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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Only Red Tape for
Farmers in Iowa
Who Seek Relief
(By a Farmer Correspondent

NEW YORK.-Having made visit
in October throughout the state OF
Iowa, where I was born in 1878, and
having spent a few weeks with, the
farmers there in many places where
was personally known, found con-
ditions much worse than expected
since four years ago when I made
the same trip.
This time I travelled by bus to get
better view of farm conditions. The
country looks bad. lot one set of
farm buildings did see where there
had been any painting done in the
last three years, and nightly little
cattled feed did I notice. Most Of
the retired farmers in 1929 are back
on the farm and cannot make their
taxes with the meager prices they
are getting for their products.
There has been so much ballyhoo
about Roosevelt's Ma. plan help
ing them by the Farm Refnance New
Deal, but I did not see or hear OF
any farmer getting aid from this
source. There's clly 81 tc7c q
them.
I saw quite frequently whole fami-
lies banded together working for their
food on the public highways, going
from one city to another, destitute
and ragged. In every small town they
maintain a measer Rel Crc-5 ro,'ef
station, where little food can be
had.
Towns that had three and four
banks in 1929 have only one now.
And a good many of them have none
any more. Farm land with good i'm
provement has decreased more than
half its former value.
I spoke to a good many farmers
and urged them to organize. We
should have good speakers out in
Iowa to help them organize and let
them come and get better under
standing of what our working class,
the Communist Party, stands for.
&C. r. SNYDER.
(Signature Authorized)
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Workers were also wanted to go to
Archangelsk, to Donbass Eonetz
Coal District, to Leningrad's ship
yards. and even to Kamchatka.
Wanted drivers. Who is driver
come here" cried an agent. 1850
rubles month"
We come to window No. l." A
well dressed man stands at the
window. "Your documenea?" asked
the clerk. "What, you're expelled be-
cause you were ab-ent from the fac
tory on the 10th of March. You were
walking"
Il had not walked on the 18th. 1
was at my sisters marriage
"Or attended the forefather's
grave" added the clerk.
TITO wees IN the str cts clearing
the ice" And the clerk marked a
stamp on the mans documents. We
met the following man at the Far
East" window.
Il don't know what country want
to attach myself to, like travelling"
But why don't you want to work
in the city. There's plenty of jobs
here"
"Tiresome-I want to wander"
We went out of the building. The
town was noisy We touched It's
heart and found 1t healthy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

