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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
NOV 10 Chicago Conference Gives the Party Great Opportunity To
organize Ruined Farmers For Struggle Against CAPITAL

insufficient attention.
And consequently the Party as a
whole has not drawn full lessons
from the resolution. The conse-
quences of negiecting the ADEQUATE
discussion of the resolution is shown
In the practical work itself in the
way that very few District Commit
tees and Section Committees are
giving leadership to the work among
the farmers. For instance, there has
been insufficient preparations for the
Farmers Second National Confer
ence. II has been left too much to
our agrarian cadres only.
Party Grows Among Farmers
However, thanks to the fact that
the mass movement of the impov-
erished farmers has brought forward
many new elements and has in the
rapid space surprisingly increased
our agrarian cadres, the Party work
among the farmers has been carried
forward and the Party has unques-
tionally achieved some measure of
improvements. We have, upon the
basis of serious self-criticism, clari-
fled our political line and succeeded
In making clearer the aim Of our
work among the farmers. We have
made a serious beginning in build
ing the Party among the poor farm
ers (Nebraska, Iowa, Pennsylvania.
and the South. In this way the
fraction work and the direct Party
leadership within the militant farm
ers' movement has been greatly
strengthened.
We have strengthened our leading
cadres politically and at the same
time trained new cadres. Our farm
school is about to finish its third
stop, giving a three-to-four week
period Of training to seventeen to
twenty young farmers ON each stop.
We have made steady gains amongst
the new strata of farmers, dairy
farmers; and the improvement in the
work and the organizational growth
OF the United Farmers League and
the Sharecroppers' Union is very
noticeable.
Must Win Farm Workers
Nevertheless, we must not start
Boosting about our achievements.
They are very small compared to
the opportunities and the require
ments.
We can point to them only in the
sense that the Party is able to over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Detroit Children,
Starving, Forced
To Leave School
Welfare Refuses Shoes,
Clothes, Rent; Say
Worker Is Crazy

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. with
one child too sick from starvation to
go to school and another unable to
go to school because he has no shoes,
a Detroit worker, who told repre-
sentative of the Daily Worker his
story, is experiencing the results of
the New Deal as administered by the
Detroit Welfare Department.
The worker, an electrician by trade,
whose name cannot be given because
of the possibility of victimization, has
been on the relief rolls for three
years. He receives $3.50 in food
checks every two weeks. plus 30
quarts of milk for himself, his wife
and two children. AS a result OF
this starvation fare, his oldest son,
aged 16, lost IL pounds in seven
weeks and was compelled to leave
school. The doctor advised the We'll
fare Department to increase the boys
relief at least 10 per cent, but the
Welfare refused.
The worker showed the Daily
Worker pair of shoes he had re-
ceived from the Welfare Department
about two months ago for his younger
son, nine years old. The soles of
the shoes were made of cardboard
and were completely worn through.
He said the Welfare had refused to
give his boy another pair of shoes.
This worker is also threatened with
eviction, as the Welfare Department
has refused to, pay his rent. Be-
cause he has repeatedly come to the
welfare station and demanded ac-
ton, the welfare worker has been
trying to frame him up and put him
in the hospital for observation, de-
claring he was mentally unbalanced.
Through reading the Daily Worker,
this worker learned about the IN
employed Council and is now looking
toward mass action to get more re-
lief for himself and his family and
to prevent his eviction and win I'M
employment insurance. Thousands in
Detroit are in similar circumstances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
By H. PURO

