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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Bemidji, Mich,
Struggle for
Relief Grows
(By . Worker CONSEQUENTLY

(bv HOEhSE OOENSstoAuCnO
BEMIDJI, Minn.-The problem OF
struggling for immediate winter re-
lief for the unemployed as well as the
destitute, drought stricken farmers
becomes of paramount Importance in
this territory. In this county the
number has during the last few weeks
swelled from 1000 families to 1,50C
The fake promises of putting hun
dreds to work in this county under
the C.W.A. has not taken place.
After establishing an office force OF
"a persons, the number that have
gone to work hardly exceeds that
On one project where 40 workers
were employed, after few days 26
of them were laid off. The real OBJ
ject Of the C.WA. here has proven
to be nothing more than taking away
from the ranks of the unemployed
and the farmers the most militant
and fearless fighters. 1t has been
made pubic by the relief agent that
"when We take away about 20 OF
those trouble makers we can take
care of the rest"
This tactic of theirs has not proven
effective, as struggles are continually
taking place at the relief office.
With steady increases in the prices
of foodstuffs, the amount of relief has
actually been cut in half. D.scrinlin-
alton in giving out relief and abso-
Lutte refu5als without giving reasons
has become the policy of the relief
agent. A coupe of days ago free
milk was discontinued here
New workers are continuously join
ing the Unemployed Councils, which
are leading the local struggles. A
delegation was elected and to rep
resent the unemployed, the farmers
and the youth to the State Unem-
ployed Conference, in st. Paul. A
delegate was elected to represent the
farmers Of this county at the I'm
employed Conference in Washington
D. C. A delegate will be elected to
represent the Unemployed Council
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
-tRy a Farmer Corgespondentl

NIESICN, Mich.--James Thomas,
father of three little children, liv-
ing on a farm northwest of here.
had been hoping to get some of the
G. W. A. work to be able to buy a
few piece5 Of cheep clothes for his
family, ana for himself to meet the
ceYere Michigan winter. The C. w.
A, crew was already at work on the
road in front of his home, yet he
was.not allowed to wo-k-though his
services were welcome in the world
war. overseas.
The sight Of his freezing and half
starved family became unbearable to
him. He slips quietly in shed and
commits the act for which no permit
or license is required, or property,
processing OF any other toll or fee
is demanded. He sends a load OF
shots through his heart.
What the Farmers May Expect
II you were q miner, railroad
worker or a mechanic and had been
working for two or more years for
about 81 for 16 hours day, and
you. were using up your mental and
physical energy to keep away from
that excruciating insult, called wei
fare; then if along comes an Of
fie[5al giant with beautiful promises
for workers and farmers called
codes" and you found out that
these. so-called codes were to do eX-
actly the reverse from what they
were supposed to do, then you would
begin to understand the situation the
farmer in this country is in.
The farmers income has not only
been cut in two by the codes, but
his income has often boen wiped out
e'1''relv. Falling to take care of
his debts, his property automatically
goes to the money lender or to the
state for delinquent taxes. He is
reduced to the condition of an I'M
employed worker.
We produce cream for the cream
cries. Up to last week the price
for butter fat had been % cents a
pound. Inside of one week the price
dropped to IL cents pound. The
consumer, however, pays from Is to
so cents a pound for the same butter.
Since the 100000 hogs were
destroyed and the processing tax on
pork was announced the hog market
has. been steadily going down. Pork
prices, however, for the consumer
have advanced so enormously that
the public has been buying less and
less of it.
Pork, which at wholesale sold for
10 cents, was at retail offered at 80
cents pound. Re- alt is demora-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
PARTY LIFE
Party Work in Illinois Coal
Fields Must Be Improved
Musteites Profit from Our:F ailureto Expose
Completely Their Reactionary Deeds
PARTY LIFE