coal for the Owl Creek Coal Com
.pany in Gebo, Wyoming.
After the company deducted all
expenses, my dad had $50 left" PAX
kala reported.
"How did you and your father dis
pose Of the 1902" asked him.
well, we paid $32 for a hay bill,
$50 for seed, and / had to pay the
General Hospital in Longview 500 on
account of my operation which cost
me $219-Sl50 for the doctors bills
and $50 for hospital expenses.
Il was pretty lucky myself. One of
the teachers in the Cloverdale school
met with an accident and 1 got q
temporary job as teacher during the
fifth, sixth and seventh grades, and
past five months, taught the fourth,
when L got through I had $225 after
the bank took five per cent for them
selves for discounting the county
school warrants. Otherwise the bank
wouldn't cash EN-"
Pakkala couldn't afford to buy
any clothes, but he did invest some
money in some books, and "iaid
away some for years subscription
for the Daily Worker, which I'm
able to get in Kalama only now
and then"
The books he bought?
"well, MARKS Wage, Labor and
Capital AL Smiths up to Now
Thayer's biography of Theodore
Roosevelt, Little Minister by Sir
James Barrie, Imperialism, by Lenin,
and ten copies of the Labor Defender,
which distributed among my neigh
bors."
The elder Pakkala struggled hard
to give his son an education. The
son graduated from the Carbon City
High School in Montana and later
completed a course in the Montana
State College in Bozeman, Mont.
Is Rhodes Scholar
Getting high honors in physics and
chemistry, the farm delegate received
the degree of Bachelor of Science in
1929 and then was one of the two
graduates in Montana to win a
Rhodes scholarship for study in OK
ford University, England. The schol-
arships were established some years
ago by Cecil Rhodes, leading British
imperialist who accumulated a for
tune in exploiting the colonial work
ers in Africa and in munitions. The
old gent died in 1902, after estab-
fishing the scholarship in his name
to promote British-U. S. amity."
High scholarships, character, pre-
eminence in athletics are some of
the requisites for winning Rhodes
scholarships.
The British who's Who" re-
cords the fact that Cecil Rhodes
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attitude Of the American farmer to-
ward the Communist Party:
THE overwhelming mass OF poor
farmers and a considerable part of
the middle farmers do not fear the
Communists, or to listen to their
words or support their slogans. AL
most four years of severe crisis have
brought about in reality a complete
change amongst the farmers.
Only a Party which carries on firm
and answering revolutionary policy
will be abe to win over on its side
the tens Of millions of farmers -. :,
to ensure the hegemony Of the pro-
letariat and thus its victory in the
forthcoming revolution"
From our first experience in boldly
stepping out as Communists in ex-
planning to the farmers the Commu-
mist position on each question frankly
and fearlessly, in acting in the name
of the Communist Party and Young
Communist League, we have proven
to ourselves that the above position
taken by the Conference is correct.
Formerly 1t had been the policy
of our unit to put forth our program
SO meekly, so indirectly that, though
We were respected for being fighters,
in farmers struggles, we were not adj
mi-ed for our stand on Communism.
We made our first attempt at
forceful stand for the Party at our
10th Anniversary of the Russian
Revolution. Local comrades spoke
very plainly and decisively on the
'-isis and the revolutionary way out.
Our main speaker was introduced as
section organizer of the Communist
Party. In selling our literature, we
went into the right wing coop. stores
and gas stations and sold three
fourths of our entire allotment to the
farmers who bought from those stores.
One year ago we could not have sold
g single pamphlet there. On top of
the rehabilitation they we're exper-
fencing, we came out strongly for the
Party and put out a clear-cut policy.
Hardly any opposition, only murmur
of favor of the MIRA, and a thought
full, very thoughtful land beNevingD
look on their faces when we explained
the MIRA. They spoke their convic-
lions and let US assure you they were
radical, even the reactionaries, the
conservatives and the right wingers
under renegade leadership.
We Communists corrected their half
baked ideas on refusing to fight in
war or join the army, we tried 10
Clarity classes to them. They listened
as if we were apostles from God. Four
years of this devastating crisis has
made the farmers more like box
of dynamite than anything else.
You will see that our first step in
following the above resolution is
small; it took only few hours. IL
was an experiment. But the results
astounded us. Now we must move
forward swiftly and with sharp and
precise blows, hammer out q revolu-
tionary line. We Communists need
no longer hide our faces. We must
now conduct our struggles on truly
Communist fashion, and in our
speeches and actions bring forth our
policy fo-cefully. We must show the
American farmer through our actions
for his economic needs that we are
the Party.
One thing is certain, that, unless
we Immediately accept the stand Of
the resolution and change our ac-
tivities to suit it, we will be left be-
hind and misleaders will take our
places.
Water Lehtinen,
Dist. No. 8. Crosby Sec.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
A Kentucky Captain
BIurts Out TruthAbout
Forced Labor Camps
(By a Worker Correspondent


