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HE pRErExr GETTING PLANTATION SLAVES by ouht

killed"
There was a sigh of relief at the
news. The sheriff nit a chew from
a plug of tobacco and continued.
give O. the nigras in the fights
bin arrested an are now in there.
Nothin' to worry about"
who's bin arrested?" Dee asked
fearfully.
NICHOLS noticed him for the
~ first time and frowned.
''Yo're Dee jackson, amt you?"
he asked.
Eyes, suh," Dee said.
"That boy O. yourns allus gittin'
into trouble" The sheriff shook
his head disapprovingly.
"Whut he do, suh?"
Other voices queried:
"Who else bin arrested?"
"Kin see David?" Dee pleaded.
mo. Can't nobody see anybody
jes' now"
Mist Nichols" Dee persisted,
cain you tell me, please, sub,
whut he's charged widP"
"Gamblin,' fightin' and resistin'
the law" the sheriff said CURLY.
Hes bid niger. that boy o'yown,
Dee!"
Continued Tomorrow.)
CAUGHT AGAIN IN THE NET
OF THE CAPITALIST TERROR
LAW, LEGALLY KIDNAPPED
LIKE so MANY NEGROES IN
THE SOUTH, AT THE ORDER OF
THE POWERFUL WHITE PLAN.
TER, DEERING. WHAT UN.
KNOWN TERRORS AWAIT DAv.
I'D ON behring's PLANTATIONS
DON'T MISS TOMORROW'S M
STALMENT OF THIS SMASH
ING EXPOSURE OF THE SLAVE
FARMS IN THE BLACK B4zEi
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INSTALMENT No. 9.

THE STORY so FAR: David Jackson Negro boy who
the chon returns home Hts
father the taT" OF the @ '0ee
planter Shay Supposedly Free Dee and has tGny are a
sGves-Shay PeGrons nggers One Sat-
arday and his family to the County seat at Lave
array. Derng, the powerful 0he planter con-
corning farm 0pered that back men do not
repea too often eveu cuomo henaseIues there He orders
his tool Sheriff Nichols get four Negroes tor ham, IN the
evening David 0ands into the Negro quarter and begins '0otohng
Negroes playing dice outside lunch No read on;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
Commends I. L. D. for
Defense of Workers in
Sam Brown Protest

New York City.
Editor Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade II was at the
Sam Brown demonstration and 7
was Jailed and commend the In
ternational Labor Defense and
specifically Comrade Joseph Tauber
for defending us in court and the
militancy of the workers for DEM
Onstrating in and outside the court
during the trial. Otherwise we
might have been railroaded to
prison for months.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
PARTY LIFE
PARTY LIFE
Can the Workers
of the City Lead
the Farmers?

TO this question, Lenin answers
i eyes" So does the Communist
International.
BY lack of action on this ques-
ton many of our Party members
have answered with the oppor-
tunistic mo"
Around most district and section
offices hear that our comrades
are so busy with town work that it
is impossible to do anything about
the farmers, though cit would be
q good idea if the Central Com
mittee would send down an ex-
perienced farmers organizer"
From where do we get expert
enced farm organizers? Expert
enced farm organizers are devel-
oped only when and where we are
actually organizing farmers. We
naturally hesitate to ask that
workers be taken from shop con-
centration or other important mass
work in the city to go out into the
country to the farmers.
SEVERAL EXCEPTIONS
We found several exceptions to
the above attitude: one at Por-
tage, Pa, and the other at Toledo,
Ohio.
Near Toledo, at Bowling Green,
the farmers were preparing to
struggle against the milk corpora
tons. In Toledo our comrades did
not wait for "directives" from the
district nor the Central Committee,
but reacted at once. Our comrades
in Toledo are not agrarian experts,
most Of them have never worked
on a farm. Yet they reacted to
the struggle in the country. Il be-
ieve that a close study OF the reso-
lutions Of t2e 14th and 18th Plen-
ums Of the Central Committee had
a bearing on this sction)
A FARMERS mass meeting was
n called by the reformist Holiday
Association leaders at the fair
grounds. Several thousand farm
ers attended. Four cars of workers
from the city came down to the
meeting.
Our comrades were not given a
chance to speak, so they started
another meeting after the first
meeting. A Communist election
meeting right on the spot! There
our comrades exposed the takers,
urged the united front of workers
and farmers and sold 100 copies of
the Communist call to Toiling
Farmers" They did not leave any
organization behind, it is true, but
they did gain contacts and made
arrangements for a farmers meet
ing at the Bowling Green Court
House for Oct. 81. So our COM
rades in Toledo are building strong
ties with the nearby farmers.
In the meantime, has the city
mass work suffered? Emphat-
ically, no!
WON IMMEDIATE RELIEF
This week our comrades led an
unemployed demonstration in front
of the Toledo Court House. Two
thousand workers turned out. 1t
was Misunderstanding hard. The
workers decided to hold the dem
onstration inside of the court
house. So they moved into the
court house. Our speakers spoke.
The workers fought the police off
protected the leaders, and the po-
lice were able to arrest only one.
This militant demonstration won
$4,000 worth of relief at once.
A Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
Soviet Farming and the Deca,
of Capitalist Agriculture
2nOOO Collectives, Uniting Is, 100000 Peasant Plots
Greeted the Fifteenth Anniversary"
BY J. K.