While the agrarian crisis, inten-
slfied by the general economic crisis
OF American capitalism, is again
tremendously deepening, causing the
collapse of the Roosevelt farm pro-
gram and making additional strata
OF the toiling farmers ready for mill
tant struggles, it is well to examine
to what extent our Party has over
come those weaknesses and short
comings that were brought out
sharply In the Open Letter and in
the special Agrarian Resolution
adopted at the Extraordinary Party
Conference in July.
The fact that our Party has even
partially been able to begin to full
fill the task Of the Open Letter.
namely to strengthen its proletarian
base during the course of recent in
dustrial struggles, being actively
engaged at the head of many sharp
strike battles of the steel workers,
miners, textile and other workers,
has greatly stimulated the readiness
for struggle among the toiling farm
population whose conditions are be-
ing deeply worsened under the
Roosevelt program. Here we can see
how absolutely correct the line laid
down in the Open Letter is In en-
phasizing the major task of the
Party as the strengthening of its
proletaIian base as the only condi-
ton by which it can properly utilize
the rehabilitation of the other Sec
tons of the toiling masses and win
ming them into the fighting alliance
against capital.
In preparing itself for the impend-
ing struggles of the farmers it is
therefore necessary for our Party to
keep in mind the maintenance of the
proletarian hegemony.
Right Danger in Farm Work
or course, there are certain
dangers to the other direction.
namely the tendencies to understand
the Open Letter in such way, that
now when we concentrate on the
basic industries, that the work
among the farmers can be ignored.
The Open Letter sternly warns
against these tendencies.
Yet, even after this warning, these
tendencies. have shown themselves.
For instance, there has been prac-
tically no guidance given by the lead
ing Party Committees in discussing
the Agrarian Resolution of the Elk
traordinary Conference. Discussion
has been left and limited to our
agrarian cadres only. The recent
18th Central Committee meeting
passed by the agrarian question with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Lives of Reichstag
Trial Defendants
In Great Danger
Continued from Page 1

rant and first assumed they were
Bulgarians. He advanced the absurd
and obvious lie that he saw van der
Lubbe repeatedly at the same table.
"An inner feeling" told him immedi-
ately they were Bolshevists.
Hellmer was entangled in catas-
trophic contradictions until the
prosecution desperately let him drop
the matter. Hellrner stated he saw
van der Lubbe at the Bayernhof not
only in October, 1882, but in May.
The judge pointed out the infor-
nation Of the Dutch police said that
van der Lubbe was serving a term
of imprisonment in Scheveningen in
May.
Hellmer declared he saw three Bull
garians on the 9th of February in
the Bayernhof. Dimitroff proved an
alibi. Hellmer insisted that both
statements were false, thus utterly
confusing the prosecutor, as the sole
witness against Dinlitroff was proved
to be a liar.
lelcnefC pointed out Hellmer S
false deposition. and stated it was
disastrous for Germany that He'll
mer had diverted the prosecution
into the wrong channel.
The pubic prosecutor then de-
manded excitedly what Teichert
meant. A clash took place between
Werner and Teichert. Teichert de-
clared nobody believes the improbable
tale of van der Lubbe in the Bay
ernhof with the Bulgarians and that
Helln1er was certainly mistaken.
The prosecutor then asked what
the connection was between the al
legged innocent Bulgarians who will be
defended with Germany's prestige
Teichert said: 1.-THE Indictment OF
the Bulgarians damages German JUS
tice abroad" The prosecutor replied
we owe no account of our justice
to foreign countries"
Popoff then reminded Hellmer had
frequently confused him formerly
with Taneff.
The detective was forced to con-
firm the great contradictions in He'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Who Will Lead the Rising Struggles Of the Farmers?

and CHER farmers cooperative mar
keting organizations can be utilized.
Participation in these struggles and
establishment of the broad united
front around the struggles for the
immediate needs Of the impoverished
farmers will enable us to expose these
leaders in the course of struggles and
TO win over these farmers to our
program and leadership.
Impending farmers struggles and
The preparations for the. Second Ma
tional Farmers Conference offers ex-
cellent possibilities for our Party.
The United Farmers League and
other left wing farmers organize
tons can grow only if they base their
work upon initiating the broad
united front struggles for the i'm
mediate demands of ruined and i'm
poverished farming population.
The very fact that the farm unity
with the workers has become so
widely accepted and that the slogan
for cancellation Of farmers debts
and taxes within few months has
made such Roadway that it is al
ready about to take the place of
the demand for a moratorium,
demonstrates the great extent that
the farmers are ready to accept
revolutionary demands put forward
by our Party.
Under these circumstances, the
Farmers Second National Conference
assumes the greatest significance. 1t
must provide the impoverished farm
masses with the real fighting program
against the outrageous robbery Of
Wall Street bankers, trusts and
n,onopolies, and against the Reese
welt program of ruination OF the
American farmers.
While fully participating in the
formulation Of such q fighting pro-
gram and giving every support for
the STRUGGLES for the everyday de-
manis of the toillng farmers, it is
the task of Communism to point
out the impossibility of solving the
crisis under capitalism. We must
make clear the great contradiction
that exists between the position Of
the American farmers under the
capitalist rule, and the farmers of
the Soviet Union under the rule of
the workers and farmers govern
ment-the catastrophe ruination
and pauperization Of the American
farmer, on the one hand, and the
great achievements of the farmers
in the Soviet Union, under the col
Iectivized agriculture, on the other
hand, thereby showing the revolu-
tionary way out Of the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08

