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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-06-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marthaler
and children and Mr. and Mrs. Mar
tin Marthaler and son spent Sun
day visiting with relatives at st.
Stephen, MINI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Burke, of
st. Cloud, were callers at the Fl. j.
Bentfield home Wednesday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Kraemer, of
Brandon, Mimi, were visitors here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Clark and
family, of Sank Centre, were Sum
day visitors here, the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Moore.
H. j. Bentfield spent part Of last
week at Duluth where he attended
a convention of Postmasters. He
returned home Sunday evening.
Miss Marie Sauer, who has been
employed at Albany, is spending
the week visiting at home.
Miss Anna Kuntz, of Minneapolis,
is here enjoying a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Mary Kuntz.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Sohle were
six o'clock dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Fearing at Osakis Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Schneider and
family, Mrs. Pauline Schneider and
daughter, Cathryn, of Metre Grove,
visited here Thursday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Marthaler.
Emil and Charles Anderson, Of
Sioux Falls, s. D., visited at the
H. J. Roth home from Tuesday af-
ternoon to Wednesday.
A. w. Kiel and son, Of Marshall,
Mimi, were over night guests Tues
day of Mr.. and Mrs. George En-
sign. Mr.. Kiel is brother-in-law
OF Mr.. Ensign.
Mrs. G. II. Sohle and Mrs. H.
Wakefield accompanied Mrs. Ann
Tweeten and son, Gordon, Of Bat
tie Lake, to Minneapolis Thursday.
They returned the same evening.
Mrs. Tweeten stayed over at the
Sohle home until Friday and Cor
don remained for longer visit.
Mrs. Theodore Noeske and Mari
Ign were Melrose visitors Thursday,
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. AL
Kleinfehn and family.
Mrs. Anna Schlicht returned
home from Elrosa Thursday after
a weeks visit with her sister and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Lenard Kuef-
Ter.
Mrs. Joe Huss and daughter, Nell,
Of st. Cloud, were guests Sunday
Of Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Cans.
Theodore We're returned to his
home at Moorhead Sunday after
spending three weeks here visiting
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Didier and
daughters, of New Ulm, arrived
here Tuesday for visit with his
father, J. P. Didier and family.
They left for home Friday.
The Ed and Al Miller families en-
joyed an outing at one Of the beau
titful lakes at Alexandria Sunday.
Ed Lohmann and son, of Cotton
wood, were visitors at the II. J.
Roth home a few hours Saturday.
Mrs. Merfield and daughter, Ag-
mes, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ekelberg,
of Minneapolis, were guests Of Mrs.
Merdeld's sister and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Jones Didier Sunday.
Mike Faber, Of Chicago, Joe
Machman and Alex Didier, Of st.
Martin, visited at the ]. p. Didier
home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Cans and fam
lily, Nick Cans. Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Bentfield and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Berg and family enjoyed a picnic
outing at Maple Like Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
HRB Workers TO Meet
At Grand Opera House

NEW YORK -Frederick I.
Daniels. executive director of
the State Civil Works Adj
lninistration, will be asked today TO
recognize the Emergency Home Re-
lief Employees Association. Mr.. DAM
iel5 has agreed to confer with the
representatives of the association.
A mass meeting Of all home relief
workers has been called for tomor-
row evening at the Grand Opera
House, Gard st. and Eighth Ave, at
o'clock, when the delegation will
report on its meeting with Mr.. DAN
iels.
Irlasnnuch as the State Temporary
Emergency Relief Administration
Employees Association has already
cen accorded recognition by the G.
". A., the Home Relief Workers will
ernand the same right be accorded
them.
They will insist on the right of
collective bargaining ON questions per-
tanning to wages, hours and working
conditions and that no discrimina-
ton or intimidation be waged against
its members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Hunger Hearing Shows
Up Relief Inadequac,

