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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-07

UllG present IOIIQ Oh society," AS you
know, we live in q country where
millions of tons Of food and cloth.
ing are being stored and are rot
ting, and millions Of our society
freeze and 80 hungry, which is the
very cause of the disease which you
are fighting
While in Chicago Nov. II attend
ing the Farmers National Relief
Conference 1 saw one Of the most
damnable things that is possible to
conceive, in the richest land of the
world A mother and three little
children dressed in rags, eating out
of a garbage can. and the smell OF
that can would almost drive swine
away.
This all goes on while the leaders
of our present set up of society sit
in nice warm offices and send out
requests for help for those who are
not able to look out for themselves.
As I see it, If these societies and
associations were just a little inter
ested in this malady they would all
combine and fight the cause, and
the malady would right itself.
Now for the contributions, If you
would go to the tax collector of Pits
grove Township and get from him
taxes that had to pay twice, and
also ask him for the illegal interest
Of 8 per cent that had to pay on
the same tax that was already paid,
and if he will give 1t to you, you are
welcome to it.
AS for me sending you anything
for this fund, I would say that it is
impossible, as through my activity in
fighting a malady worse than the
con or worse than leprosy, which is
the starvation plan of the present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-07
Letters from Orr Readers
AssatI the n. r. A.
HEARST AND THE N.R.A.
Bronx. N. Y.


Conrade Editor:
There appears in the N. z. Times
full-page statements by Hearst about
the failure of the MIRA.
Mr.. Hearst tries to cover up the
real fascist program of the MIRA. in
order to blind the small business men
and the workers. I, as a worker ask
myself, how can the NR.A. be a
benefit to the workers and bankers
alike. Since when do the bankers
say to the workers, "I will raise your
standard of living to higher level,
at the expense of my own?" No. MFR,
Hearst does not have to tell us that
the MIRA. is a flop. We can see
this clearly.
Throughout the nation the workers
are on strike, protesting against wage
cuts. Workers are shot down and
killed, arrested and framed up. Why
doesn't Mr.. Hearst tell the real reason
that the MIRA. fails? Because he
is a capitalist newspaper owner and
is himself an exploiter of labor. He
is trying to cover up Mr.. Roosevelt
and his fascist henchmen. He is try
ing to cover UP the capitalist system
of which he is @ part, a system that
Is already on the way to the grave
yard. So I think that it is important
that Mr.. w. r. Hearst be exposed
to the workers.
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Half Week Donations Drop;
Seattle Will Double Quota

NEW YORK.-Receipts in the Daily
Worker $4,000 drive in the half week
ending Dec. 4th showed a decided
drop, totaling $944.24, as against
81 ,52745 in the previous half week.
New York District No. 2, sent in
S352.25, or $22735 less than the half
week before. Seattle, District No. IL,
rushed $173.13, and has raised 1926
per cent on its quota of $500, that is
almost doubling its original quota.
Seattle leads in the drive, with Boston
District No. /, second. District No. J.,
is not doing so well since it raised its
quota, only $11.2o coming from that
district in the past week.
Cleveland, Ohio.
District No. 6, Cleveland, increased
it's percentage to GAS, by sending
$10792. Due to typographical err
ror, the appeal for funds in Wednes-
days issue stated that '"I'he Jewish
and Hungarian language group, much
smaller, has done good work" It
should have read, 1.-THE Jewish and
Hungarian language groups have
hardly lifted finger to save the
Daily Worker, while the Greek group
much smaller, has done good work"
Section IL of the Cleveland District
with large population Of Negro
workers challenged Harlem Section,
N. Y, to raise its quota first in the
drive. Section IL has quota OF 500,
Of which more than half has already
been reached. Section l, Cleveland
issues a similar challenge to Canton,
Section 5; Section 3, Cleveland, chal-
Ienges section II, Toledo. Accept
these challenges through the columns
of the Daily Workerl
Detroit Nears Quota
Detroit, District Z, sent $164.i5 in
the half week ending Dec. 4th, and
rates 95.4 per cent. A little more hard
work comrades Of Detroit, and you
will go over the top. Chicago sent
in only $34.3e, compared with S286.56
in the previous half week. What is
the trouble, Chicago? BY now the
drive in your territory should be NOV
ing at full speed, but you rate only
50 per cent, after IL weeks OF cam
paigning.
Workers. Clubs.
Not cent came from the Jewish
Workers Clubs, which have raised
only IT'S per cent Of their quota OF
$1,000, and only SIS from the Interna-
tional Workers Order! The I. w. O..
lags behind with a percentage OF BAT
on it's quota OF $4,000.
With the drive for $4,000 so near
to it's goal, an appeal is issued to every
worker to contribute, to every working
class organization to intensity its ac-
tivity. We are within reach Of the
full amount. The completion of the
drive will be genuine tribute to
those participating and victory to
the American revolutionary working
class. Let's all helpl
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A LOGGER REVIEWS AN N. n. A,
PARADE

