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

organization backed by $4,000 farm
ers and "a farm organizations thru
out the country.
The call of the farmers comedies
with the admission made yesterday
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
that the costI of goods that the
farmer buys have advanced more
rapidly than the costs Of the things
the farmer sells, thus intensifying
even more the burdens and poverty
of the vast majority of the. couf1try's
small farmers.
To Be Largest in History
The Conference to be held at
Chicago, from November Bill, is the
second of it's kind, the first one be-
ing held last year at Washington, D.
c., and it is expected to be the
greatest gathering of farmers in the
history of the country.
Fully 1000 farmers are expected
TO take part in this Conference
which will be one of the greatest
gatherings Of farmers in this coun-
try. At this huge meeting farmer
delegates will take steps to build a
united front of all busted, mort
gagged, dispossessed, ruined and al
most ruined farmers, for a national
fight for real and immediate relief.
Farmers of eveES political party, Of
every faith and every creed, regard
less Of race or color, regardless of
whether they are members of farm
organizations or not, are called upon
to elect delegates to this great con-
ference.
The Farmers National Committee
for Action set up at the First Farmers
National Relief Conference consist
ing of farmers belonging to the
Grange, the Farmers Union, the Farm
Holiday Association, the United
Farmers League and various state
protective associations and coopera-
tives are backing this conference and
will send delegates to it from
organizations. Unorganized farmers
may elect delegates from mass meet
ings, from school house meetings,
and from picnics.
Farmers Lot Worse
There is only one limitation. Every
delegate must be a farmer, real
working farmer who derives his in
come from his work on the farm,
farm woman, a farm youth, farm
worker, or a dispossessed farmer.
Gentlemen farmers" big landlords
or merchants and bankers who own
farms, are not welcome.
The Conference has been called
because the Roosevelt Administra-
ton has not made good its promises
of relief to the farmers. The New
Deal has cut the farmers acreage
but it has put nothing in the pock-
cts of the farmers. 1t has restricted
his market by placing sales tax
on his products which make them
harder to sell to the workers in the
city And in the meantime, the prices
on things which the farmers must
buy have risen out Of reach. The
problems of debts, rents, and taxes
are still unsolved, and the so-called
refinancing provisions Of the New
Deal agricultural act have failed to
prevent foreclosures and evictions.
Plan Action
Conditions on American farms de-
mand action. The Second Farmers
Conference will mean that the OPP
pressed and exploited farming people
will get together to lay plans for
this action.
What shall the farmers do about
the plow-under, butchering, destruc-
ton campaign of the New Deal?
What about the actual hunger, the
needs for vital necessities which
exist on hundreds of thousands of
farms? What about foreclosures and
evictiorlS which have made many
farm families homeless and which
threaten countless more? What
about the tremendous pressure Of
the creditor class, the banks, the in
surance companies, the. money
sharks. Is cancellation OF BACK debts
the next step for the farmers?
These are some of the questions
which the farmers viii answer at
the Second National Conference.
There is nothing cut and dried about
the Conference. The farmers will de-
eide these questions themselves.
All farmers and all farm organi-
Iations, local, state and national, are
urged to order copies of the call from
the executive secretary Of the Ma
tional Committee, Lem Harris, at
1922 H St., N. w., Washington, d. C.
Further information about the Con-
ference may also be obtained from
Mr., Harris.
The Conference will be held at
the Peoples Auditorium in Chicago.
Sleeping accommodations are being
arranged through the cooperation of
workers organizations In Chicago
Farmers will travel, for the most |
part, in trucks, just as they did to
the Washington Conference last |
December. Each farmer is urged to |
bring with him blankets and provi-
sions to be used both on the trip |
and during the stay in Chicago.
All farmers are urged to begin |
at once preparing meetings and |
elscting delegates. One delegate for
every rs members or fraction thereof |
Of your local may be elected. Or if |
your community is unorganized, one
delegate for every Is farmers attend
ing the meeting may be elected. The
Farmers National Committee for Ac-
ton calls ON all farmers ready to
struggle for better conditions to build
national movement to win real
relief.
NO RAISE AHEAD