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Milford chronicle., 1933-03-03
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals will be received by
the State Highway Department. at its
office. Dover. Del, until 200 o'clock +.
NJ, Eastern Standard Time, March
2S. 1888. and at that place and time
publicly Onened for contracts involv-
ing the following approximate quanti-
ties:
CONTRACT 239A
DUPONT School, kennett Pike
Bridge Extension and Sidewalk GOO Fl.
100 Gu. Yds. Excavation
1900 Gu. Tds. Borrow
2f00 So. TT. Cement Conc. Sidewalk
10 Gu. Ids. Class \ Concrete
5000 Lbs Reinforcement
200 Lin. TT. Iron Railing
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-03
/ PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
PERSONAL PROPERTY

Due 10 the idct that ! am taking the
office OF Receiver of Taxes of Sussex
County on June 6. | am Offering for
sale at public auction at my farm near
Milton, IN
Tuesday, March ID, 1898,
At 900 A. NJ. Rain or Shine, the fol-
lowing personal property:
LIVE STOCK
One pair mules. Z years old; one pair
mules, l3 and IA years old: l3 milk
cows and heifers. all II. Il. tested
FARMING IMPLEMENTS
Two 2-horse wagons, practically
new: Buckeye riding harrows. walk
ing harrows. 2 Oliver riding plows, 2
corn planter. Mccormick Deering now
er; John Deere manure spFeader; Far
mers FaYorite drill, ~ spouts; 90 spike
harrow. weeder. bean puller. corn cut
ter, I'apec sileage cutter, inch Good
year belt. IS feet long; Fordson tractor
outfit. Dlows and discs: gasoline engine,
8 50 gnllon gus drums; milk cans, 2
milk buckets and straincr. set Steward
clippers, grindstOne. corn sheller, meat
grinder. Lot Of work harness Lot OF
hoes. forks and shovels. Lot Of chains.
Three large hog pots
GRAIN
1900 baskets corn 100 bushels soy
heans. Lot OF other things too numer-
ous to mention.
m3-2tp JOHN b. ROGERS
FOR SALE-Pure bred Jersey COW,
with pure bred heifer calf by side. Ac.
credited nerd Dorsey Blake. Green
wood, Del 1tp
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-03

Feed, the birds when snow covers
the ground.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-03
CONTRACT 800
Dual Highway Paving

HareS Cornef.f arnnurSt 1.5Ab Mi.
5000 Gu. Yds. Excavation
1900 Gu. Yds. Borrow
900 Tons BrolSenaS Base Course
1000 Gu. Yds. Cement Conc. Pavement
450O Lin. TT. Prem Cork Exp. Joint
$50 Tons BituminOns Concrete
90 Gu. Yds. Glass 4 Conc.
lnOn Lbs. Reinforcement
1000 Lbs. Catch Basin Il Drop Inlet
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-03
CONTRACT ese

Dual Highway Paving
State Road. Hares Corner 1.790 Mi.
eOO0 Gu. Yds Excavation
1000 Gu. Yds. Borrow
500 Tons Broken Stone Base Course
1900 Gu YdS. Cement Conc. Pavement
400 Lin. FIT. Prem. Cork EXpG nsion
Joint
20O Tons Bit. Conc. Surface Course
25 Gu. Yds. Glass A. Concrete
l000 I.hs. Reinforcement
/ 500 Lbs. Catch Basin & Drop Inlet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
No Minerals in the Soviet
Union, Mr.. Hoover?

assumed. Over four times the amount
OF zinc ores has been discovered. All
In five years, Mr.. Hoover. The pres
ent copper reserves of the Soviet
Union are 14,000,0O0 tons, with 2,3OO.-
900 tons of lead, and over 5,ooo,O 900
tons OF zinc.
Before the Revolution the total coal
reserves of Imperial Russia were es-
timated at 230 billion tons. Today,
with only part of the Soviet Union
fully explored, it ranks third in the
world in coal reserves with lib bill
lion tons of coal, while Canada has
1000 billion tons. But rs per cent of
Canada's coal is low-grade brown
coal, whereas only is per cent of So
Wet deposits are brown coal. Thus in
reality the Soviet Union is exceeded
only by the Soviet States in coal re-
sources.
Now Tor oil, Mr.. Hooverl Conser-
yatiye estimates now place the oil re-
serves in Baku alone at 200 million
tons, The North Caucasus fields
including Crosby, have proven re-
serves totaling 140,0O00O0 tons. When
these fields are added to the known
reserves, as yet unexpected in part,
on The island of sakhalins IN Trans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

