The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-26

delegates on Washington will lead up
to the national conference, which will
meet here, December to 10, and
which will undoubtedly adopt a set
of demands to lay before congress
which will then be opening for its
short session."
Farmers Adopt Demands.
The demands will probably be those
adopted at the middle western con-
ference of delegates from ten states,
supported by $4,000 farmers massed
in Sioux City at the time and hold
ing series of huge mass meetings
and parades through the streets
These demands were laid before
the governors conference then meet
ing IN Sioux City, and were disre-
garded by the governors, who had no
proposals for relief of the poor farm
ers
The farmers then issued their call
for a national march on Washington,
and for national conference there.
The demands unanimously adopted
at the Sioux City conference are for
a moratorium (period in which no
payments need by made) on farm
debts, mortgages, and taxes; no fore
closures and no tax sales or eYc-
tions; higher prices for farm pro-
ducts at the expenses of the merch-
ants and middlemen and without
higher prices for the worker con-
sumers. The farmers demand also
emergency relief for the poor farm
ers without restrictions by the gov
eminent and banks.
The masses of farmers in Sioux
City endorsed these demands, and
voted to back them up by spreading
the farm strike over the whole coun-
try as far as possible.
U. F. L. Supports Conference.
Mother" Ella Reeves Bloor, speak
ing to the mass meetings and the
Sioux City Conference, in the name
of the United Farmers League, and
pledging the full support of the lea
que to the strike, the national march
and conference, was given great
ovation by the farmers.
Since then, Harris stated yester-
day, many groups of organized farm
ers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
the Nebraska State Holiday Associ-
alton have officially endorsed the
march and national conference, de-
nouncing the conservative leaders of
the Farm Holiday, Farm Bureau,
Grange and other organizations, for
opposing militant action.
Negro and White.
Harris stated that the conference
would include Negro and white "own-
ers. tenants, share choppers and
those who have been dispossessed".
He pointed out that delegates would
be elected by the rank and file of
all farmers mass organizations, even
if in some of them the officials do not
support the plan. Accredited dele
gates will be elected by local mass
meetings of farmers, at the rate of
one delegate for every Is farmers
present.
The delegates on their marcn
across the country will hold mass
meetings in all farm sections. and
draw new support for the conference.
Demands on the way will be pre-
sented to local and state govern
ments.
Local Struggles.
The united front organization re-
sulting locally from these elections
for the national conference, will Or
ganize mass resistance to evictions
and foreclosures and tax sales, and
will lead the farm strike.
1--WE proclaim the right to remain
in our farm homes, is keynote in
the call to the conference.
A. o. Rosenberg. vice president OF
the Nebraska State Holiday Associ-
alton has written the Washington
committee: Eviction and foreclos-
ure are just around the corner for
most of us. Since our leaders, both
those elected by us to represent us
in government and those who head
our farm organizations, have shown
that they cannot or will not help us,
we, the farmers, must take matters
into our own hands. You can count
on caravan of covered wagons from
Nebraska. moving on to Washing