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$50 it's the Red Cross next"
thought Warrdell 81 know you
dirt farmers! You've got to find
out for yourselves. So it's the Red
Cross you'll find out about nowl
And when you have, and 1 guess
you'll get your chance this time,
you'll be ready to show them a few
things"
Say, Frances" he said, when
they were the last two left, I'VE
can spare some of our milk for a
bcby, I guess. While the cows still
giving any. Drop in after milking.
Throw that snake off the path,
boys" he called from the porch,
not to hear the young mans
thanks.
Two days later the snake was a
length of shrivelled skin and spinal
bones. The sun had dried it up.
1t dried up the, last "pot-hole" in
that stretch of prairie, too, and the
alkali sparkled thick on the barred
bottom, with a likeness to snow
strange under the red hot sun.
The "yellow-heads" from the
"pot-hole' gathered in great flocks,
and the farm peoplpe would stop to
watch them escaping through the
silky, deserving the country, as in
the fall when they feel the cold
coming.
"Say, Lii" said Purcell to his
daughter at supper one night, II
thought Frances COW died. I
thought he'd be buying milk from
us now. He's got a baby, amt hep"
Purcell had been one of the first
farmers to turn to dairying when
the borers gnawed away the margin
of profit the banks and railroads
left on corn in that section. Ee
had a fine herd of Holsteins and,
as he could afford to ship in en-
silage and water by the tank, had
preserved them through the
drought, leaving it to the dry spell
to carry of the few heads owned
by his small competitors.
See, you don't know everything
down at the bank said his daugh-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23

same time double the output. So
cialism will wipe out these great
wastes, inherent in the planless,
competitive capitalist system. 1t
will hquidate the hundreds of USE
less and parasitic occupations, such
as wholesalers, jobbers, and the en-
tire crew of 'faniddlemen," real es-
tate sharks, stock brokers, prohibit
ton agents, boot1eggers, advertising
specialists, travelling statesmen, law
yers, whole RATS of government bu-
reaucrats, police, clericals, and sun
dry capitalist quacks, takers and
grafters. 1t will turn to useful So
cial purposes the immense values
consumed by these socially useless
elements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
WILL INCREASE
PRODUCTIVE FORCES

Ending the gigantic robbery
which is the very base of the capt.
talist system will at once release
vast values for useful social ends.
How vast may be realized from
the fact that in 1928 the total ma
tional income in the United States
was approximately 80 billion dol
lars, of which is estimated by
Varga, the Soviet economist, that
no less than 46 per cent was taken
by capitalist exploiters in the shape
of corporation profits, ground rents,
interest on mortgages, official sal
aries and bonuses for themselves.
An American Soviet government,
stopping this monstrous expropria-
ton of the toilers, will turn these
great sums to the improvement of
the living and cultural standards
of the producing masses.
Secondly. the setting up of a
Socialist 3ystem will greatly in
crease the productive forces and
production itself. BY liquidatina
the contradiction between h e
modes of production and exchange,
it does away with economic crises,
with all their waste and loss. Where
there is no capitalist class to de-
mand its profit before production
and distribution takes place, and
where the producers as a whole
receive the full product of their
labor, there can be no economic
reproduction and crisis. Conse-
quently, unemployment. with its
terrible misery and suffering, will
become thing of the past. The
many millions who now walk the
streets unemployed will have fruit
full work to do, to the benefit of
all society. With the deadly limit
ations of the capitalist market re-
moved, the road will be opened to
virtually unlimited expansion of in
dustry and mass consumption.
Thirdly, Socialism will result in
an enormous increase in industrial
and agricultural efficiency. 1t is
the proud boast of the capitalists,
particularly the Americans, that
their system represents the acme
of economy and efficiency. But
this is so untrue as to be grotesque.
The Socialist system of planned
production, based upon social own
ership of industry and the land,
is incomparably more efficient than
til anarchic capitalist system
founded upon private property,
competition and the exploitation of
the workers. In his book, The Ira
gedy of Waste, Stuart Chase es-
Inmates that of the 100000 gain
fully employed" in the United
States about 2O,5Oo,OO0, or SO per
cent, waste their labor totally. Re-
Gently, Iron Age stated that by put
ting all the industrial plants in the
United States on the basis of mod
ern technique 1t would be possible
to shorten the working day to one
third Of the present. while at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
CAN YOU
HEAR THEIR
! s;;::::';.s VOICES )?

