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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
RooSevelt'S Farm
Program

E democratic candidate for president relieved himself of
considerable wind from the State House steps at Topeka
Wednesday under the pretense of giving the farmers
program But the kndest thing that even the New YORK
Times that eminent organ of finance capital and Demo
cratic party paper say about Rooseves program
speech had to be accompanied by the following
doubtful Least ambiguous !"
particular method to makeh program effective
What is tne G view f H T and pos WS set fortn in
the first of tariff benefit world prices for producers of
realization by the conditions Of the other five points
producon0 either worthless words not they
will defeat the whole plan
WE have known for some time that Roosevelt was flirting with what is
domestic allotment PLAN born in the brain Of
ducon for the past five years and ot him certificates
age crop For example farmers average crop Of wheat IS sOO bushels
sold At the world price, but for the loco
pre~pus of the tariff wheat which is
plan which flirting Topeka
surrounds
stimulate production But that precisely what will do and to such
condition that finance Itself One the most
paw Who will pay these cifas? Which certificates by the way
@ the @ And for hn but TG for h
farmers when he that agriculture does not want relief from
Third Roosevelt "pan dumping"
dumping will inevitably the the
the result that the small middle of America will be
the same they will be disseminated against in otents IN favor Of
s n 5h @ Th0 wi" raise big surplus because dumping wi" be
says plan
federal responsibility though wants the political credit
its operation into the hands of the local bankers politicians
which strengthening" both nan-
politically they pretty bankrupt
gunner money up help farmers
point" that the
voluntary Anything either voluntary or compulsory and nothing
possible"
the rich farmers and will nre the small and middle farmers Roosevelt
hesaes will compulsory but it compulsory
enforced by dictatorship it will not work at ALL
refusing
small middle
ALL told RooseVeltS farm program only another
farmer votes If it could possibly worwh cannot in the long
would small of
corporations make the of tong
than before Against this dagog and deception the Communist
declares
Emergency relief the
taxation, collection r debts
Furthermore
struggles make these effective
market strike which Roosevelt
trying to betray And all farmers not the
Communist ticket
to prevent by their own mass power seizures and foreclosures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
BY ELIZABETH LAWSON

1--WE hundred Negro citizens of
Shreveport, La, approached the
doors of the Lakeside Auditorium
not very many weeks ago, prepared
to hold a meeting in which they
would plan to cast their ballots.
They were, In the overwhelmingly
majority, followers of the Demo-
cratic Party.
These Negro citizens found the
auditorium guarded like fortress.
PdNce, armed with rifles and ma
chine guns, stood sentinel at every
door. The meeting was broken up.
Albert White, editor of the Shreve-
port Afro-American, who was to be
a speaker at the meeting, was
driven out of town and forced to
remain in hiding for many weeks.
Said the police:
Before Negroes are allowed to
vote, the streets of this city will
run red with blood"
I'VE DON'T WANT
YOU TO VOTE!"
At about the same time in Hous-
ton, Tex, G. N. Love, editor of the
Houston Informer, who had also
been active in the fight for the
suffrage, awoke at midnight with
the smell of fire in his nostrils, He
found that slabs of wood saturated
in oil had been pulled around and
under the house, and lighted.
A short time later, at Denison,
Texas, leaflets were distributed in
the name of the Khan. They read I:
Negro: the white people do not
want you to vote Saturday.
do not make the Ku Klux Khan
take a hand.
"Do you remember what hap
pened two years ago, May 81" CThis
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never forget-while certain per-
centage of white workers are de-
prived of the right to vote, the Me-
groes in the South are deprived Of
the ballot-almost to man. This
national aspect of the problem
should never be lost from sight.
In another article to be published
soon, shall show how the Repub-
lican. Democratic and Socialist
parties have combined to deprive
the Negroes Of the South of the
right Of the ballot, and shall take
up the question: What is the duty
of the Communist Party and Of
the revolutionary mass orgsniza-
tons in the fight for Negro en-
franchisement7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
BY HELEN KAY
Editor of New Pioneer.