In an interview with CHRISTOPHER
Morley noted writer, President
Hoover, when asked about the po-
tential strength of the Soviet Union
as an industrial factor of world i'm
portance replied: There are more
minerals in the state of Montana
than in all Russia" And Morley be-
ieved it, and so did the American
man in the street" Isn't Hoover a
mining engineer, with worldwide
experience? Wouldn't he be specially
qualified to know?
Well, here are some facts, not spe-
culation or idle wishes, Mr.. Hoover!
According to Professor I. M. Gubkir,
internationally known geologist and
member Of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, the Soviet Union has IS
per cent of all the manganese ore in
the world, indispensable in steel
manufacture. The manganese de-
posts already known are three and a
half times as big as known before the
Revolution.
The known copper reserves are now
ten times as big as before the Five
Year Plan. The lead ores found are
nearly four tirnss what WIS previously
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
Why Daily
Exposes the
SIP. Leaders
By NJ. II. CHILDS
milwaukee District Organizer,
Communist Party

IN Wisconsin there are particular
i " dangerous enemies in the
ranks of the workers and poor
farmers. The La Toilette PRO
gressives" are such enemies But
most dangerous OF all are the lead
ers of the Socialist Party, who hold
power in Milwaukee, and several
other cities. Without exposing
Hoan, NIetcalfe, Benson e Co. COM
pletely as miSleaders of the work
ers, the capitalists cannot be de-
feated in the daily struggles, and
in the struggle for the overthrow
Of capitalism.
The leaders Of the S. P. are the
darings of the Wisconsin capital
lists. Mayor Hoan puts through
scrip money and tremendous
slasheS in the budget for unem-
ployment relief; he strengthens the
police department and sends cops
to relief stations to club the I'M
employed. The Socialist supervis-
Ors support the Infamous outdoor
relief system of Milwaukee; vote
for military appropriations; sup
port the bosses Buy American"
campaign, In the unions, the S. P.
leadership sells out strikes-like
the Phoenix Hosiery strike.
The Socialist leaders are helped
by the bankers and manufacturers
in return for their betrayal of the
workers. The columns of the big
bourgeois papers are open to them,
as well as of the La Toilette "oppo-
Sitlonist' press. The Socialist press
is supported by the bosses through
ads and donations, and a constant
stream of poison flows from these
papers into the workers minds.
BESIDES the Milwaukee Leader,
~ there are four other Wisconsin
Socialist papers. One of these
the Socialist Campaigner-is given
away to the tune of 100000 copies
weekly. Who provides the money?
The workers are beginning to COM
plain of the nti-WorkingclasS na-
ture of these papers-even the
members of the Socialist Party are
beginning to refuse support. The
"Vorwaerts," German Socialist
paper, was forced to suspend be-
cause the workers wouldn't support
it any more.
Why do open shop concerns adj
vertise in the Leader? Why do
the public utilities, A. .. Smith
Corporation, the Chicago "Trib-
une," one of the worst tebor-hating
papers in the country, advertise in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
IN THE PRISON VAN

CLIENT, with clenched teeth, the
" convicts sat in the van.
Silent, struggling to hold their
feelings in rein, sat the police
men" alongside Of them.
Now the van was rolling over
some cobble-stone pavement The
rattle of the wheels drowned almost
every other sound.
Suddenly Baby" tore the cap
OF his head and shouted exultingly
to the prisoners:
Don't you recognize me, COM
rades? I am Badly We have
kidnapped you, and are taking you
to freedom"
The rescued men were dumb
founded with surprise; it took them
several minutes to realize fully the
sudden turn of fortune and that
their vssEsse was a reality, not an
empty dream.
SIT is all true" the other police
men" assured our rescued COM
rades hastily, telling them snatches
of the whole plot.
The scene of joy, of gratitude
to their reScuers cannot be ade-
quately portrayed in words. The
prison van resembled anything but
the austere repository of prisoners
brought to retribution. Men en-
braced and kissed each other,
shook hands, forgetting for the
moment that the exploit was not
vet at an end, and that serious and
unexpected obstacles may yet have
to be SurInounted.
CALLS A HALT
One of the policemen" called
d halt TO this exultation, and
summoned everyone back to bust
ness.
Friends. you have forgotten
about the revolvers."
In a moment, everyone of the
rescued men was armed with
Browning"
For use in case of emergency"
explained Badly" There are
twenty of US. If anything goes
wrong we will shoot our way out.
But such an eventuality is very
unlikely" he added, allaying his
own misgivings, and thtse of the
others.
Suddenly the crowded vehicle
came to stop.
"WHAT'S the matter?" the pas
F" sengers anxiously enquired,
as each one reached for his re-
Volver resting in it's holster.
Whats happened?" "B aid vs.
rushed up to the little window in
the door serving as peep-hole.
Shut up, inside there" shouted
Marcel from the other side Of
the door.
He was too brxy to pay atten-
ton to "Baldy's" pleas for an ex-
PLANTATION. 1t was he who had
stopped the van, with a peremp-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24


