The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Farm Conference
Cheers Communist
Party Program
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know that the gathering hers cone
sists of farmers who have taken the
leadership in q decisive struggle
against all the robbers of the impov-
erished farmers"
Hathaway told the assembled
farmers that he comes from Mime
sofa, and in his youth had worked on
a farm before learning the machinist's
trade, that he had been a member Of
the state committee of the Farmer
Labor Party Of Minnesota during it's
early years and he knows the past
traditions Of the farmers, particularly
in the Middle West.
"The farmers the speakex De.
cIared, "are better fighters now
than they were ten years ago.
Hathaway, briefly analysing the
programs of the Democratic, Repub-
lican and Socialist parties showed
clearly that they had nothing but
added slavery to offer to the toiling
farmers" He cited the specific farm
planks" of these boss parties and
demonstrated how they are calculat-
ed to serve, not the debt-racked farm
ers, but their creditors and oppressors.
Exposes SHARES
Calling attention to the sociolist-
controlled, Continental Congress held
some months ago in Washington,
Hathaway showed that their program
was vague to the utmost degree;
moreover, that the Socialist "Milwau-
kee Leader" accepted paid ADVERTISE
mentS from the big Wisconsin milk
corporations containing vicious prop
uganda against the striking farmers.
Initiation, crop-reduction and rss
financing of mortgages are al
planned to drive the small farmers off
the land and to "aid' the rich far1ns
er and the banker, the speaker points
ed out. This method is double-bar-
relied to hit the worker at the same
time, he charged. 7
Demands Cancellation
The Communist spokesman called
attention to the class differentiation
among the farmers, and pointed out
that those who claim to represent
you in Congress and in the various
state Legislatures represent, in reality,
| your deadly enemies"
The friends of the farmers, the
and middle farmers, all the agricubs
tural workers as well as all the city
| speaker asserted, ARE all the poor
workers"
The program of the Communist
Party on the farm question, demandS
immediate cash relief (stormy ap-
| plause), no evictions on forecloS-
sures, no moratorium, but rather
OUTRIGHT CANCELLATION
Piercing the shallow pretenses to
struggle of the Socialist speaker.
Hathaway declared that cit is not
enough to fight for these Immediate
demands, and that only through the
road of struggle can you prepare
yourselves, as allies Of the city prole-
tariat, to conquer power and set up
a Workers and Farmers Governs
ment."
This is not only possible, Hathaway
said, but it is a living reality. I'm the
Soviet Union, in the hands of the
workers and farmers for the past is
| years, greater gains have been made
for the farmers In that short period
than in any other time in the worlds
history"
! This great achievement was &C
complished, he said, under the lead
ership of the Communist Party, and
the self-same fight will be won in
the United States "when the farm
ers mass together with the workers,
with the Communist Party of k.,e
/ U.S.A. at its head"
Although the arrangement previ-
ously agreed upon called for an op-
portunity for the farm delegates TO
put questions TO the representatives
of the various political parties, Burt,
the Socialist, made speedy exit when
mild applause drowned by boos and
jeers greeted the conclusion of his
talk.
Only Hathaway, the Communists
spokesman, whose speech was fol-
lowed by thunderous applause, re-
manned to answer all questions. The.
questions ranged from reduction of
crops to war and fascism, the unity
Of Negro and white, and the relation
Of the Communist Party of the So
Wet Union to the C.P., U.S.A.