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nent TO cut from its list all those
families in which there are two
children or fewer" While insisting
on the efficacy Of local relief to
care for the hunger problem, Con-
gress, at its last session, appro-
priated two billion dollars for the
relief of banks, railroads and
business.
THE Communist Party proposes,
1 first of all, that these children
be fed, and that the millions of
unemployed and the partially en-
ployed at starvation wages be the
first charge on business and gov
eminent. The primary issue of
their campaign is "jobs and bread"
But the Communist vote will be
relatively small-probably less than
a million votes. How then can they
win? They will win relief-and
immediate relief because the gov
eminent is aware that for every
conscious Communist who gets to
the polls there are thousands more
who are voting Communist with
their stomachS A red vote eX-
presses the political desire not only
of the voter but of the masses of
the non-voters, the disfranchised
Negro in the south, the unemployed
foreigner" who cannot vote, the
American born who are too poor
to pay their poll tax, as well as
millions who are tied through in
timidation or bribery to the party
machine. No government can with
stand the aroused masses demand
ing that they be fed.
1t is important to note that there
Is plenty of food; two hundred mil
lion bushels of surplus" wheat in
government granaries today; mil
lions of pounds of fruit left to rot
on the ground each year Tin Cali
fornia, in 1901, 391 100000 pounds,
or l49 pounds per person for 10O,-
100000 unemloyed) and thousands
of tons Of milk-a good sized river
poured into the sewers each year
to keep up the price.
This wheat, this fruit, and this
milk, as well as direct money re-
lief, can only be voted for by voting
Communist Why? Because a red
vote is recognized by the govern
ment and by business as a vote
by a man who means it.
No one votes Communist
lightly or by tradition, or
and jobs, as we'll as for a system
that will forever guarantee both.
Whereas vote for Hoover or
Roosevelt is vote that money first
be given to the banks and the rail-
roads and the commodity pools,
that after the investor has been
guaranteed his dividend he may
be encouraged" to lend to the
manufacturer and the latter, if he
can find a market for his product,
be encouraged to pay wages that
men may eat. Who of the millions
of workers and farmers and clerks
lftafa r. o., - a.
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into stagnation?
mrHIS is the cause l have enlisted
/ in for life. am good SOL
der. comrades, and ] know what
I am fighting for. If / must die, 1t
will not be as a coward running
away from the lynchers, but as 9
man fighting for the freedom OF
my race and my class"
"That's right, Brown" said the
others, that's right, comrade."
They capped their hands, and the
children shouted, and tears stood
in the eyes o Brown Squire's young
wife. She is less than thirty, the
mother Of seven kids whom she
cooks and washes for. and q Com
munist Party member, busy with
meetings. Withal, handsome and
slim, as tigress.
do you know" said Brown
Squire joyfully, chat everyone on
this street is a Communist or COM
munist sympathizer? Go into any
home and they know about the
Soviet Union. We have educated
them; no, sir, could not live now
unless everything about me is red.
Even my kids are red"
PIONEERS ARE WE"
He lined up his seven kids, and
from the lean, serious 1l-year-old
girl, who led them, to the baby on
his arm, Browns children sang the
Pioneer songs.
''One- two three
Pioneers are VIC
Fighting for the working class
Against the bourgeoisie--"
TO BE CONTINUED ~
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How the Socialists Supported
Imberialist War of 1014>1S

IN PREVIOUS issues we publish
1 ed excerpts from speeches and
articles by leaders of the Second
(socialist) International, in support
OF the imperialist war.
The following is from the Mani
festo the Socialist fraction OF the
French Chamber of Deputies on
the occasion of the entry OF two
Socialist leaders into the French
cabinet:
WITHOUT waiting for de-
w monstration of the will of
the people the head of the gov
eminent has approached our
party and our party has an
swered: we are prepared This
is the spirit In which our friends
have entered the government.
We shall begin the work to rouse
the masses 80.
I'VE shall examine the sources
from which our ornaments and
our supplies come, and we shall
do our best to multiply them.
FROM DAY-TO-DAY THE CO.
OPERATION OF ALL AVAIL
ABLE FORCES MUST BECOME
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By BNrck