carries out the program of the cap
itaIist press.
the Leader? Why does the
Leader" run ads for services to be
sold ITO White People Only',-Jim
Crow ads? These questions, asked
by the rank and file, are replied TO
by the leaders in the way that
Benson replied at a ounty Com
mittee meeting: 1.-THE workers are
no good. They don't support the
Socialist papers. We must get help
from somewhere" From some
where? The bosses don't support
a paper unless it serves them.
THIS bosses poison must be
4 fought and destroyed. The
best weapon for the Wisconsin
workers has been the Daily Worker.
The exposures printed in the Daily
Worker of concrete incidents of
betrayal OF the rank and file by
Socialist leaders have reached into
the Socialist branches in NIilwau-
kee. Though the circulation of the
Daily in our state is far too
small-yet its influence Is great.
For instance, the statement Of the
Socialist candidate in Pennsylvania
repudiating the S. P. and support
ing the Communist candidates
created a tremendous stir among
the Milwaukee Socialist workers,
through their reading the Daily
Worker.
The Daily Worker alone reflects
the life and struggles of the work
ers of Wisconsin and the rest Of
the country. Their demands are
printed; their conditions are re-
corded; their struggles are helped
by the Daily" If the DAILY"
we're suspended now-it would be
a great victory for the Wisconsin
bosses. Then their bought and
paid-for Socialist press could poison
the workers minds unchallenged.
The Daily Worker needs $4,000
to keep it going. We call on the
Wisconsin workers particularly
the Milwaukee workers-to contrib
ute their share! Rank and file
Socialist workers, the Daily Worker
is your paperl You have fought
side by side with us-the Commu-
mist workers--in Milwaukee for
better relief, against forced labor,
scrip, etc. Only the Daily Worker
has told Of these struggles, and
helped them in It's pagesl
Negro workers of Wisconsin, the
Daily Worker is the foremost fight
er for equal rights for the Negroes
and determination for the
Black Belt.
Poor farmers of Wisconsin the
Daily Worker is your best weapon
IN your fight for relief, and against
foreclosures and sheriIf's sales.
all toilers, rally to the support
or your paper~-tlle Daily Worker
Unite to secure the existence of
our fighting Daily" Collect and
contribute to the $4,000 fund,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24

Caspia, in Central Asia cIurkmenisn
Soviet Republic and Usbeklstan), as
well as the Lake BaIkal district and
the tremendous zone between the
Western Urals and the volga, we find
that previous estimates have to be
tripled; the present known reserves of
the Soviet Union total three billion
tons OF oil, making 1t the richest oil
country in the world.
And lastly, iron! Before the war
the total Russian iron ore reserves
were estimated at two billion tons.
Today this figure has been more than
quadrupled: geological explorations
during 1882 raised he iron ore re-
serves of the Soviet Union to more
than eight and a half billion tons, not
including the iron quantities. OF the
Kursk Magnetic anomaly or the
quartzites of Krivoi Rog.
These are just a few samples OF the
Soviet Unions mineral riches. How
about the state Of Montana and your
sneer, Mr.. Hoover? Your information
Cor your truthfulness) doesn't seem
to be so well-founded, does it?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
III.
I'VE GET BETWEEN THE
HANDLES

