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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26

of that government, The professor
in one city school asked the demo-
Gratis to stand up and then the
republicans. Then he said Il guess
that is all for surely there is no
Communists here" and to his sur
prise five stood up.
The sentiment is growing. The
farmers are a very conservative
people as a class, but they are
turning more and more to the idea
of no evictions and no foreclosures.
A farmers holiday meeting was
called in this township, being call
ed by two by four" lawyer. The
lawyer made speech proposing
the adoption Of the National Farm
Holiday bylaws. Brown county
has adopted the Madison county
bylaws (the militant program of
the farm opposition group But
a Communist was there and told
them Of the bylaws which Brown
county had adopted which reads
that only dirt farmers can join
and no dues are collected and no
one draws salary.
Well, as a business man said
the next day, "the meeting turned
red on u.s. Have just seen the Of
fetal returns Of Dickey county,
N. d. and the Foster-Ford vote
was given as 81, Harvey, rs and
Thomas, SO. Total number Of votes
cast was 1921.
Yours,
Mrk. e M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
A Summer of Work,
IL Acres Tenn. Land
Gives IS Blu. of Corn

LUTTERELL, Tenn.-Times are
awfully hard. We can't get days
work at no price and any man that
does get a days work only gets SOC
and then takes it in the store.
They won't let me work at ALL
If our Party ever needs a place to
build an Office Of any kind, I will
freely deed an acre Of ground 10
them, but I haven't any money to
help in any other way.
My neighbours wife and three
daughters worked hard all summer
and only made is bushels of good
corn and 20 Of very poor corn which
they can't sell They only get 40c
a blu. for good corn. You can see
what they will make for summers
work. They worked II acres of very
poor land.
If any comrades know the where
abouts Of G. l.. BYogden, would like
to get in touch with him.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
Mich. Farmers Win
Partial Victory
Against Auction

CUSTER, Mich.-We are making
efforts to organize the farmers of
Western Michigan into the United
Farmers League. Our league has
been active for a year, but not until
lately did we get much publicity. I
shall relate the incident that caused
such publicity.
About a month ago in the county
courthouse a farm was up for auc-
ton because the owner could not pay
his large taxes and his interest to
the federal land loan bank Of st.
Paul. This farmer had worked all
his life on the farm putting all his
efforts into it to make it pay. At
last the time came when they gave
him notice that his farm would be
sold at public auction.
We called a meeting and it was
agreed upon to hold mass demons
tration at the courthouse. The day
of sale came. The demonstrators
rode in trucks and cars into Luding-
ton carrying banners protesting
against the eviction of the farmer
They reached the courthouse and the
judge and auctioneer declared the
sale was put off until pm. During
the lunch hour it was broadcaSted
over the radio that a large number
of Communists had gathered in Lud-
ington and had brought truckload
of dynamite to bomb the courthouse.
This was over station WKBZ. This
caused a great amount of people to
come to our demonstration. This
made our first demonstration sue
cessful for the people saw our de-
nlands and that we had not come
to dynamite the courthouse, but just
to protest an eviction.
The farmer is allowed to live one
more year on his farm. They are
attacking our league in every way
possible, but we are organizing more
farmers to fight evictions, to save
our homes.
Farm Women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
81 Myself Have
Changed Greatly"
Soviet Farm Wife

At a meeting of housewives of our
factory town Dubrovkj letter was
read to us from a working woman in
a capitalist country. This letter in
spired me with the desire to write
about my life. My daughter writes
to you under my dictation.
My life before the revolution was
very hard. We lived in village; we
had no land and my husband had to
go to work to the city which was 6
versts from the village. In the sum-
mer I worked in the rye-field for the
landlord. AS I had no where to leave
my little ones, I had to take them
along with me to work. For almost
3 acres Of reaped rye, for week of
hard labor, the landowner paid SIPS.
Much misfortune, abuse and pri-
walton was the lot of my family
which consisted of eight children, my
husband and myself. I was an il
literate, downtrodden women, but 1
tried to give my children an educa-
ton. To let the children study we
had to pay. We also had to buy
books, but the money we earned was
barely enough for our existence.
1t was very hard to keep up big
family. I often compare my life
then, and Wow, and l feel so sorry
that my husband died in 1919 and
had no chance to sse the great
change in our life. Under the Soviet
Government my children began to
study free of charge. My older chill
dren are all working. One of my
daughters is teacher, one son is an
engineer, the other holds a respon-
sible position in a cooperative Or
ganization. The rest of my children
also do good work.
One daughter is with me. She will
soon graduate public school Nearly
al my children are Communists. In
1929 my sons, who live in Moscow,
called me to live with them and
since then I live in Dubrovki.
I myself changed greatly; stopped
going to church. am interested
very much in social work, attend
meetings. I am a member of the
medical section of the District Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
SHOE WORKERS
IN NEW TURN"
Aggressiveness While
Season Is On
lRr a Worker Correspondentl


