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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

ABEL COUNTY, Ga.-Arcller Bur
nett. a Negro share cropper, lived on
a rich landowners place here. The
first of the year, the landowner told
Burnett: Now you start turning your
land that you are going to work this
year. BY the first of April he had
all his land turned that he was go
ing to plant,
Cne morning the landowner went
rtfown to the sharecropper's shack and
told him: I think you should plant
forty acres. You would make more
for yourself and your family. The
sharecropper said: Who is going to
help me work all of this land, there
IS nobody but me and my wife and
We can't work all Of that land. 1
will plant only 25 acres.
The landlord said to the crop
pers' wife: Lucy, me and your hus-
band was talking about planting 40
acres this year" She said, no, we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

can work IS acres, we will do good
to work that much. What do you
think about it, Archer? He said:
think we should work IS acres in
cotton, 10 in corn, that is enough.
BiIls-For What?
He said all right, suit yourself.
tell you what want you to do. You
come up to my house and let's figure
out how much fertilizer you are go
ing to use this year. I've got the
bills down there. The share-crop-
per asked what the bills are for. The
landlord said: They are for fertilizer
that I ordered for you to use this
year. Why haven't told you to or
der and fertilizer for me- The land
lord said: You don't have to tell me
what not to do. ordered it and
and now you are going to pay for it.
The share-cropper said: didn't Or
der it and I will not pay for it.
haven't got the money. The land
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titions the landlords wife hollered:
rape. The landlord went running
to the house and got his gun and
said, stop there, Niger, what the
hel are you doing. Archer said,
am looking for the partitions. The
landlord said, you are damn black
liar. You are trying to rape my wife.
she said he winked his eyes at her.
The landlord shot the Share-cropper
three times with shot gun and kill
led him.
Fellow workers, in the same way
this sharecropper was killed, there
are thousands of farmers doing the
same thing. The only way this cam
be stopped is by organizing both Ne
gro and white organized. together.
joining the Sharecroppers, Union and
the Communist Party and the Young
Communist League in your neighbor-
hood. -......-
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you willing to work a crop. Let me
know now while the sheriff is here.
If you don't, the sheriff will be too
glad to carry you back to town with
him. The sheriff said, yes. let me
know so I won't have to come back
to get you.
Archer said, yes sir, I am willing
to work it off.
The landowner told the cropper to
come up to his house the next day.
He had already been on this land
lords place for one year and 6
months.
The Murder OF A Chopper.
The next morning at a. m. he
went up to the house. The landlord
said: Archer, you know them fence
partitions what me and you made
the other day. You know where they
are. Go and get them. So when
the Negro started to go for the par
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
SOVIET WORKER
PAID BY GOVT TO
STUDY ENGLISH
Is in DAILY Worker
m. Brigade"
Dear Comrades in America:

Dear Comrades in America:
am member Of your own brigade,
DAILY Worker Brigade" of the Lepse
Electo-M Motor Works. I was ut by
the factory committee to stuo- Eng
fish in the Moscow Institute of Lang
uages, for this am paid $50 month
by the government, and had to re-
sign my work in the factory to give
me more time to study, I am well
able to get along on the money the
government pays me.
I am pleased very much that have
the opportunity to learn the English
language. There is no pleasure so
great as to get news from American
comrades who read your paper.
I always admired how you fight
boldly for the interests Of the working
class in America. understand your
paper is the, leader in the fight to
abolish Capitalism, and to estavlish
a government ''by the Worker and for
the Worker" like our government in
the U.S.SR.
I am a student Of the second term,
7 still have three years to graduate
from the University.
The capitalist papers print some
terrible lies about the conditions here,
for instance, shortage Of food,
forced labor" ''uprisings" I am not
surprised that the capitaistc system
tells these lies, because after all /
know that the Capitalistic system
lives through lies. because when the
workers in America know the truth
there will no longer be Capitalism to
Cypress. them. I wish to be a Worker
Correspondent" for the Daily Worker.
I remain with best wishes to the
American priletariat and its militant
paper the Daily Worker.
Comradely yours,
p. A. BUCHAREV.
KaIjev Street
House No IL, Station Peroyo
Moscow-Kazan Railway
Moscow, U.S.S.R.
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tees under the leadership of the I'm
employed Councils. In order to try
to stop this they are slandering the
working class organizations and are
also using every method and means
of organizing the self-help and other
charity organizations. But the
workers are beginning to see through
all Of these schemes and are COM
ing closer to the; Unemployed Coun-
ellis. The above illustration is by no
means AL isolated case-there are
hundreds like it-and the condition
Of the Negro workers are much
worse. "A. b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