and store keepers and ruined bust
ness men does not ask himself if
his family may not break up or
his child die before Hoover pros
perity OF Roosevelt prosperity is
ready to give him job. And if he
holds out, what is the prospect
ahead? A few years at wage
minimum (the leaders of business
decided that the so-called high
wage" policy of 1929 was a mistake),
and then another crash, in from
seven to ten years.
BANKERS, BUSINESS MEN
VOTING SOCIALIST
Certain people who have grown
disguised with the Republican and
the Democratic parties are asking
this year; Why not vote Socialist,
why not vote for Norman Thomas?
Everywhere 1 go, 1 find business
men, professional persons, bankers
even, who have decided to make a
protest vote" this year for Norman
Thomas, Norman Thomas says he
is for unemployment insurance and
for. greater relief. What about that?
My own conclusion is this:
The oligarchy of business men
and bankers who really run the
country are not in the slightest
degree afraid of the Socialists. In
an emergency, they always take the
side of the vested interests, of the
big shots who are running things.
In 1914, socialists" in all coun-
tries voted to go to war TO fight
each other, in defense of their
respective "fatherlands." Last year
in England, Ramsay Macdonald,
the socialist" prime minister, took
the side of the bankers against the
unemployed. Socialists are rec
ognized by the government as safe
and sane people, safe in keeping
things as they are. They talk
about "a new order of society,"" but
they defend the old one.
That is the reason why a Com
munist vote will count in this
election and a Socialist will not.
For every American who has
learned 10 vote Communist the gov
eminent realizes that thousands of
jobless and starving will learn to
vote Communist tomorrow. And it
does not relish the prospect. The
of reds in strike or in q
political campaign arc barometer
Of the seriousness Of the strike or
the election.
In the newspapers, the auth
critics always belittle and insult
the Communist participants by
calling them criminal and ire
spOnsible, "a handful of trouble
makers" etc. In their own coun-
ellis and in police circles, they do
not belittle them. read secret
paper the other day, prepared
for large employers assOcia-
ton, on the Communist leaders
of major strike last winter. The
report said: "These men have
courage; they are incorruptible."
(CONCLUDED TOMORROW
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~ THE STRUGGLES
Il ILL ON THE SOUTH SIDE
NEGRO REDS
OF CHICAGO
THAT was on March 6, 1929. Since.
Bu MICHAEL GOLD.

THAI was on Marcn b, 1879. Slnce,
then Squire has been arrested
at least hundred times for his
speeches and other activities. He
is a leader in the fight against evic.
tions, and in the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League. This day of our
visit was typical of all his busy
days. He had just come from a
meeting of vets. The bonus march,
ers needed food and tobacco, and he
had been collecting nickels and
dimes. This afternoon he was COLI
lecting signatures for the Comnu-
mist election campaign; he had
already. signed up eight blocks in
his house toulouse canvass. AT
o'clock he was due to speak
in Ellis Park, at a demonstration
against the Republican Presidential
convention, at which the Negro del
egates were jim In the
evening he was booked to speak in
a Negro church on Communism.
The Road to Communism
we're living on charity relief; he
had not been able to work in years.
What courage, what heroic faithl
The room filed up with people as
we talked. One by one they drifted
in, saying Hello, comrades" even
the children. His wife came from
her boiling kettle of clothes in the
kitchen and listened to the talk.
Eyes" said Brown Squire, in his
deep, rich baritone, s'We Negroes
have gone through many disap-
pointments in America. But more
and more of us will find the road
to Communism. 1t is our only way
out. Only Through the Connnu-
mist revolution will the Negro ever
find freedom here, exactly as the
Jews, Tartars, Mongols and other
races found it in the Soviet Union.
'We have trusted many leaders,
and they have let us down. But
COmrade Lenin will never let us
down. The Communist Interna-
tiOnaI can never let us down. The
ScOttsboro case and the nomina"
ton of James Ford as Vice-Presi~
dent proves that the American
Communist Party has not let us
down,
"The white Communists need us,
as we need them. We are q fourth
of the American working class, and
how can the white workers free
themselves if they do not free us,
also? For, when the land is ma
tionalized, when the factories be-
long to the workers, when all
wealth is socially owned, who will
want to exclude us? Who will be
able to?
mo, comrades, this is no Carney
rainbow, or Christian hokum, it is
the real thing at last. The price
we will have to pay is high, but
freedom is worth any price. And
is there any easier way out for the
Negro? Where is it? The Social
lists never did anything for us;
they never went South like the
Communists, and fought there for
Negro rights. Certainly Hoover
and Roosevelt, all the capitalists,
have done nothing but Cypress the
Negro. If Communism seems the
long way, the bitter and costly way,
it happens to be the only way.
Short cuts and opportunistic APP
proaches to freedom have always
been traps for us Garyey. Dubois,
Booker Washington, Oscar De
Priest-where have they led us but
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INsTALLMENT V.