ter, a fair, fat girl with big breastA
glasses and gold incisor. 81 hap
pen to know that Jim Wardell is
giving Frances milk"
Giving it to him? I wonder IL
Frances has ever seen the way
Wardell keeps his COW? I wouldn't
give any baby of mine that milk,
1 guess Jirn's got to give it away.
He couldn't sell it. Well, it's only q
few cents anyway"
AT WARDELL'S
PLACE
Frances used to come little early
and sit in the kitchen few minutes
in the evening while Wardell was
milking the COW.
"And how's the baby and how Is
Hilda today? Mrs. Warden would
ask.
Its very bad up there. Since
she lost her milk, it's terrible. And
then the COW dying. Yours is the
only COW left around here, except
Purcell's."
"Take this home to them," she
would say when he went, his milk
can full. Wardell never asked her
what was in the nameless parcels.
But even the boys were going
oftener to bed hungry, after eating
everything there was. Sometimes
there was no milk on the Wardells
table.
1.-The COW won't last much longer
at this rate" said Wardell to his
wife one night. Such a ridiculous
sentence to make her heart almost
stop beatingl
thought Frances looked as if he
hadn't eaten for two days, so she
set some boiled dried beans, part of
supper's only dish, before him.
Wardell came in without the
dribble of milk, and sat down.
Don't you think the time is
coming, Frank he said, when the
poor farmers, people like you and
me and the Davises and Wiggens
and Drdla, will have to go and take
the food out of the store windows
in Paris? There's always plenty of
it there"
You're a Socialist Amt you?"
Frank asked, ever so slyly, over his
spoonful of beans.
"(The branding reproach of
Communism
I'm a Communist, Frank"
what does that mean??-the
beans suspended midway to the
mouth.
I'm this case, it means that I'm
for unlimited free groceries and
meat to all poor farmers. No rent
for two years. Free seed Free milk
for babies"
81 guess you Reds want every
thing Free" said Frank.
Il guess you will, too, before the
baby's dead" Hard and bitter to
hammer it home.
"Jiml'
81 know what I'm telling him,
Ann. We're both dirt farmers,
poor men, both come from the same
class, SO there's no reproach in
your taking something from me
when you need it, Frances. And
there's no reproach meant, in my
telling you that your kid would be
dead but for your getting the milk
from my COW. You couldn't buy 1t.
Not from me, wouldn't sell it to
you. And you couldn't buy it from
Purcell because he would sell it to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
tBy a Worker Correspondent,

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-"Swanson
did it." thus explains one unemploy-
ed member of live Block Commit
tee, when questioned as to the method
used in organizing.
You see, this man Swanson came
to see us here in this block he had
petition for placing Communist
candidate on the ballot. He He talked
10 Maloney and Jones and Horris
and some more of us. He found there
was only one man in the block who
had a job, and his pay had been cut.
Swanson wanted to know if we
were getting relief from the Welfare
Board. Some of us were getting a
little bit; but it was one hell of hard
Job 10 live on what were getting.
So, Swanson says, Let's organize a
Block Committee.
We agreed with him that we
couldn't depend on the Farmer La
Dor Mayor or alderman 70 help US
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COURTESY OF
INTERNATIONAL
PAMPHLETS)
By WHITAKER CHAMBERS