the government shall extend the
N. f. A. to agriculture" BY these
maneuVerS this arch-betrayer of farm
eTs' struggles is making the farmers
effective mass weapon-the strike
work against them trying to bring
the wase-cutting slavery act into
agriculture, whereby finance capital
and it's agents will be enabled to
further enslave the telling farmers.
Our task of winning over the
ruined farm population would be
much simpler, of course, If we were
in the field alone. But this is not
the case. That makes our task so
much more complicated and there
fore we must be much more alert.
The greatest degree of alertness and
preparedness is required from the
Party now, when the tremendous
strike wave of the industrial workers
comedies and is followed by the deep
unrest, struggles and impending
struggles Of the agrarian masses ali
over the countryside .Q5,oO0 cotton
pi9kers' strike. in California, practi-
cal revolt Of the northwestern farm
ers against A. A. A., growing unrest
among Negro shareoroppe-s now eg-
tending also TO the southern fruit
and tobacco workers and small farm
ers, and strike threats Of dairy farm
ers against the disparity prices and
against outrageous robbery of the
powerful milk trusD.
1t is clear now that the deepening
of the crisis is causing the predic-
ton of Party resolution in coming
true, namely, further growth OF the
farmers mass actions and their
transition to more decisive FERNS Of
struggles. 1t is absolutely necessary
to understand this perspective, other
wise the Party will not be prepared
and will continue to lag behind the
coming big struggles.
1t is also necessary to understand
that, while social fascist agents, like
Milo Reno and, Others, are still hav-
ing a great influence among the
farmers and are able to pull out
strikes and other actions, we are not
barred from taking part in these
The Party must actively
in these struggles and
learn how to apply the correct tao
tics of the united front from below.
And here our already considerable
contacts with the farmers in the
Holiday Association, Farmers Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08

show that the N.RA. claim of de-
creased unemployment was put for
ward to hide wholesale Iay-offs. More
than TOO we're laid off in the Otis
Steel plant in Cleveland this week.
In the Midland Steel the men are
now working only two and three days
month. In the American Steel and
Wire Co, there has been a sharp de-
cline in production and many laid
of.
Auto and light metal plants are
shutting down here due to lack Of dies
from Detroit, where there is a tool
and die strike. The Steel end Metal
Workers Industrial Union, 1887 Payne
Ave. is conducting a special cam
paign to organize these part-time
steel workers into the union, to fight
for relief and to organize for fight
to increase wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
JObleSS Wait Month
For Torn Coats and
Flop House DOles
Chicago Unemployed
Go to Council, and
Prepare March

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. THE treaJ-
ment Of single men getting relief al
the Clearing House for Men at 800
South Green st. is becoming worse
and worse. On Saturday, when the
clothes orders were given out, par
ticularly those receiving overcoats
found them to be in a second hand.
dirty and torn condition. Some of
the overcoatS handed out were so
badly worn that they are ready for
the rag pile. much less to wear dur
ing the winter.
Four Of the men got together and
went to the Unemployed Council Hall
at HalSted and Adams SITS. They will
form a committee Monday and pro-
test to the heads of the Illinois Emer-
gency Relief at 10 S. LaSalle ST.
They will also demand winter coal
instead Of being forced into the flop
houses.
With the increasing number of
cases coming in every day asking
for relief, no additional help is put
ON to handle this increased load. one
worker, having filed his application
week ago, told the ease worker
that he had been waiting for him all
last wesk and wants to know when
the case worker will investigate, as
he is in desperate need. The case
worker asked for his name, referred
to a folder full of applications and
said: 1T viii be around 80 days be-
fore will be able to take up your
case" Protests as to the urgent need
were useless, for the next reply was:
There are lot of cases ahead OF
Yours; I'm very sorry" He then cut
short further plea by calling out the
name Of the next waiting victim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08

