The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16


stricken population on the country
side.
Chicago workers from basic in
dustries in this area will greet the
farm delegates at mass meeting
in the Coliseum this Friday evening,
Nov. II.
Frost-bitten farm delegates came
to Chicago in battered cars and trucks,
representing farmers from more
than 40 states, including centers of
struggle like Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
Harris Opens Meeting
The conference will be opened by
Lem Harris, Executive Secretary of
the Farmers National Committee for
Action, who will review the militant
struggle of the farmers struggling
against debts. evictions and foreclos-
ures. Harris will be followed by
farmer delegates who will report on
/ the struggle in their own localities.
BIoor to Speak
! During the afternoon session, also.
. Mother Bloor, organizer OF Iowa
farmers, will pay a tribute, on be-
half of the delegates, to two members
of the National Committee who died
since the last conference-Fred Chase
OF New Hampshire, and Arnold Never
OF South Dakota.
A Program and Resolutions Com
mittee will be elected at the evening
session on Wednesday. This COM
m1ttee will receive the recommends
tons from the delegates. All sessions
OF the committee will be open, and
delegates are being invited to listen
In on any or all discussions of the
committee and submit in writing any
recommendations which they wish to
make.
Form Sub COMMITTEES
The delegates at the same session
will elect Finance and Organization
Committee, charged with drawing I'D
plans for financing the work for the
following year and drawing up prac-
tical organizing plans, including a ma
tional campaign for developing a
mass circulation for the Farmers
1 National weekly.
| On Thursday morning the confer
ence will divide itself into suh-ses-
sions, according to the following
crops: L. Dairy; 2. Grain; 8. Cotton:
4. Corn and hogs; 5. Crop specialties,
including poultry, fruit and potatoes.
These sub-sessions plan united ac-
, ton by different sections interested
in the same crop and their sugges-
tons relating to sections interests
will be submitted to the Program
Committee
The afternoon session on Thursday
will be taken up with the presenta-
ton of the farm programs of the
five political parties. Representative
have been invited from the Repub-
lican, Democratic, Socialist, Farmer
Labor and Communist Parties.
Only the Socialist and Communist
Parties have thus far accepted the
invitation of the Executive Commit
tee of the Farmers National Com
mittee Of Action. The Republican
and Democratic Parties have declined
to send representatives, and have in
stead sent copies Of their program,
which they ask to have read to the
conference.
A Soviet film showing the life of
the city workers and farmers in the
US.SR. will be shown the delegates
during the early part of the evening
session on Thursday. At 9 O'Clock
a youth meeting and a women's
meeting will be held.
Hathaway TO Speak
Delegates will discuss the national
program and resolutions during the
morning and afternoon sessions on
Friday.
In the evening the conference
will adjourn to the Coliseum, where
Chicago workers will greet the
farmers at Farmer Worker Soil
darity Mass Meeting. Speakers win
include Lem Harris, Secretary of
the Farmers National Committee
for Action; Joe Sharp, of the Ala
bama Sharecroppers' Union; Alfred
ITALIA, National Secretary of the
United Farmers League; Mother
B'oor, of the Holiday Association
of Iowa; Harry Lux, State Or~an-
izer, Holiday Association of Neb-
raska; John Marshall, president of
the Ohio Farmers League; Joe
Weber, of the Trade Union Unity
League; Clarence Hathaway, of the
Communist Party, and /. Amter,
National Secretary of the Urem-
p,oyed Councils of the q. 5. A.
At the morning session on Sat-
urday the delegates will discuss the
submitted by the
and Organization Committee.
They will conclude the discussion on
questions at the after
noon session, and before adjourn
ment elect the new National Com
mittee for Action as well as a Sec
rotary.
The newly-elected National Com
m.ttee for Action will hold its first
at the morning session ON
Sunday and at two o'clock meetings
of delegates from various organiza-
lions will be held to discuss their
in the light of the lessons
Of the Conference. These organiza-
tons include the Farmers Holiday
Association of Nebraska madison
County Plan): United Farmers
League; United Farmers Protective
and others
Demand Cancellation
Many Of the farmers came to the
Conference with mandates from their
back home to demand
of farm debts instead of