Aberdeen, Wash.
Last night we saw the long talked
of N. r. A. parade. 1t was called an
N. r. A. parade, but in our estima-
ton it was purely fascist display.
First came five American flags and
the American Legion flag, next the
high school band of Aberdeen, then
the American, Legion Drum and Bugle
Corps, the Boy Scouts OF America
next, and then came two we'll
groomed Newfoundland dogs. Then
the City Counciln1en Of Aberdeen,
followed by the Veterans OF Foreign
Wars, some Of whom looked as
tho they had called on John Barley
corn to give them courage to march
in the parade. And to finish OF the
parade in real fascist style came three
ambulances. There were only about
a hundred in the line Of march, in
Guiding the two cops on asthmatic
motorcycles who led the parade.
No rain that night, SO the Aberdeen
Chamber Of Comicals can't blame this
weather for the poor participation.
The crowd that lined the side walk
consisted mostly of loggers and mill
workers who were thrown out Of
job by the "Blue Buzzard.
-UnernpIoyed Loesey.
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% or 30 per cent INTEREST," while
making said crop, and you haven't
had any clothes, and have lost all
hopes Of getting any, in spite of the
fact that cold weather is already
here.
She might give the husband a
half days work. He won't need
more because you have seven OF
eight hens and a couple Of pigs you
haven't sold yet to buy groceries
with. You don't need corn to feed
them on. They can find enough food
for themselves.
Now if one has money and an
auto to drive IL or Is miles to the
county seat and see them every day
or two he gets q foreman's Job
because he is considered a worthy
case"
Lots Of weeks there is no money
for work, in spite of the large sum
appropriated for same, because the
bosses and reps are SO many that
their salaries gobble most Of it up.
And is it just their salaries? It
would be interesting to know!
Farm wages here have been as
follows: white men, 10 cents; white
women and colored men and women,
80 cents. For the last two months
they have gone UP to 40 cents and
so cents, usually paid in whatever
the landlord has of surplus food
stuff, instead of cash.
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Gus paralysis also occur. Optomet-
rists are sometimes embarrassed by
the sudden changes in the optical re-
fraction of certain individuals. A
pair OF glasses bought a few weeks
before may become useless and the
client blames the optical store or the
optometrist, when the real cause is
marked increase of sugar in the
blood. Myopia near-sightedness) is
the condition mostly exhibited by
those suffering from diabetes (sugar
disease; but hyperopia (far-sighted-
ness) is also seen.
Gouty individuals complain of hot
feeling in the lids, glaucoma and
other ocular diseases. The same may
be said OF rheumatism which is as
ISOLATED with iritis, episcleritis.
Headache and migraine (pain on
the side of the head are often due
to errors OF refraction which can be
readily corrected by proper glasses;
the most common being astigmatism
and hyperopia. The pain is usually
felt over the eyes or in the forehead.
In migraine, vision is frequently
blurred. Sometimes dark patches
with a bright zigzag outline appear
in the field of vision, particularly
after eyestrain following intense men,
tai concentration.
Scurvy is characterized by night
blindness and hemorrhages in vari-
Gus parts of the eye; ricketts, by cata-
ract and interstitial keratitis.
Dizziness and nausea are often
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field.
Some OF the farmers have not only
had to mortgage their farms but also
have TO mortgage their alfalfa crops
to buy gas and electric power with
which to pump their irrigation water.
Thus the farmers are being exploited
by the banks, power and gas compa-
MES.
The Hinckley Valley farmers have
already established contact with the
United Farmers League and will soon
have local of that organization here.
This new movement in Hinckley came
about because farmer read West
ern Worker and wrote to that paper,
asking for some one to come out and
help the farmers organize. AS re-
suit the San Bernardino Workers
Center contacted with the farmers Of
Hinckley Valley.
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ACfeaSEu dppTOpLlahOu lOI Wal Pul
poses at the expense Of the masses)
without connecting it with our revo-
dictionary way out of the crisis.
Z 4. Lastly, was the unsatisfactory
political and organiZationsl mobiliza-
ton of the Party and through the
Party fractions and members, the
revolutionary minded workers for the
campaign. We did not utilize all the
workers at our command, limiting
the campaign work for L Q. Ford
merely to the narrowed circle Of
Communist Party members. AS re-
suit Of this the election struggles
were not utilized to multiply many
tirnes over the circulation Of the
Daily Worker; to strengthen the
work OF the Communists inside the
factories and American Federation
of Labor; and to build the Party and
the Young Communist League.
SEX Criticism and Self Correction
We examine i'll sharp se1f-critical
manner the above weaknesses in Or
der that every member shall have a
full understanding Of the election
results and because our Party does
not limit itself to the bourgeois par
ianentary limitation Of the primar-
les, but continues with sticker
campaign for I. o. Ford for Mayor
and of any of the Councilman can
didates, that the Small Home and
Land Owners may decide to wage a
similar sticker campaign for.
We must continue the struggle
more energetically in these last three
weeks than ever before. Now is not
the time to relax. The election
struggle is only one phase Of our en-
tire revolutionary struggle and the
main points of our election platform
are also our fighting program after
the elections. We must warn against
the lesser evil" theory of support
ing one capitalist candidate as
against another. This is downright
treachery to the working class.
We must improve the campaign in
the light Of the above political eX-
PLANTATION and change our previous
methods OF the campaign by ener-
getica1ly exposing the N. r. A. as
applied to Cleveland's local conditions
and politics; development OF mass
struggles in the shops, amongst the
unemployed and Negro masses; eX-
posure through deeds Of the bour-
geois parties and their American
Federation Of Labor and liberal
henchmen; bold presentation Of our
Party and its candidates to all work
ing-class organizations on the basis
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EXAMINING TIE NEW DEAL

