The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09

THE latest reports from the farm area OF the West
give unmsakable indications that the farmers class
war against the starvation robbery program Of the
Roosevelt government is rising to heights
This means that the question of who shall Lead the
strike takes on Hfe-anddea Importance for the
cess Of the strike.
pUT with the Impoverished farmers rising in mass
actions against their capitalist Wall Street oppres-
sors it is obvious That the ruling class will not conne
itself only to naked military force to break the farm
ers' strike.
1t depends also upon its agents in the Of the
striking themselves. These the reacherouS
nisleaders of the National Holiday Association, the
Milo Renos, etc.
II Reno remains in control Of strike leadership grave
dangers face the farners-the danger of second SELL
cut
Reno betrayed the farm strike last spring, by
Sabotaging the pcketing of the farmers by Turing
The farmers into the trap of passive npoent staying
at home while I'VE give Roosevelt a chance"
It must be made known to every striking farmer
eager fight against explorers that Milo Reno
h. at this very moment trying to repeat his monsrous
betrayal. He is again sabotaging picketing, while
mouthng the most violent phrases about "a fight to
She finish"
He is craftily trying to convince the farmers that
they fighting not against the mortgage sharks and
capitalist bankers but for an NR.A code for agri-
cultured AS if it were not precisely the NR-A codes
that have intensified the poverty starvation the
workers and farmersl AS If the NRA codes were not
the Wall Street capitalist instrument to still further
crush the city workers, upon whose purchasing, power
the producing farmers depend!
The continued leadership of Reno constitutes grave
danger TO the success of the strike.
Three weeks ago he pleaded with the farmers to
remain at home in a no buying, no selling" strike
But it is obvious that this miserable attempt
to sabotage the pickeng of the failed
miserably Reno yesterday pretended to favor picket
ing in order to escape being swept aside by the rapid
advance of the picketing farmers.
But at the very moment that he appears to
defend the mass actions of the farmers, in order
TO conceal his earlier admOnition against them,
his leutenapts in the various farm states are at
tempting to break the strike piecerneaI strike
confusion into the ranks of the strikers by calling
off the Strke
The professional farm betrayers must be at once
removed from the leadership of the strike!
The ruined farmers themselves those who
actually picketing the roads, must themselves
elect their own COMMITTEES of Action! Only these
Committees must have any authority to speak
for the strikers! All leaders must be elected By
the picketing dirt farmers themselves and be
responsible to them alone.
Victory in the strike would be further guaranteed
the agricultural laboIers the most militant force in
the rural districts enter into the strike with the i'm
poverShed farmers and give the strike an aggressive
class struggle character
The Chicago Conference must take the leadership
OF the farm strike! 1t must carry the class war to
the countryside Only this kind of fighting leadership
can secure victory for the farmers in the present fight
against the Roosevelt hunger program.