The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-24

A broad committee of workers
l.and farmers was set up to carry on
the work-the Philadelphia Region
al Committee for Action.
Other important resolutions were
on worker-farmer unity against the
milk trust, for the abolition of state
police, against sheriff sales, for rec.
ignition of the Soviet Unon, against
imperalist war, for the bonus and
for social insurance.
In the past few months, the farm
youth organization, called the
Young Pioneers of the United
Farmers Protective Association, has
been established and now has over
200 members in three locals. The
activities of the youth organization
have been mainly social, though it
was represented at the Allentown
National Youth Day with a delega-
lion of rs. The youth group in this
area is of utmost Importance be-
cause it represents the connecting
link between factory and farm.
Over so per cent of the youth have
been or are now working in shops.
This makes them semi-proletarians.
This means that the Y. c. L. should
| help carefully work out more adj
vanced program than the adult or
CARNATIONS, which is petty-bour-
Egeois organization under prole-
taran leadership.
The author will endeavor to moro
adequately handle the youth prob
lens in separate article in the
future.
eWHAT has been the effect of the
nv New Deal on the rural masses
in the area? There is no doubt
/ that the New Deal illusions exist.
The new deal illusions even weak
.ened section of the leadership of
the United Farmers Protective As
ISOLATION. This is to be expected in
view of the fact that we are dealing
with small and middle farmers,
property owners, whose class nature
is to vaccilate, to grasp any straw
l-that may seem to save their prop
lerty. The militant conscious sec.
| ton of the leadership of the United
Farmers Protective Association still
young politically, did not know how
to sufficiently expose the New Deal
illusions. There came a definite
slow-up period.
Grain That Is Bought To Feed
r Then came the rise in prices OF
cattle. Sharp and steady rose the
price of grain. Milk prices were at
Ia standstill. The famous scissors
4opened wider than ever. Farmers
began to wake up.
| Along with this came wave OF
| industrial strikes. For the first
time in history we have strikes IN
the mills of the towns. From the
towns to the cross-road sweatshops::
Every cross-road can now boast OF
Ia strike. Militant strikes, too.
| Strikers who never heard of class
struggle-who are befuddled and
still full of illusions. Many of the
strikes are being. won. Increase IN
wages, shorter hours, etc.
= This has had great influence on
the hard pressed farmers. Sons
and daughters came home with ac-
counts of the class struggle on
IplckeC lines. OlTlke Idlh III CNSiJ
farm home in the industrial-farm
area Bucks, Montgomery, Berks
and Lehigh Countless.
For Milk Strike
Votes are being taken at farmers
meetings throughout the territory
/ From the North we hear the strike
struggle of the New York dairy
| farmers. To the West. the opening
skirmish is taking place, a small
Estrike of 5OO-Harrisburg is being
fblockaded; four shot.
From the South, Maryland, we
hear urgent calls for help to or
game for strike. From the East.
New Jersey, the farmers are chaff-
ling at the a~rointment of Clyde
King as car of the milk industry
under the New Deal.
There is no doubt that major
class battle are about to be fought
among the farmers.