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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Farmers Told to
crest and Pray

In news letter addressed to Dusi-
ness men, Roger Babson (the doctor
for sick business) tells them to ego
into the woods, rest, think and pray. .
Farm News Letter is addressed to
farmers and it will not advise them
to "rest, think and pray" When
farmers are losing their homes to the
sheriff and tax collector, when their
years crop is being swallowed by the
banker and the food industries, it is
no time to talk about resting and
praying. 1t is time for thinking, of
course, but especially it is time for
action.
Here is a situation which is making
farmers think and which calls for
action:
Farm Prices have fallen below
SO per cent of pre-war levels.
Farm Taxes are 266 per cent of
Ire-war levels. Mississippi sold
10000 homes for delinquent taxes
in one day, and the same process
goes ahead piecemeal in other
states.
Freight Rates have risen 1853 per
cent since 1914
Farm Mortgages have jumped
from $7,857, 100000 in 1929 to So
241, 100000 in 1880.
Tenantry increased from 1877 per
cent of all farms in 1925 to 42.4
per cent in 1880. (The majority of
the 10000 tax delinquent farm
owners in Mississippi were in
single day transformed into ten
ants; others become migratory
farm workers)
Wages for farm workers have
declined BIG per cent from 1929 to
1881, and wages have completely
disappeared in many places this
year with workers receiving only
board and keep. The U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture Outlook" for 1882
says farm labor may be obtained
in some places with little or no
payment other than subsistence"
Unemployed workers total 15,OoO,-
600. If each of the unemployed
averages three dependents, we have
approximately one fourth of our
domestic MARKET" for farm products
cut off. Yet we find Secretary of
Agriculture Hyde contending that
there is no basic domestic collapse. /"
For him the agricultural depression
is solely the result of shrinking TO-
reign markets for export crops. Like
Hoover, he must place the blame for
depression on the other side of the
ocean, far from where it actually be-
longs.
This is the situation which calls
for action. Effective action, however,
requires information, and it is this
function which the Farm News Let
ter proposes to fill: information
concerning the crisis, how it is af-
fecting the farmers in every section
OF the country and what the farmers
are doing about it. Farm leaders,
ard farm relief bills, and the rene
dies of farm experts" must be ex-
amined critically so that the farmer
is not again betrayed as he has been
so many times in the past, IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

grasp by chance word and gesture
what the others were discussing.
There was no hectograph, no
n1imeograph, no typewriter. Every
thing had to be written by hand.
There were five right hands. At
the top of their first handful they
printed:
YOUR MILK GIVES OUT
TODAY!
WHAT ARE YOU GOING
TO DO NOW?"
The bills were tackled to the front
porches of houses on each of the
four roads into Paris, east and
west, north and south. Drdla had
one, and Doscher, Davis and War
dell. One of the boys took one to
Ryder's, a farmer who lived ten
miles farther to the south, where
the men seldom came to town.
"OF COURSE I'M GOING"
Are you going to the meeting at
Wardell's?" Doscher asker Shays,
who was reading the tackled up
bill.
"Of course, I'm going. Who got
us the mike"
He got it for us all right last
time, it might not be so easy now.
Jims queer bird. He's a Social
ist."
"Well, what Of itp Anyway,
hear he amt Socialist"
"Ain't Socialist"
mo, they've got some other name
for it. They call it Communist"
whats that make him?"
sit makes him for us, guess.
That's all I know about it. I'll see
you at Wardell's."
"Why should I go to Wardell's?"
Frances answered Davis. Don't
you think know what wardelrs
-up. too He'll be running for some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Optimism" of Chamber of Commerce Fails to
Hide Conditions in Indiana Town

youngest four years old. I was
working down in Surwil, at the
refrigerating plant and I also know
how to paint. I have been out of
work for fourteen months. I got
these miserable groceries for $1.5O
a week and was forced to work for
it cleaning up alleys, on the high
way and on the county farm. My
children and wife starved most of
the time and were without clothes.
came to Jennings and got some
rags from him. He told me he had
a job for me and I sure was very
glad. The next morning I went to
the place where I was sent. It was
the home of a rich man. He told
me to do some painting on the
garage and the house. I asked him
what he would pay. The man
looked at me in surprise. "Why," he
said, AREN'T you one of Jennings
men?" Well I said, I am my own
man. This painting job will take
two days, for which I expect at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
"Say A Good Word for Evansville"
BY BURCK