NEW YORK.-Deliberat made
quacy, the miserable relief method
used by the Bureaus and the result
ant suffering it enforces on the
worker, were revealed at the Mass
Hunger Hearing held last Thursday
before $50 workers at the East Side
Workers Club by the Expelled" Lo-
Gals 2 and 8 Of the Workers Com
mittee on Unemployment apd the
Downtown Unemployed Council
1t was a professional of pain.
Mrs. Kolokovsky, mother of nine
children, told a story of the Home
Relief Bureau from the time she
pawned her last piece of jewelry, her
ring, and applied for relief
The relief was stopped q number OF
times, the amount lowered, then
stopped altogether because she re-
fused to send her son to the C.C.C.
camps.
Mrs. SCHNEIDER told how she left
her three children alone and hungry
one day after the relief had been
stopped, because she had been dis
covered making SIS cents day SELL
ing ice cream. A neighbor brought
in a herring and a loaf of bread and
the children made party over it.
Her husband has been jobless two
years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Workers Schools Grow
in Cleveland, Boston
Boston Courses Are
Doubled; Attendance
Doubled Also

BOSTON, MaSs.-The Workers
School Of Boston has started its sec
ond season ct its new and larger
headquarters, 919 Washington St.,
with its student body more than
doubled. Last year, during the two
Semesters, $50 students were regis
tered. This year there are already
100 students, ....
The number Of courses given In the
school has been increased from five
to ten. The school library is being
built up speedily. 1t will consist of
books, magazines, pamphlets and a
permanent file of the Daily Worker.
Sixty per cent Of the students in the
school are under 80 years Of age.
The slogan, ito make the Workers
School Of Boston q permanent insti-
tuition" is being realized, and the
registration for the next semester is
expected to top 300.
The school is now conducting q
weekly series of Sunday night Open
Forums. The courses given in the
school are: History Of the American
Labor Movement, Revolutionary Ira
ditions Of the Negro People, Prin-
ciples of Communism, Marxism, Or
ganizational Problems, Trade Union
Strategy and Tactics, Revolutionary
Journalism, Public Speaking, English
for Workers, Workers Defense Tao
tics, Russian for Beginners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12

Abe Littman, who had been em-
ployed on city works job, sweeping
parks, explained how long the s4O5C
month lasted. Together with his
wife and two children he lives in 9
three-room flat and pays So a month
rent. After he paid the grocer $3.50
the butcher $3.50, paid for shoe re-
pairing, gas and electricity, he hao
to borrow every week to keep going
He still owes two months rent.
Whose fault is 1t that you are UNI
employed?" Jack Anyon, prosecuting
attorney Of the Hunger Hearing
asked Lucas, who had been dispos-
sessed three times with the Home
Relief refusing aid, even after he in
jured his spine at city works job.
"It's sure not my fault" Lucas re-
sponded. Il worked IA years on a
job, want 10 work right now. It's
a scheme of the rich to get the poor
in one way or another"
Single workers. those who get re-
lief from no source whatever, spoke
of sleeping in the subways on freight
trains and in flophouses. One of
them, Frank Pillo, was a youth who
had attended college for three years.
He emphasized the need for a single
workers organization, with the mill
tant Unemployed Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
The Political significance of the Chicago Farm Conference

One of the most outstanding
achievements of the Conference was
that it adopted without single dis
senting voice the following main de-
mand:
Eve demand the cancellation OF
secured debts, mortgages, back
rents. delinquent taxes, and seed
and feed loans of the impoverished
small and middle farmers"
This demand was adopted after a
thorough discussion. first separately
by each state delegation, followed by
a general discussion. And that the
delegates took this demand very seri-
ously was shown In the discussion
when many delegates pointed out that
the Conference should not Just pass
this demand, but should seriously
prepare to struggle for its realization.
The third section of the program
matte document outlines the methods
of struggle for the demands adopted,
emphasizing the united mass strug-
giles of all toiling farmers; marches,
demonstrations, refusal to pay taxes
interest, rents. carrying through
penny sales" farmers strikes, joint
struggles with the workers.
Unity With the Workers
Unity with the workers was amply
brought forward by numerous greet
ings of fraternal delegates. and tele-
grams from the various workers or
ganizations. The most significant Of
these exchanges of fraternal greetings
was when the Conference telegraphed
greetings to the striking workers who
with the help of the farmers had
seized and occupied the packing house
in Austin. Mimi; another was q
greeting from the st. Paul, MINI,
packing house workers, to whom the
Conference pledged the support Of
the farmers. The high point Of frat
ernization took place in the big mass
meeting prepared by the Chicago
Trade Union Unity League and I'm
employed Council to which the farm
ers we're invited as their guests.
Unity Of Negro and white Farmers
Unity Of Negro and white farmers
was not only expressed with the great
ovation in the reception of the Ala
bama delegation, but in the concrete
actions Of the Conference, by adopt
ing special plank for Negro farmers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12