THE well-known Jewish writer,
L Moishe Nadir, hearing of the
critical situation in the NEW
PIONEER, sent a liberal donation,
to insure the appearance of the
September issue and with it, wrote
81 can't, by the way, help telling
you that I consider the New Pho
neer . splendid magazine from the
point of view of imbuing our work
ers' kids with the class struggle
idea.
II don't know of any other red
magazine of this kind that is
edited with more care or is bet
ter illustrated and ornamented,
or of one that comes nearer
achieving what is set out to do.
So, here's more power to the
New Pioneer
ALWAYS READY"
The September issue is now off
the press. A special school number,
since the schools open on Septem-
Der 10th, and with it the fight Tor
Free Food in the schools, the New
Pioneer emanates the life of the
workers children. From the lively
cover, made by Jacob Burck to tna
back strip, it breathes life, vivacity,
and struggle.
The New Pioneer IS true Pho
neer. While it was forced to skip
its August issue cue to the fact
that there was TO money, and that
hills from the districts were due
and not paid for, its appearance
in September is real comeback
The New Pioneer promises its
readers that as long as their sup
port is as keen and wide awake as
it has been, it will continue to ap-
pear regularly, and lead them in
their fight for food and clothing.
IN AUGUST we could not inform
J our readers through the mails
that we we're unable TO appear.
This was due to the fact that the
post office would have demanded
at least $3.50 for our five thousand
paid in advance subscribers. An
accountstnat- world have been q big
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16


democratic rights, as part and par
Gel of the struggle of the white
bosses to keep them apart from the
white workers, to maintain them
as specially exploited group.
White workers are also dis
franchised-to greater extent this
year than ever before. The for
eign-born, the soldiers and sailors,
the youth, are disfranchised by
law. An enormous percentage OF
the unemployed are disfranchised
in fact, by residence qualifications,
by poll taxes, by property require
ments, etc., etc.
1t is necessary to fight against
the disfranchisement of the work.
ers, black and white. But we must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
Mcnamara
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS

BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS
Because he was strong and fearless
In Labor's behalf
They have Gagged him here,
Yet he has grown stronger
In their prison Of stone and STEEL
The labor-fakers have dropped away
The tools of corrupt politics
Whom his martyrdon1 saved
Heed him no longer
They are afraid of such men,
Afraid of their sublime courage,
Proletarian strength.
In the grey light Of prison depths
He looms giant.
A Prometheus bound to a rock
For daring to light the torch of Freedom
At the fires of rebellion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
ONLY BREAD
AND COFFEE.

There has been no supper for
Two days now, and today only the
kids got bread with their coffee"
lnterrupter the storekeeper.
The storekeeper, to show me his
poverty, led me into his store and
pointed at the empty shelves. He
explained that, actually, he was a
miner, that now he was striking
too, and that he only kept this little
store on the side. He had no money
to buy stock, and except for few
packages of cigarettes, there was
hardly anything in this store.
"Why should I keep any stock?"
he explained, mo one has any
money to buy with. They even get
the cigarettes one at a time Tor a
penny apiece. -"
When we came out, John Gavro
was no longer in front of the store.
The storekeeper said that he must
have got to feeling ashamed be-
cause of the woman.
WHAT A MAN
JOHN is"
But what man John is!o he
said. HE would not miss the pick
ct line for anything. He can hard-
~ move his bulk, he's so hungry;
nevertheless, he walks six miles
there. We picket for one hour, and
then six miles back, and here he
gets a cup of black coffee with the
rest. Today we had no bread either.
He used to mine twice as much as
any ordinary man, and he could
lift a two hundred pound potato
barrel like bottle Of beer. That's
the kind of a man he was. All the
same, I wouldn't like to take a wall
Top from him today either. :. That
woman is his ruin. She was all
ways a rotten one She doesn't care
whether it's a Pole, Gypsy, or Ne
gro If the miner has any money
left, she takes it away at cards or
for whiskey. That's why she keeps
the strike breakers in the house.
That's the kind of woman she
is :"
well, if he likes the woman"
interrupted.
Il don't know I only know that
these single miners are like mon
grel dogs. It's hard for them to
leave the door where they get a
bone"
CLOWLY the strikers gathered on
" the lot behind the kitchen. Men,
women, children. Blacks, whites.
There were those who had hurried
up pantingly inquiring after the
provision truck. One or two women
had come with pots. The children
began to blubber when they heard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
Guns andRobe for NegroesWho
Fight for Their Right to Vote