NEW YORK-The Shoe and Slip
per Workers Conference, held in
Manhattan Lyceum Dec. %, mapped
out program of struggle for the
coming season.
Organizer I. Rosenberg, in his re-
port presented summary Of one
years activity of the union. He
pointed out that over 5000 shoe,
slipper and stitchdown workers car
ried on strikes and stoppages under
the leadership of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union,
involving over 40 shops. AS a result
Of these struggles, 26 shops won rec
ignition of their shop committees
and some won also union recogni-
ton. These struggles Of 5000 workers
prevented the bosses from carrying
out their vicious plans Of cutting the
earnings of the workers TO the level
which the bosses set in the be-
ginning of 1882.
Win Two Thirds of Strikes
The union also succeeded in the
course of this year in building IS
shop groups, which have an in
fluence over an additional 5000
workers. The propaganda of the
bosses and their stool pigeons who try
to make the workers feel that strikes
lessen the resistance Of the workers
to wage cuts and discharges, is
blasted by the fact that two-thirds
of the forty shops in struggle won
organization, involving about 1900
workers.
The new turn of the union was
discussed. Rosenberg pointed out
that the way to greater victories is
through counter attack upon the
bosses based upon demands for
withdrawal of the recent wage cuts.
Most of the strikes have been de-
fensive ones and the workers have
been at disadvantage, because they
had to struggle when there was no
work in the factories. The situation
demands aggressiveness on the part
of the workers. That means struggle
in the season.
United Front
The question of the united front
of all workers in the shop regardless
of union utilization was stressed and
the necessity to defeat Strike-break-
ing elements like the Italian Fascist
Federation from misleading the shoe
workers.
A long discussion followed the re-
port.
Proposals to carry into life the
union plans were adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
SOCIALISTS DISPOSSESS
TENANT.

HAMBURG, Nov. 20 CBy Mail -
The Altoona Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION obtained court order to
dispossess proletarian tenant in
their buildings in BahrenfeId. More
than 80 policemen drove away
sympathizing tenants from the
door. Six mounted police gallOped
up and down the street, while a
police armour car patroIled the
neighborhoOd
The sheriff's men, ordered to
dispOssess the tenant, refused to
carry out the furniture. But some
body was ready to do the work.
The chairman of the Building and
Loan Association ordered his So
cialist Party comrades to evict the
tenant, which they did. The whole
district is up in arms at this act.
Socialists doing the dirty work
that even the paid sheriff's crew
refused to perform. Need anything
more be said about the true ma
ture of this party. which claims
TO represent the interests of the
working class?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
S. Dakota Farmers Turn Red"
and Adopt Militant Program
Farm Woman Writes on Conditions, and
Struggles In Dakota
School Children Surprise Officials and Vote
Red

FREDERICK, S. d. am farm
er's wife living on 1900 acre
farm and with ten children, six of
them attending school which is
two miles away. I do not get much
chance to go calling. Our nearest
neighbor is one and half miles
away.
We have very little money even
though the crop was better than
last year. Many farmers are burn
ing corn. Coal cost at least $1,000
and corn brings 15c busheI. It
brings &c less than nothing at the
elevator.
The election passed quietly In
this vicinity. 1t is hard to learn
just how many votes the Com
munists got, but one. hundred and
nineteen are conceded in Brown
county, s. D.
The schools were supplied with
sample ballots and the children in
structed to vote. One Communist
vote was cast in the Aberdeen
High rchool and eleven in the
Frederick High School. In one
county school, one vote went for
Foster and two for some of the
local candidates. The teachers in
looking over the results said,
There's a Bolshevik and there's
another Bolshevik. I didn't know
we had any Bolsheviks in this
school,
She had just given lesson on
Russia and predicted the early fall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
OPEN JAIL DOORS
IN OKLA. COUNTY
Sheriff Has to Choose
Between Starvation
or Freedom