Many more farmers report. All
these reports show the farmers that
their problems are the same no
matter what part of the country
they hail from. They then elect
a committee to draft demands
based on their reports. These de-
LANDS are discussed point by point
and passed unanimously,
The demands are:
1. Cash relief OF 100000, 600.
.. Food products and supplies
needed for relief should be pur-
chased by the federal government
directly from the farmers at a fair
price. The processing and trans
portation Of these food products
and other relief supplies shall be
regulated by the federal govern
Inent SO as to prevent profits to
food monopoies and transporta-
ton companies during the econo-
mic crisis.
3. Relief for farmers should be
administered by local committees
of farmers.
4. A prize-regulating body, con-
trolled by actual consumers and
producers, must be immediately
elected to reduce prices to consun-
ers and raise prices for all farm
products sold. This adjustment
must be made by deduction from
the swollen profits Of the middle
men who stand between field and
family.
5. The defeat of all legislation
based on the theory of surplus
production.
6. The enactment Of legislation
to provide easier means Of credit
for all farm families.
7. A debt holiday, consisting OF
a moratorium on mortgages, in
terest, and rents for middle farm
ers. Cancellation of back farm
taxes, interest, land and seed loans,
and debts for supplies and furnish
ings for marginal farmers, share
troopers, etc.
8. During this national crisis con-
gress must declare all foreclosures,
seizures Of property, and eyictionS
Illegal.
The farmers next step is to pre-
sent these demands and resolutions
TO their congressman, to Curtis,
Garner and Hoover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
from the
GALLONS
By FELIX KoHN.

NOV the captain" and the
~ Warden appeared at the top Of
the stairs to watch the aensfer Of
the prisoners.
Are they troublesome?" asked
the captain"
Some of them are inclined to
make trouble"
"Ivanoy!"
The sergeant" stood at atten-
ton.
Five men inside the van, two
on the box, you and two others
behind"
"Yes, your honour"
The policemen" took their places
as commanded. The Sergeant"
awaited further orders.
Il shall go ahead and wait for
you at the gate of the Citadel"
Eyes, Sir!"
Move on now"
The gate opened again and the
van rolled slowly into the street.
The captain" condescended to
shake hands with the Warden and
followed the van.
IT was 1870 am. when he came up
to our rendezvous to tell us the
good news.
The janitor, a Party member,
had been warned that we expected
visitors during the night. He i'm
mediately opened the gate and
''Yur" burst into the room, his
voice ringing with joy as he Shout
ed: TITS donep We rushed up
to embrace him, to give vent to our
emotion.
He slipped off his uniform and
was gone again in five minutes.
One of the officers was to call
next day for his uniform, especially
his weapons.
ITS done, but not quite" sighed
Anna" What about the others?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24

the hospital said that undernour-
ishment still further lessons the
slight chances for recovery"
THESE few facts, selected at ran
L dom, characterize the situation
in Detroit. They also serve to in
dictate why the workers of Detroit
are beginning to fight with such
bitterness and determination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
The Fourth Hunger Winter
detroit in Strike Wave>>

cent of the admitted 350,000 un-
employed of Detroit arc on the
welfare rolk.
The welfare experts admitted
that the most any city spent for
relief during the first six months
OF 1882 was 1898 per capita, But
in Detroit, the same testimony
shows that only $3.50 was spent.
Further. the state of Michigan is
among those states that have not
yet appropriated a single cent for
relief. While the city of Chicago
has received about $30,000,OO0 for
relief from the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, Detroit received
only little over 100000.
JAIL SENTENCES
FOR REFUSING TO FREEZE
During five days, according to
the Detroit News of February 7,
an average of 200 workers have
come individually to the City Hall
to complain that they are being
denied coal. The city is supposed
to be providing coal through its
welfare" But coal is given ac-
cording to calendar; so much per
month on a given day of the
month, regardless of needs. Mean
time, the same paper reports, els
men were found guilty today of
stealing coal belonging to the well
fare department and sentenced to
is days in the workhouse. Three
other men, convicted of stealing
coal from the Michigan Central
Railroad, were given thirty-day
sentences"
The same paper reports how an
unemployed father Of three chill
dren, working Oh his first lob in
year, was crushed by truck.
After describing the manner in
which this worker was injured. it
concludes with the following sig
nificant passage: Physicians at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
Mooney Defense

f.--Immediately send resolutions
addressed to Judge Ward, Superior
Court, Hall Of Justice, San Fran
cisco, with copies to Matthew
Brady, Dist. Atty, 1888 Kearny ST.,
san Francisco, and James Rolph,
Jr., Sacramento California. de-
mandiDg a new trial for Tom Moo
ney, and that he he brought 10
court personally to argue the mo-
tion for q new trial at the hearing
before Judge Ward OIL March 26th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
Our Forces Are Strong