hPllG, OIllOs
We workers here in Kent are anxi-
GUS to know just what the next card
will be from the New Deal. We have
suffered for the past three years
through mass lay-offs, wage cuts,
starvation and misery. Now the
NR.A. is making things worse in
stead of better. There are no jobs
Those that are working make a mis-
cradle wage, only a few hours a week
in a share the work" program.
Living conditions have gone sky
high and many of the workers can
not buy even enough to eat. The
brain trust of the N.R.A. says We
must raise less wheat and plow under
large acreage of cotton in order to
keep the price UP. At the same time
thousands of workers go ragged and
hungry through the streets. Tens of
thousands of hogs were ground into
fertilizer whole the families of poor
workers suffered and could not even
afford to buy hamburger.
Just recently these Brainy Bloats
(tools of the Wall Street money bags
have decided to pickle these hogs and
give them to the people in the form
Of salt pork. Swift and Co. were
allowed the contract in this district.
They keep part and the workers get
part. Swift and Co. cuts the hog
just behind the ear and divides it
with the hungry workers.
OF course, if the hog is headed
South, the worker doesn't get the
north end, he gets the eye holes, ear
holes, teeth and wfliskers. and be-
lieve it or not, he sometimes gets a
shoulder Two families have got
awfully sick on it and one woman
threw it away.
Taking all this into consideration,
workers should realize by this time
that Roosevelt Is no Saviour or in
sympathy with them in their every
day struggle for the vital necessities
Of life. Here have just mentioned
three of the most vital necessities of
life: bread, meat and clothing. And
We see and know the program of the
Blue Buzzard in regard to these.
War preparations are going on at
full speed and we can almost smell
the powder of a new war. Huge ap-
preparations have been made for air
planes, tanks and armament and q
gigantic naval building program. We
can not overlook the seriousness of
new world slaughter. The workers
know who fought and suffered in
the last world conflict. Many of them
are still suffering. Billions of dollars
are appropriated for these instru-
ments Of war.
We workers can do more than
just merely say we will not go to
war. We should do everything to
prevent it. Stop the manufacture and
shipment of war materials. Fight
against fascism. Talk against war to
everyone you meet.
M. X. CLAPPE.
signature Authorized.
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that system, /. e., OF prCStlJublon, DOM
public md private" (Our emphasis,
on the words previously omitted0
Yesterday we went on, from the
above point, TO give a bare outline
of the forms assumed by the work
ing wornan's struggle against CAPT.
talisln. Perhaps we were guilty OF a
certain hiatus in such procedure.
Our readers we're asking how to
get the women into the movement.
First, OF course, it Is necessary that
they be made class conscious, second,
that they be convinced Of the neces~
sity OF immediate study, organization
and struggle in order to end capital
ism and establish socialism ian event
depending obviously on the CONSOLE
dalton of the power Of the workers.
and third that they be convinced that
the correct alignment is with the
Communist Party.
For myself a reading Of the Mani
festo, several leaflets, and the Daily
Worker, plus few forums; a con-
sideration of the Farty's actions In
leading the workers in strikes and
demonstrations and so on, in order
to raise their immediate standard Of
living, unite them, and school them
for concerted action, after an exam
nation of the insincere, cowardly and
sycophantic pseud o revolutionary
speeches Of the Socialist Party lead
ership (and other equally futile minor
parties and groups)--this was enough
to lead me to declare fatty for the
trenchant and growing Communist
Party leadership, confidence that
further association and examination
intensified.
And rs TO the position OF women
secondary to that OF men, this we
know by experience. "No, we don't
hire women for that work" photo
graphic operators. mo, we don't
have women in the art department.. +"
Most newspspers). We We We
the men, don't do this and don't do
that.
Yes, WE the women know about
tl1at-slso the bitterness of getting
sometimes about half or third the
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Conference Brought
Workers, arm ers
Closer Tog e t h e r
By a Farmer Correspoadent

