The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-04
BACK TO THE LAND
BUNCOMBE
The Bankruptcy of Capitalist Relief
Activities

ing tenants are almost impossible to,
find On the other hand, the
farmers have been economizing
by going back to their horse drawn
implements, keeping their tractors
in the sheds" 4
Any answer to this crisis of the
farmers, which has existed for II
years, such as Ford gives, namely,
that "the farmer has had a hard
time, but he is about the only
citizen shreWder and smarter than
the banker" is simply laughing at
the misery of the farmer, and con-
tradicts Ford's very theory of the
return to he land.
| GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT, not to
" be outdone in demagogy by Henry
Ford, also has begun back to land
movement. Two hundred and
forty-four farmers have been es-
tablished on farms, and Roosevelt
has called upon owners of idle land
in the State Ito support their pro-
ject by offering their property for
this usage in the emergency" This
is again more bunk, which flies in
the face of the economic facts, and
is merely an attempt at a shortcut
out of a situation which must be
faced frankly. The back to the land
movement is sign of the bank
ruptcy of the capitalists who are
determined not to furnish relief
for the unemployed, but who are
fighting with all energy against UNI
employment insurance. This flies
in the face of statement of the
Agricultural Department of the
State of Pennsylvania, which repu-.
dates the return of the land move
ment on the grounds that there
is an oversupply, and this will mean
merely further illusions for the
workers who are put on the land.
Bankruptcy cries out from every
measure that the capitalists have
undertaken in the matter of re-
lief-5ankruptcy and fake move
ments for relief that enable them
to build up their political machine
and to prepare for war. The 300
million dollar loan to the States
as proposed by Hoover. and &C.
cepted by the conference of the
Committees of the House and SEN
ate, with the provision that the
President shall be given one-third
to be used at his discretinon "c1
the basis of need" shows further
that not only will the government
provide no measure of relief, but
is using Government appropria-
tons for financing corporations in
the event of war. !
THE WORKERS must see through :
i these schemes of the capitalists,
and accept the fact from the mouth
of the capitalist representative
himself, namely that the back to
the land movement will not help,
but on the contrary will merely
sharpen the situation among the
farmers. The mere fact that farm
property has dropped in value from
80 billion dollars to 81 billion dcl-
lars, a drop of more than 20 BIZ
lion dollars is an indication that
this is merely an attempted escape
Of the capitalists from the obliga-
lions that they must be compelled
to carry out. No back to the land
movement No talk of hundreds OF
thousands of workers who never
again will see the inside of the
factory! The workers must demand
adequate unemployment relief and
Unemployment Insurance at the
expense of the employers and the
government. The workers must de-
mand a 7-hour day, with no reduce
ton in pay. This and other meas
ures will either give the workers
jobs, or provide them with relief
and insurance because they have
no jobs as result of the economic
crisis. This is the platform of the
Communist Party that the work
ers must organize and fight for. The
back-to-t the Land movement must
! not take place.