The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-02

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Dear Comrade:-
have many things to tell you.
Your last letter was wonderful for
I have never seen such mass actions
as you describe, strikes, demonstra-
tons, etc. Your description makes
me feel like struggling harder, and
brings me JOY, to think of the day
when we, workers and farmers shall
win our final battle for a classics
society.
After year feel that it was best
I joined the Party, that am in
close touch with the world movement
of the revolutionary workers. 1t used
to seem SO isolated up here that life
was not worth living but now am
getting more active though keeping
my membership secret on account of
the small locality in which we live.
After a youth in which I absorbed
much religion, I feel today very Bit
ter towards these bishops and all who
live on our misery. Can you blame
me?
started this letter last night and
now am on hill watching the sun
set, so you will excuse my writing the
rest in pencil. Sunday, today. is the
only day have to mself and wan
der around with my gun and also
study out here in the woods.
After working fourteen and fifteen
hours a day it seems relief to get
here right where where I am stand
ing.
Something happened in 1928, that
recall. I and group of young
workers in the logging camp about IL
miles from here started home, on
Saturday night on the logging train.
Here we came to bridge and the
engineer stopped the train and. told
us to get off. The fireman walked
across the bridge and the engineer
started the engine on a slow throttle
and got off, also. When it reached
the other side the fireman got on
and stopped it. couldn't under
stand this vancouver and they ex-
planned it to me. The bridge was so
rotten that they were afraid to ride
across it. 1t was a ramshackle af-
fair but the lumber company did not
care about risking their workers
lives as the state only pays ten dol
lars month to the dependent of
dead lumber worker.
Conditions Worse In Lumber Mill.
went through the lumber mill
near home the other day and things
were worse til a n have ever
seen them. One man is doing the
work formerly three did. The speed
up is terrible and the company pur-
posely hires only married men. We
aroused a militant spirit among the
workers before the mill shutdown
and the bosses blacklisted the mill
tants. We knew nothing of strike
strategy at the time otherwise the
bosses wouldn't have found us out
so easy and gotten away with i'll But
| it is our defeats that teach us the
lessons that brings us victory.
Forms Study Circle.
am carrying on my studies with
some workers in a town near here.
I like going to meetings very much
as we get together and one learns
so much in that way. There is one
woman in the class and that is a
victory for us as we do not have
enough farm women in the class
struggle. The class is very lively,
everybody taking part in the discus
sions and helping to plan future
work. I have been selected to lead
the next educational discussion on
the book. New Russia's Primer.
Can't Sell Product.
More about our life out here Here
at home we have 80 acres, a good dairy
herd. with good average milk pro-
duction and are considered little
better off than the average poor
farmer around here. Are we? Here
are the figures for July. 1t is not an
exception or unusual low but the last
one I have record of. Cows, 26;
pounds of milk, 14,295-price 81 cents.
Value of produce si92.64. Cost of
Iroughage. $50: Grain, $3.50. Value
above cost. is therefore eighty-one
collars and forty-one cents. A family
of eight to provide for. groceries, :
light bill, butcher, etc. Also federal
loans to repay, notes, etc.
Isn't that he'll of a mess? And
a hundred mics away, workers kids
are going without milk while we can
not sell all we produce. The farmers
will and can and must be organized !
for without them, we cannot win our
battle. l have made two new con-
facts since my las letter to you.
I am reading Lenin's State and
Revolution and Engels' Socialism,
Scientific and Utopian. They are
fine. 1 have Just heard that our
comrades in the city were acquitted
in the frams-up over strike here.
That is progress. Well I will close,
as this has been rather long.
"A vcvn- Ar,crioyn Farmer