The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
FacingFOurth
Year OF Crisis
in Wisconsin
By FRED BASsETT-BLAIR


ernOr Of wisconsin,
7 HAVE lived in Wisconsin all my
life and on the basis of what I
have seen of conditions in my home
state, every fighting ass-conscious
worker and poor farmer of Wis
consin belongs in the Communist
Party. During the election cam
paign, visited every section of the
state, and found out that the fourth
winter of the economic crisis is go
ing to bring starvation, and cold,
and disease into the homes of tens
of thousands of additional workers
and poor farmers of Wisconsin.
WAGES MISERABLY Low
Wages all over Wisconsin are ter
ribly low. In Park Falls, Hines Lun-
Der Co. pays is cents an hour
$375 a week In the factory of Koh-
Ter, Republican candidate for COVER
nor, wages are as low as So to $40
a week. In Milwaukee, the Socialist
candidate for governor, Metcalfe,
has forced the unemployed to work
for 10 cents an hour. In Madison,
the city of Mayor Schmedman,
Democratic candidate for governor,
girls in the Lorillard Tobacco Co.
received no more than SO for a so
hour week in so-called good times"
Relief given to the unemployed va
rieS from 81 a week in Republican
Green Bay, 131 a week in Socialist
Milwaukee, rs cents a week for
some families in Ashland, home of
Chapple, the red-baiter, etc. In
Madison, Beloit, Milwaukee, and
scores of other cities, forced labor
is introduced. In Two Rivers the
unemployed work in the aluminium
plant of Mr.. Wits, former Republi-
can national chairman, and friend
of Hoover's-and their checks are
turned over to the city.
now about the farmers in Wis
III consin? Milk prices range from
60 cents to go cents a hundred
pounds, while the Borden trust sells
it in the cities for 81 a hundred,
and more. Potatoes are at II cents
and Is cents a bushel CabbageS
have gone down from $3.50 a ton a
few years ago to So or 81 ton.
Hundreds of farmers on the poor
soil of the north are going to the
Red Cross for flour. Workers col
lect clothes in Milwaukee for their
naked farming relatives. Farm la
borers work for board and room
alone.
None of the capitalist parties Of
fer us workers and poor farmers of
Wisconsin anything The only place
where relief is increasing is where
the workers fight under the leader
ship of Communists! The only place
where forced labor has been abol-
iShed is where Communists led the
strikes against it-aS in Beloit. The
only Party actually on the job in
the fight for bread in Wisconsin is
the Communist Party.
WHAT THE
SYSTEM DOES
A system that works man for
sixty years as my father has been
worked-and then does not leave
him enough for his old age-Such
a system of society is not worth
keeping. A system Of society that
turns farm land into county for
estS and game preserves, as is being
done in central and northern Wis
consin and northern Wisconsin
where the counties are taking over
tax-delinquent land, sending men,
women and children out on the
road wandering from place to place
such a system has to be done
away with. The capitalists of Wis
consin have worn a mask of PRO
gressiviSm" for years. Now they are
putting on a mask of Socialism.
But they cannot fool us workers and
poor farmers Of Wisconsin much
longer.
We need to follow the example
of the Russian workers and farm
ersl But this can only be done by
following the program of the Com
munist Party. Every worker and
farmer of Wisconsin who realizes
need for this revolutionary change
which can be won only through
struggle, should join the Commu-
mist Party. There can be no prole-
tartan revolutionists who are not
Communists in these days. Workers
and POOR farmers of Wisconsin:
Join the Communist Party! Let us
build the Communist Party in Wis
consin in every city, every town.
ship, every factory! Let us make
Wisconsin Communist - and fight
to do the same in every other state
of the union!
Join the Communist Partyl