A comrade who worked for eight
months in the Illinois coal fields
writes, in regard to the work of
the Party and opposition group in
the Progressive Miners Union, and
to our perspectives in that field:
District Analysis Correct
Although I have been out of the
So. Illinois coal fields for several
months, should like to express my
opinion on the work which we are
carrying on there. In the December
Communist" Comrade Gebert, dis
trict organizer, in criticlzing the in
sufficient work in the coal mining
territory, characterizes the work of
the party comrades there as tailism,
trailing behind the Musteites and
Mrs. Agnes Week.
I think comrade Gebert is entirely
correct in this analysis. However, T
believe 1t is not only necessary TO
characterize the work as tailism, but
also it is important that we explain
just what forms the taiNsm took,
how and why it was that we trailed
constantly behind the Musteites.
Failure to Expose Misleaders
AS is well known, the Musteites
Gerry Allard and Tom Tippett were
for a time in open alliance with the
Leadership of the Progressive Miners
Of America. During this period, the
Pc~tv comrades carried on an in
sufficient exposure of the fake "lefts"
who were actually providing the
shield behind Pearcy and Co. carried
cut their sell-out policies
Later, when Allard and Tippett
went into sham Opposition" to
Pearcy, we again failed to expose
them, and allowed Allard to rehatf-
litate himself greatly in the miners
eyes, when he pretended to "hg1l''"
against the leadership of the P. M.
A. with resolutions, etc. The min
ers and the Womens Auxiliaries were
really aroused over Allards dismissal
as editor Of the Progressive Miner,
but we should have given independent
and aggressive leadership to their
sincere desire for a rank and file
union paper.
Party Hesitancy
The workers correctly saw in Al
lards' dismissal a reactionary move
Of the officialdom, and wished to
fight against it. The Party was
faced with the problem of organizing
this mass resentment into real op-
position movement against the
Pearcy leadership. The question was
cue to come up at the meeting of
Local No. of the P. M. A. in Gill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
RUMBLINGS FROM AN EMPTY
STOMACH CAUSED BY HAVING
TO LIVE ON CORNBREAD

hear that the N. r. A.
Has work for us all to do,
But the money is in the bosses hands
And goes to the chosen few.
I know that you mean well
And don't want things this way.
If you give the bosses hell
So they get nothing at all to do
I sit in my empty kitchen
While my hopeless stove burns low.
My stomach growls in hunger
and I think of the long ago,
OF the time When had mule;
I always raised enough
OF peas, corn and potatoes,
And plenty Of garden stuff.
But my mule, he got sick,
Went down to bones and hide.
Then one day bad luck hit me,
For he lay in the barn and died.
Now I have no crop at all, -
And what can raise with a hoeE
If you ever fought weeds this way,
You know it's mighty slow.
If 1 could get 80 hours a week,
I'd get seeds and a mule, too.
Please send man to investigate
And see what the bosses do.
Now, when you read these lines,
Don't think I am q fool.
If you want to help a forgotten
man."
Help me get mule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
~ Doctor 4
-LuHinqel
udGGa:

greater number of deaths In thu
country is accidents. particularly al.
tomobile accidents. Next comes pneu-
monia, then heart disease, and finally
cancer. tuberculosis has been drop
ped from the Big Four; its place hav.
ing been taken by cancer.
Christmas Presents
Van vcchten - Christmas means
nothing to us and we send neither
gifts nor cards. We delayed replying
to your query in the hope Of discotir-
aging you from buying us present
before Christmas, which you can get
at a 80 per cent reduction after New
Years. We do not need anything,
but we7know quite q number Of peo-
pie who need everything. We draw
the line at red flannel underwear and
cigars in gold or silver wrappers.
- ~
Low and High Voltage Electriicty
Daniel C.-Your letter describing
the life-saving episode, at the Rail-
road Depot was full Of humor, but
you missed the scientific features. The
doctor was right in applying the high
voltage .currcnt for the following
reason: Experiments on dogs, at Johns
Hopkins. University showed that low
voltage electric current causes death
by twitehing OF The heart muscle,
while high voltage lliocI kills by stop
ping the respiration. BY applying a
high voltage curlent, the doctor APP
parently stopped the twitchings of the
cardiac muscle and thus saved the
patient. Yes, we are q surgeon In the
United States Volunteer Life Saving
Corps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