- -. - -.@,~
Yesterday we published the
first instalIment of this prOle-
arian short story describing the
Arkansas farmers fight for food,
based on actual events in Janu-
airy 1881. In it was wildly por-
trayed the deadly drought which
destroyed the crops and brought
hunger to the farmers and their
families. 1t told of a meeting of
farmers and of the discussion in
which various methods were pro-
posed for getting food and
especially milk for the children.
Part 2
This 'drowt,' or 'drooth' as War
dell calls it, has been lucky break
for you, Wardell You were running
pretty low in your line of knocks
when this bad luck came along"
Little gray eyes glared gleefully on
either side of his small, tightly
wedge of turned-up nose.
"The generals got his chip on
his shoulder" one of the Wardell
boys whispered to the other.
ION his face, you mean, to keep
his eyes from running together"
John Wardell said aloud, staring at
PurcellS nose.
Some of us call it 'drowt' and
some of us call it 'drooth'," said
Wardell, "but they both mean that
the crops are done for, water and
forage are dried up, the cattle are
dying, and We'll be needing food
when our credit gives out at the
stores in town. Unless. of course,
the banks want to make us long
term loans"
Purcell, the richest farmer in the
district, had a finger in the Bank of
Paris, of which his son-in-law was
cashier.
"THE TROUBLE
WITH WARDELL"
1.-THE trouble with Wardell is"
Purcell said, preserving his good
temper, but talking rather to the
gathering than to Wardell, "the
trouble with him is that he spends
too much time nights reading those
books he has in the house, and
looking up the long words in the
dictionary. So he gets sleepy and
sore at the world, don't you, Jim?"
The men smiled, being let in on the
joke by the big boss. what was
that book, in that package of yours
that came undone in the post Office
that time?" Purcell was also post
master Socialism Yewtopian and
Scientific'p He laughed. "Well,
every mans got right to read
what he wants to in his own house,
I guess, if he don't try to force
others to think his crazy ways, too.
But I went to school with Jim
Wardell, didn't we, Jim, and I know
he's still the same wild jim, wild
ideas, but heart of gold, So if
you get hungry, and he tries to
feed you Socialism Yewtopian and
Scientific, if you don't feel full,
and 1 guess you won't, I think the
Red Cross will do more for you all.
got to go. So long, Jim. So long
boys"
1.-THE Red Cross!"
"The Red Cross!"
"They did fine work in the
Mississippi f1ood!"
'The Red Cross!"
They began to drift away from
Wardelrs to town or home.
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The present farmers strike in
the Middle West, which Is rapidly
spreading, makes the publication
Of Comrade Chambers short story
Of the Arkansas farmers fight for
food especially timely. CAN YOU
HEAR THEIR VOICES? has just
appeared in the international
Pamphlet series mo. 26), and can
be bought at all workers book
shops for ten cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
LIBERATION FOR
FARMERS.

The Soviet government will I'M
mediately free the poor farmers
from the onerous burdens of mort
cages and other debts which now
hold them in slavery. OF the total
income of all farmers in 1927, IT
per cent went for loans and mort
cages. Land rent will be abolished,
both in the form of cash and tffare
crops. The land will go to the users.
The present monopolistic prices for
agricultural machinery. fertilizers,
will be drasticallv cut. Taxes will be
slashed and shifted off the backs
of the poor farmers. For the mil
lions of "one-horse" farmers now
living at the verge of starvation in
many states, more land will be al
lotted; they will also be furnished
with the necessary seed, machinery,
fertilizer and expert instruction.
Food and other necessities of life
will be given to those in need. Pro-
duction Of foodstuffs will not be
curtailed, but greatly stimulated.
Such program is not matter
of speculation. This is the line that
developed in the Soviet Union and
it is the one that will develop here.
Even in the face of their gigantic
tasks the necessity to build indus
try from the ground up in the
teeth of world capitalist opposition,
the Russians have been able vastly
to improve the conditions Of the
toilers of factory and farm. In the
the United States, however, the
revolution, because of the superior
industrial equipment here, will be
able to advance the American
workers standards of living much
more quickly and drastically. 1t
will also make it possible to lend
assistance to the more undeveloped
countries. 1t is true that the power
full and ruthless American capital
list class will seek to prevent all
this by destroying the industries
during the revolution, which only
emphasizes the need for breaking
their resistance the sooner.
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"rhe struggle against militarism
must not be postponed until the
moment when war breaks out.
Then it will be too late. The
struggle against war must be car
ried on now. daily. hourly"
LEIUl. j
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
REv0LUTIONARY WAY OUT!