MIDDLESBORO, Ky.--At last they
are coming out with the truth about
what the Civilian Conservation Camps
are really for.
At Clear Creek Springs, which is
about seven miles from here, there
is being built another camp TO take
care of several hundred C.C.C. boys.
The job was started last week, and
the work is under the personal SUI
pervision OF two brass hats Of the
Kentucky National Guards, Capts.
Kelly and Perkins, who are both from
Harlan County.
Last Saturday evening, Oct. 18th,
accompanied by friend who Is also
an ex-soldier, we went out there seek
ing work, and this is an account OF
the conversation had with Capt.
Kelly.
Are you Capt. Kelly9"
Eyes"
What is the chance for us two -
get work on this job on Monday?'
I'VE ere going to complete it with
the same men we already have hired"
CThere were about as hired)
But President Roosevelt under the
N. r. A. has asked that employment
be staggered. and as we have had no
work for years we would lige to at
least have one days work"
There Is too much red tape ON
this work., but it would be hard to
change the names en- the payroll, and
cause unnece5sa~y confusion keeping
books cThe c. @. C. boys do this
work.
This does not answer my question.
which was, what about Rooeevelt's
promises under the u. r. A.
cut you don't understand: this IS
not r. T. c. wo-i.., this Is army work"
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against his eyes, are making him
struggle. This farmer brought eleven
hogs to the market and got only $84
for them. And when he got home, he
found that his SOW had just given
birth to 10 pigs. "And this farmer"
said Snyder, called that a calamity.
Just think of it to have to call a
calamity fruitfulness and greater
produce when millions are starving.
hats, wl..cts t.,2 farmers &c being
slammed against. That is why when
we get home, we've got to broaden
our campaign and engage the enemy
on a longer line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Inference Leads Fight gatns Roosevelt Farm Robbery!
INCOME FOR A YEARS FARMING $40

was a millionaire at the age Of
49," Pakkala, the Rhodes scholar,
now rs, succeeded in earning, to-
gether with his father, the sum
Of $50 after cultivating = straw
berry patch in Western Washing
ton.
THE Red Flag is the first song
learned to sing" the young farm
er-teacher told me. My dad has
had radical ideas for years, but I
didn't realize we were in crisis
until I got back from England in
1892"
Milo Reno, head of the Farmers
National Holiday Association sis
nothing but an opportunist, out to
feather his own nest" declares PAX
kala. OF, course, lots Of farmers
don't know this, because they haven't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Grants Pass, Ore,
Farmers Raise SIS
for Delegates
(By a Farmer Correspondent

GRANTS PASS, Ore.--A week ago
few of us here were working hard
to get up some meetings for the Ore
gon delegation to Chicago, and were
able to get $25 together and some
subscriptions to the Farmers Ma
tional Weekly. We hope to get q
regular organization started when our
delegate comes back.
Now hope my little mite will help
you some. have not paid my taxes
for two and a half years, and will
lose two-thirds of my farm next
spring. This year I sold 1900 boxes
of pears and received $3.50 for them.
That is for one years work for my
boy and myself. Lots Of fruit grow
crs received less.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
BY SENDER GARLIN.

CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-They rode
2,400 miles by freight. half the time
In refrigerator cars In freezing wealth.
er-so eager were three farm dele
gates from Washington State to get
to the Second National Farmers Con-
ference In Chicago.
Wearing overalls, heavy boots and
sheepskin coats, Matt Pakkala of Ka-
lama, Wash; William Hopkinson, of
Spanaway, Wash; and Jack Kings
bury, Of Toledo. Wash, walked into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
We Will Hold Our
Ground, Message
From 10 w q
CBy an Iowa School 'Teaohsr)

tBy an iowa School Ieacherl
COPRECTIONvILLE, lave will
make good use Of the Daily Worker.
We've hasa so bus7 since the strike.
At Anthem they have quit the n.
e. A. You win Gee by the papers
things are growing hot all through
our States, and We are going to hold
our round.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

the Peoples Auditorium here this
morning, ready to join more than TOO
other farmers in the formulation of
a fighting program for immediate re-
lief, against foreclosures and evictions
and for cancellation of all secured
debts.
Left Nov. S
The three Northwest delegates
hoped their first freight in Seattle
on Nov. and arrived in Galeshurg,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

proceeds after repairing tires.
One hour later. The sheriff ap-
pears and orders pickets off the road.
Picket spokesman: Have you had
breakfast, sheriff."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

Ill, on Monday night about II o'clock.
I'VE weren't bothered by railroad
dicks or harness bulls" Pakkala, 90
year-old smiling, brown-haired farm
err explained, until we got to Gales
burg"
He and his two companions, with
blankets rolled up on their backs, were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Texas Farmers Grip Hands
of Alabama Negro Choppers
Farm Conference Roars Welcome to Brave
Negro Delegations Which Defied Terror
BY BEN FIELD

CHICAGO Of
troopers National
Conference
the the farmers
farmers who had arrived here despite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
WHERE THE WORKERS
AND FARMERS RULE