lespie. This local is the key loca.
having ever $500 members.
We knew that the Allard- Week
group would present some lind Of
resolution at this meeting. Our
problem, was either to support their
milk-and-water resolution, and tail
after them, or to introduce one 4,
our own, exposing kllard, at the san
time that we attacked the leadel,t-
ship of the p M. A. Although vIo.
did draw up one of our own, this
was not introduced at the meetings
partly because of hesitancy by the
Party leadership and partly because.
Of Yacillation by the Communist
miners, at the meeting. The result
of this was that we allowed the
leadership Of the mass resentment to
fall into the hands of the Allard
group who naturally dissipated IL
~ diy. This was major error. 5
In places, like certain Womenj
AuXilaries, (Wilsonyille) where We
introduced our resolution, it was
passed, and our comrades became the
recognized leaders of the opposition
movement. But these could not
atone for our error in Local No. I. *
Taking Behind Musteites
But our greatest, fault was our tall
ing behind the Musteite left phrases,
and particularly cur complete failure
to base our struggle on the inmedi-
ate day-by-day grievances of the
pits. Tt is well known that the Mus
teites, some left Socialists, and the
rcne~cI res from Communism, make a
great TODD by "left" phrases. They
ttc,ll- general STRIKE" big actions,
united 'front.'" ETC., and regularly
make a division between these ques-
tons and the everyday struggles
What did we do? True, we COM
batted and exposed their phrase
mongering, we raised counter slogans
but we made the same semi-Men
shevist separation between these gen.
eral political questions and the day
to-day grievances in the mines. w
had so little orientation to MIN
"rievaPoss that even in key town.
like Gillespie we organized town
units and not mine nuclei. At the
unit meetings we discussed chiefly
the fight against the urgon leader
ship and not the mine grievances.
We did not issue a single mine bull
ietin or paper.
Failure to BRING Forward Face Of
Party
There were other weaknesses too,
such as the failure to bring forward
the face of the Party, the failure
to recruit Party. members while
building the Unemployed Councils,
but this is partly. but only partly,
due to the conditions of extreme
terror which prevailed. In my opin-
ion, the basic reason why we are
weak in So. Illinois, is just because
we did not base our struggles around
the everyday grievances in the mines.
The prestige of the Communist
Party is very high amongst the II
linoiS miners. These workers, who
have great record of militancy, have
faith in us, in our work. II we take
the correct steps, if we expose the
shallow phrases of the Musteites, if
we base ourselves on the names, build
up opposition groups in every pit,
issue mine bulletins which will fight
pit grievances for the everyday needs
of the miners, and link these up In
Bolshevik way with the general
political questions; then we will de-
finitely move forward, and establish
ourselves as the leaders of the MILL
tant Illinois miners,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
(By a White sharecropper)

CLEVELAND, ALA share CROP
per struggling to death. Just look
what fools we are working ourselves
to death. A man works and makes
a crop and fool-like lets the N. r. A..
folk grab 1t with a mortgage.
Every time we get a penny, they
grab 1t. Nothing to eat, nothing to
wear and our children not in school,
for the rich folks have taken their
daddy'S crop, and what has their
daddy got to buy their food and
clothes with, and books with? We
can't buy anything to eat nor any,
thing else.
I know what to do. We must all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Farm County
Agent SneerS at
Farmers Plight
(By a Farmer Correspondent

GREENWOOD, Ark was riding
through the country the other day
with the County farm agent. 1t was
registration day for CW.A. jobs. AS
we rode along we passed hundreds
of farmers going into town to try
to get a job-there were thousands
applied for only few hundred jobs.
I commented that the farmers
we're sure in bad shape financially
and needed work.
"Oh, yes, they're broke today and
want relief, but tomorrow they'll be
able to go quail hunting" he re-
turned sarcastically. His attitude
almost angered me-this farm agent
always so deeply interested" in the
farmer. Quail and rabbit hunting
IFS the one recreation that the farmer
has during the fall and winter
months. Many of them have been
denied this privilege lately because
they are not able to buy license and
ammunition.
Shouldn't the farmer hunt, if he
wants to?" asked the farm agent
"Oh moi no! I didn't mean that
at all" he replied quickly. He would
like to see everybody able to hunt
all they wanted to and he would like
to see the farmers get jobs and have
plenty Of everything.
Yeah. he would all right, but he
isn't willing to sacrifice one mite of
his security. for it. He is willing
however. to critic;se the farmer Sc
verely for going to town to get a
badly needed job or at least to protest
for one. He thinks that the farmer
should submit to slavery without a
protest and that be should give ur
hunting and leave the uuails for him
and his CHER friends who are able
to hunt them. He is willing and
ready to break up any organization
the farmers try to have, to better
their own conditions.
| We have too many of these govern
inent friends" Of the farmer who
are deeply interested" in tn farmer
Their only interest is keeping the
farmer satisfied" so that he wont
disturb the rich in their merry-mak.
ing. H. BRYAN.
signature Authorized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