gagged This shows the deepness of
the crises at the same time it en-
phasises that the orientation is not
yet placed properly upon the poor
and small farmers.
The Class Struggle Program
Having this type Of delegation, a
large number Of them having parti-
cipated in many mass struggles. it
was evident from the beginning that
this Conference would not be salts
fed with anything less than clear
cut class struggle program because
the demands put forward were calling
to struggle against. the exploitation
and dule of financial capital. The
main document, as also all the other
resolutions and actions Of TIE Con-
ference, are definitely OF class strug-
gle character, leading towards the
anti-capitalist idea,
The main document of the Confer
ence, Farmers Call to Action" is
composed of three sections: the first
describes the ruin and havoc that
has been brought about by the Wall
Street rule, both under Republican
and Democratic administrations ruth
lessly exposing Roosevelt's New Deal
(crop destruction, refinancing and
price -raising) as an effort to help the
bankers, insurance companies. specu-
lating and profiteering parasite food
trusts and marketing companies, cap
italist controlled agricultural cooper
atives and the rich farmers, at the
expense of the workers, poor and
middle farmers, who are being driven
to further ruination and starvation.
The document also exposes 'pro-
gressive" politicians, farmer-laborites,
socialist and farmers misleaders, as
agents Of the bourgeoisie, who are
using demagogic language. III order to
hold the toiling farmers in the fur
Their enslavement of finance capital
The preamble of the Call" calls all
the toiling farmers to struggle to-
other in close alliance and solidarity
with the workers, for their immediate
demands.
The second secticn Of the document
contains seven point demands. six be-
ing general demands for all toiling
farmers, and the seventh dealing
specifically with the demands of the
Negro farmers in the South
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Borders, Socialist,
Expels Local for
Fighting for Unity
Chicago Outfit Brings
False Charges, Tries
To Stifle Action

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 1.-THE Chi
cago Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment under the leadership of
Karl Borders, Socialist, has at their
last house of delegates meeting ex-
PEELED Local 66.
This is one of the locals that has
stood for the policy of united action,
despite the fact that the leadership
of this organization has continually
refused to engage in united front ac-
tiyities,
Expelled for Unity Fight
In the letter delivered to the dele
gates of Local Sc it is stated that
they were expelled because they have
joined the Workers League of AM
erica. The representatives of that To-
cal, through John Kasper, denied this
charge, they branded it as q deliber-
ate lie, and as an excuse to expel
them on these charges, because the
workers will refuse to expel any local
that stands on the platform of united
action.
In a statement issued by Local Sc,
. W Oil tilSlllDtIS VI UIIE Alll-
cago Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment, they reiterate their posi-
ton on the united front, denounce
the accusation that they joined the
Workers League, rs false and in part
state.
I'VE condemn as a deliberate lie
the statement of the Borders Trojan
leadership, that we have joined the
Workers League, an organization
which has done nothing TO advance
the struggles of the unemployed, nor
have we Joined any other organiza-
ton. This is only an excuse used
to expel individuals and even whole
locals, because they have been fight
ing for a united front policy"
Call for Social Insurance
They further appeal to all locals
to protest against this act Of expul-
sion and fight for their reinstatement.
They call upon all locals TO endorse
the policy of united action, despite
the leadership, and send delegates to
Cook County United Front Confer
ence, which will be held Dec. 10th
at Mirror Hall, 1916 N. Western Ave.
They conclude their statement with a
call to action against the program of
forced labor and for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
200 Students in New
Large School in
Cleveland

