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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
Fer Cash Relief

(COnkinued from Frent Page)
dred million dollars for army and
navy appropriations in prepare
ton for the next war. It spends
billions for bloodshed while mil
lions of workers and farmers are
jobless, undernourished, or receive
no relief at all.
Fight for Relief
I'm many parts Of the country
militant farmers have carried on
struggles for relief. They have
Jointly with city workers, de-
manded an end to misery and to
starvation. This winter, the worst
winter Of the crisis, viii see many
more such struggles, win see or
ganization on an increased scale
to halt this hunger program Of
the money lords."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
MOTHER BLOOR SENDS
GREETINGS FROM NEB.

Mother BlOOr. Just concluding
a two weeks speaking tour in
Nebraska, writes from Arcadia,
Neb.
you'll be glad to know that
the good work is going on
splendidly here. The meetings
are very lively. Tonight we have
a big meeting at Arcadia, and q
dance afteNward.
This is the place where the
Holiday farmers (Madison Co
Plan) got back eight cows for q
farmer which the loan shark
had already sold to a packing
house.
"Give my greetings to all the
readers of the Producers News"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29

termined action of the masses n
people in the United States for no
more war preparations fresh in Ii.
mind of every Congressman, with
the voice of the masses of OppOp.
ents to these war policies ringing
in his ears;
To all workers and farmers and
your organizations, we appeal Or
ganize temporary stoppages Of the
work in factories, on the docks, o.
all war jobs on Jan. 20.
To you of all faiths, We appeal;
to you of all political parties, We
appeal; to all the victims of thes
war policies, we appeal!
Join with us to stop the war
preparations of our government
Support the delegation to Wash
ington on Jan. 20 by mass dem.
onstrations and meetings every
where throughout the country.
Public works and no more war
works.
Cash relief and unemploymert
! insurance for the unemployed; 10
more contracts for the war max.
ers.
Build schools; no more battle
ships.
Let Congress face an aroused
ration on Jan. 90; stop these poll
cies now.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
PEA PICKERS WIN
STRIKE In z HOURS
Imperial Valley Farm
Workers Get so Per
Cent Increase

BRAWLEY, Calif.-Five hum
bred pea pickers won a two hour
strike on Tuesday. Dec. S at Cali
patria. when they refused to pick
peas for 1 cent a pound and asked
115 cents. They were out for only
two hours before their demands
were granted. The three ranches
involved about $50 American, and
$50 Mexican workers. who struck
solidly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
Reduce CrOp,
Or No Credit
SaysJOhnsOp
CONTINUED from Front D..

GC0nslnaed from Front Pas.
80 acres to the govenmo..
course Mr.. Landlord has ~ VI
the four families which fo - eViet
cultivated this 80 acres. But s.g
does it matter to Mr.. LandIo.ss aat
to the Roosevelt Administ.0a.. 'st
that some 20 men, women ana Sal
dren are thus ruthlesslv dsrI Cal,
Of home and livelihood NJ T'IN
lord will collect $500 from tbs .' sa
eminent for this little lob ''''
$500 for Landlord
This isn't all Mr.. Landlor.
ceives from the government =
still has IL families at vo,.
24O acres Of cotton. Figurino y y.
per cent Of an average 25O.nSu'ss
yield, he receives an addis",1,
allotment premium" of 81 an
or s24O. If he pays over n =.
share choppers their pro-rat.s -
the government says, he takes ~
Of the $240 for himself and AZ q
vides the rest among the croDDS :.
This would mean a grand to tslI's :
1920 for Mr.. Landlohr and StS O- u
each share croppeT family 'O'
At any rate this is the Dian :.
proposed by the Roosevelt o..
eminent. Actually we know f H..
the sharecropper will not sv. .'
receive sic. Mr.. Landlord Mn
take a large portion if not an !,
that to satisfy a debt which N,
Landlord claims the sharelcron0..
owes him.
It is because of this robbery an,
exploitation supported in evsT
way by the Roosevelt government,
that the Share Choppers UniOp /
growing SO rapidly in the South
ern states. The small farmer,
tenants and sharecroppers. boil
Negro and white, refuse to wes
this yoke meekly, as their stuV
giles in the past show.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
NATION WIDE
PROTEST MADE
ON SCOTTSBORO
|. L. D. Mobiles Mighty
Movement Against
Lynch Verdicts