their massed strength. 1t is this
growing movement that the workers
of Chicago are called upon to hail at
the Coliseum solidarity meeting on
Nov. 18th.
Nationally known speakers are
scheduled. Alfred Tiala, National
Secretary of the United Farmers
League, Lem Harris, Secretary of the
Farmers National Committee for Ac-
ton, I. Amter, National Secretary
Unemployed Councils, Clarence A.
Hathaway, Central Committee Com
munist Party, Mother Bloor, veteran
farm and worker organizer, Harry
Lux, State organizer Of the Nebraska
Holiday Association with member
ship Of 10000 farmers, John Mar
shall, President of the Ohio Farm
ers League, and Joe Weber, District
Secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League.
All workers and workers organiza-
tionS are asked to attend and sup
port this mass demonstration of
worker-farmer solidarity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
And
DOCKERS GO
TO CAPITAL
Delegation To Put Own
Demands at Code
Hearings

NEW YORK. About rs seamen and
lockers from the North Atlantic ports,
! comprising a delegation led by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union, will
proceed to Washington today to pre-
sent the code of the union at the
N.R.A. hearings. r. B. Hudson, sec
rotary of the union, will accompany
the delegation.
The code hearings on the marine
industry are to take place Nov. 9th,
after series of secret negotiations
between the ship owners and the
MIRA. officials. The original code
of the marine industry was present.
ed Sept. Is, and revised code Oct.
25th.
The revised code provides for $40
month minimum for seanen, and
leaving the door open for as low as
80 cents an hour for longshoremen.
Without changing the starvation
wage levels, the revised code included
two new strikebreaking clauses. They
provided for setting up arbitration
boards, and machinery for strangling
strikes and militant action.
4 lit IGTlSSQ CtNS bItiAGUI SdhlilS
features were included after a series
of ship strikes, especially on the Mum
son Line. led By the Marine Workers
Industrial Union.
In Norfolk, Virginia, recently, dock
ers belonging to the International
Longshorenen's Association voted to
adopt the code of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union. They elected
delegates to go to Washington to
fight for this code Officials Of the
union are now trying to blacklist
dcclers WHO tCo,I the leading role in
adopting the code. They also tried
to have the men adopt code Of
fered by the q. 7. Of L. officials, but
all these measures were defeated by
the r2.nl- and file.
The code which the delegation will
fight for, contains the following: For
seaman, return to the 1929 shipping
board aea1e. providing $3.50 for able
4 bodied soanel; guarantee of 80 weeks
work a year; unemployment insur-
ance, no race discrimination. For the
lockers: 4 guaranteed wage; an in
crease in the size of the gangs,
against speed-up, for a rotary system
OF ahape-up. as well as the other
demands contained in the. seamen's
code. .,,,s,.. ,..,.,
Both codes demand the right of
the workers to join a union OF their
own choosing, and the right to strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Roosevelt to Add
S125,OOO,OOO to
Huge War Program
Demand Billion Dollar
w ar Fund for
JObleSs Insurance!

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Continu-
ing his record program Of war prep
arations, Roosevelt signified today
that Congress would receive new
huge naval building program when
it convenes again soon.
This new program will involve the
expenditure Of another S125,000,000 in
addition to the G1,000000000 pro-
gram already in the process of con-
struction.
Biggest War Program
The new program is intended to
provide, within the space of one
year, several new aircraft cruisers. 1t
is also intended to speed the con-
struction of the eighteen S-inch gun
cruisers provided by the London Ma
val Treaty.
In addition to the S238,000,000 re-
ceived from the Public Works Fund,
the navy is now petitioning for an
additional $77,O00,000.
The total Roosevelt naval building
far surpasses anything that any
peace-time President has ever
launched. It is evidence of the fact
that Roosevelt expects to hurl Amer
lea into another imperialist war.
Spurns JobleSs
During these enormous war ex-
penditmes, Roosevelt has refused to
give one cent for unemployment in
surance for the 100000 jobless
workers, on the ground that the gov
eminent has no money.
The American workers can stop
these huge war expenditures by de-
manding that they be turned over
for the immediate relief of the
100000 jobless and for unemploy-
ment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Crew OF bIull(lixie
Wins Pay Demands
Struck for Wages and
Against Bad Food