by Farmer Correspondents
NASSAU, N. Y.-Here I am
back from the National Farmers
Conference and very enthusiast
tic. I do not think that I am
exaggerating when I tell you that
this Conference was the most
revolutionary gathering I ever
witnessed in this country. I mean
in the sense Of the so-called
backward American farmers real
i5ation of his great power only
when united with the city worker.
This perfect conviction Of unity
between city and country was to
my mind the greatest achieve
ment Of this Conference.
Also the coming closer (not
very close SIS yeti OF this particu-
lar type of white farm people
with the colored. I mean the
Negro Share-croppers. I am sure
that this Conference will be a
great turning mark in the his
tory of our movement.
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OF San Bernardino County, recently
returned from trip 10 the Soviet
Union, spoke about lie life and aims
Of the farmers il, the Soviet Union.
The meeting was great success.
Everyone listened with great interest
as comrade Buchanan explained how
the farmers must militantly struggle
in their day to. day battle for the ne
cessities Of life, and ended by showing
that the only way out for the
American farmers is to uiite with
the American workers to establish
a workers and farmers government.
Conditions are very bad in Hinck-
ley Valley. Most of the farms are
mortgaged. Some farmers do not
even have enough bread in their
homes. Many lack any means of
transportation, even the lowly Model
T Ford. And this is real handicap,
for Hinckley is located in the Mojave
Desert, between Barstow and Bakers
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BUY NOW PARADE CHx4ngEAFBs
LAY-OFEs