ATKINS, Okla.-Sequoyah County
was allowed $4,000 for relief from
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton. Those needing relief were called
upon to register Four thousand re-
gistered.
The county sheriff just recently
opened the Jail doors and turned
everyone loose. 1t was case of
doing this or letting them starve to
death in jail. Sheriff Cheek then
offered to resign and let the sheriff
elect take office. He decli.,cl on the
grounds that he would have enough
of the office after Jan. 1. Pay for
county officials and teachers is on a
wobbly foundation in Oklahoma.
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
SOCIALISTS IN CONVENTION
IN BERLIN.

BERLIN, Nov. 30 (By Mall "A
special convention of the Berlin or
ganization of the German Social
Democratic Party was held yester-
day. Despite the efforts of Brett
Scheid and Kuenstler, the Social
list leaders, TO justify the Socialist
policy of betrayal in navy apprO-
priatiOns, in the Berlin traffic
strike, and in tOlerating the Bruen-
ing and Won Papen governments,
RANK and file delegates attacked
the party'S leaders bitterly.
The term sOcial-fascist is beau
tifully misunderstanding leaders
as paving the way for fascism-in
BreitScheid's statement that 'the
German S. P. would welcome Hit
ler's being given the government,
in order to demonstrate his help
leSsness."
Some comments of rank and file
delegates in the debate were very
Illuminating:
Lain of NeukOelln: "The masses
can be misled for time, but they
can't be bribed. They demand So
cialist policies in everyday de-
mands, and they vote for the party
that puts them into practice"
Emil Barth: There can be no
talk of democracy during the IA
years since the Revolution. Our
coalition and liberation policy has
been 100 per cent failure. When
we did have power, we didn't So
cialize. Now, when we have no
power at all, we talk of socializa-
ation."
Hannemann and Loewenstein:
a few party comrades who thought
that we could grow into control of
the government through demo-
cratic bourgeois Institutions have
been very unpIeasantIy brought to
their senses
These manifestations of rank and
file revolt within the German So
cIalist Party are occasioned by the
growing crisis in Germany and by
the success of Communist efforts
TO effectively lead the working class
IN struggle against starvation and
unemployment. Are Norman
Thomas and Hillquit any different
from BreitScheid and KuenstIer?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
LOSING LAND IN
LONE STAR STATE
Texas Farmer Writes
to Ask for Organizer

CUMHURST, Tex In Lamb
county where live conditions are
terrible. Fully so per cent of the
farmers here have already lost their
farms, And the other 40 per cent
will lose theirs.
This winter some evictions are TAX
ing place and many more are ex-
pected to take place. There is hardly
family that is able to take care
of themselves. l think the time is
rotten ripe for some organization.
I have been thinking Of doing this,
but did not know exactly how to do
this. Would be very glad for you to
send some experienced person down
here to call a meeting.
From a reader.
Editors Note:
AS a result of the Farm Confer
ence in Washington, a widespread
organization of farmers throughout
the county is planned. This farmers
appeal for organization will be turn
ed over to this new organization.
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and delegate of the housewives. I
am on duty in the ambulatoriu.. I
take care that everything is in order
I often get notifications by mail
about meetings, conferences where I
must attend.
Since last year began to study
and by this time I read and write a
little. Until now I did not know one
letter. Regardless of my age I take an
active part in social life. I want to
help build Socialism.
(Signed) DONNA LAPTUKHOvA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26