teering to sell the 24-page issue. Re-
port to the Daily Worker Office at
2419 Grand River Ave. Detroit.
NEW YORK.--A number of work
ers' mass organizations have already
placed orders for the 24-page, tenth
anniversary edition of the Daily
Worker of January 6, but the total
orders SO far do not assure an ade-
quate distribution of the 100000
copies ordered by this district.
The following is a list of head
quarters where orders can be placed
and where the Daily Worker will be
delivered: Tear this list out and
keep 1t for reference.
Manhattan-140 Broad st.; 40 W.
10th ST.; Sc Avenue G; Sc w. 25th
ST.; 20 w. 115th st.
Bronx-2075 Clinton Ave-; 500
Prospect Ave.
Brooklyn--61 Graham Ave-: 1l09
45th ST.; 1872 Myrtle Ave-; 1913 Pitkin
Ave.
Jamaica, L. I.-148-29 Liberty Ave.
Astoria, L. I.-4206 9th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
z uning Of Farms Back Into Forest Land
Is Part Of MIRA, Correspondent Reports
Highway While His Home is Turned by
Government Into Wilderness Again

lized hog market, which offers for
the producer exactly nothing. My
neighbor for his IS large, fat hogs
weighing over two and half tons
would realize only $3.50 for all of
them.
That is what the codes of the a.
A. A. are doing for the farmer. In
stead of helping him to make a
meager living, it helps him off the
farm and puts him on the highway.
Wallace Approves
All this seems to be in harmony
with the program of the agricultural
department. Henry A. Wallace, ad-
dressing the convention of the As
sociation of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities in Chicago, on Nov. 10,
said, ut is clear that we must de-
termine in the immediate future
which lands are best suited for the
commercial production of the staple
crops, which had best be put back
into trees, and which should not be
used for agriculture at all, but
simply for recreation and residence. !"
The average of harvested crops in
this country next year probably will
be between 100000 and 35,0o0000
under the total of recent years, said
the Secretary.
Machinery of Destruction Ready
The machinery to carry out this
program is already here in form of
national forests and c. c. G. camps.
The purpose of the national forests
was disclosed here by the superin-
tendent Of Manistee National Forest
addressing P. IT. A. meeting, in
which he said: ANY description of
property within the limits of the ma
tional forest becomes automatically
the property of national forest if
taxes for such property remain de-
linquent for period of three or four
years"
There is the unmasked outline OF
the A. A. A. Unbearable, excessive
taxing, and when you fail to pay
it the national forest will snatch
your land, your home, your every
thing that you have in this world.
You have hunbly complied with
the orders of the agricultural extern
sion department to raise two blades
of grass where only one grew be-
fore. And now when they have got
it in their heads that this other
blade of grass is causing all the
economic disturbance and order you
to get out SO they may get the fields,
which you have cleared to raise food
for your family, are you again going
to comply?
NV oyc,ua,s Sc MOI FT-1,;e rry.o,,,@5
is going to be my burial ground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
BY PAUL LUlTINGER, MD.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Number Of Drug Stores

Number Of Drug Stores
ID. r., San Diego, Calif.-We do not
know of what use the information can
be to you, but in order to oblige a
reader of the Daily Worker, we'll tell
you that there are about sixty thou
sand drug stores in the United States.
Personal Attacks
i. w. w., Denver-We do not print
letters containing personal attacks on
chiropractors. We are opposed to
chiropractors, not to individuals.
Chiropractors are not barred from
membership in the Communist Party.
The German Sterilization Law
". M, New Brunswick, N. 1.-THE
new sterilization law goes into effect
on January LIST, 1884. 1t is supposed
TO be applied against those mentally
and physically unfit, such as epilep-
tics, insane, feeble minded, etc. Those
who know the Nazi psychology have
reasons to fear that it might be
directed against all political oppo-
nents of Hitlerism, particularly Com
munists and against non-Teutonic
racial elements, like the Jews. "Fit"
and unfit" are terms too broad even
for scientists to define, let alone poll
tical adventurers whose sole weapon
is frightfulness.
Causes of Death
Robert r., Providence, r.. with
all due respect to your teacher of
political economy. tAe cause OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
CWA Relief Relieves
Only Some Politicians
(By a Farmer CorrespOndent)

