ers were brought into the work. The
estimate taken showed that there
was a small active group strongly
backing the nine-hour day slogan
on every ship. The crews were
seriously interested in the affair
and were prepared to "try it out"
But we were up against the older
men, who stubbornly declared:
We're making no strikes!p
But we don't want strikes
either" insisted the youth, 1--WE
simply want to work nine hours.
without any sort of strike"
The older men stuck to it, still
some gave way:
All right, only no strikes; and II
you are thinking of starting some-
thing we don't help!"
The young fellows urge the older
men not to funk
We don't funk it, what's it to
us? Only no politics"
We decided to start the campaign
in two days. The boys began to
get fidgety; I also was worried.
fearing our whole scheme might
fall through, if the affair developed
into an unforeseen strike.
TO Be Continued 4 ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
ONLY FEW READ
STRIKE RESOLUTION

At the Pittsburgh district con-
vention, which was held about a
week ago, only about rs of the
100 present read the E. c. C. l.
strike resolution. And this is in
the Pittsburgh district. AS we
know, one of the main sections of
the strike resolution is precisely
the one which analyses the lessons
Of the Penn-Ohio miners strike
At least about SO per cent of the
comrades present at the Pittsburgh
district convention participated in
the Penn-Ohio strike, yet such
small number of them read the
E. G. G. I. resolution on the lessons
OF the strike struggles in the U. S.
A. These facts also show that we
have not sufficiently popularized
the 14th Plenum.
At the Minnesota District Con-
vention, which was held recently,
when the question was asked how
many Of the comrades present read
the G. G. October, 1881, resolution
on unemployment, only about
answered in the affirmative.
The main reason for the lack of
interest in the reading of our Party
literature and resolutions is the
fact that the mobilization of the
Party membership for mass cam
paigns proceeds mainly along mar
row administrative lines without
basic political discussion of the OBJ
jectives of the various mass activi-
ties and methods to achieve them.
1t is also due to the fact that in
practice we do not carry on fight
against wrong political manifesto
tions which are hindrance in the
development Of mass work.
The question of raising the polit-
ical level of our membership, which
is primarily new membership, is,
of course, not just a matter of
reading resolutions, pamphlets and
attending classes. These facts,
however bring out sharply the
need of carrying on fight against
political indifference. The educa-
ton and training OF our member
ship is one of the inner key tasks
of the Party in the struggle against
fluctuations and for the mobiliza-
ton OF the Party membership for
the growing mass activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
party Life}
Alarming Facts

a greater interest in the political
education of the membership.
How serious the problem is of
reading and political education in
the Party can only be seen from
the following facts: At Harlem
functionaries' class, attended by
about 80 comrades, the question
was put how many of the COM
rades- present read the 18th PIenum
resolution and the strike resolu-
ton of the Executive Committee of
the Communist International.
Only out of the 80 read the main
resolution and only 4 read the
strike resolution. And this, more
than three months after the 18th
Plenum!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

hillside and through the main
street of the town; the police on
duty whisled the alarm, the police
ambush which had been deceived
rushed to the place, but found no.
body. The network of dark little
side turnings had swallowed up all
the demonstrators; all scattered
safely to their homes.
DISPUTE TERROR
METHODS
Dispute concerning terror we're
especially violent; the romance at
tached to the terroristic method of
struggle turned out to be extremely
attractive and wonderful :. dan
gerous spirit of adventure.
Andrew put up the question to
me of the need for explaining the
question of terror in our circle. He
was extremely afraid that this dan
gerous question might cause trouble
in our circle and smash up our
work. And after a long, detailed
talk in the circle on the meaning
OF the mass proletarian struggle,
in which inspiring examples of mass
armed uprisings of the seamen and
the rebellion of the workers in Mos
COW were put forth. after we had
talked about individual terror as
harmful method of struggle de-
fecting the attention of the work.
ers from the mass political strug-
giles, the young workers BEGAN to
take a cooler attitude towards this
difficult question. We pointed out
the colossal significance of pre-
pairing the mass labor movement
to serve as threat and conquer
ing force, and the boys we're con-
WINGED and brought back from the
indiWdualistic romanticism of ter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
BY SAM DON

WHEN we speak nowadays about
w mobilizing the Party member
ship for mass work we must i'm
mediately visualize the new mem
bership in the Party. The same is
true of the problem of training
new cadres in the Party.
The training, however, of new
members and the development of
new cadres is not taken seriously
enough. This is very clearly seen
in the indifference to political edu-
cation which exists practically in
all the leading districts of the
Party. In this article we will
merely take few cases which
sharply bring out this lack of
serious attitude to political educa-
ton.
Let us take first the question of
the PARTY Organizer" From the
viewpoint of training new members
as functionaries in the lower ranks
the Party Organizer" is undoubt-
eddy an important weapon. The
pracGlce, however, SHOWS tnat some
districts, and leading ones at that,
do not think so.
For instance, Philadelphia. This
district did not take out from the
post office its July issue of the
Party Organizer, at time when
the August issue is already off the
press. Minnesota took out It's July
issue of the Party Organizer" at
a time when the August issue was
already off the press, and this
only after two notices from the
post office. Certainly these facts
show that the district does not
take serious steps to popularize the
Party Organizer" and develop it's
circulation among the membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