present wage cuts, and the new ones
which are expected. The conference
will be Sunday, Jan. %, at . pm,
in Finnish Hall, 1863 Fourteenth St.,
Detroit.
The conference call says:
Every little squirt in auto produc-
ton is accompanied by wage-cuts
of 20 per cent to 30 per cent. This
happened in Dodge, Chrysler, Briggs,
Chevrolet and other plants. The Of
fetal Ford wage is now 81, less than
the wage scale of 1918. Actually
many Ford workers receive less, and
the Company is preparing new wage
cuts. In Briggs and other plants,
girls are working for 10 and 15c
per hour. Along with wage-cuts, a
relentless murderous speed-up goes
on, driving the workers to the point
Of exhaustion.
1.-THE Auto Manufacturers continue
to hold on to their millions, while
we, auto workers, starve. They con-
tinue to enjoy the riches robbed from
us. They and their families, enjoy
all the comforts of life, while we
face starvation.
I'VE lost our homes. We face
evictions. Our savings are gone.
Thousands of homes are without
food, heat. light or water Our
children suffer from cold and hunger.
Unemployment, lack of adequate
food and clothing, slave driving in
the factories, constant worry of to-
morrow, makes thousands of work
ers a ready prey for sickness and
epidemics. These conditions exist
in the land where tons of food are
allowed to rot; where milk is dumped
into sewers, where homes are board
ed up and left empty. These condi-
tons can be changed only through
organized struggle.
Employed Auto Workers: We must
stop the wage-cuts! We must force
the bosses to pay living Wagel
We must end the inhuman speed
up and the insults of the foremen
and the bosses. We must end the
arbitrary mass dismiSSals. Call to-
gether groups of workers in your
department. Discuss this call Form
grievance committees. Decide on
action! Elect delegates from your
meetings to the conference of the
auto workers on January 22nd.
Unemployed Auto Workers; Call
meetings of auto workers in your
neighborhood. Discuss your common
problems. Elect delegates to the
conference. Unemployed Ford work
ers: Elect committees from your
neighborhood to go to the Office Of
the Ford Motor Co. to demand relief.
Unemployed workers from other
plants: follow this same action: In
tensify the fight for jobs or relief
for Unemployment Insurance!
workers Organizations: Your
members are effected by conditions
in the auto industry. Discuss this
call and the problems of the auto
workers at your next meeting. Elect
delegates to the conference"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
TO All Workers & Organizations

Dear Comrades:
ON SUNDAY, JANUARY IA, A COM
BINED LENIN MEMORIAL AND NINTH
ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE
DAILY WORKER WILL APPEAR. In
cluded in its pages will be special features
and articles dealing with the life and
writings of Lenin and with the high
lights of the history of the Daily Worker.
AS the central organ of the Communist
Party. the Daily Worker has rallied the
workers for the support and defense oil
the Soviet Union.
II has constantly carried on the fight to
mobilize the workers in the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance.
1t fights against the oppression OF the
foreign born workers, against deporta-
tions, for equal rights of the Negro masses
and for the freedom of all class-war pris-
oners--Tom Mooney, the Nine Scottsboro
boys, and many others.
This combined Lenin Memorial and
Ninth Anniversary edition is a great event
for all workers. We ask you to express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending greetings to the only rcyo-
luticnary Daily in the English language
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International
Notes
Bq ROBERT HAMILTON
nE YALERA AND COSGRAYE


Last Wednesday William Butler
Yeats, famous Irish poet and Nobel
Prize winner, lectured on Ireland in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Re
plying to a question from the floor
he admitted that there is no real
difference between the policies of De
Valera and Cosgrave." This tes-
timony of Yeats, who is senator Of
Ireland, is valuable because Fianna
Fail supporters of De Valera, with
their loud shouts against the "trai-
tor Gosgrave," former Conservative
Prime Minister of the Irish Free
State, are trying to hoodwink the
Irish into believing that there is an
essential difference between De Va
lera, the pretended revolutionary, and
Cosgrave, Britain's henchman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
UTILIZED ELECTION MATERIAL

Ironton, Ohio.
Editor, the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
Sometime past wrote and asked
you to furnish some election cam
paign material. The material ar
rived in due time and was given
as much publicity as was possible.
I am of the opinion that the ma
terial furnished has created
favorable impression among the
workers here.
Comradely.
j. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
THEATRE CRITICISM" IN
THE SUN.

