The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18


man to greet these brave Negro far
threats and intimidation.
Hats and fists were waved in the
air. Cheers shook the hall, Give them
the platform, give them the platform,
the delegates shouted, as the Negro
delegation marched down the aisles,
the white farmers grasped their
hands and slapped their backs
heartily.
Later, vice-chairman John Sump-
ton of South Dakota, gray-haired
dirt farmer of old American stock,
gave the chair to Charles Taylor. The
conference then divided into subses-
sions, according to the following
crops; dairy, grain, cotton, corn and
hogs, crop specialties, including poul-
try, fruit and potatoes. The i'm
portance of this was explained by Lem
Harris. In the case of the dairy farm
ers, such a subsession can prepare the
grounds for a general strike of milk
farmers. During milk strikes farmers
from different sheds want to know
whether the other farmers will stand
by them.
Southern Farmers Cheer
On the platform the Negro del
egates were greeted by the white CROP
pers from Texas, Arkansas, Florida,
Alabama, and Tennessee. The farm
ers burst out into thunderous solid
arity," then one of the Negro farmers
spoke out, greetings the conference in
the name of the 5000 Negro choppers,
members of the Alabama Choppers,
Union.
1--WE have won considerable vic
tories despite the youth of our or
ganization. We didn't have single
local two years ago. We pledge our
who,e-hearted support to the con-
ference. We shall go back to Al
bama to fight for greater unity
between black and white farmers,
against Roosevelt and the New
DEAL
Describes Discrimination
Immediately after his speech, a
white farmer from Florida spoke. He
described the terror down South. He
showed how there is discrimination
against the farmers in the dipping of
cattle. In one county farmers get six
cents for dipping COW, in another
county three cents, and in still an
other nothing. The poorer the farmer
the less he gets. If he is Negro, he
gets nothing.
He described how near Tampa a
meeting of more than thousand
white, Negro and Spanish workers
and farmers was broken up by dep
uties and police. The Negroes were
beaten. He himself was kept in jail
for some time. On his release he
was asked how long he had been asso-
ciating with Negroes. He said, all my
life"
Farm Women Fight
Julius Walstead of Toberts County,
South Dakota, has only been organic
ing the farmers year. There is a
membership OF 1000 farmers in his
county. militant as hell" he tells the
farmers. The farmers in his section
of South Dakota have not only COM
PEELED the county commissioners to give
fuel and chicken feed to the poor
farmers, but they have had to admit
openly, "the farmers here have us
buffaloed now" Even the business
men have been compelled to adver-
tise in the papers that they will help
farmers fight against eyictions. The
farmers had so large demonstration
In the county seat that they locked up
every business store.
Communist Party Leads
A great outburst of cheering
greeted the big-chested powerful
farmer from Canada. This is time, "
he declared, when tl-e are no
county lines, no state Ines, no ma
tional lines. We poor farmers must
wipe out all lines. We haven't had
crops in Saskatchewan for the last
five years. Hundreds of farmers had
to leave their farms and go up further
North into the woods. Our women
have had to wind gunny bags around
the feet of our children for lack. of
shoes. They have lived on potatoes,
turnips and an occasional bush rab-
bit. Our women are militant fight
ers. In one town they have torn the
hair OF the commissioner, and thrown
the municipal books into the cutters.
The Canadian Royal Mounted Police
hound our organizers. The leaders of
the Oranges and cooperatives help
Jail our farmers.
TT is only the Communist Party of
Canada that Is helping us farmers
fight for our daily bread, against
forced sales, and for cancellation Of
all secured debts"
Delegate Snyder of Oregon reports
and he shows why farmers are moving
so fast to militant action. A neighbor
of his, religious farmer, was faced
with eviction. He was afraid to join
the U.F.L. and have it fight the evic-
ton. But the fat thumbs the bakers