All capitalist politicians and
their lackeys in the labor mOve-
ment are offering various schemes
to restore the shattered system of
capitalism. These schemes are an
admission of the bankruptcy of the
capitalist SyStem-sOme are pure
and simple quackery, unavoidable
under the profit system; others,
particularly those proposed by the
Socialist Party, which call for ma
tiOnalizatiOn schemes, are actually
intended to strengthen the moose
around the necks of the working
class. The plans of the capitalist
parties and that of Norman Thomas
and the Socialists are all intended
to serve the capitalists for their
way out of the crisis: the way of
increased poverty, ruthless cutting
down of the workers living stand
ards; and attempts to restore capt.
80 VII C<ApNhoC VI thG huIA-
ing class.
The Communist Party shows the
REVOLUTIONARY WAY out of
the crisis: In the following an
alysis, William u. Foster, the
Party's candidate for President,
treats cOncretely what measures a
Workers and Farmers Government
in the United States would take to
lift the masses from the swamp Of
the capitalist crisis. The following
is part of Fosters new book, "To-
ward Soviet America" and is the
viewpoint presented by him TO the
thousands of workers and, farmers
whom he is addressing at present
oil his national campaign tour.
Other sections of the book, dealing
further with the revolutionary way
out of the crisis, will be published
in later issues of the Daily Worker.
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serious difficulty be nationalized,
and all industry viii be concen-
trated into the Socialist Soviet
economy.
The central purpose of the revo-
luton is to conquer political power
for the workers and to funda-
mentally improve the economic and
social conditions of the producing
masses. Immediately an American
Soviet government is established,
the shutdown factories will be
opened. Production will be started
to relieve the impoverished workers
and farmers. The great stores of
necessities now piled up and I'M
salable, will be released to the
masses. The unemployed will be
fed, housed and given work. Pend
ing any delay in putting the in
dustries into full operation, the
unemployed will be paid social in
surance on the basis of full wages.
The general policy of the Soviet
government will be to at once put
into effect at least the immediate
demands that the workers are now
demanding of capitalism. Wages
will be sharply raised, especially
for the lower-paid workers; then
there will be established the seven
hour day or, very probably. less,
with correspondingly still shorter
work day for young workers and
those engaged in dangerous occu-
pations; there will also be the de-
velopment of the system of social
insurance against unemployment.
old age, sickness, accident, etc., on
a full wage basis; the abolition of
the many Determinations against
Negroes, women and young work
ers in industry; the establishment
of free medical services, vacations
for workers, etc.
The Soviet government will ini-
tiate at once vast housing pro-
gram. All houses and other build
ingS will be Socialized. The great
hotels, apartments, city palaces,
country homes. country clubs, etc,
of the rich will be taken over and
utilized by the workers for dwell
ings, rest homes, children's clubs,
sanatoria, etc. The best of the
skyscrapers, emptied Of their thou
sand and one brands of parasites,
will be used to house the new gov
eminent institutions, the trade
unions, co-operatives, Communist
Party. etc. The fleets of automo-
biles and steam yachts of the rich
will be placed at the disposition of
workers organizations. A great
drive will be made to demolish the
present collection of miserable
shacks and tenements and build
homes fit for the workers to live in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
IMPROVE WORKERS
CONDITIONS.

The specialization of the key Sec
tons of industry, commerce, agri-
culture and finance will lay a solid
economic foundation for the build
ing of Socialism. Doubtless, private
property will survive in small
farms, in petty industry and in
trade. But this will be only tempo
rary. With the consolidation Of
growth OF Socialism and the gen
eral spread Of well-being all the
land will eventually and without
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-15
HAY GROWERS OF VALLEY WILL
FORM MARKETING ORGANIZATION

Unanimous decision to carry our
the tentative plan for a non-profit
hay marketing association was
made at last nights meeting of hay
growers held in the Barbara Worth
grammar school Brawley.
H. A. Hastain of Brawley, chair
man of the special committee which
interviewed the federal interme-
Giate credit bank officials, gave
his report and called upon state
and county specialists and ranch
ers to express their views.
r. w. Gray, assistant chief OF
the marketing division of the state
department of agriculture, and
L. M. Jeffers, chief of the bureau
of hay and grain Standardization
of the state department, both
pointed out that unless rs per cent
Of the marketable hay tonnage is
represented in the proposed CO.
operative association no relief will
be extended by the credit bank.
c. C. Stafford, representing the
Los Angeles Hay Credit aSSocia-
ton whose membership consists of
80 per cent of the responsible
dealers in Los Angeles, stated that
Arizona, fearing the future hay
market, is shipping a great amount
of hay into Los Angeles on con-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-15
(0UNTYBRIEFS