NEW YORK The following
statement on the conviction of
Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat
terson, two of the Scottsboro boys
to be sentenced to die by the court
presided over by Judge w. w. Cal
lahan at Decatur, was issued by
William L. Patterson, national Sec
rotary of the international Labor
Defense, which is conducting the
Scottsboro defense.
"The lynch verdict against Clar-
ence Norris and Haywood Patter-
son brings momentsrily to an end
the third legal procets in the frame
up of the ScottsbOro boys in Ala
bama.
"Not since the bred Scott de-
cision has an American court seen
such open Indictment to violence
against Negroes. Judge Callahan,
with open disregard for the rules
of procedure of his own court, in
cited the Decatur jury to prepare
its murderous lynch verdict.
No Justice" for Negro
"That there is NO justice in Ala
bama courts for Negroes, Judge
Callahan made irrefutably clear.
Those Americans who sincerely
desire freedom of the ScottsborC
boys must associate themselves tt
this extent with the only organi'
zation which for three years has
consistently ard Systematically de-
veloped this defense campaign
Judge Callahan has proven that
the Constitution of the UniteC
States is, insofar as Alabama il
concerned, but scrap of paper
that "a Negro has no rights that ;
white man is bound to respect
1.-THE international Labor De
Tense will carry these cases agail
to the United States Suprem'
Court. 1t will exhaust every legs
device and prepare the wides
possible mass appeal for bail, 70
boys whose innocence must now b
obvious to the most skeptical.
will mobilize the broadcast mass
movement to exert political pres
sure upon the United States Su
preme Court to entertain those l.
: sues touching upon constitutions
rights of the Negro masses o.
I America which were so glaringl
ignored by the United States 81
preme Court at the last ScottsboI
appeal.
1.-THE Scottsboro case has becom
the symbol of oppression of whit
2 and Negro workers In America.
win become the instrument {
!. unity between the white and N,
gro masses In America"
Scottsboro SchOol Strike
Children poured out of scho'
+. rooms in Philadelphia, and worl
ers came into the streets frol
shops and homes in many parts {
; the country to protest the deaf
sentence handed out by the Al,
bama lynch court against the tv
|. Scottsboro boys.
The Philadelphia Dyers Unto
affiliated to the A. F. of L. vote
: a half-hour strike for Dec. IL,
protest to the verdict. Five hui
dred children Of Reynolds ard Je
e ferson schools and 800 pupils
a the Auden Reid Junior High scho
walked out Of school with banne,
; to protest the verdict Cops a
e tackled the children in an effo
} to chase them from the street.
In Union Square, New York Gil
5000 workers demonstrated. /
I Harlem, Negro section Of Ne
York. a huge parade wour
4 through the city drawing in tho
Y sands Of spectators to participa
9 in the monster den onstratio
Other meetings were held throug
cut New York city.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29