NEW ORLEANS. La, Nov. 6.-The
! crew of the S. S. Mundi1iie, of the
Munson Line. after a short strike
here won their demands for payoff
The Munson Line had been with
holding wages of all seamen, some
of the men not having been paid for
four months.
Most Of the officers joined the men
in the demand and walked off the
ship. The ships committee charged
thai conditions on the ship were
rotten. I'VE had stew for 81 consec-
utive nights" they said. THE cof-
fee was warmed over from the Of
ficers' mess, and the bread stale and
soggy.
The strike was organized and led
by the Marine Workers Industrial
TJni0n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Arrest Eight Pickets in
Wheelan Studio Strike

NEW YORK.-At the end of the
second week of the strike at Wheel
ans studios, $40 7th Ave, the photo
graphic workers on strike for higher
pay are holding their picket lines in
tact. -Four pickets we're arrested on
Saturday, at the hamburger Depart
ment Stores in Newark where the
company has a studio. Four more
were jailed at the studios in New
York. ALI photo workers are urged
to support this struggle by strengthen
ing the picket line today at 80 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Red Youth League
Expels Stryner, Scab

NEW YORK.-George Stryner of
PaWtucket, who is scabbing on the
silk workers on strike in the Black
stone Valley, q member Of the Young
Communist eLague up to the latter
part Of 1892, has been expelled.
The Communist Party unit of Prov
ldence, r. l., denounced Stryner for
committing an inexcusable crime
aginst the workers, with the workers
movement of this section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
EEL MILLS LAY OFF 1000 THIS WEEK. OTHERS PUT ON PART TIME
Boston Forced To
Stop Recruiting of
Scabs for Detroit

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 7.-As a
result of the delegation of the I'm
employed Council and Of various
industrial unions affiliated to the
T.U.U.L., which went to the City
Municipal Employment Bureau
some two weeks ago to protest
against the employment bureaus
advertising for tool and die makers
20 go to Detroit to scab on the
strikers, the Boston City Council
was forced to issue an order for
bidding the hiring of any strike
breakers for Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
California

The great Soviet film 1905. adapt.
ed from VI. Gorki's famous novel
Mother" will be shown in the fol-
lowing cities on the dates listed be-
low for the benefit OF the Daily
Worker. Comrade Ed. Royce is
touring with this film.
Nov. 9-Riverside.
Nov. H--San Pedro
Nov. R-Santa Barbara.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
200 Fired in Gary

GARY, Ind, Nov. 7.-On Monday,
200 workers were laid off in the Cary
steel works Of the United States Steel
Corporation. The second half of
October the work Of the transporta-
ton department dropped down to
two and three days a week. The
plant had been working four days a
week. A week ago the department
closed down for So hours and three
engines were pulled off for good
Some were told to stay home five
days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
JobIess Strike Against Forced Labor;
Demand Unemployment Insurance
Shut Down in Cleveland, Gary
and Bethlehem; More Coming
United States Steel Corporation Speeds Up
Those Still Working

CLEVELAND Ohio 7One thousand
laid off the steel mills Cleveland Ohio and eBhehem Pa in the
week. adding the housand already laid off South Chicago
mills these important steel centers cutting down
The facts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Speed-up in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Nov. Hours
of work in the Bethlehem Steel Co.
plant have been cut from eight to
six a day. multiplying wage increase
from IS to SO cents an hour. The
workers in most of the departments
are now working two to three days
week. The ingot mould pouring de-
partment is working only one week
a month. The drop forge department
is working only two or three days a
week.
Speed-up accompanies the cutting
down of hours and days worked. The
foreman notified the men that unless
every man turns out the necessary
production he will be stricken from
the list of those available for future
work, and fired.
Thousands are being laid off.
Other thousands are on part time
work. Steel workers, join the Steel
Workers Industrial Union. Fight
for the passage of the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill. De-
mand adequate unemployment re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-08
Port Chester, ". Y.

November 9Th:
Ranquet-Cniness Restaurant. Dame
ing at effalrS arranged by Russian
Mutual Aid at North Main Street.