AS we, the unemployed veterans
and workers of the richest country Of
the world are now in the fourth
winter Of starvation and misery; as
this winter will be the worst ever
before, I have as one of the veterans
joined the Bonus Army in Chicago to
demand the full payment of my
bonus along with the other veterans
Of the world war.
From my experience in the line Of
march from Chicago to Washington
for the bonus see that the police
in the towns did everything in their
power to discourage the Bonus
Misunderstanding the narchers off
freight trains and walking out of
town five and six miles, equipped
with tear gas bombs and machine
guns. I see where Jin-CrowiSm is
being used by the police against the
coIored and discrimination is being
used against the foreign-born; how
the police marched the Hunger
Marchers through the streets of
Washington, D. c., like they were a
bunch of convicts along with the
Hunger MarcherS, the Capitol police
have about 80 0veteranS which is
evidence that we veterans are classed
as buns, vagabonds, hoboes, pan
handlers and criminals in 1881 and
1932-but in 1917 and 1918 we were
heroes.
The working class Of the whole
United States learned through ex-
periences along the lines of march,
both the Hunger and the Bonus
Marchers, that the only plan Of
Hoover and the Wall Street govern
ment is a plan Of starvation and
misery for the Is or Is million unem-
ployed workers on the U. S. A.
Twenty years ago I worked as fill
ing boss in Mississippi in the lodging
camps and while there I saw some
of the worst conditions ever saw in
my whole life. The colored workers
lived in tents herded in like pigs.
The chain gangs were terrible.
was in one. was given 20 days in
the chain gang in Tennessee for
riding a freight train. I found con-
ditions generally very poor; while the
workers in the northern section of
the q. S. A. got fair wages, the
workers Of the South got very low
wages.
Now after viewing the conditions
in the U. S. A., let's view the condi-
tons in Soviet Russia where worked
for 8 months and stayed five months.
In the plant there were evening
classes for young workers to learn tool
making and the nachinist Wade.
The students get paid Q25 rubles)
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owner said: You have strength -
plenty of it. Now the amount of
money you've got to pay is 5000, and
the best way for you to pay this
money is to start working your crop
and by the time you get it gathered
you can pay me what you owe me.
The share cropper said: I don't owe
you anything. The landlord said.
You goddamn son of bitch, don't
dispute my word. You owe me 5000
for that fertilizer am ordering, and
you are going to pay for it right here
on my place or will have you put
on the chain gang, The share-crop-
per said: I am willing to go to the
chain gang if that will pay the debt
that you claim owe. The landlord
said: Yes it will pay the debt that
you owe me. Now what would you
rather do. The sharecropper said;
I would rather go on the road.
The landlord called up the sher-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Mich. Workers Thank
Ohio Militants for
Hunger March Help