CLEVELAND, O.--More than $50
workers, many of them now in the
revolutionary movement, crowded the
banquet tables last Sunday to cele-
brate the opening Of the Workers
School of Cleveland, which has moved
to new and larger quarters at 1924
Prospect Ave. They were entertained
with good meal and a fine program
including singing, dancing, drama and
cinema under the direction of the
John Reed Club.
The collection and sales Melted
over $3.50. This fine response more
than carried over the $500 drive
needed to start the school.
These fine quarters are designed to
hold six class rooms, a library and
Office. The rooms have movable par
titions making it possible to hold
weekly forums for three hundred peo-
pie. Twenty-six courses are offered
to give students a well-rounded
training in theory and tactics of the
class struggle.
Registration to date is about 200.
The school is under the direction of
A. Landy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Window Cleaners
Resist Sell-0ut

BOSTON, Dec, li.-One hundred
and fifty window cleaners are solidiy
on strike here, having walked out on
Dec. /. The strike was called by
Local Union SO of the window
: cleaner.
At the general membership meeting
few days ago, Caveny came to the
strikers and asked them to send him
on the strike committee to go TO the
State Arbitration Board. He told the
rest of the committee not to mention
his appointment. When he appeared
before the board, he said nothing.
The bosses offered three scales, so,
so and IS cents. This scale was in
effect before the strike. Caveny
argued for a sell-out Of the strike, but
was interrupted by the workers.
The strikers rejected Caveny's re-
port and the bosses proposals. 1t
was decided to investigate his actions.
He had to leave the hall to avoid
being thrown out
The strikers are demanding IS cents
an hour. 1t WIS decided TO continue
mass piclSetinC.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Successful in Maintaining Real United Front
Among Various Farm Groups
On All Questions
he countryside in the next period
Was United Front Character
Maintained?

the countryside in the next period
Was United Front Character
Maintained?
Now, in vi weof the fact that tn
Conference adopted class strugsl'
program, was dominated by worker
and farmers solidarity, unity Of Negr1
and white, international class soil
osrity, and the way capitalist parties
were exposed and the Communist
Party was brought forward, the ques
ton arises whether with all this 1t
was possible to still maintain the
united front character of the Con-
ference? The answer Is In the at
firnatiye. 1t is true, that in some
points there were moments when the
enthusiasm of some Of the speakers
tended to carry them away from its
united front aspects. The general
line Of the Conference, however, was
correct in that 1t succeeded in formu-
lating class struggle program around
the immediate needs OF the great
masses Of toiling farmers and at the
same time indicating the revolution
airy way out of the capitalist crisis
This task the Conference performed
without narrowing down the united
front character of the Conference. OF
course, it is to be assumed that In a
broad conference like this there were
scne backward elements, who perhaps
at the moment felt that the Confer
ence was too red" But the over
whelming majority Of the delegates
were strongly convinced and satisfied
with the work Of the Conference.
The task of the Party and the left
wing organizations, the outstanding
of which is the United Farmers
League, is now on the basis Of the
work and demands of the Confer
ence, to mobilize hundreds of thou
sands OF toiling farmers into active
struggles, and in the course Of these
struggles to build the Party, build the
United Farmers League, build the
Farmers National Weekly" and
many times broader united front
fighting movement among the Amer
lean farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12