Bend, led by the studebaker in
terests, the Unemployed Councils
have stopped forced labor.
The state government, as well as
the local governments in Indiana,
is preparing a new wave of terror
against the workers who are fight
ing for bread.
In Richmond the American
Legion, together with government
agents, made an attack on the
Unemployed Council and are caus-
ing the arrests of militant, jobless
workers.
But this terror will not stop the
workers. They have proven this in
the fight in Evansville, West Terre
Haute, st. Louis as well as in the
hunger march on the state capitol
in Indianapolis.
The fourth winter of the crisis
is coming and with it sharpened
struggles! You will hear every
where workers saying, well, what's
going to happen? We can't starve
any longer" Hell, something has
to be done" 1--WE are going to
fight" And they will sharpen the
fight for unemployment insurance
at the expense of the bosses!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
"Olymbics y In
A Cotton Mill
In Utica, NY.

BY Labor Research Association.
A WORKER in the Utica Steam
n and Mohawk Valley Cotton
Mills reports that clock-like pc
dometer (correcD was recently at
tached to the legs of speedy spin
ners in that plant. The purpose
to measure the distance covered on
the job. and to increase the stretch
If possible. The youngest girls were
the pace-makers.
A spinner in this plant is now
t6AdiNg an average of 20 sides with
2,760 Spindles. In addition to her
regular tasks, the spinner puts in
about three-fourths of the rowing.
Full time wages of spinners were
recently cut from $27 to S21 a week,
with creeiers now receiving about
s18 and doffers from SIG to $1s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
By HI. A.

By H. A.
THE Unemployed Citizens League
4 has just made its debut in De-
troit. 1t makes it's bow to the
quarter million unemployed of the
city-with the hearty cooperation
OF the capitalist press, Mayor Frank
Murphy, Controller Hall Roosevelt,
Welfare Department Chief Ballen-
ger, the city police and their swarms
of dicks"
The Unemployed Citizens League
is the Socialist Party in disguise.
It's slogan is "Out of the dole thru
cooperation"
Its program is that of organizing
the unemployed to CLEAN the po-
tatoes left behind in the burrows by
the farmers, to collect the leftovers
from the grocers' shelves, to gather
castaway clothing, to rehabilitate
for the profit of the landlords, all
deserted shacks in lieu of rent.
MEETING REVEALS
REAL NATURE
Its purpose is to draw red her
ring across the path OF the unem-
ployed of Detroit hoping thereby to
divert them from the direct struggle
for more relief and for unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of
the capitalists.
The secretary-treasurer of the
League is a member Of the Socialist
Party. Another member of the ex-
ecutive committee, Sheldon, is
member also of the Socialist Party,
of the /. w. w. and was expelled
from the Communist Party years
ago. Most of the executive COM
mittee is made up of Socialist Party
members.
The first open meeting held In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Unemployed Citizens League
of Detroit O. KID by Bosses
Formed by Socialists, 1t is New Trap for City's
100000 Jobless Workers

q small movie house in the West
Side revealed Immediately the
nature of the organization.
The hall and the stage plastered
with Democrat Party signs, the
speakers claiming non-connection
with any political organization,
were a proper fitting to the OBJ
scene comedy that is being at
tempted. Harry Slavin of the
Mayors Unemployment Committee
and a representative of the Muste's
Conference for Progressive Labor
Action, made keynote speeches.
LANDLORD
SPEAKS
A landlord who is also running
1or some job on the Democratic
ticket was also allowed to express
ms approved of this scheme of
making the unemployed further
starve for the glory and benefit of
the capitalists, but when the work
ers present demanded the right to
cApieSS opinions, that right was
denied.
Inc summing up of the answers
10 our questions revealed this:
That the League will be run by
a closed committee. That it is OBJ
posed to unemployment insurance;
that 1t is closed to non-citizens:
that 1t intends to cater to the cap
italist class by leading the unem-
ployed workers away from any at
tack against the bosses; that the
Socialist Party, which is the active
organizer of the League is trying
its utmost to hide behind a mask:
that the workers of Detroit must
actively fight this organization, at
the same time sharpening the cam
paign for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

