The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-24
BY WHITAKER CHAMBERS
COURTESY OF
INTERNATIONAL
PAMPHLETSl

our COW S QleQ, SdlQ AIl1l5 1lOlu-
ing out the can.
"Oh she died, huh? Mr.. Frances
said she was going to-"
did Frank get some milk?'
"Well, we MIXED early, Mrs. War
dell, and we had only enough for
ourselves. Mr.. Frances didn't have
no money. There's SO many like
that now"
1--WE got some money" Ann said.
well, I'll see if mother could
spare a little. Give me the can"
Ann walked in the open door
where it was plain to see the
chickens also walked.
They didn't hear her come.
Hilda Frances was not crying.
She was walking the bare floor,
saying, Baby, baby, baby, baby!"
When she reached the wall she
would stop. When she paced back,
she would begin again. Baby, baby
baby" 1t was Frank, with his head
in his arms, on the table who was
crying.
1--WE did get some milk, after all"
said Ann Wardell.
Hilda stopped Milk! God bless
you, Mrs. Wardell, Good bless you!
Oh, God bless you'll"
"a funny God that brings babies
into the world, and takes away their
mothers milk, and kills the COWS
that feed them, Mrs. Frances. But
let me have a look at the baby
before I co.
"You got milk for them at Pur-
cell's!" Jim said when she came in.
Eyes"
He frowned but said nothing.
you've got to STOP" he told her
week later. "You can't do it.
The colds coming. We've only got
SO much. You're taking the food
from John and Robert"
"You can't let q baby die"
''Worse things will happen before
this winters over. What good does
1t do? Keep it alive another week.
You'll have to stop then. And you're
only taking it away from the boys.
They'll be up against it soon enough.
That's the trouble with your
charity. You can't keep it up, and it
only makes Frank and his wife
hope it's forever. 1t makes them
content. And they can't be. When
he sees the baby's going to die, he'll
cry for milk and food along with
the rest of us. He's got to. It's
coming. It's coming soon.''
"T'M A
Say are you really a SOCIALISM
asked Davis, driving his Ford up to
the house.
what do you want to know for?
asked Wardell with his foot on the
running board. Bunch of the boys
want to lynch ne?"
mot yet, Jim," grudging lop-
sided smile since his face was lop-
sided. Hell is going to break loose
around here soon, if things don't
get any better, and they may be
wanting you then. But this here
I came about, is personal business.
There's family of greaserS squat
ting on my land, and they won't
get off. They've got four kids and
the woman just had twins last
night. No doctor! They haven't
got no food, and the man says they
amt got no gasoline so they can't
go on, they've just got to stop on
my place. Well, they amt going to-.
We can't feed the white men up
there now, let alone greasers. OF
course, I can have them run in
down in Paris. But on account of
the woman having those kids last
night, I thought maybe-some of
your Socialist ideas-you'd let them
stay on your place"
I'm not a Socialist" said War
dell.
what the hell are you them"
'I'm Communist"
whats that?"
"Well, just now it means / want
free food for every farmer that
can't pay for it, free milk for the
babies, free rent, and if we can't
get free food, I'm for going and
taking it,
What did you say you called
YOURSELF"
"a Communist"
"That's like Red, Russians,
"No, working-men and poor
farmers, like you and me-"
1.-THE Communists are political
party, called the Communist Party
of the United States"
"And they believe in free food?"
"Yes."
"I'll be over tonight" said Davis,
GIVE got to go to Paris now. Good
bye, Jim. I'll tell those Mexicans
to come down here"
"If you won't let them on your
own place"
That day it began to snow, sud-
denly, before dark.
Ann, I think Davis will come
over to u.s. he said as he sat down
to the boiled beans.
Come OVer?"
ITO us. He's coming here tonight
Jim, be careful"
"I'll be as careful as I can. The
time is past when we can afford tc
be too careful. Stay up tonight
boys, and listen to what Mort Davis
and I talk about"
The deep snow separated the
farms, but it made starvation
general.
At first they burned the fence
posts, those who had them; thu
others, the floor boards in thu
barns. Those had no barns burned
their hen-coops. But after char
coal, what?
The men took out their guns
the pretext being to hunt jack