YOUNGSTOWN, o. - The Unem-
ployed Council and the Communist
Party have received letters of thanks
from the workers in Michigan for
their cooperation with the National
Hunger Marchers.
To the Unemployed Council of
Youngstown:
Dear Comrades:
We have just heard a report to
our unit on the excellent way you
took care of the comrades taken sick
on the Hunger March to Washing
ton The Unit extends their thanks
to you in Youngstown and hope you
will be successful in the revolution
airy movement as you are located in
a strategic city.
Charles Schofield
Fer Saginaw Sect. CP.U.S.A.
To the Communist Party of Youngs-
town.
Dear Comrades:
Eve herewith extend our deepest
appreciation and gratitude for the
splendid service and care you have
rendered to Comrade Alex little
who is member of this family.
''This is a test, an example of the
ability and willingness of our revo-
lutionary workers to carry thru our
daily struggles THE Hunger March
and in preparing ourselves for the
final struggle in which I hope, COM
rades, VIC shall soon be able to join
you,
Signed Dave little
Carl and Elizabeth little (parcnts)
Detroit, Mich.
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erty stricken inhabitants of the city
who otherwise would be buried in
Potter's field" 1t is fact that the
relief is so miserable in Birmingham
that the Red Cross hasn't much faith
that the workers will be able to en-
dre the misery much longer. But
the workers of Birmingham don't
want beautiful graves" after they
die they want plenty of food now.
That is why 5000 went out on the
streets on November 7th to demand
more relief.
At the same time in Fairview,
which is a suburb of Birmingham,
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Birmingham, Ala.
The local Birmingham press is
raising lot Of ballyhoo about the
10y" given to the poor families by
the Red Cross this Christmas. They
rave about the "foodstuffs and toys"
that we're given out. But here are
the actual facts what workers get:
A white family OF five children,
four boys and one girl, and the par
ents got the following:
8 pairs Of underwear for boys; I
gingf1ann drem for girl; 2 pairs Of
socks for boys; ! pair socks for girl;
2 pairs Of shoes for the boys; ] suit
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underwear and pair of trousers
for the man; l dress and pair of
stockings for the woman.
This is supposed to last until sum-
mer. The father Of the family has
not worked a lick for two years. And
no one in the family had any clothes.
BY giving only two pairs of shoes for
four boys-this means that two must
either go barefooted or go to school
half Of the week while the others go
the other half.
Raying about the toys-a family
got one o. two toys, no matter how
many children there were. and these
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were always little 10c ones.
Food and Forced Labor.
The food given for Christmas did
not vary very much from the every
day ration. For these baskets of
groceries the head OF the family has
to work 2 and days for an order
Of $3.50 which must last family of
or two weeks.
In the same paper on another page
the following is to be found: Thirty
graves in one Of Birmingham's most
beautiful cemeteries have been do
mated to the Community Chest. They
will hold remains of the first 80 pow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Viciously Beaten.

He got a hoe handle and said:
Hold him, sheriff, while 1 teach him
to talk to a white man. I'll show
him how to stay in his place. The
sheriff grabbed the share cropper
and tied him and held his gun on
him while the landlord beat him. He
pleaded but the landlord said, shut
up your damn mouth.
The troopers wife came out and
pleaded too. The sheriff said, shut
u that damn hollering. If you don't
we will get you. The landlord beat
that cropper for 80 minutes and then
he told the sheriff to leave him alone.
He was beaten unconscious. He lay
on the ground, with the blood COM
ing out of his nose and side.
After he gained strength, the land
lord said to him, now Archer, are
you willing to go to the road or are
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the preachers there have organized
a self-help organization, which is
called "Self-Help Employment Lea
que. This organization is applauded
by the preachers and other miSlead-
ers. The Birmingham Post has the
following to say on it: 1T is re-
Election on society's ability to adapt
itself to new conditions for any group
to have to revert to primitive barter,
but it is infinitely better to live as
Pioneers than Paupers!"
The takers and nisleaders are very
aware of the fact that the workers
are organizing into Block Commit
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III and he came down to the planta-
ton. After he heard the landlords
story, they went to the shack. The
landlord called Archer. He was a
little slow about coming. Finally he
came to the door The landlord said:
What was wrong with you, that you
couldn't come when 1 called you. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
UNEMPLOYED VET,
STARVING, TRIES
TO KILL HIMSELF
-gy. fs~
Father of 2 Children
Refused Relief
New YORK, N. Y