SALLISAW, Okla-The misery of
the poor farmers is constantly grow
ing more and more unbearable. Hun
dreds in this county do not know
where they will find shelter the fol-
lowing year.
The C.W.A. relief is not relieving
at all. except a few office workers
and petty politicians, their wives. and
friends. So far, it has not paid out
a dollar IN relief of the workers. 1t
has Is or % case" workers that are
driving over the county at public
expense, hunting for needy people.
All they have to do to find the needy
is to go on the streets and watch
the hungry, thinly clad, lank men,
women and children that walk the
sidewalks, despondently peering into
the stores at the good things which
they know they can never buy.
But that way of locating the needy
would not give jobs to bunch of
henchmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
TwO-Thirds OfFarmers
In Newago CO., Mich,
Seek Jobs on C.W.A.
(By Farmer Correspondent

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. - Enclosed
you will find 81 to help save the
Daily Worker My neighbor and my
self finally saved 81 to send to help
save our paper.
Conditions around here are very
bad and getting worse every day.
Cream has dropped to IA cents here
in White Cloud and in Woodville just
IL miles north of us, it is IL cents.
And eggs are only IL and IA cents
per dozen.
1t Is just about impossible TO sell
any livestock. They offered us from
to 2 cents a pound for beef COWS,
and hogs you can't give away. A
neighbor killed hog and tried to
sell it to the meat market, and the
butcher told him that he had one
half of hog in the ice box and
he just could not sell any of it. He
said he guessed he would have to
eat it himself.
Two-thirds of the farmers of
Newago County have signed up on
the G. w. A. They are all going to
try to work as they can't make a
living farming any more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
SharecrOpper Driven Into
Sawmill at IS Cents a Day
Landlord Framed Him Into Jail, Governor
Put Him in Merchants Thievish Hands

mill for rs cents a day, and we all
know that he can't feed and clothe
his family at these wages.
Just as long as the white and Ne
gro let this go on, 1t will get worse
than now, so we workers get together
and organize and fight for our rights
and come out on top, for we have
been slaves long enough for the boss.
am myself organizing the c. w. A.
workers on the jobs. L have set up
one Unemployed Council silce I
started working on C. w. A. works,
so you see how I feel about this.
We have to work in the rain if we
get any pay. And we had to work
on Thanksgiving Day as the boss
said that we wouldn't get any pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

Plea That Fell
On Deaf Ears
lRv Farm,r COrrespondentl

CBv Farmer Correspondent
CHRONICLE, Ala.--T have lived
in this county 10 years, and for the
last year have been forced to de-
pend on the r. P. c. and 1--we or
exist on $3.50 a week for n1y5s.l and
wife.
Along with hundreds Of Others
was laid off the r. F. C. and told to
register on the 6. w. A. Only few
have got this 50 hours a week. We
were promised and they seem to
favor certain ones, so I wrote the
President a letter stating conditions
here, but no reply so far. In my
letter I sent him Jingle" which
tells the story in a nutshell. I am
enclosing it to you, hoping you can
print Il. You can use my name if
needed. j. H. PAXTON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
SHARING THE DAU.Y WORKER
E,lraka Calf

Enclosed find $1.70 Tor the Daily
Worker Drive, which two families
raised. We do not make enough to
both subscribe for the paper SO both
families read the one paper, then
pass it on to friends who are not able
to buy it at all.
We do not always make our board
even, making ties in the reu,.ooas,
although we work hard. Hoping this
will help some, We are trying to dc
our share.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Unique Gift Made of
Neon to be Given to
Daily at Coliseum

NEW YORK.-A Hammer and
Sickle, framed within a Soviet
Star, all worked out in neon and
electrified to light up in red and
blue, will be presented as a gift
to the Daily Worker at its Tenth
Anniversary celebration in the
Bronx Coliseum this Saturday
evening.
This beautiful and unique en-
blem is q gift from Andrew Azan,
formerly member of the John
Reed Club of Hartford, Conn.
No worker should miss seeing
this gift and its presentation to
our DAILY" at the Coliseum.