CThe following letter was received
rom a worker in the Soviet Union.)
IN MOSCOW'S LABOR EXCHANGE
We crossed the Baltic Station
Square and after different turnings
on cobbles.one streets entered a one
stored house. Inside we found the
hall swarming with people.
In the most conspicuous place we
saw the following:
WANTED
For the Metropolitan Subway
Building Trust
1922 /3S
l. Tunnel diggers $500. 1876 men
2. Carpenters ........ SO
8. Watchmen .......... II
4. Leaders ............ 90
.'.s...s....s..
10. UnSkilled workers .227 men
There are barracks, hunks, mat
resseS, blankets, etc. Wages accord
ing to piecework. 100 rubles monthly
are guaranteed. Inquire any particu-
lars at the second window"
FOR, FAR EAST
Wanted
Sailors, fishers, coal and pc
troleum workers. Tickets free.
Detach-moneys: rubles every
day Of the trip"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Farm Strike Pickets Teach Wisconsin Deputies Feev Lessons

Sheriff: NO.
Picket spokesman: You better go
nd eat"
Sheriff: "All right and proceeds
to restaurant-to eat, and then hangs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Finds Farmers Ready for
Communist artyLeadership
Application of "Open Letter" Brings Good
Results, Organizer Reports
MenaE "a, MINI
November 8, 1888.

To the Daily Worker
The resolution the farmers adopted the Extraordinary
Conference of the G. p U A. the following regarding the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

got their ideas clear yet
Discussing the farmers conference
to which he was elected delegate,
Pakkala said:
This conference ought to bring
closer unity between the farmers
Of the different states and diff
ferent regions and show the
farmers that the workers are
not their enemies. Such a con-
ference as this Is a really educa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18

Delegate from Clark County,
Wisconsin, who came to Farmers'
Conference direct from picket line.)
Evening star., 1933-12-31
INTERNATIONAL

January S-Japanese troops seized
Chinese City of ShanhaikWan after
bombing it from the air.
January 10-Japanese captured Chiu-
menkow pass and advanced into Jehol
province.
January 15-Pope Plus proclaimed a
holy year of prayer, penance and pill
grimages.
January 2l-League Of Nations COM
mittee of l9 gave up hope Of Sino-
japanese concilation.
Bolivians defeated by Paraguayans in
bloody battle in the Chaco.
! January 24-Colombia appealed to
signatories of Kellogg pact and Peru to
! The League of Nations in their dispute
over Leticia
/ January 25-Secretary of State Slim
son invoked the Kellogg pact against
/ Peru in the dispute with Colombia.
January 30-Japanese government
decided to quit the League of Nations.
February 3-League of Nations Coun-
Gil urged Paraguay and Bolivia to cease
hostilities, and admonished Peru against
armed resistance to Colombia's legiti-
mate police action in Leticia.
February 14-Colombia severed diplo-
matte relations with Peru and actual
war began in the Leticia region.
| February 21-Severe fighting between
Chinese and japanese began in Jehol
province.
February 24-Japan rejected and
China accepted the League of Nations
report on Manchuria. The report was
adopted by the Assembly and the jap
anese delegation withdrew.
February 25-China recalled her
Minister to Japan.
United States Endorsed League of Ma
tons policy in Sino-Japanese affair.
February 27-Great Britain imposed
arms embargo against Japan and
China.
March 3-Paraguay Senate voted for
declaration of war against Bolivia.
March 4-Jehol City occupied by the
Japanese.
March 18-MuSSolini offered four
power peace plan to British.
| March 25-English Jewry boycotted
German goods in protest over treat
ment of Jews in Germany.
March 3O-Bolivians drove Para
guayans back in Chaco; hundreds
slain.
April 5-World Court ruled Nor
ways claim to East Greenland invalid;
Denmark won the area.
April 19-Russian court sentenced
|
three to deportation for espionage and
sabotage; Great Britain retaliated by
placing embargo on Russian exports.
April 21-Prime Minister Mcdonald
arrived in Washington and began
economic conversations with President
Roosevelt.
April 22-Soviet Russia ordered pro-
hibition of all purchases in England
and other restrictive measures.
japanese opened drive toward Peip-
! ing with eigflt-hour battle.
April 23-Polish Jews began boycott
of German goods.
April 24-President Roosevelt and M.
Herriot of France began economic talks.
May 2-Soviet Russia and China re-
sumed diplomatic relations.
May 10-President Ayala of Paraguay
formally declared war on Bolivia.
May 12-Eight leading nations agreed
on tariff truce during World Economic
Conference.
May 16-President Roosevelt called
on 54 nations to join in agreement to
outlaw war, scrap offensive weapons
and force world peace.
May 17-Charcellor Hitler Of Ger
many accepted Roosevelt's peace pro-
posals with reservation Of equality in
arms for Germany.
May 21-Mlssolini's four-power pact
Evening star., 1933-12-31
DISASTERS