least So day. But got angry and
said, No, no, Jennings said that
he would send one of his men to
do the job. do not intend to pay
money nowadays, but I'll give you
food if you like" I left the place
in disgust.
IN Evansville I saw children sitting
around, with torn clothes, bare
footed, starved faces; neighborhoods
breeding misery, misery, starvation
There are whole sections where the
workers were driven out of their
homes and were forced to live in
stables, in dug-outs made of tin and
on junk-heaps. At the same time,
private police were put to guard
the whole section of empty houses
on Reed Street so that workers
could not break into their homes
again.
George Baget with his wife and
two children, one nine, the other
five, live in a stable at 1015 Kellef
Street, Evansville. No floors, broken
ceiling, no windows; their belong
ings consisted of some few broken
benches, paper and rags; rates
scurrying, looking for crumbs Just
like the children. ----.-. IL.
But Evansville is not the only
Indiana town where there situation
exists. In Wanderburg, Sullivan
and st. Joseph counties the workers
are starving. In West Terre Haute,
the miners have shown that they
are not ready to starve like sheep,
but fight for the right to live!
WIN DESPITE
TERROR
In Kokomo the UNEMPLOYED
Council succeeded in abolishing the
city ordinance of forced labor; in
Vincennes the Unemployed Coun-
Gil conducted successful struggle
against evictions.
Despite the vicious terror against
the Unemployed Councils in South
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Maxi ASsaSsinatiOns>
Hitler's Way to Power?

The bomb throwing of the Ma
tional Socialist Party has indeed
its own special aims in view, as
follows:
l. To overcome the disappoint-
ment of the Storm Detachments,
who had already imagined the
power to be in their hands, and
to distract their attention from the
coalition bargaining.
2. To induce the government to
take sharper measures, to appoint
emergency courts, to impose mar
tial law measures to be used solely
against the anti-fascists, especially
when the National Socialist Par
ty is the government party, and
especially to prohibit the Com
murist Party of Germany.
3. To exercise pressure on the
governmental negotiations in order
to ensure the carrying out of the
National Socialist demands with
regard to ministerial positions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
were to have no undue excitement"
BONA FIDE SUFFERING"

were TO nave no UNDUE eXcltement.;
BONA FIDE SUFFERING"
The State organization Of the
Red Cross proved itself equal to
the situation which it was called
upon by the Governor to control.
Over night, it completed plans for
immediate relief for all who could
furnish evidence of bona fide suf-
fering.
In this work it was planned to
cooperate with local community
leaders, since they were assumed
to be better informed as to local
persons, cases and needs, rather
than to "foist an alien organiza.
ton on the town from without"
They. simply sent supervisor,
who sat beside Lily Purcell, the
local head of the Red Cross, in the
little relief station they had rented
in her brothers empty store.
Back Of the counter, at which
they sat, were cans of milk. bags OF
hour( sugar, etc.
I'VE ought to spread some bags
o1 uouf ON tIle counter. There's
nothing like it for psychological
effect, for raising the spirits Of
hungry people," said the Red Cross
supervisor, who, like Miss Purcell,
wore glasses. cts unfortunate.
though, that you had this thaw last
night. It's opened the roads, and
OF course it would have been better
II we had had a few days to get
things firmly in hand. 1t will prob
ably let more of them through to
that nesting at Wardells, too. But
I calculate that our opening at
the same hour as the meeting will
also have its psychological effect.
guess they'll here. rather than
there" =,
,AAyx2H ITO Be Contanuodl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
CAN YOU
HEAR THEIR
!;; ;:;;;:;.s VOICES?