An experience I had this week in
drug store on Westchester Avenue,
the Bronx, where I work, is an ex-
ample of how capitalism, rewards its
very choicest war veterans.
A young man, who appeared to be
in the early 30's, staggered into the
drug store about eleven in the eve
ming and asked for bottle of iodine.
His eyes were red and his face I'M
usually wan and haggard:1 However,
[ raised no questions, promptly wrap
ped up the bottle and waited to be
paid. The man stared at me half
stupefied and hunbly- offered his
oYercoat in lieu of payment because
he said, he had no money. I asked
what he needed the iodine for and
here is his story:
Buddy, I'm Hungry"
Buddy, I'm broke and hungry.
Haven't tasted food for. four days,
and I'm just about through. I can't
see anything worth while to live for
and I'd rather commit. suicide than
die like a rat. I'm not g bum. I'm
chemist and willing to. work at
anything. I've worked as baker,
plumber, dish washer and what not.
All I ask is just work-anything to
keep me from starving. uo,..
Believe me, buddy, + have two
Kids, my wife is dead. I've tried
everything-relief committees. vet
Grams bureau, etc. I am not a
tramp. I have seen service across. 1
was gassed, wounded and have a
Congressional medal for bravery.
President Wilson gave me a medal
for unusual bravery in action, but
what does it get me?
II went to the veterans bureau for
medical aid. They told me had T.
B., advised me to eat plenty of eggs
and milk and to come back in two
weeks while they investigated my
case. Where and how am I going
to get eggs and milk? 1 haven't a
place to sleep. left my kids sleep
ing in cellar. look drunk and
wild, don't I? I'm not drunk or a
maniac, I'm just weak with hunger.
I can hardly see with my eyes from
lack of sleep"
After listening to this pathetic tale,
| gave him dollar and talked him
out of committing suicide. / told
him ] would give him the address
OF the nearest Unemployed Council
where l was sure they would help
him.
gave him also a matted milk
with an egg and some crackers. He
drank the matted but refused to eat
the crackers. When asked him
why he said he wanted to bring
them to his children. 1 gave him
another fifty cents and told him to
come back the next day for the adj
dress Of the Unemployed Council.
Suicide No Solution.
White collar workers and workers
generally, suicide is no solution of
the problem. We must organize the
unemployed, awaken them TO the
class struggle and fight together, en-
ployed and unemployed, for the over
throw Of this corrupt, cold-b looded
and brutal system. Let us fight for
a workers and farmers government
where useful workers will be appreci-
ated! ~ IF. w.
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cropper said; was eating my din
ner The landlord said: You're a
damn liar, you were trying to run
off, weren't you? The cropper said:
No, no, sir. was eating my dinner
The landlord said so you call me q
liar ell, I'm going to beat hell out
of YOU
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the HTton LOCKER School, which
this chcild attended to protest this
murder and demand that the school
shall Immediately provide free, hot
lunches for all needy children in
that school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

Greet your fighting. paper, the
Daily Worker, in the special Ninth
Anniversary-Le Memorial edi-
ton Jan. ID. All greetings must be
in by Jan. s.
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Ed. Note: The clipping was an ad-
mission editorially that the children
Of the Soviet Union were the best
nourished in the world that was
made by DR.. ]. Subway of the Uni
versity of Michigan. The editorial
doesn't want Communism but why
not have similar condition for chill
dren here?" it asks. 1t fails to no
tice that only under a working class
government can we have healthy
children, as proven by its own ar
ticle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Boss Paper Admits
Soviet Kids Best Fed
st. Paul, MINI.

st. Paul, MINI.
Dear Editor:
I am a steady reader Of the Daily
Worker and work hard every day
spreading the news that this is the
only working class paper. It's hard
work but I am winning more people
to see that the Communist Party
is the only party. am sending you
a clipping from capitalist news
paper about Russia.
Comrade1y, r. S.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-27

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City heated. Nice and warm.
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Room and Board

Room and Board
FOR RENT-Room and board in good
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$500 each, two in room. Good
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NEW YORK