MAC DONALD flung himself into
ln the Unemployed Council work
"a fine speaker and able organ
izer. He spoke at the hunger
march at the stockyards, four
cops surrounded him. He went in
with the delegation to see Com
rade Swift" and "Comrade Ar
mour." He was arrested often, he
studied and grew. In August, 1881,
he joined the Communist Party.
MY doubts were settled; now I
knew where belonged. came to
my home, where 1 shall live and
die. Yes, comrade, I found the
Party at last. But it was through
much struggle, many struggles and
illusions. This is the crooked path
that life takes"
Candidate for Governor
Now he is candidate for Cover
nor. Albert Goldman, the I. L.
D. lawyer, went to bail him after a
demonstration. From a dark cell,
lanky figure stuck out, and a,
deep, humorous voice chuckled,
"Comrade, here's your Governor"
1t was Mac.
Another eXSoldier and South Side
Communist is that remarkable per-
son, Brown Squire. I shall never
forget the afternoon spent in his
home.
It's a bit tricky for whites to
visit the South Side. The police
roam these streets ceaselessly in
their squad cars. They pick up
all whites who don't look like
landlords, instalment agents or
other exploiters. Then a visit to
the police station, a few hours of
questions, clubs, fists, etc.-it has
happened often.
One of these squad cars filled
with beefy brutes rounded the cor
ner just as we ducked into Brown
Squire'S home.
Manly and attractive, one of
those calm, smiling giants such as
the Negro and Slavic races produce,
it was good to see Comrade Squire.
He was dressed in khaki shirt,
one of his seven kids on his power
full arm. Behind him, on a battered
dresser stood a bust of Lenin. In
the bookcase one saw Daily Work
erS, pamphlets, books.
ALL this in a typical Chicago
slum, in ruined shanty facing
out on backyard piled with a hill
of the most amazing garbage. Signs
of the new age: Lenin in the steel
mills, Lenin in the stockyards,
Lenin lowering over workers chill
dren playing on garbage dump
in Chicago.
Brown Squire fought in France
for two years and eight months. He
was a good soldier, born leader,
and rose from the ranks to return
a second lieutenant.
eyes, I was good instrument
for the capitalists" he smiled, "a
firstclass soldier. You can still
blindfold me, throw all the parts OF
machine gun on the floor, and
will re-assemble it by touch"
Lieutenant Squire came back
from the war in 1919, believing he'd
won his freedom. A month later
the race riots broke out.
"J'm Communist Now"
81 can understand them, now
that I'm a Communist. They we're
part of the capitalist strategy, by
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"C0nnnnists Can Create
Land With Jobs for All"
big Business Has No Fear OF Socialists

THE writer of this article,
author Of "SteeI, The Diary Of
Furnace Worker" Bread and
Fire., was formerly Assistant
Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
BY CHARLES MUMFORD WALKER
I AM not writing this article for
that small class of our popula-
ton who are voting Democratic or
Republicans because they are bust
ness men; but for the vast majority
of working men, farmers, engineers,
and to large numbers of small
business men who are convinced
that the two traditional parties are
bankrupt. Nor is this statement
addressed to the Communist who
knows already, but to the voter who
is willing to learn what red vote
really means.
FORTY-FIVE MILLION
PERSONS STARVING
Some forty-five million persons
men, women and children will be
in need of relief this winter in the
United States. These figures are
taken not from a red" publication
but from Fortune, magazine pub
lished for business men and whose
editorial policy is making the world
better and safer for millionaries.
Most readers do not need to be re-
minded of these figures or of the
fact that the industrial machine
and its operators have failed utterly
to meet the relief problem. The
United States has larger number
of unemployed in proportion to
population than any country in the
world. In this condition it is OBJ
vious that there is but one out
standing issue before the country.
That issue is jobs and bread. There
is but one party which makes that
issue primary in its platform. That
is the Communist Party of the
United States.
ROWING CHILDREN
Statistics of the Children's Blu
reau of the government at Wash
ington show that there are 100000
children, boys as well as girls, who
are now homeless and on the march
in rowing bands throughout the
country, begging and looting in
order to keep alive. These wild
children of America" are perhaps
the most dramatic demonstration
Of the breakdown Of Hoover pros
perity and of the system which
both the old parties support. Do
either Of the old parties propose
that wealth be taxed or that the
government feed these children?
They do not. They propose that
local relief and private charity
handle this relief. There is not a
single city in the United States in
which local relief has not broken
down. 1 will give one example.
The mayor of Hamtramck, Mich
complained last winter that in
order to keep within the budget
decreed by the bankers, at was
necessary for the welfare depart
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Rank and File of
A. f. L. Local Back
ScOttsborO Fight