(Continned from Front rage)
are urged to cooperate in this |
work and to set aside the two Sun
days preceding January 20 as the !
rallying points "for religious insti-
tutiOns in support Of these de-
mands."
In its campaign for Public Works
and not War Works, the League
urges all organizations and groups
to Select or appoint aarepresenta-
tive to join the Washington dele
cation to call on President Roose-
welt and Congress on Jan. &c."
The American League Against
War and Fascism was founded at
United States Congress Against
War held in New York City, where
over 2700 delegates from almost
every section of the country repre-
senting trade unions, farmers or
CARNATIONS, churches, ex-service-
men, youth leagues, peace So
cieties, political parties, student
bodies, unemployed groups, frater-
nal orders, ETC., met Sept. 20 to
| Oct. 1.
The manifesto in full:
To all Workers and Farmers and
their Organizations:
To all Women and Youth:
Tc all Opponents of War:
Mobilize your forces against the
growing war preparations of the
government. Prepare to stop
them now.
Begin Immediate Campaign
The American League Against
; War and Fascism calls upon all
delegates to the United State:
Congress Against War and on al
: organizations and groups support
ing the fight against war to in
itiate Immediately a nationwide
campaign during December ant
2 January against the continued ap
preparations of our government fo
war purposes. The American
League urges all opponents Of wa
S to mobilize nationwide action ia
e eliminate January 90 with demon
strations throughout the country
n and delegation to Washington t
n present these demands.
s Day by day the policies of thi
war government are turning NOR
o factories into war-munition tax
o the place of machinery, uniform
e take the place Of clothes, battle
ships take the place of school
y ard houses, civil conservation Ell
campments take the place of tn
u homes for youth, war chemical
d take the place Of fertilizers, tank
Il take the place Of tractors.
: The workers, the unemploye,
= the farmers, the youth in school
and factories, the Negroes, the mi
lions of victims of this depressio
throughout the country need ar
demard houses and clothes, N
battleships and uniforms; the
need and demand relief and unen
q ployment insurance, not big navit
y SECOND to none," with army mecl
anization and modernization.
Nationwide Protest
The American League Agains
War and Fascism calls for a n
tionwide protest in every city,
every locality, in the shops al
n factories, in the school, in Il
Or churches.
IL Mobilize mass demonstratio-
* and delegations to every Congress
20 man throughout the country; d
= mand Of your local Congressm;
&C the immediate stopping of thes
I'd appropriations; demand the ca
ck collation. of existing war contrac'
Let Congress meet with the d
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
Nebraska Farmers Force
Crooked Insurance Men
To Return Owner S Cows
Crowd Court Room for Full Day and Get Action Sew
eral Cases; Make Day of it by Loading Up Cattle
and Returning it to Farmer eu;s-.4 noe
By Vera Wieklund

LOUP CITY, Nebr.-John Roschynialski Sherman
county farmer has lived the farm here for five
years He paid third of crop rent He pay
$3.50 cash rent for pasture in which by contract he
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
By AL. N. BrOberg

LINDSAY, Nebr.--I have heard
reports from several delegates.
They all report a splendid confer
ence ard were more than pleased
to have had the chance to go there.
l am sure that several new fight
ers have been added to our ranks,
men who were good and loyal to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
Collection
of Dues

In this matter we are still func-
tioning very poorly, and the orva-
nizaticn, from the bottom to the
top, is suffering in consequence.
The matter of dues collections il
largely up to the secretary of the
local. Members are willing to pay
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29

phere without detracting anything
from our serious purposes. Every
body who can could contribute to-
ward having sandwiches and cof-
fee or tea at the end of the meet
ing. At some places this is al
ready being done and those who
can spare a nickel or a dime drop
it in a cup on the coffee table and
the funds thus collected are used
for buying literature and for sub
scribing to our paper for someone
who cannot afford to subscribe but
wants the paper, also for the pur-
pose Of making contribution to the
state and national office.
There can be a little entertain
ment mixed in, singing, music, a
playlet, recitations and so forth.
The National Office will soon be-
gin issuing suitable material for
affairs Of this kind.
Of course, then, we would have
to guard against the possibility
that gatherings of this kind would
deteriorate into plain social at
fairs" The serious purpose of our
ourganization must be stressed.
Large mass meetings would have
to be held now and then Mt least,
which would be devoted strictly to
promoting struggles Of the farm
ers on q large scale. For such
mass meetings efforts could be
made to secure good speakers.
The neighborhoOd gatherings
should be used for spreading our
paper and our literature, and for
building the organization, as well
as for dealing with local problems
and struggles.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
Nationwide Drive
Against Expenditures

teOntinued from Front Pags)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22