BY J. K.
IT was at the Second Congress Of
the SovietS in November, 1917.
John Reed describes this scene:
''Now Lenin gripping the edge
Of the reading stand, letting his
little winking eyes travel over the
crowd as he stood there waiting,
apparently obliviOus to the long
rolling ovation which lasted sew
eral minutes. When it finished,
he said simply: We shall now
proceed to construct the Social
list order"
From the civil war in 1920, rag
ing amidst the profoundest econo-
mic crisis, cut off from the basic
sources Of fuel and metal. when
the stacks of only a few remain
ing factories poured out smoke
through the famine year 1922;
through intervention years when
the countryside was depleted of
two-thirds of its livestock and the
peasants were not able to till a
large part of the soil for lack of
. tools, horses and cattle, the work
ingclass of the U.S.S.R. and it's
vanguard, the Communist Party,
labored with such feminist energy
and foresight. that in May, 1881,
Conlrade Stain was able to say
Of land, which, after the Revo-
luton had been parcelled out am
ong 100000 individual peasant
households, each tilling its own
plot with antique instruments:
MAY the whole world know
that the Soviet Union is being
converted from a land of small
peasant farms and most back
ward agricultural technique into
a land of big collective farms
and of modern agricultural tech
nique."
In 1919, Lenin said:
eff we could, tomorrow, pro-
vide 100000 first class tractors,
supply them with gasoline, pro-
vide them with drivers (you know.
of course, that this is at present
a phantasy), then the middle
peasant would say: I am in favor
Of the Commune" i.e. Com
munism.)
But in land which has over
thrown the landlords and capital
lists who Stified it, fantasy becomes
reality. The erstwfile neutral
middle peasantry, upon entering
the collectives, becomes converted
into a stable, true supporter Of the
Soviet Government in the village.
100000 tractors were on Soviet
fields when the Fifteenth Anniver-
sary Of the November Revolution
was being celebrated. Two-thirds
Of them are Soviet-made.
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EDITORS NOTE

This is a good idea. Perhaps It
would be even better If small
groups of shouters of slogans could
be organized throughout the
marches and in that way have the
slogans taken up during the march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10

come to town."
Sheriff" the boy said earnestly
az was Walkin' down de street"
"An' you" Nichols turned to
David, "yo're the niger that's
jes' back from the chain gang,
huh?"
eyes, suh,'' said David, "buS I
doan know whut hits all about, sub.
I was watchin' de game an wen
de fight started jes ran lax
everybody else"
BULLYING A NEGRO
"You didn't do the cuttin', did
you?" the sheriff demanded.
mo, sub! Lawd, no, subj"
"Then what did you run away
fo'?"
"I didn't want tub git in no
trouble"
Bad Niger" the sheriff inter-
rupted with shake of his head.
Like as not did the cuttin'"
Sheriff, I tells you I didn't do
nothin'r
Hes Pearson niger" Jess
Pitkin remarked casually.
Sheriff, I swears wild my han
on de Bible I amt hut nobody.
Nobody 1 was jes' watchin' de
game"
DEPORTS of the stabbing spread.
IN From man knitted they grew
to Negro killed, two wounded and
eight arrested. A crowd gathered
on the Jail steps. Those arrested
were being booked and everyone was
anxious to learn the identity of
the dead man, the injured and the
prisoners. After a fruitless search
for David, Dee left Henrietta and
Zebulon with Louise and, hat in
hand, pushed his way up the stairs
to the deputy guarding the
screened outer door.
"Kin go in, suh?" he pleaded.
The deputy carefully selected a
spot on the lawn and spat upon it.
Nobody lowed in," he said.
THE SHERIFF APPEARS
Dee waited with the others until
Dan Nichols appeared. The sheriff
was Immediately besieged widh
questions.
"Who bin kilt, subj" an old
woman asked tearfully.
Nobody, aunty," he assured her
pleasantly. "Jes' a Ill cuttin' in a
crap game. Ain nobody bin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
Letters from
Our Readers
Suggests Shouting of
Slogans be Organized
at All Demonstrations
New York.
Dear Con1rade:

New York.
Dear Comrade:
Regarding our marches and DEM
onstrations. Cheering and shout
ing slogans is usually not so good.
1 suggest that grouYS of 30 or more
comrades shout slogans in an or
ganized manner-loud, slow and
clear. Then people in the houses
will at least understand what is
shouted-like they do in Germany.
w. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-10
NEGRO GLAVERYToDAY
John L. Spivak's Stirring NOVeE
GEORGIA Niger"

Niger smashing
IS
to
Of
he
the
Of respec o
M @
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-26
DOings of the
Advance Guard

In Iowa the farmers striking in order to oa.
for what they produce. They are lining I'm CO.. Ofe
putting up a good fight. In other states thew ~ Io
ing up too ready go. movement is on foot Nn
the wheat farmers to hold their wheat for dollar
ell What the farmers need is the proper oroan;z..:
and leadership Many of the present leaders are f
Just like Vim. Green of the A. F. of L. who are SNciS
to make the farmers believe that if he can oct ing
more for what he produces then all his troubles A.. n
then he pay his back taxes interest and
That he and those who exploit him can live side b G
and get along fine. "'1
Organize them into the UFL and make them MI.
stand hatbeing exploited little less is not goino 70
their problem = it will only prolong the agonv I've
exploitation and profit must be done away with atra
er That each worker farmer as well as civ yvosar
must receive the full value of his work. instead 90
of it, and that everybody must be put to work anJ
something useful instead of living high on what snosono
Iese is doing When get down to that then bera ~,
be depression, milk strikes or etra.
of any kindwe all have plenty because we can me-
duce plenty and do it in very few hours with orr M -
date machinery
There was never more ripe time for a ro;l.
farmers organization than right now but in order 70 IN
them to stick together they must have their own s.
so they know what other farmers are doino n.
paper is here-it is up to the live ones on The
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should take crush the strike He wants to prepare the
farmers accept martial law as move in their favor
not of the capitalist government to crush them
for the benefit of the milk He wants serve the
farmers of Iowa and of his own state with radical
phrases like the use of martial law to make the strike
success while he advises the capitalists to actually use
martial law to crush the strike
Against the lies, the warnings the false gestures
OF support from progressive politicians and of Cham
bers of Commerce. the farmers of Iowa should 60 for
ward determined militant struggle militant picketins,
extending the strike mtanty toward victory over the
milk trust. Such militancy-mass militancy-can be
achieved only under leadership of the impoverished
farmers themselves democraticay elected from among
the strikers, and selected for the mancy they have
shown thus far in the strike
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his overlooking countless charges
of corruption. He has pardOned
gangsters and protected politicians
guilty of graft. Tammany says
it with votes. His temporary
quarrel" with the chieftains over
Mayor Walker in 1882 is a family
quarrel.
To secure his nomination as
Presidential candidate at Chicago,
he is said to have bought the vote
of California delegates with the
promise of a cabinet position for
William G. McAdoo, California
politician. This is the same Nc
AdoO who acted with the railroad
brotherhood chiefs in 1916 to sell
out the railroad workers and t.
force them to accept fake eight
hour day.
! Continued next week.
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TEAR GAS ATTACK


Continued from Front Page)
leaders, the LEADERS IN THE
PICKETING, will be blamed for
the violence" and not the deputy
gunner.
The refusal of aid from the city
workers is part of the attempt of
the milk trust to prevent solidar-
ity with the workers of the cities
with the striking farmers for a
joint struggle against the milk
trust. "We'd rather take care of
it ourselves" said Savery, mean
ing the misleaders are afraid that
the strike is getting out of their
control and that solidarity with the
city workers will put the leader
ship where It must be-among the
impoverished farmers and the
workers of the cities.
Strike Spreads
Reports have come in that the
strike has spread to Danbury
Rockford, Mapleton, and other
points in Iowa. At Danbury so
striking farmers unloaded a cal
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OMAHA Is PICKETED
Continued from Front Page)