Hotel California Coffee Shop
Plate lunch from Il to 2, 35c
Regular meals, soc and 75c. llti
PauIs Special Pure Lemonade SC
per glass. 9th and Main, by the
Court House. 8tf
Trade IT OILERS cut-rate hard
ware. quality merchandise for less
Stf
Perishable Shipments - YeSter-
days total Of perishable shipments
was composed of two carloads OF
carrots and one of oranges, ac-
cording to s. A. Harrigan, agri-
cultural commissioner.
DIR. A. 3. Hansen. Dentist. New
location. second floor, Security-First
National Bank Bldg. Phone 8S Aft
Or. Edwin o. Carter, Dentist, new
.ocation, Goa Main st. Office phone
700.
Service Plumbing, Heating - no
Broadway. Phone 165. l4tf
Madame PriSer-r-ench designer
and dress maker. $50 Commercial
st. Phone 1854. 3ltf
Hammond and Grider announces
a partnership IN the Motor Service
Co, Hattons Garage, Sixth and
lScG
Sues To Quiet Title-Filing two
the Holtville Orchard
Inc, yesterday afternoon
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-15

expressed the opinion that if the
organization will be perfected as
scheduled, relief money from the
federal intermediate credit bank
will be in the valley within two
weeks after organization is COM
pleted.
The meeting was highly rep
resentative gathering of growers,
but since it is necessary to sign up
rs per cent of the tonnage,
special meetings will be held in
the various cities of the valley so
that ranchers may attend and hear
the complete organization plans.
Leaders state that the cooperative
will be the means of bringing a
substantial sum of money into the
valley and will prove of benefit
not only to the members but to the
community as a whole.
These local meetings will be
held at 4 p. m. in the different
chambers of commerce. The CAL
eXico meeting is scheduled for
Monday; Holtville, Tuesday; Ell
Centro, Wednesday,; Imperial,
Thursday; Westmorland, Friday,
and Calipatria, Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-15
DOUBLE HANGING
AT STATE PRISON
In WASHINGTON

STATE PRISON, WALLA WAL
LA, Wash. April Is. U.P) In
Washington States first double
hanging, Walter Dubuc, II, and
Harold Carpenter, a. went to their
death on the~ gallowS shortly after
midnight today for the torture
murder" of an 86-year-old recluse.
Double traps were sprung simul-
taneously at 1924 a. m. as the two
condemned men stood on adjoining
gallows.
Dubuc, youngest man ever to be
executed in the state, and Carpen-
ter were both pronounced dead at
1927 a. m. Before going to their
death the two made written con-
fesSion claiming the murder was
committed in the excitement Of
robbery and gave it to Rev. E. T.
Allen, prison chaplain.
Dubuc. calm before the hanging
cried: II don't want to hang, please
don't let them hang me-" as he
mounted the gallows. Carpenter
went silently to his doom.
A futile attempt was made to
secure communication of Dubucs
sentence because of his age, but
Gov. Roland Hartley did not inter-
Yene.
In the nearby womans quarters
of the prison was Mrs. Ethel Willis,
mother of two children, who was
given a life sentence as an assert
ed accomplice in the Staying of
Peter Jacobson at Chambers Prairie
near Olympia. July 7, 1881.
The two men and the wom-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-15

signment and that it is having O
bad effect on the market. Ranch
ers were warned against the truck
trailer back-haul seller.
Scott B. FouldS, secretary
manager of the farm bureau, ad-
vised the ranchers to join and sup
port a cooperative association.
Frank Beyschlag, farm advisor,
spoke on the serious situation of
the present Los Angeles hay
market
Assemblyman =. f. Robinson
moved the acceptance of the COM
mittee's report and the following
signed the call for a permanent
organization which will become
effective when rs per cent of the
marketable tonnage has been
signed:
S. A. Gerard & Co., c. CT. Halli-
day, j. A. Manford, j. F.. Mayfield,
w. w. Goodson, H. E. Hastain,
H. A. Hastain, w. E. Hancock,
A. l.. Best, r. o. Kaylor, j. w.
Hall, W. M. Corn, A. F.. Lewis,
w. Gardner, Jack Bryant. S. E.
Robinson, P. N. Ferguson, H. f.
Taecker, Dean Bros, w. j. Garlic
ton, Leonard Nets, C. F. Kamm
T. U. Hill, II. B. Stewart, c. F.
Baeskens, w. P. Henry, G. E.
Cooke, M. p Halliday, F.. H. Ballou
and John Cady.
H. A. Hastain, r. T. Pinner ard
w. w. Goodson were elected to
work with the organization COM
mittee and representatives from
CaleXico, HoltWlle, FL Centre
Brawley, Imperial, Calipatria and
Westmorland were appointed to
contact the hay growers in their
section.
L. M. Jeffers, after the meeting