and extend the Acknowledgement of
Negroes is one of their ways of
trying to fight back the wave of
resistance.
pY what methods are the Negro
- citizens disfranchised?
First, high poll taxes, and the
requirement that all personal taxes
be paid before registration. In
Georgia, all taxes legally required
since 1877 must be paid six
months before election. Picture
the poverty stricken Negro worker
or tenant-farmer, deliberately kept
on the verge of starvation, being
able to meet these requirements.
Second, high property quail
fication.
Third, a fake educational test"
whose only purpose is the dis
franchiSement of Negroes. No
Negro will ever be able to read to
the satisfaction" of the lily-white
committeeman or poll watchers of
the South
Fourth, an understanding and
character test. But obviously,
Negro who wants to exercise his
right Of suffrage thereby becomes
an undesirable citizen" in the eyes
of the poll watchers.
Fifth, the famous grandfather"
clauses, which operate to permit
persons to vote even when they are
not able to meet other tests, or
their ancestors, provided they voted
in 1867. The hly-white purpose of
this clause is obvious.
Sixth, sheer terror-the use of
armed force, by police, sheriffs anc
militia; the threat of lynching; the
stirring up by the white press and
other boss agencies of crowds of
white hoodlums against would be
Negro voters.
SOME RECENT
EXAMPLES
Here are the some recent ex-
amples from the field of struggle
for the suffrage:
North Carolina: Negroes of Ra-
leigh who we're unable to pronounce
words in the state constitution or
explain them to the satisfaction"
of the poll-watchers, we're stricken
from the lists. Two hundred and
ten colored Democrats were de-
prived of their ballot in this way.
In other North Carolina localities,
a last-minute challenge to Negro
voters-so late that there was no
time to answer it-resulted in the
disqualification of over 1,40O Ne
groes No whites we're challenged.
Tennessee: The state convention
of the Democratic Party did not
pass preferred resolution against
the franchise for the Negroes
because it would be inefficious"
that is, it wouldn't work.
But terror and intimidation were
used to try to keep the Negroes
from the polls. Former Governor
Paterson, now once more can
didate for the governorship, said:
1T is travesty upon law and
decency to allow the votes of these
Negroes to determine the result of
Democratic primary Paterson
is being urged in the campaign as
THE white mans choice"
Texas: In Houston, election
judges refusing to admit Negroes
to the polls were backed up by the
police. At Sherman, flaming
cross warned Negroes in the name
OF the Klan to keep away from the
voting booths.
South Carolina: Democratic com
mitteemen invoked the grandfather
clause to strike from the lists the
names OF Negro citizens.
THUS by one method and another,
l millions of Negro citizens are
deprived Of one Of their elementary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16

ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-16
SOCIALIST PARTY POISON

Not one comrade could give any
facts or examples to prove any of
their statements. No scientist has
ever proved the slightest inferiority
of Negro to white. The Party is
not ION its knees" to the Negroes.
This is the most vicious kind of
Socialist Party propaganda. Our
Party, which is a Party Of Negro
and white, does state, however,
that special attention must be paid
to work among the most oppressed
Negro masses.
The Negro masses have justi-
fled mistrust of the white work.
ers because they have been OPP
pressed, misled and betrayed by
the white master class and by
such takers as the Republican and
Democratic politicians, the A. F. of
L., the N. A. A. G. p, the Social
ist Party, other reformists, etc.
Though we are the only Party
fighting for Negro rights, we, as
yet, have not proved to the Negro
workers in Rhode Island that we
are sincere and that together we
can better their conditions. That
is why we must pay more attention
to the Negro masses.
To say that one was angry is
not enough to cover over a state
ment so contradictory to the Party
Nne. One is not chauvinist for
Just moment; the remark was an
outburst of concealed chauvinism.
UNIT CONDEMNED
Some comrades in the Providence
Unit are allowing capitalist views
to influence them. These views
have to be condemned as anti
working class, as views that
strengthen the capitalist oppression
of the Negro workers.
b 1.-THE Negro masses know every
thing that goes on in our Party
that relates to the Negro question.
1t is not possible for us to extend
our political influence among them,
except upon the basis of daily, con-
tinuous, Incorporating, relentless
war, against every manifestation of
white chauvinism." (Eary Browder
in April "Communist.")
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that I had not brought any relief.
Twenty or thirty miners we're buzz
ing around me, each one trying to
push the other away so to be the
one to tell me their troubles.
1.-THE mine is operating with
strike breakers. Formerly, four
hundred of us were working, now
only two hundred and fifty. True,
about a hundred Of that number
are n2w, but the rest, we are sorry
to say, are from among us. We
came out hundred per cent five
weeks ago, but the miners are so
poor around here, that if they come
out in the morning, in the evening
they are already asking for relief.
So, one by one, most of them have
gone back"
Ito Be Continued)
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John GAVRO
AsTORY OF MINERS LIVES AND STRUGGLES
INsTALMENT I
By EMIRY BALINT.