90. MssaiilcG, oASn.
In the midst OF the niass Iay-seh
taking place locally, the Maaess0n
NF1A committee arranged Buy Now
parade on oct. 81, with Gov. w&ets
as the principal speaker. From the
highest to the. lowest takers appeared
before the public. Bankers and ama-
ployers we're applauded by the nnesn~
bers on the reviewing stand, waasls
the workers section was not noticed.
ALL. organizers were sitting side hw
side with the worst enemies Of Ire
working class-the Chamber OF Coza~
merce, bankers, ministers, and nnayF
the leaders of the Socialist Party.
The slogan of the Parade was 'sBgw
Now" One heard, here and tsssss
with WHAT" eve only had two hours
work today" Others say, THE banks
took our money away and now they
tell us to buy" And another one re-
marks: Eyes, and Republic Steel laadf
off 300 clippers last week"
When asked some Of the pexaAsgs,
whether they are willingly n1ayaAaas
to help the MIRA they replied: 'Tske
hell, willingly, it's our jobs"
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Southern Farmer
Says RFC Has Only
AlibiS for TOiIerS

COPE, S. C.-The r. F. C. here
would be huge joke if the situa-
ton among the working people was
not so serious.
And how is it rum
You apply for work. In q few
days-or weeks. a lady representa-
tive with silk dress and tilted
sailor hat calls to investigate the
case.
care you comfortably furnished?"
o yes, you have q bed and d stove;
two ragged quilts, tool So she finds
you have plenty in the house,
She finds, too, that it took all
your crop, including corn and po-
tatoes, to pay the landlord for the
food you ate Con which he charges
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cumbrsnces, and on a lot Of places
the taxes have not been paid for
from one to three years.
There have been 8 number Of cases
where the mortgage holders foreclosed
and let the farmers stay on the fore
closed places. Usually in such cases
the poor farmer had a chance to re-
deem the place, provided that he pays
the taxes while he remains on the
place.
am sending dollar to help the
good cause along. Wish 1 could send
more.
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THE PEDDLERs' N. r. A.
by q Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-He is junk ped
dler. The price of waste paper has
gone up considerably, and he goes
from one rubbish barrel to the other,
from one store to the other looking
for waste paper. He picks up every
little piece of paper he sees in the
street.-the has no money to hire a
horse and wagon, SO he found two
automobile wheels with old tires on
them, built a body on it and pushes
it daily around East New York. If
he collects hundred pounds of
paper it is worth SO cents, and this
is his days earnings.
But on the dirty sides OF his push
cart you can notice the emblem OF
Recovery with Roosevelt" the Blue
Eagle, helping the man pick papers
from the barrels.
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THE CAUSE OF THE CRISIS
Chicago, III.

Chicago, III.
Dear Editor
If the working people would analyye
their own experience they would havss
a fine idea as to the reason for thetst
conditions.
High rents.
High prices.
Inadequate wages ..
Time payments.
Very little buying power How can
things continue under the present
system? A fine legacy to hand down
to our children.
Foreign markets interfered with by
the antagonisrn among nations.
The home market curtailsd by tbs
continual increase in prices ca,ses a
stagnation Of commodities and &
worldwide depression.
We must show the workers the
reasons for their present condition.
A. w. X.
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caused by eye trouble.

caused by eye trouble.
Chronic Nephritis kidney disease.
Bright's diseased shows almost in
variably a,qpeculiar change in the
retina known as albuminuric retinitis;
this is also seen in kidney trout e
following scarlet fever and pregnan r.
When a person falls unconscic b
in the street, examination OF the eye
may. help greatly in the diagnosis.
Thus, in coma due to kidney disease,
the above condition will be found
If the cause is cerebral hemorrhage
Ga stroke) the pupils are unequal; In
alcoholic intoxication and epilepsy
the pupils are usually dilated; In
morphine or opium poisoning, on the
other hand, they are "pin-point"
(contracted). sHN'
ITO BE Concluded
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Mortgages Changing
AroostoOk County
Farmers Into Tenants
Br . Worker Cosrespondent

AROOSTOOK, Vaccinations in
Aroostook County, the second richest
county in the United States, are quite
terrible. In the early fall the potato
buyers kept the prices up until the
farmers had paid for part Of the fer
tilizer, and now the prices are way
down again. The story is the same
as the rest Of the country,
Everything that the farmers has TO
sell is terribly cheap, and everything
that he has to buy is steadily rising.
Very few farms are free from in