this time picketed the highways
only.
Agreement not Satisfactory
1t is reported that an agreement
has been reached between Sioux
City Milk Producers Association
and the milk distributors on a
basis of $1.80 hundred pounds to
be paid to the farmers for raw
milk with 3.5 per cent butter fat
content, compared with 81 a hum
dred previously paid. The strike
of the farmers around Sioux City
was originally declared for $2.17
a hundred and many of them are
reported dissatisfied with the al
legged settlement.
Milk Trust Raises Prices
Effective Monday the price of
milk in Sioux City was raised one
cent a quart. In this way the
milk trust hopes to force workers
and other consumers in the city to
bear the cost of the increase to
the farmers. 1t is against the
milk trust that the farmers have
been fighting and the trust hopes
to divide the workers and farmers
Iby this move and save their out
rageous profits at the same time
Workers should not be fooled b!
the milk trust. They should re
fuse to pay the higher prices ant
should support the farmers strike
Through united efforts farmer
and workers can force the mill
trust to give up some of its ex
horbitant profits.
Farmers of Union county, dis
armed Sheriff G. N. Slocum, OF
Aug. IS, when he tried TO proven
them from hating a truck whicl
was on its way to Sioux City, o.
Thursday, August Is. Slocun
fired one shot but the farmer
were on him and relieved him o
: his gun instantly. He later re
treated. On the same day low
, farmers fought with 20 deputie
: on the Correctionville- Sioux Cit
road. They effectively stoppe
|
this attempt to break the strike
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dred years. Beautiful old shade
trees shelter the owners from the
view of the workers in Poughkeep-
sic who cannot buy even a quarter
acre of such property. Horses,
dogs, yachts, and later motor cars
were all at the disposal of young
Roosevelt who never went to pub
lie schools nor played with the
boys of the village below the es-
tate.
Before he was ID, the little rich
boy had been taken to Europe
eight times, with French and Ger
man govenesses to give him his
education. He was an only child
the darling idol of his wealthy
parents who gave him everything
he wanted. At Groton school il
Massachusetts, and hen at Har-
ward, he associated with the sons
of American millionaires. He haC
plenty of leisure for sports, roweC
on the college crews, and in sum
mer sailed his own yacht up ant
down the Atlantic coast. AS /;
young man, he did a little "wel
fare work" among the poor, ant
, condescended to shake hands wit
workers as proof of his "demo
crazy" For the same reason, hi
relative, Theodore Roosevelt use
to shake hands with the railroa
! engineer when his train pulled int
? the station.
Has Several Homes
Hyde Park is not Frankli
RoOsevelt's only residence, large
as it is. He owns house in Nev
York City at 49 East 65th stree
The family summer home was a
CampobellO, New Brunswick. Nov
as Governor of New York, he en-
joys the big executive mansion q
Albany and motors to Hyde Par
for week ends. Any one of tn
: several houses owned by the Roc
I sevelt's has more space than
dozen working class families o
; the lower east side can afford Q
= rent. At the Governors house
Albany he has had a private mo
ton picture installed so he can S
4 in comfort and enjoy the late:
! pictures.
> Hundreds of workers childrel
were stricken with infantile p;
ralysis in 1921 when it strucl
Roosevelt, but the difference We
that he had wealth to comman
Z the best physicians in the count1
and leisure to travel wherever
{ might find cure. So at War
3 Springs, Georgia, he found Thu
swimming in the warm water
n the springs started his recover
d He walks and stands now wit
d braces and a cane, and always h;
plenty of secretaries, servants al
IS attendants to wait upon him,
E that he need not move unnece
!, sarily from his office desk.
= Was with Morgan Law Firm
II On being graduated from tn
l. Columbia Law school in 1907,
Q stepped easily into a favored p
It sition In the law firm of Carte
; Ledyard and Milburn, attorney
+, who were often employed by J.
, Morgan. Ledyard was Morgan
j. pet lawyer. Thus Roosevelt learn
is how to- defend large corporatio
" against the exploited workers w
J. tried to sue them, as in his ca
A. against a humble woman describ
le by his biographer.
Having married the niece
Theodore Roosevelt, the you
Morgan lawyer visited freely
(, the White House and started
a. initiate his famous uncle+by-ma
s rage who was also his dista
l. cousin.
is Fought Tammany for
If ], p. Morgan
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of hogs bound for the Sioux City
market and chased the animals IN
to yard where they were reload
ed by the owner into a truck %
be taken home.
At Rockford farmers demanOeo