kloverdaIe, penn.
"dear comrade do you still re-
member johngavro from valar
only got three weeks for it and
this is the eighth week that i'm
out at kloverdale and i'm writing
greet you cOmrade and all the
communists.
johngavro
member of the communist party
Q q
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100000 Negroes Now
Barred from the
Polls

refers to the date when George
Hughes, Negro, was burned alive
at Sherman.)
-FOUR million Negro citizens of
the United States are today de-
prived of that most elementary
democratic right, the ballot. AL
most two-thirds of the American
born Negroes 81 years of age and
over, are disfranchised.
In ten states of the Union and
the District of Columbia, the ma
tons capital Negro citizens are
today barred from the polls. The
area of Acknowledgement covers an
immense territory of the South
including the states of North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas. 1t is
through these states that the Black
Belt runs-that great territory in
which the majority of the popula-
ton is Negro.
SHARE CHOPPERS.
TENANTS RESISTING
This year, the struggle has sharp
ened. The increasing unity of
Negro and white workers, the
struggles in the South, the resist
ance of Negro troopers and tenants
against robbery and peonage-these
have struck terror into the hearts
of the white robber landlords,
bankers, bosses and state officials.
Their furious efforts to continue
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-13
MAKES COWS SICK

MAKES COWS SICK
The condition among cows known
as salt sick" has been found. ac-
cording to the American Dairy Sci
ence association. to be caused by q
deficiency of copper and iron in the
diet.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-13

tions where the observers devote only
few minutes each day to recording
one or a few elements of weather.
The only large land area where
no permanent stations now exist is
Antarctica, where, however, stations
have been maintained for consider
able periods by exploring expeditions,
and where some permanent stations
will undoubtedly be established in
the future. One of the favorite prof.
ects Of the late Admiral Peary was
the establishment of a weather OBJ
servatory at the South Pole. At pres
ent the southernmost weather station
in the world Is one maintained by the
Argentine government at Laurie
Island in the South Orkneys, about
latitude 81 degrees south.
Thus there Is no station within the
Antarctic Circle. but there are several
within the Arctic Circle. the most
northerly one. and the most north
erly permanent inhabited spot on the
globe, being that maintained by the
Russians in Franz Josef land. There
are half dozen stations In Green
land, and there are others in Spitz-
bergen. The United States has a
station at Pont Barrow. Alaska. All
the stations mentioned report the re-
suits Of their observations by radio.
Several other weather stations will be
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-13
Says Lack of Iodine
Injurious to Stock

Livestock in certain sections of
Burleigh county are suffering from
q lack of iodine content in rations,
according to H. o. Putnam, county
agent, who advocates feeding of po-
tassium or sodium iodide as rem
edy.
The states in the northwest have
the greatest iodine deficiency in the
United States, he said, and unless
proper precautions are taken, live
stock may suffer.
A number of Burleigh county
farmers reported litters of hairless
pigs in 1881, condition which may
Be directly attributed to lack of
iodine in feed and water, Putnam
believes.
The United States Department of
Agriculture makes the following
statement relative to hairless pigs
Condition in which pigs are born
with little or no hair is usually as
ISOLATED with goiter in sows and
seems to. be due to lack of iodine in
rations. This condition may be
avoided by feeding the pregnant SOW
two grains Of potassium or sodium
iodide each day"
Lick Of iodine in fodder also
causes goiter, and "big neck" among
sheep and woolless lambs are usually
the result Of lack Of the mineral.
One-half ounce Of potassium
iodide mixed daily with a half ounc,
Of milk sugar and dissolved in water
will supply 100 ewes with enough
iodide, he said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-13
Speaking To lUpothpr:'
{ BY Charles Fltz1ugh 7dIn1dn
j, fAP U.s. Weather Bweau
III EXETQSIYEY EQR- MA SERZ1L