New York, Dec. 27.-(P-Butter,
1852, weak. Creamery, higher than
extra, % 3-4 to "a IA; extra (92
score), % Ia; first (87-91 score)
% Ia to %; seconds unquoted: CEN
tralized' 600 score). % Ia; packing
stock, current make, No. /, Is; No. 2,
II.
Cheese. 14s,3s3, firm; state. whole
milk flats, fresh. average to fancy
specials, IL Ia to IA; do held, 1918.
Eggs, $3.50. firm. Mixed colors,
standards and commercial standards,
30 to 81 1-2; rehandled receipts, %
to 20 1-2; special packs or selections
from fresh receipts, 1898; dirties.
No. l, AZ lbs, 1928 Ia; average
checks. 26; refrigerator, special packs.
% Ia to 20; standards, %.
Dressed poultry steady to weak
Chickens, fresh, 1916: frozen, 1926;
fowls, fresh or frozen, 9-18; old roost-
ers, fresh 8-l2; turkeys, fresh. 1919
ducks, fresh, lila: frozen 14-l6.
Live poultry els chickens
freight. Ella; express 1,-l4; broilere
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-27
INVESTMENT TRUSTS
by The Associated Press
lover counter at N. "
Rivers in South Are
Misbehaving Again

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 27.-(P)eThe
deep rivers down south are misbehav-
ing again and some of the tributaries
of the Mississippi are even trying to
get "the old man" full.
A flood warning for the upper st.
Francis river district was issued Mon
day night as the stream rose in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. It was above
flood stage at Chaonia, Mo-, and at
st. Francis, Ark, a stage of % to %
feet was forecast for Friday.
Farther down the valley another
western tributary of the Mississippi
was getting slightly out OF hand in its
upper reaches. Fed by the swollen
Poteau, the Arkansas river went above
flood stage at Fort Smith, Ark, and
flooded lowlands for Arkansas and
Oklahoma were predicted.
Livestock and property in the at
fected areas were evacuated against
further rise.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-27
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE SALE

WHEREAS, Default has been made
In the terms and conditions of that
certain mortgage hereinafter described
by the non-payment of the three
and no/l00 dollars ($45.00) each. due
October 3, 1881, and April 3, 1892 and
October 3, 1892, and the sum of twenty
nine and 10000 dollars ts29.3o) paid
as insurance September 25, 1881, and
the further sum OF fifty-three and
December 3. 1892 for the year 1881.
NOW, THEREFORE,, NOTICE is
HEREBY GIVEN, That that certain
mortgage executed and delivered by
John Melvin Syverson and Minnie
Syverson, mortgagors, to the Federal
Land Bank Of Saint Paul, a body corr
porate. Of the City Of st. Paul. County
gagee. dated October 3, 1917. and filed
for record In the office of the Regis
ter Of Deeds Of Burleigh county,
North Dakota, on October 8, 1917, and
recorded In book ISL Of mortgages. at
page 80, will be foreclosed by a sale
hereinafter described. at the front
door of the court house, In the city
Of Bismarck, county OF Burleigh, and
state Of North Dakota, at the hour
of 2 o'clock p. m. on the 14th day of
February, 1893. to satisfy the amount
que upon Sucn mortgage on the Gay
Of sale, for said defaulted indebted
ness. Said sale is to be made subject
and inferior to the unpaid principal
of the aforesaid mortgage to The Fed
eral Land Bank of Saint Paul amount
ing to eleven hundred seventy and
73/100 dollars ($1170.73). The prem
Uses described in such mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the same
are situated in the county Of Bur-
leigh. and state Of North Dakota, and
described as follows:
Lots one % two ca three (3)
and four (4) section six (6) town
ship one hundred thirtySeight
I3S) north, Of range seventy-five
(75) west, containing one hun
dred sixty-two and ninety-four
hundredths 1880 acres. more or
less, according to the government
survey thereof.
There will be due on said mortgage
at the date Of sale for said defaulted
installments, insurance and taxes the
sum Of two hundred twenty-nine and
S7/100 dollars N229.SO. together with
cost Of foreclosure as provided by
law.
Dated this Gath day Of December.
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF
SAINT PAUL Mortgage.
St. Paul, Minnesota.
1927 1/3-10-17-24-31