After their visit to Capitol Hill,
the farmers reconyene in Typo
graphical Hall. They describe their
interviews to the Conference. They
denOunCe the takers and resume
their work.
This is the third day of the Con-
ference. The farmers have had
ample time TO look around, fiex
their muscles, and gauge their
strength. They find themselves
strong, from the leaders on the
platform TO the floorjacks sitting
silently III the rear of the hall
They find themselves strong, for
no matter what difficulty or piece
Of work arises, the right man jumps
forward to get into the collar.
I EN- HARRIS is Executive Secre-
l. tary of the Conference. A Har-
ward graduate, Pennsylvania farm
er, he has worked on Soviet farms
and in Soviet factories. He has
been all over the country talking to
dirt farmers, and knows conditions
thoroughly even in the most re-
mote places. He is tall, lean as a
handpike, with clean-cut features.
Nothing flusters him Just as the
Conference opened, he had a bout
with a former official of the De-
partment of Agriculture. This Off
cial was speaking to a group of
farmers about the Iowa picketing
and tried to make the point that
everything vas quiet until out
siders, unemployed from the city,
came out to help the farm pickets.
The official flared up when Harris
said it was inadvisdble he continue
talking TO the group. He called
Harris jaCkass, Harris showed
him politely to the visitors sec
ton
Towards the end Of the Confer
ence almost everybody shows strain
from lack of sleep, sixteen hours of
work every day, everybody looks
filthy, hollow-eyed. Big George
Keith faints on the platform; so
does an Alabama cropper; wiry
Tony Rosenberg has to take to
bed. only Lem seems to grow
stronger and fresher as the Con-
ference progresses, like a rock
coming sharper out Of the ground
the more pressure there is forced
down around it,
Ito Be Continued.)
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24

SOUTHERN JUSTICE Sen
tence OF Negro worker to living
death for leading fight for bread
American Workers must save Hern-
don and other Atlanta defendants
from clutches Of vicious chair Gang
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-24
THE FARMERS MEET
STORY OF MILITANCY OF TOLERs ON THE LAND
BY MOE BRAGN

overthrow Of our institutions. Here
one of the farmers interrupts MIN.
He wants to discuss the milk prob
lem. Royal S. Copeland, former
Commissioner of Health, snaps
back he knows more about milk
than the farmer. Copeland tries
again a squirt from his hose of
oratory, shutters, and goes off into
tiff like a pricked balloon.
LOTS OF
HAND SHAKING
Robert Wagner shakes hands.
He apologies for not having more
chairs. On wall, picture of Abe
Lincoln and cartoons Of Wagner
Wagner reads the Demands silent
ly, a cigar in his mouth. Another
half-Smoked cigar is drying on his
desk. Through reading, he says
the plight Of the farmer is tragic.
The farmer must be rehabilitated.
Immediate action required 1t
would be q mistake, however, to
commit himself now He will study
the Demands carefully. When one
Of the farmers reminds him that
Congress suspended rules to allow
Amelia Earhart to speak from the
floor and that the farmers condi-
tons demand the same suspension,
he blinkS and says it was unusual.
He squats in his big soft chair like
a benevolent bullfrog. He returns
to the question Of relief and says
he doesn't understand why the
Demands call Tor administration of
relief by farmers. A farmer re-
minds him that the Red Cross and
other relief agencies have been dis
eliminating against certain groups
of farmers and workers. To show
how important it is that relief in
kind be given, the farmer tells the
story of the Arkansas farmer whose
child was diving. He rushed down
to the relief office in town to beg
for money for medicine. The relief
agent said he had only flour and
drove him off. Wagner has nothing
to say to this. He announces to
the New York farmers that though
he came to this country as a young
ster. still he was born on a farm
on the Others side.
THE delegation marches out to
l the Capitol Into the gallery
Of the House. There in the pit the
cocks who have been treading mil
lions of workers and farmers thus
far with impnity. Huddlaston of
Alabama now growing. Farmers
should consider themselves fortu-
nate to have roofs, hogs. COWS,
while the city workers have moth
ing" Some Of the Representative
dCze. others talk to their neighbors.
rustic newspapers. yawn, stroll
about. The farmers learn their
demands have already been read
into the records. They march out
to meet other farmers and ex-
change notes. Their comments
show they see through the evasions,
lies. vague promises. oratoricaI-
fouriShes and demagogy of the
capitalist politicians. The farmers
troop into the basement of Congress
and open their boxes of lunch.
Guides come around with flocks
of women and point to the star
which indicates the spot under
which Betsy Ross was to have been
buried. The farmers eat and talk.
And from the shadows and corners
swarm the dicks and stoolpigeons
like cockroaches.