maintained in the Arctic regions for
the international Polar Year" of
1892.
Not only is the world now dotted
over with weather stations, but the
obServat tons made at the more I'M
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-13
QlR1I1EN EXllQSIYElY
No Matter Where You Go. You'll
Near - Several Located in Arctic
Circle.

One of the remarkable products OF
modern civilization is the vast net
work of stations for observing and
recording the worlds weather. 1t is
estimated that there are now in op-
Grafton more than $4,000 of these
stations as fixed locations on land
and several thousand ships conduct
regular weather observations during
their voyages. Several hundred ships
report their observations regularly by
radio for immediate use on land in
connection with forecasting.
OF the land stations, some are large
observatories fully equipped with
elaborate instruments making very
detailed records. At the opposite ex.
treme. there are thousands Of sta.
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portant of these have broadened in
scope in recent years. Thus there
has been a general increase in the
number of observations made each
day, and hundreds of stations meas
ure conditions in the upper air with
the aid of balloons, kites or air
planes
TOMORROW: What is a cloud
burst?
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-03
N. P. Division Point
Moved From Pasco

Predictions that the Pasco division
of the Northern Pacific would be elm
mated when the Tacoma division was
extended from Ellensburg to Yakima
were confirmed Saturday, according tC
the Yakima Herald when H. E. Ste
vens, vice president in charge of opera
lions, announced in Seattle that this
will be done December l.
That the change will expedite the
movement of fruit eastward was the
comment of shippers Saturday, when
the announcement was received. The
belief was current that trains leaving
Yakima at midnight will go through to
Spokane without stop, thus affecting
saving of time.
The elimination of the Pasco divi-
sion is expected to add materially to
the population of Yakima Work on the
Yakima terminal is being rushed with
the expectation that it will be COM
pleted by December l.
Stevens said an assistant superin-
tendent and staff will be retained in
Pasco to expedite the movement Of
traffic there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-03
VOTERS URGED TO GO TO
POLLS EARLY IN DAY

Because of the size of the ballot this
year with the initiatives and proposed
amendments and the numerous party
candidates. Election Inspector NJ S.
Meeks of White Bluffs urges that as
far as possible voters inform themselves
in advance of their going to the cleo
ton place so that they will occupy the
booths for the least amount of time.
The number of booths is limited and
voters should go to the polls as early
In the day as possible to avoid con-
gestion during the late hours OF the
day.
There are limited number of sam
pie ballots at the Spokesman office for
the convenience of voters.
The election will be held at Liberty
hall, the polls being open from a. m
to 8 p. m. The election will be con-
Quoted by the same election board that
served at the primary.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-03
Woman Orator To
Proclaim Republicanism

The final Republican rally in this
valley will be held Friday night, Nov.
4. There will be meetings at both Han
ford and White Bluffs. The meeting
at Hanford will be held in CAlEmunity
hall and will begin promptly at 1870,
Immediately preceding the picture show
Fat White Bluffs the meeting will be
held in the high school auditorium
beginning at $3.50.
The two speakers at the meetings
will be Mrs. Bessie Lewis and Ed Fer
guson, both of Wenatchee.
This will be the first time in the
present campaign that the voters in
this valley will have an opportunity to
hear woman orator and Mrs. Lewis
will no doubt attract many women
voters to the meetings.
Both Mr. Ferguson and Mrs. Lewis
have the reputation of being excellent
speakers. Mr.. Ferguson is also rated
a good story teller and may resort to
this accomplishment in emphasizing
some of the points he makes in his
address.
Every one, regardless of party affili-
ations, is invited to attend these meet
ings.