u.s." Mrs. MullenniX declared, land
still these people that hold Office are
supposed to be for the needy and
working class of people. But instead
they are for themselves and their
cronieS.
MY husband makes a living gath
ering up old papers, bottles and SELL
ing them. He gets from "a cent a
piece to 10 cents dozen for, bottles,
10 cents 100 lbs. of paper, and we
have children to keep in school.
Here is just what think-do not
get these rich, do not put them in
office that would rather have dogs
to love instead of poor little babies
do think that all these outfits that
I have named to you had ought to
be pulled up on the carpet for the
way they are treating poor ex-
serviceman and his poor family"
The rest Of the letter follows:
my husband went to Camp Cody,
the army camp at Denning, New
Mexico May 1918. He was honorably
discharged in December 1918.
HE lay in bed 80 days there with
the flu and bronchial pneumonia,
tapped in left lung twice. Was just
out of bed 8 days, when they dis
charged him as an able-bodied man.
But he couldn't carry his clothes and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22
Join Our Clubs or You
Won't Get a Job" Say
the Local Politicians

CORAPOLIS, Pa, Aug. - In this
town worker has to join one of-tte
various clubs controlled by corpora
ton politicians if he wants to get q
job.
The Burgess is campaigning for
reelection by giving promises that he
will get his supporters jobs in the
following plants: Davis Coke; Gulf
Refinery; Pittsburgh Spring Works;
Garfield and Pittsburgh Forging.
The superintendent and foremen
at Pittsburgh Forging are threaten
ing members of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union: IF you SO
much as say union in the plant you
will be fired" An old employee of
this company, who is member Of
the SMWIU, has been refused work
because he passed out leaflets.
The company heads and hangers-on
who belong to the swell Allegheny
County Club of Sewickley Heights
carry out the starvation wage policy
in dealing with the club cooks, wait
ers, janitors, etc. These workers
labor from IL to 16 hours per day
for forty to fifty dollars per month
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22
Workers Who Can't
Make S14 Minimum
Are DISCHARGED
(By a Worker Correspondent9

DAYTON, O.-At the Delco
Plant of General Mtors, they are
on a stagger basis and the women
are speeded up to the full capacity
and the men workers are also
driven. The bosses in the Delco
tried to start company union, but
the workers are not falling for
that racket.
The A. F. of L. Machinists Local
No. 225 is also trying to get, the
workers in this plant to join a
coffin union, but the workers are
looking towards rank and file
organization. Wages at the Delco
are So for women and S12 to $50
for the men. 20
The Frigidaire plant No. has
only hired about 800 workers since
the last lay off and these workers
are from the University and High
Schools.
The National Cash Register is on
the N. R. A. and the workers are
getting rotten deal. If the work.
ers can't keep up with the speed
up and make S44 a week, they get
the gate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22
Steel Workers Remem-.
Der ALL. 1919 SellOut
(By a Worker Correspondent

JOHNSTOWN, PA steel worker
just joined the Arnalgalnated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers, affiliated to the A. F. of l.. The
organizer told him that he had signed
up over a hundred steel workers here.
He did not mention that most of
those signed up were unemployed
VIC 7erS, and some Of them were Steel
Co. stool pigeons. He said that in
the last two weeks the steel workers
were not joining as fast as he ex-
pected them to. Three dollars is the
initiation fee.
Bethlehem Steel Company mas
bought cheap coal from outside
mines and are new laying the Bethle-
hem miners off, only working their
own mines when they are compelled
to in order to run the steel plants
which are filling war orders.
To date not one Negro has Joined
this Amalagamted Union, and the
Negro workers that I have talked to
say they will not have anything to
do with this sell-out gang.
/ talked with a number of Beth
lehem Steel workers and without ex-
ception they said that they still re-
member the sellout of 1919. The
ones that talked to were not men,
bers of any union as yet, and know
nothing about any other union. One
of the workers, however, said he is
going to join the Steel and Metal In
dustrial Union if he joins any at all.
E. w
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22

is partly paralyzed, which Is caused
from the flu.
No Relief
And with all of this sickness, he
cannot receive any help from any Of
the following outfits: The American
Legion, the Red Cross, Family Ser
vice, County Commissioners, or the
RF.C. Board. They will not see that
he has anything to eat for his fam
lily, also the city will not do any
thing for him. All that they will do
is to advise us to leave Pueblo, Colo
RADIO, and go back to Montrose, Colo
rado.s He was born and raised here
in Pueblo. Just because we have been
gone for little while, they are try
ing to make out that we are not
a citizen of this place.
They have even went so far as to
try and take our children away from
us through the court, and are terror
iZing us so much as to say that they
will put our children in home. Just
because I lay sick in bed for long
weeks, with no help, and the children
went and asked for something to eat.
The army service is the cause of
all his trouble, the veins in his left
leg are so big that 1t covers his knee.
and all swelled up. Yet he can get
no help from the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22
Ford Worker Opened
Eyes of Auto Worker
to the Class Struggle