Norman Thomas exposed naked, ex-'
posed as the servants of capitalism.
They are beast with two faces, but
only one heart, to more intensively
reduce all the poor people to slavery
for rations of slop, even more than
the Hoover party. Yes, if today we
have to do forced labor for 81 day,
tomorrow they will make us do it,
for nothing, all for the sake Of cap
italisnn.
Net To Catch Votes
Their radical phrases are net to
catch votes, but all they do is to try
to rescue the millionaires here in
Milwaukee, while we are starved and
brlItally attacked
The socialist Milwaukee Leader is
a capitalist song book, and know
Sheriff Benson has often wished it
could be monograph record con-
nected with loud speaker, loudly to
sing the victories of the police over
the unarned, starving, unemployed
workers. Benson uses his special riot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

ror on to the high road of the class
struggle.
OUR ties with the other boats had
" become so strong that we could
begin to think of intensifying the
work of our organized youth.
I decided to put before them the
question of a concrete plan of work
in the struggle for shorter hours.
The task was pretty difficult; they
all doubted the possibility of bring
ing the workers cut on strike; the
work was new to them; and the
youth alone could not decide the
question, the old men had also to
be brought in. I also thought that
nothing would come of the strike,
that much more intensive and pro-
longed work had to be done.
I suggested they try to cut down
their working hours themselves,
without a strike. At first they could
not understand this way of looking
at things, then began to think it
over, and it turned out that they
thought after all they could give
it try. Andrew and I took over
the working out of the plan, and
the rest we're instructed to begin
strong agitation for shorter hours.
We decided to leave the questions
of increased wages alone for the
time being.
WORK OUT
DETAILED PLAN
Andrew and 1 worked out the
plan in detail, and it amounted
on the whole to the following: the
workers on the dredging fleet were
to cut down their working day
secretly from 1114 to 9 hours. The
secrecy lay in the fact that on a
definite day, known only to the
workers themselves, the caravan
would set out to work not at 6 but
at Z o'clock; the workers would take
half an hour for dinner, and leave
work at $50 pm. AS soon as the
workers were ripe for action, we
would appoint the day for carrying
out our plan. Further, it was de-
cided that on the preceding night,
before leaving work, the men would
chalk up on all the portfolios and
and all the boats tunnels, in large
letters, the time to start and the
time to finish work en- the follow
ing day, A committee was
appointed, the Victor Shum-
sky" where I was working.
Andrew was appointed the respon-
sible organizer of the campaign
and president of the committee.
The Victor Shumsky" from that
moment began to find itself in the
centre of the growing movement
in the whole fleet.
WHEN I reported my plan for the
w campaign to the party COM
mittee, the whole of the member
ship protested, declaring that we
must limit ourselves to study-circIe
work and not to take active work.
1 told the committee that the tactic
of organized militant activities
would give bigger political results
than educational circle work alone,
In view of my categorical declara-
ton, the committee was compelled
TO agree to my plan and allowed
me to begin the campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

The Daily Worker will regularly
carry a column on Party Life.
Party members, particularly from
the lower units, trade union frac-
tons and fractions in mass or
CARNATIONS are invited to con-
tribute to this column. We espe-
cially urge the membership in the
factory units to write of their
work and problems. The column
can be made a living force in the
growth of the Party if the expert
ences in the practical mass work
will find expression in it. Ad-
dress your contributions to Party
Life Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31
lInstaIIment No. 81

NA1lSbdllIIlcOb NO. o.
"Quite right, that's not the way"
said I, backing up Andrew. wen
always have time to get pinched
by the police, so we needn't hurry;
we must get the boys in gradually,
once at time, choosing the steady
ones, not the gas-bags; we must
get strong circle and, then we'll
see what next"
That's right; slow and steady.
We must get our own man on
each boat and through them bring
the rest into our cause" Andrew
was quite carried away, as though
the cause had been his for years,
very near to his heart
The boys took up the task agit-
ating among the youth and recruit
ing them from the other boats.
They decide4 to form a special
circle and to put in Andrew as its
responsible organizer; they decided
not to link me up with the new
recruits.
you sit in a corner, comrade,
and show US how and what, and
we'll do the rest" said Danilo with
great conviction.
Thus we added one link more to
the chain of our great political
work.
At my suggestion the committee
decided to arrange May Day mass
demonstration, including the largest
possible number of dredge- workers
and lockers. instructed Danilo
to MOBILIZE the workers, all of the
members of our circle. The lads
did their best; over a hundred
workers from the dredging-leet
turned up. The outposts, the chain
of bodyguards, the secret passwords
all made deep impression on the
workers. Some Social-Revolution
aries also found their way to the
mass meeting, though we always
had sharp arguments with them.
The Kerch Social-Revolutionari
were somewhat weak theoretically,
and the Social-Democrats always
tried to make terror the main point
of their argument, which was easier
ground for them. However, they
failed to take possession of the de-
monstration and quieted down. The
meeting lasted a long time; we ex-
planned in detail the need for
celebrating May Day and how we
should do it; why the autocratic
government and the capitalists were
hostile to the May Day celebrations
and SO on.
THE meeting finished at dawn. We
Aall marched from it together.
The police knew that the meeting
was taking place, but were afraid
to leave the town and come out
on the steppe; they were afraid of
the bodyguard of whom they had
also been informed, very much
overestimating its military signifi-
canoe; they decided therefore to
await the return of the demonstra-
tors at the outskirts of the town
and then make arrests. But our
scouts marched the workers in a
roundabout way across the hills to
the opposite side of the town. Over
three hundred workers with songs
and much noise came down the
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White and Negro Workers Battle Hooligans
and Cops for Right to Beach

lice and hoodlums.
The Negroes and the whites who
were protecting them gained the
shelter of the three trucks. Jay
Anyon, 22-year-old white Commu-
mist, called for determined stand
against the police attack.
Fists began to fly. Patrolman
Harry T. Mckinney picked out a
Negro worker and felled him with a
blow. The next instant rocks and
stones flew in all directions. Clubs
got into action.
Screams arose: Kill the niggers!