Editor, the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
In yesterdays Daily Worker
(Dec. 19th) under the Stage and
Screen" feature is little story
about the Tempest" Among other
things it says: The New York Sun
reviewer states: Tempest is ex-
traordinarily interesting" etc.
May I ask you, Conirade Editor,
why this great ado about the New
York Sum reviewer? IN. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
Auto Workers Union Calls
Conference of Organized
and UnOrganized, Jan. p
every Squirt In Auto Production Brings Wage
CUT; Girls Get 10 Cents An Hour
Workers Lose Savings Called to Fight for
Relief, Against Wage Cuts

DETROIT, con-
ference of delegates
featuring well
worker delegates will meetings
the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
''The Workers Enemies Are
the Farmers Enemies!
Worker Exposes Milo Reno from His Own
Statements
Warns Farmers Not to Abandon Struggle Pro-
gram Adopted in Washington

OMAHA
back from the conference in Washington Thoroughly disguised with
the Roosevelt methods"
publican democrat these
ing and veryit tile talking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26
Soviet Russia Today
January Issue Out

The January issue Of Soviet Russia
Today, which is now on sale, will be
Lenin Memorial issue.
N. K. Krupskaya, Lenin's widow,
describes the attempt on Lenins life
in April, 1918. There are photo
raphs of Lenin taken at intervals in
his life from his boyhood on, includ-
ing a photograph taken in 1887 when
he was q student at the University
of Kazan and at the time his broth
er, Alexander, was executed for par
ticipation in the attempted assas-
sination of Car Alexander III.
There are other photographs of
Lanin up to the time of his death.
Other important articles in the
January Soviet Russia Today deal
with Recognition, the second Five
Year Plan, and Isaac Don Levines
libel suit against the magazine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-26

Send greetings to the special
Ninth Anniversary Lenin Memorial
edition of the Daily Worker Janu-
airy ID, All greetings must be in
by January 3.
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WORKER CORRESPONDENCE

IT'S "BoILING UP" IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-27
INDUSTRY UNPROTECTED
Kiwanis Thanks
 Public For Support
President, Dr. E. H. Nrschbaum, Gives Resume of
 Work Among Crippled Children

the problem of the underpriviieged
 child. The Waterbury club has
 chosen the cripple child as it's phase of this work and among many other phases and projects makes this its chief objective. This work has become of such propor- ton that the club cannot continue to carry 1t on without assistance of the public. On one or two other occasions we have asked for this help, but in the past few years have carried on the work by sub- scriptions from the members only. We, therefore, take this means of presenting a resume of our work
 and intentions, feeling that by &C., quainting the public with this most humanitarian program we
 can look to them for support which we know will be enthuslas-
 tical1y and gladly given.
 Seven years ago Kiwanis of Wa terbury made an investigation and found that there were many un- fortunate children who were not cared for by the usual charity agencies and that by caring for these, namely tho crippled chill dren, we could do a real service to humanity and at the same time not duplicate or encroach upon the activities of any other organi- Zation. A survey was conducted by Q committee of the club, having the cooperation of the Waterbury school authorities and especially Dr Donovan. This survey revealed
 over one hundred children in dire
 need of medical treatment consist ing of unbui1ding, operations,
 braces, artificial limbs, etc. The
 work then started modestly and
 earnestly and to date over ono
 hundred children have been cared for, which care has cost thousands of dollars.
 Tho infantile paralysis epidemic
 of last year left many children suf- fering many degrees of paralysis.
 Their only hope lay in controlled systematized massage and exercise. No means of giving this treatment
 was at hand. Kiwanis, therefore,
 started a massage clinic under the
 care of a competent sympathetic
 masscuse. This is known as the October 1st of this year, fifteen
 hundred massage treatments had been given. Think of it, fifteen
 hundred massage treatments to poor crippled children. If space allowed, tho many letters of thanks
 received from grateful parents
 would make your heart yearn to
 help in this very gratifying en-
 deavor. Many are cured and all
 have improved. There are still
 many, however, that need opera
 tions and further care. Perhaps 1t
 would be of interest to know how
 this work Is handled.
 The crippled children come to
 tho Henry Sabin Chase Dispensary
 or to anyone else who is interested
 and knows of our work. The cases
 are then referred to q committee
 known as "The Crippled Children's
 committee" which conducts an in-
 vestigatlon into the condition of
 the child. The child is then given
 q thorough physical examination by one of our doctors and one of
 tho surgeons sees the child for the