thing next. Anyway, the Red
Cross is going to help us, amt itf
The paper says So"
you'll find out what a whole lot
of good the Red Cross is going to
do you, when they get here-if they
get here"
81 guess I'll be there" Wiggens,
a heavy-set farmer, who had Just
begun to feel the pinch, told Drdla.
Drdla objected to lacking up the
handful, so the men simply came
to his house and read it. Wiggens
stood reading it with his wife, a
tall spare woman, whose black eyes
looked in a perfectly level line out
of the bones of her face.
"I'n be there" she said. Look
at them!" The five children sat
in the back of the Ford. They
made no effort to get out.
"But I see the Red Cross is going
to help us" her husband objected.
"They won't like this" He raped
the handbill with the back of his
hand.
1--WE may need them BOTH" said
his wife.
Purcell's frantic wires to the
Governor, and Senator Bagheot in
Washington, described the seizure
of milk at a local farm by one
hundred armed farmers, led by
loafers. A supplementary wire de-
scribed the leader. one Wardell, a
chronic troublbe-ma
The Senator was handed both
wires at breakfast by his young
wife, who continued to act as his
secretary.
IT did not want to disturb you
with them last night, Senator" she
said ~
Bagheot read them through with
a concentration that was partly the
difficulty that he had in seeing; at
seventy he would not hear of
glasses.
"a cheap demagogue," the old
man exploded when he had finished
the Characterization of .Wardell.
"a cheap demagogue! Trading on
the suffering of those poor farm
ers! They always come to the
front in times like these"
He acted with promptness and
efficiency. Talking over long dis
lance with the Governor of the
State, he made sure that the Red
Cross would be operating in Paris
the next day.
Gwen very little relief :"
IT can't hear you," said the Gov
ernor.
well, why the devil can't you
hear me! What's the matter with
your connection? ] said even a
very little relief will quiet the mob.
Unless you take some such meas
ures, the merchants must either
put their stocks in the streets, or
machine-guns in their windows"
eyes, yes. Everything of that
sort will be seen to- How is it in
Washington, as cold as it is here?"
''Well, we've had a little snow"
the voice quavered.
Senator Bagheot then dictated to
his wife his statement to the press.
Conditions in my State, brought
to my attention today by the news
papers, show extreme suffering in
the country districts. I shall move
for Federal aid tomorrow. Congress
has not treated the suffering re-
sulting from this winter sympa-
thetically, but I believe that when
the members of Congress return,
after facing their constituents, their
action will be a little different"
"That's good, eh, huh?" he
chuckled to his wife. 81 guess
that will show them who lives in
glass house, politically speaking!"
Remember, DR.. Styres said YOU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
COURTESY OF
INTERNATIONAL
PAMPHLETS)
BY WHITAKER CHAMBERS
Installment 4

InStallment
Glow can I get two miles through
this snow?" asked old DR.. Jesper-
son, the bank president, who for
some reason was up alone at that
hour, with a bottle of whiskey on
the table.
"You can make it in the car.
You must try to save her, Doctor,
you must"
ooh, don't plead, don't plead, I
know I've got to go! God damned
Hippocratic oath!"
"Of course, it's dead said the
old man, standing well back from
the drawer, which smelt of wet as
he of whiskey. Been dead a couple
of hours! What do you mean
bringing a baby into this world
when you can't take care of it!
What do you get married for? I
don't suppose there's a crumb of
bread in the house." he said, look
ing at the walls. "Dsmndest pro-
fession in the world Damndest
profession in the world Now
there'll be an epidemic of dying.
There ought to be-"
Hilda watched him drive away.
Frank was sobbing with his head
on the table Suddenly he straight
ened up. "Wardell killed her" he
shouted. "He stopped the milk on
her, I know he did, The dirty
lousy Red He did it. He killed
her. God curse him!"
Don't be fool" said Hilda
quietly. IT killed her myself Do
you think I wanted to see her tor
tJlred to death by inches? I killed
her with the blanket.-God?"
He sprang at her, but she ran
away from him and out the door,
slamming it. She ran farther,
thinking he would follow, but he
stopped beside the baby.
MILK! MILK!
She saw the big square outlines
of Purcell's house and barns against
the white snow. Milk She had
barely passed it when it seed to
her as if an army were pursuing
her, crunching through the snow,
with bells and sounds like faint
horns snorting. She was over
wrought. Vengeance is mine, saith
the Lord Might He find pleasure
in taking vengeance on a mother
who had smothered her baby? Was
He after her? She ran, wilder and
wilder, mad with desire to scream,
but terrified to silence. Finally she
Just began to laugh. 1t was much
simpler and it was all funny, and
she just laughed and laughed and
laughed
What she had taken for God was
Purcell's blooded Holsteins He was
removing the whole herd, in the
dead of night, to the livery stable
in Paris where there was law and
order. There would be no more
free milk.
When the snow fell, they moved
the Mexicans into the upstairs
room. The Wardell boys slept in
the remnants of hay in the barn
loft. 1t was bitter cold, and they
were grateful for the meetings that
postponed till late the necessity of
trying to sleep.
Wardell and his wife, Davis, and
the two boys would sit around the
table, with the five sheets of paper
and pens before them, and the
bottle of ink in the middle. Garlic,
the Mexican, sat to one side. He
spoke only broken English, but his
black eyes gazed fixedly from either
side of his nose, with its coarse
pores, in an undefeated effort to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
BY B S TEINENANN