The adoption Of a special Southern
program and demanding the freedom
for the Scottsboro boys.
Soviet Union and International
Solidarity
The achievements Of farmers in the
Soviet Union under the Workers and
Farmers Government, and under col
lective farming, were popularized by
moving picture and lecture. An
entire evening session was devoted to
this, delegates having the full free
dom Of asking questions and getting
them answered AS result, the Con-
ference unanimously pledged to sup
port and defend the Soviet Union.
A high degree of international SOL
idarity was expressed in adopting the
demand for immediate freedom for
Thaelmann, Torgler DimitrofT, and
other victims of the Hitler fascist ter
ror.
The Significant Achievement for the
Party
One Of the most significant things
Of the Conference, from the political
point OF view, was that both old capt.
talist parties and social fascist
farmer labor and socislists) parties
were exposed, and that the Conmu-
mist Party was able to bring itself
forward as the revolutionary Party
of the workers, the only Party that
actively and whole heartedly supports
the struggles of the toiling farmers
for their immediate demands, and
finally under which banner workers
and farmers will march to victory
over the capitalist system OF exploit
alton and oppression. Comrede Hath
away, for the Central Committee,
presented the position of the Com
munist Party in a very able manner
both in his speech at the Conference
and at the joint mass meeting. The
presentation Of the position Of cur
Party was very well received by the
delegation and undoubtedly this will
bear very good fruits and will be in
strumental in rallying much more
support for the Communist Party in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Meet Dec. - in Phila.
for JObless Insurance

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The United
Front Convention for Unemployment
Insurance will be held here on Dec
% at the Garrick Hall, 507 S. Eighth
st. All organizations should send
delegates to the convention.
Lou Frank, young worker, was ar
rested last Friday for leading dele
CATION to the Jackson Wilson School
asking for shoes for children whose
toes are sticking out. The only ac-
cusation the principal had against
Frank was that he was q red"
The Unemployed Council, with the
help of Unit 101, of the Communist
Party here, successfully resisted at
tempts Of the constable to evict three
1obless families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
LID. to Hold Canton
Commune Celebration

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The PhiIa-
delphia District of the International
Labor Defense is holding Canton
Commune Celebration tonight to COM
memorate the valiant struggles Of the
Chinese workers and also to mobilize
a more powerful struggle for the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys.
William l.. Patterson, National Sec
rotary of the LID. will be the main
speaker at the meeting at the New
Garrick Hall, 507 S. Eighth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Adopted Fighting Class Struggle Program
Against Wall Street; Exposed
Roosevelt Farm Program

is shown by the fact that the bulk OF
the delegates came from those states.
The biggest single delegation came
| from the State of Wisconsin, num-
bering l42. The great number of
them came directly from the fierce
strike battle In Central and Southern
Wisconsin. These delegates also rep
resented in the best sense the real
united front Of struggle. AS a. result
OF the correct united front activity Of
our Party and the United Farmers
League by going and organizing picket
lines In the Wisconsin farm strike
and in every way giving real lead
ership to the strike, number OF
delegates were elected from National
Farmers Holiday Association locals,
including county officials, from the
Farmers Union, Milk Pool. etc.
The largest delegations were from
the following states:
Wisconsin -. .l42 Alabama ...,,. l6
Minnesota !. rs Nebraska ......84
y.., 49,, :, Michigan SO
South Dakota.. 81 North Dakota 80
Illinois ..... % Pennsylvania .2T
Montana .... Al New York ..... l8
Ohio ...... Is indiana ...... ID
All the other states were repre-
sented by less than 10 delegates. If
our Party District and Section Com
mittee were really active and helped
in the preparations for electing dele
gates, 1000 delegates would easily have
been modified. But our Party is not
yet conscious of what should be done
and what it can achieve with very
little proper efforts. Two important
agrarian states Kansas and Okla
homa, were not represented at the
conference.
The Social Composition of Delegates
A preliminary study of the social
composition of the delegates on the
basis Of the QUESTIONABLE that was
submitted for the delegates, shows
that while a majority of the delegates
were poor tenants, small and middle
farmers, there was also a considerable
number of farmers who have large
acreages but who are deeply mort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12

ployed still remain without work.
What is new for them is the definite
announcement that for the few who
receive jobs, millions face the prospect
Of no relief and no unemployment
insurance.
Now with the failure of even this
plan, We find Roosevelt Spokesman re-
yerting to talk of the 3o-hour week,
General johnson in recent speech
declared that the 30-hour week would
be necessary in order to take up
existing unemployment.
This talk, like the promise Of $780,