NEW YORK.--Responding to the
appeal Of rank and file member,
the regular meeting of Local 499 of
the Painters, affiliated to the A. F..
Of L. unanimously adopted motion
to send telegram to the governor of
Alabama protesting against til e
Scottsboro lynch verdicts and de-
manding the release of the Scots
boro Negro lads.
The motion also called upon the
rank and file members of other A.
F. Of l.. union to join the mass fight
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
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and around this village and many will,
be glad to learn that they are to be.
numbered among the farmers of the
community, having taken UP house
keeping on the groom's farm south Of
Hinckley.
Markville-About 60 attended the
annual meeting of the Markville Co
operative Creamery Association Sat
urday, Jan. 30, in spite of the colo
weather. The creamery had a fair
year and the new buttermaker, BOYD
Fleming, who took the place of Al
Kimlinger who resigned to enter the
restaurant business in New Germany
is rapidly becoming established in his
new surroundings to the liking of 81
great number of the patrons. All the
old board of directors were reelected
with the exception that Roy Nation
was chosen to succeed George Rash
who moved to California. The Of
ficers of the association are, Nels Mat
son, president; Jake Winner, vice pres
ident; and Joe Beaufeaux, secretary
treasurer.
Rock Creek-The board of directors
of the creamery here consisting OF
Ben Johnson, August Peterson, C.. G.
Beavers and Art Peterson, were re-
elected at the annual meeting of that
body Tuesday afternoon of last week
Fred Holm is the buttermaker.
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ABRIDGED NEWS
CLIPPINGS FROM
OTHER PAPERS

Pine City-GeOrge Dorr former vice
president of the Izaak Walton league
at Pine City, was elected president at
a recent meeting of that unit. Ell
Huber was chosen vice president; F..
P. Gottry, secretary; and w. G. Hodge,
treasurer. The board of directors con-
sists of the following: Arthur Bieder-
mann, Walt Glasgow, Bernie Hady, T.
j. Hanzlik and James Wilcox. other
regular business was transacted.
SandStOne-Three Sandstone boys.
Lloyd Edstrom, Godfrey Walden and
Carl Strom, members of the navy who
have been stationed at San Diego,
Calf, left several days ago with the
fleet of United States ships for
maneuvers near Honolulu.
McGrath-George H. Otterson, of
this place has recently received a Car
negie medal for his heroic work in
rescuing two girls from a burning
house. The rescue was made after
a gasoline lamp had exploded and
girls were in room on the upper
floor. Young Otterson risked his life
by rushing into the house and carry
ing the two girls to safety. One of
them died four days later while the
other recovered. Their rescuer re-
ceived severe burns which disabled
him two weeks.
Hfnckiey-This village was the
scene of pretty wedding which took
place at ST. Patrick's church on jan
uary 80, and united Miss Margaret
Cassidy of this village and Mr.. Harry
Gahr of Big Lake. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cas-
sidy of this village, is a graduate of
the local high school and of the Uni
versity of Minnesota. The groom is
auditor for the Central Lumber Co.,
which operates in this section. Miss
Cassidy was once a high school teach
er in the local schools. The newly
weds took short wedding trip into
northern Minnesota after which they
will be at home at Long Lake amid
the best wishes of their many friends.
Hinckley-Another wedding of par
ticular interest to people of this COM
munity occurred on January q, when
Miss Esther Spinler and Mr. Frank
Stradal were joined as man and wife.
Both young people are well known in
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one central high school at Two Har-
bors. To begin with, he said. there
was some dissatisfaction but the plan
is working out good and the tax rate
for school purposes has been cut
from AZ mills to sc mills. There was
also a movement on foot in Lake
county to consolidate townships or
do away with that form of govern
ment but that plan was turned down,
four to one.
The writer suggested cutting the
legislative membership to one-half as
a means of economy and for a better
functioning body. 1t was argued that
it is against human nature for any
one to vote himself and friends out of
office, as for example the consolida-
ton of townships. The retaliation
was in the recent example of congress
in the redistricting act. While the
membership was not cut-being left
the same at 435-it nevertheless had
the effect of voting some members
out of office. States with greatly in
creased populations got more con-
gresSmen while other states that had
little or no increase in population
lost some members. Iowa lost two;
Wisconsin. one; Minnesota, one, North
Dakota, one, and so on.
TO Report Early.
Chairman Bell emphasized that
plans and remedies for revised tax
program worked out by this COM
mittee of II should be presented to
the legislature on it's opening day
so that the proposals acceptable to
the people and the legislature can be
made law in that session.
A vast amount of facts and data
will be secured from the Minnesota
Tax Commission, the state university,
tax commissions of other states, and
from other sources, for the committee
to work with.
1t was left with the chairman to
select a committee on committees,
they to outline the work and select
to work on different
phases of the tax program, the steer
ing committee to meet at the capitol
on Monday. Feb. 18th.
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SCHOOL NOTES SO "A"