that the creamery join the strike
They then moved on to nearby
towns to make similar demands
In Wisconsin dairy farmers are
to meet September 2 to decide Oh
Joining the strike. Minnesota
dairy farmers will meet SATURDAY
at Pennington to decide on 'ns
same question.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, dep IVY
sheriffs attacked a crowd OF l'V~
farmers and sympathizers OIL On'
of the highways with tear gas
Each truck was then prOvlOsu
with an armed deputy to DreSA
thru the picket lines.
Nebraska and MINI. Fsr@els
Join Strike
At Cherokee, Iowa, tarmss
from Plymouth and WOO0 ,i.
counties, are enforcing OlOcAS1
of the town. In ThurstOn cOu .;-n
Nebraska, farmers are picks .I.
all railroad stations ana SUI sr
yards in their immediate 'i'" ~.
Two thousand farmers at WI, WI
dom, Mimi, have Joined the '
movement. Lava.
In Blackhawk county, lowe !.
Sheriff n. T. Wagner, has trl .,. !
prevent all picketing. One i ART
er was injured when truck ~" sSs
thru the picket lines under
protection of the sheriff. Ia
80
Due to the spread Of the s' aAOr
to Minnesota the Farmer !. n"S 81
misleaders are attempting y
control Of the strike. Hem aa,,
Nelson and C. F. Gaarens pO-sI
former chairman Of the I
Credits Bureau (which mas , s.
thousands of Minnesota far nn.n.
for inability 10 pay the OuI p,rssu)
charges made by the D cottou.
smoke to the farmers at Co., .ssS
wood. MINI. They sdVO s.rEsd
peaceful measures" ana -hways
against picketing the nsn asSius
Thew are strike breakers-nOSsrs'''Ii i
more. Picketing the hign"s the
the most effective nieasuis ,u,er
farmers have and must o m mis-
sified and extended. me mes Marty
leaders of the Farmer-LaUsOr l.syring
will continue their striKeSp a~s the
tactics at other points wns .s-iks.
farmers are preparing 70
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
Democratic politician, capitalist
lawyer, son of high railroad of
ficial, wealthy, handsome country
gentleman, representative of the
American aristocracy, imperialist,
and exploiter Of the Negro people,
may become the next president of
the United States.
In capitalist United States, the
political party that spends the
most money in campaign advertis-
ing and promotion wins the preSi-
Dental election, and if the Demo-
Gratis can now spend more than
the vast sums spent by the Re-
publicans, they are almost certain
to win. Both Hoover and Roose-
welt are candidates of capitalism.
Both are enemies of the work
ing class. Both have ordered the
shooting down of unarmed work
ers, Negro and white Hoover in
Washington, Roosevelt in Haiti.
Both are acceptable to Wall Street
and Roosevelt perhaps more so
now. An endorsement of the New
York Governor by the N. Y. Jour
nal of Commerce in July, 1892,
spoke for the bankers as follows;
Roosevelt Gives no Alarm to
Wall Street
"Thus far, Governor Roosevelt
has advanced nothing specifically
which would give the least occa-
sion for alarm to those who have
the business and financial stability
of the country near at heart. Mr.
Roosevelt has made an suspicious
start with his address, and ha.
shown that, in principle, he stands
strongly opposed TO economic rad
icalism as an antidote for the de-
preston"
But Roosevelt put out more o.
a bid for the workers vote. HI
likes to talk about "the forgotten
man." but he condemns radicalisn
and the manifestations of starving
unemployed in Hunger Marches
He has at least 100000 jobles
workers in his state, and at leas
1000 have died of starvation il
New York City alone during tn
past year. But Roosevelt himself
; like Their capitalists, lives II
wealth and comfort with his am
bilious eyes on the Presidency.
Who is this man, who would lik
to fool the workers into voting 70
him? What is his record in pub
lie and private life? Why is h
an enemy of the working class
Negro and white?
From the day he was born i
1882, Franklin Roosevelt has ha
!, every advantage that wealth an
social position can bestow under
: capitalism. His father was Jane
; Roosevelt, vice president of tn,
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
and director of many other larg
: corporations. The family wealth
, came directly from the exploits
ton of countless railroad and il
dustrial workers who shaved lon
hours at low wages in order thu
the Roosevelts might live in leis
[ ure and luxury. From his fathe
1 Roosevelt learned the "soumd" cal
s italist methods Of business and +
nance by which private wealth
piled up and increased-and b
7 which greater and greater nun
= bers Of workers and working farm
2 ers are forced down into eutem
: poverty.
!, Born on LO00-acre Estate
D Serum Elbow" at Hyde Par
where this rich child was Dor
is a vast estate of 1000 acre
8 above Poughkeepsie on the HUI
+ son river. A good part of tn
. land has been in the possession i,
the Roosevelt family for a hun