bk7Ft = Ly'v.
m the anJluIng after the July 81
Velection, Storm Detachment Nazis
pushed their way into the house
of the Communist town councillor
Sauff in Koenigsberg, and muir
dered him by several shots in the
head. A second troop shot the
Communist cooperative society
functionary zirpius. Other divi-
sions swindled their way into the
home of social democratic editor,
shooting him and injuring him
severely, and into the home of
Communist Reichstag member,
whom they did not find, but shot
a young woman comrade instead.
During the first few days of this
the Nazi Party maintained an at
titude Of innocence and ignorance,
But as the number of assassina.
tons continued to increase, the
Hitler party pushed aside its mask
slightly. Hitler's "Volkischer Be-
obachter' wrote on August 6:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
HITLER SEEKS
SOLE POWER


Schleicher and Hitler are agreed
in principle that the fascist dicta-
torship is to thrust all burdens
upon the workers. and to hold the
masses in subsection. Schleicher is
willing to rule with Hitler, but the
Hitler party is to be co-ordinated,
"channelled." Hitler is willing to
rule with Schleicher, but with the
aim of exercising sole power sooner
or later.
The Centre Party is ready for
coalition with Sch1eicher and Hit
Ter. The Centre Party leaders held
a meeting on August 4 in Co.
logne, but the report published
gave no information, merely stat
ing that no decisions had been ar
rived at. In reality the announce
ment made by the "Deutschen ALL
gemeinen zeitung august 81 is
perfectly correct in stating that the
Center Party is ready for positive
collaboration.
Social Democracy, in accordance
with It's old and disastrous policy
of the lesser evir' is entirely in
favor Of the Nazi-Center coalition.
1t need not be said that the S.P.G.
paves this path of continued policy
of liberation and capitulation to
fascis1n, this path preparing the
way for Hitler.
The weakening of the fascism
OF Schleicher and Hitler, and the
utilization of the differences be-
tTeen them, is of course possible
only by means of the ASSEMBLING
Of the forces Of the workers in the
factories, labor exchanges and
workers quarters. This is the. policy
Of the G. P. G. -z,-.;;s,s1s:.ss. {,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
NAZI TRY TO
JUSTIFY MURDER

1.-THE desperate outbreaks Of the
anger Of the people against the
moral originators of the Red muir
der actions must surely have made
it clear to the present respon-
sble bearers of state power that
in times Of emergency it is no
longer possible to deal out equal
treatment. 49,"
With this the National Socialist
Party attempts to justify its as
sassinations as Outbreaks OF the
anger Of the people" thereby CIV
ing its recognition to the murder
GUS terror being exercised.
But two days later the Nazi par
ty again attempted a clumsy fall
sification. The "Nationalsocialist-
ische Parteikorrespondenz" pub
fishes Sensational secret instruc-
tons of the Red Front Central
Committee" according to which
Red Front members are command
ed to attack their own buildings
and aSsassinate their own leaders.
Apart from the fact that no Red
Front central committee exists at
all, and every line of the secret
instructions" bears the stamp Of a
clumsy forgery. the governmental
authorities politically allied with
the National Socialist Party have
meanwhile ascertained themselves
that the Nazis were the assassins:
The assassinations are not only
The work Of the National Socialist
Party. but are Systematically or
ant1ed and carried out by it. =;
fssis Il A.