Twenty pupils had perfect attend
ance the last school month. They are:
Jack Brown, Eloise Brown, Clyde
Holmes, Alice Irons, Arthur Irons,
Doris Mae Irons, Lois Irons, Eleanor
Neuhring, Minnie Neuhring, DOrothea
Rasmussen, Eva Rasmussen, Hans
Rasmussen, Hilma Rasmussen, Kelsey
Rasmussen, Donald Thorn, Verne
Thorn, George A. Yorke, Elaine An
dersOn, Wesley Anderson, and Manley
Thorn.
The fifth and seventh graders made
Lincoln booklets this week.
Marie Alderman, Minnie Neuhring,
DOrothea Rasmussen, Alice Irons,
Manley Thorn, Shirley Brown, Eleanor
Neuhripg, Jack Brown, Donald Thorn.
and Francis Holmes had a perfect
score in spelling every day Last week.
The pupils are busy on the Wash
ingtOn program to be given Friday
afternoon, Feb. 10, at 1870 o'clock.
All the parents and older brothers
and sisters are invited to come; also
any others who wish to come. There
will be essays read, and a debate by
the pupils, so all come.
Friday the seventh and eighth grade
girls made some attractive wall vases
containing crepe paper flowers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-02-11
ASKOV HIGH SCHOOL
WINS TWO, LOSES ONE

The Askov high school basketball
teams-first and second boys, and girls
played similar teams representing
the McGrath school Friday night in
the Askov d. B. S. hall
The second boys team played the
first game and McGrath emerged vic
torious by Is to 9 score. The Askov
girls Jared better, however in the
second contest of the evening when
they swamped the McGrath team after
somewhat slow and ragged start by
a 33 to IS score. In the last minutes
of play the visitors showed their fight
ing spirit and kept up a hard fight
for points until the final whistle. This
latter period and the opening minutes
of play gave them practically all their
points. Miss Anna Thomson was the
high scorer of the Askov team and
was ably abetted by every one of her
team mates.
The boys first team reversed the
tables and avenged the defeat which
the scrappy little McGrath team
handed them in an earlier visit to
the western village. This game
ended in favor of Askov 80 to II and
was never in doubt after it had nice
~ gotten under way. Askov showed
a fast breaking attack and the guards
kept McGrath basket shooters pretty
well bottled up. A feature of this
game was the final deluge of points
made by Harry Jensen when he en-
tered the game with but a very short
period left to play. The crowd of
fans simply were raised to their feet
to see his mates feed him the ball in
an open corner and to see that ball
sent through the loop for three sue
cessive field goals. This bit of STRAIT
egg speaks we'll for the Askov versa
tility of play. There was a vacant
corner and they used it to advantage.
Band Plays.
The Askov band, under the direction
of Leonard Frahs, furnished music at
intervals during the entire evening
and this feature was much enjoyed by
poppy music, the band lent a col
legiate atmosphere to the occasion
Much progress has been made by the
junior members of the band who just
commenced their musical education
last summer and these played with
Grams. Leonard Frahs demonstrated
his ability as an entertainer when he
direct the music in a capable manner.