January 4-French South Atlantic
liner Atlantique destroyed by fire. 19
of the crew perishing.
February l0-Sixty-two killed by ex-
plosion of gas tank at Ncunkirchen,
Germany.
March 3-About SEQ killed by tidal
wave and earthquake in Japan
March 10-Earthqual.es in Los An
seles district killed 115, injured 5000
and caused property damage reaching
SIS 100000.
March 14-Tornado in Tennessee
killed 26.
March 25-Fan of transport plane
killed u in California.
March 23-British air liner crashed
in Belgium; IS killed.
March 30-Tornado killed 68 in
Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
March 3l-SN Filled il plane crash
il Kansas.
April 81. S. s. Akron with II Of
flcers and men crashed in storm off
New Jersey coast. admiral Mofet and
73 others lost.
May l-Tornad3es in Louisiana and
Arkansas killed So.
May 8-ToUn Of Ellsworth, Me, de-
stroyed by fire.
May 1O-Tornado in the Cumberland
Valley killed g.
May l4-DSaStr0us foods in Indiana
and Illinois
June 9-Nlne killed. $50 hurt in eel
lulold factory explosion at North Ar
llng,on, N. j.
June l1-Chicago World Fair sight
seeing plane crashed and burned, kill
ing nine persons.
July 3.CycIone in Cuba killed %
and cid vast damage to tobacco crop.
July 7-Cloudburst in Bear Creek
Canyon Colo, killed about - persons.
August 9-Five United States naval
aiTnen killed in crash in Hawaii.
August 14-Floods n China reported
fatal 10 $4,000.
August 24-Scores Of deaths and vast
property damage resulted fl m storm
along Atlantic Coast
August 29-Etgh5 killed and many IN
juTed in wreck OF pa&tDserNtTaIn IN
New Mexico.
September Hurricane killed more
than 100 in Cuba.
September 5-HurriCane in lower Ril
GTande valley killed 100.
Sixteen killed in train collision At
BinghamtOn. y. Y.
September 15-Hurricane on Gulf
Coast CT Mexico killed abCu. l50
September 16-Great property dam
age done by gale that swspt North Al
/ lantic Coast,
September 24-Eurricane wrecked
Tampico. Mexico. killing 81.
October 3-Sey anty-tve reIi-f rCll
workers killed and many injured il
brush fire at Los Angeles, Cali.
October l0-Segan killed when pas.
Senger plane exploded near Gary, Ind.
December -Four hundred killed Dy
earthquake in China.
December I4-Ten children killed and
thirty injured when tIain struck school
bus at Crescent City, Fla.
Evening star., 1933-12-31

November 26-Nob at San Jose,
Calf, hanged Two confessed kidnaperS
and murdererS.
December 2-International Live Stock
Exposition opened in Chicago.
December Repeal OF eighteenth
amendment proclaimed by the Presi-
Gent and national prohibition came to
an end.
December 8-Mary PiCkf0rd filed d..
vcrce suit against Douglas Fairbanks.
December l1-George Peek resigned
as head of A A. A and was made chief
of new organization to expand foreign
commerce
December IA - President Roosevelt
opened campaign against big income
tax cheaterS.
Minnesota ratified the child labor
amendment to the Constitution,