The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21

Ihe seven immaculate demands,
700 farmer delegates in 80 states
representing more than 100000
members in So different farm Or
CARNATIONS, include;
/. Immediate cash relief; 2. Can
collation. of secured debts-mort-
cages. back rents, delinquent taxes,
and seed and feed leans Of the inn
poverished farmers; 3. No fore
closures and evictions: A. Higher
PURCHASING power for the farmers;
5. Tex relief; 6. Reduction in rents;
Z. The complete cancellation of all
debts OF the sharecroppers, both
Negro and white, and the abolition
of the system of vicious oppression
of the Negro people.
Besides passing resolutions on the
necessity for unity with the city
workers, the Conference delegates
revealed, in speeches from the floor
their concrete experiences on how
they are achieving unity with the
working class.
Jobless Get Free Milk
Examples cited were the distribu-
ton Of milk to the unemployed by
farmers in Allentown and Philadel-
phia, in Pennsylvania as well as in
Sioux City, Iowa. A dramatic in
stance of solidarity was seen
in the fight of farmers of
the Colorado Farm Holiday Associa-
ton to transport four truckloads of
food to the striking coal miners in
Gallup, New Mexico, in spite of armed
opposition of the Officers Of the
law"
Many Instances of Joint Action
Delegates also related how the
Unemployed Councils of Allentown,
Pa, sent a truckload Of jobless work.
ers Is miles into the country to help
stop sheriff's sales. Numerous other
instances equally inspring-were re-
ported from the floor of the farmers
conference.
Last year, following the first farm
ers' national conference in Washing
ton-where the cry for the moratorium
and stoppage of foreclosures was
raised by the delegates-it was taken
up within a short time and wave
of resistance to sheriff's sales swept
over the country. This compelled Of
fetal as well as unofficial declara-
lions of moratorium by many state
and local officials as well as financial
institutions like banks and insurance
companies.
In view of the fact that spokesman
for one delegation after another took
the floor at the Chicago conference
to demand cancellation-regardless of
whether he was talking about hogs,
dairy products or cotton--immediate
and far-flung activities can be looked
upon the return Of the delegates to
their home states and various farm
organizations.
Even before the Conference
opened, trucks were rolling into
Chicago from the four corners of
the country with the words CAN
COLLATION. boldly painted and
chalked upon them.
1--WE call for a united struggle of
all exploited and busted farmers, re-
CARELESS of race, creed or political
opinion, to win our immediate de-
mands," declare the opening sentence
of the manual Of arms adopted by the
historic Farmers Conference in their
fight to realize the immediate needs
of the ruined toilers of the land.
Hunger marches and demonstra-
tions, the delegates assure the mill
lions of farmers looking for leader
ship in their struggles against the
monopolies and trusts, are powerful
methods to compel relief from county,
state, Reconstruction Finance Cor
porations, and other relief agencies;
as well as to compel the reduction of
taxes and cancellation of debts"
Petitions Alone Futile
Petitions, the delegates point out,
must be backed up by mass action.
Waves Of resolutions. and protests,
backed by militant mass demonstra-
tions will help free the victims of class
struggle and terror"
The farmers agreed upon num-
Of steps as the best method for win
ming their demands.
Call few of the militant farmers
to meet with you and discuss the Call
to Action. Discuss the conditions,
grievances and demands in which the
impoverished farmers of your COM
nunity are vitality concerned. This
little group can do much to aeitate
and organize local struggles around
these problems which urgently con-
Germ the farmers of the community.
Each delegate belonging to an Or
ganization should be active in getting
his own oranization to support and
fight for the call and demands of this
Conference"
When these farmers have been
aroused to the need to fight for local
demands against an eviction or for
relief or for any other demand,
mass meeting to which all exploited
organized and unorganized farmers
should be invited. is considered the
next immediate job at hand.
"At these mass meetings the prob
lens of the farmers can be thoroughly
discussed and committee of the
most militant fighters best represent
ing the exploited farmers should be
elected to organize the united forces
to struggle for the farmers demands.
THE members OF the organizations
supporting the Conference will be the
most active in carrying on this fight"
the farmers are assured by the more
than 700 delegates at the Chicago
meet.
When our struggles are under way
or we want to rally more forces to our
we shall call county meet
ings and state conferences demo-
cratically elected by rank and file