From an Auto Worker CORRESPONDENT
DETROIT, Mich.-I think many
automobile workers would subscribe
-" noi'- Worker if the Daily
Worker would publish more stories
ese4 cay struggles OF the
workers in the auto industry. Let me
tell you that we, new members, ex-
pect every functionary to write a
short story to the Daily Worker. True
that we have the Michigan Worker to
serve this purpose, but the workers in
other cities want to know about our
conditions and struggles as we do
about theirs.
Some OF our comrades take for
granted that all auto workers are
class conscious. Let me cit you my
own case. Two years ago a comrade
L., who is still working with me-
brought me a copy of the Daily
Worker. 1t was too deep for me and
I was not interested. Then he brought
me a copy Of the Ford Worker. To
tell you the truth, it was the Ford
Worker that opened my eyes. 1t was
the stories Of the struggles of the
Ford workers in the shop that made
me a reader of the Daily Worker.
Now, why not enlist every Party
functionary to write at least one item
once a month to the Daily Worker
about the every day struggles of the
workers? I think such stories would
help.
Long live The Daily Worker.-F.
Editors Note: This would help, but
1t would be still more effective If in
addition to this the workers in the
shops wrote about their own condi-
tions and struggles, like the workers
did whose letters appear in this Sec
ton today. We get very few letters
from auto workers compared to other
industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22
How Wickwire Steel
Strike Developed
tBy Steel Worker Correspondent

by Steel Worker Correspondent
BUFFALO, N. Y.-The strike
in the Acme Steel Foundry ended
with some gains for the workers.
The moulders will receive SIS cents
an hour, laborers, 45 cents, women
bench-workers 80 cents, women in
spectors % cents. The Company
recognized shop committee and
also the Union. The strike lasted
two weeks.
A big strike is being renewed
IN the Wickwire Spencer Steel Co.
A few weeks ago the workers
elected committee which was
sent to the manager of the COM
pany with demands for the work
ers. The strike ended very quickly
at that time.
Now after four weeks these
profiteers began to pay off the old
workers and are hiring workers at
lower wages. On Tuesday morn
ing 5 departments walked out, but
) departments remained at work.
We are confident that the rest
of the workers will join the strike
Already the bosses agree to grant
our demands but do not want to
recognize the Union, which gained
over $50 members in three weeks.
When the strike ends I will write
all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22

know his condition, they just St y"
him off clear across the room FRAT
them and sat and looked at him, gas
him an able-bodied discharge. They
knew as well as they were sitting
there that he was not and would
not be. an able bodied man for the
rest of his life.
Pronounced Incurabie
Asdoctor told me that it was no
use to run around with him because
there was no cure for him. All that
could be done for him was to give
himsmedicine to keep up his strength
and help him to keep up on his feet.
This doctor has made my husband
quit his work. But what does look
so funny to us is in his condition,
not table to do hardly any work, and
we have children to take care Of,
to keep in school, and we can't get
no pension of any kind.
There are times that his breath
is so strong with blood, that it makes
me sick to just smell it. Have been
making living for 21a or years
for a family of 7. He is in such
shape that he spits up blood as big
as a dollar, this he does all the time.
He was in Denver, Colorado, July
S, 1927. And here is where they found
out what was wrong with him: Pleu-
risy, Chronic, fibronous right base.
and Pyorrhea, and then at Boise,
Idaho Hospital, he was sent there for
gastric, ulcer in the stomach, and also
Pyorrhea, and same as at Denver,
in Boise Hospital from November az,
1880 to January 10, 1881. His lungs
are always bleeding and his stomach