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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15

in the union and Fisher at once
charged the trappers $25 each to re-
join the union under his manage
ment.
Weber and Fleming are two other
misleaders of th9 Srappers.
Since these politicians have taken
over the fur lands, the rent has been
higher than the possible income of
the trappers, and thus at least 80
per cent of the victims of the bosses
are in ever-increasing debt.
Late in 1888, about the time that
the C.WA. came into effect, the A.
F. of L. stepped in and made condi-
tons worse.
About 500 of the 900 trappers near
Crown Point, La, joined the A. F. of
L. trappers union, but very few Of
the men ever received membership
books. OF course, the A. F. of L. was
regular in collecting dues, until the
trappers realized the thing was a
fake. The initiation fees charged by
the A. F. of l.. amounted to $3.50.
Several leaders Of the A. F. of l..
were caught and arrested, but only
three Of them had to pay a fine.
Jules Fisher and the other misleaders
helped to free those thieves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
"C.W.A. Gives No
Food to Eat Or
Work to Do"
iBy Share Chopper Correspondent

(By Share Chopper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala.-We, the men,
bers Of the Sharecroppers Union, are
not well pleased with the RF.C. and
the C.WA. The bosses that rule the
R.F.C. are not dealing fair when they
signed up some of the unemployed.
then put them to work later on in
the year.
My husband signed up and got his
card. He drew one check amounting
up to $3.50. They cut him off and
many others. In November the work
of the C.W.A. came on. A good
many of the unemployed men are
signing up and are still signing every
two weeks. The bosses were put TO
work first, then some of the share
troopers and tenants were put to
work. The others are still going
every two weeks, signing up. 1t is
thousands and thousands of people
that are unemployed now,
The sharecroppers and tenants in
the black belt are crying for work
TO do nd to get food to eat and
clothes 70 wear, The bosses ara still
riding On our acks, There are >?ne
single women at the C..WA. They
haven't got any work to do. The
C.W.A. will not give us food to eat
nor work to do.
A MEMBER OF THE SHARE
CHOPPERS UNION, LOCAL l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15

town, but after their hours were cut
they couldn't stay there and pay
board and feed their teams. They
were just as badly off as before.
I worked on the Federal Housing
Survey, beginning Jan. 2. 1 had so
hours to cover about $50 or 200 miles
with a team. used our two saddle
ponies and Jumper" It was dread
fully cold, and I have been sick ever
since. But though 7 earned $75
haven't been paid yet, and I used
every cent for expense that we had.
That is my real reason for not writ
ing sooner. I used all our stamps
sending in reports My husband bor-
rowed IS from a friend in town.
We had to take our cattle in town
to feed. It will cost $156 to feed till
April. Not much profit-when our
u big, fat steers only brought 1925
this fall.
We hear that the government Is
going to purchase the submarginal
lands. I think this housing survey
is connected Herewith. If they do
We'll hang on till we can get enough
to start over again somewhere else
The grasshopper menace this spring
there were millions last year. The
experts claim there were 100 eggs tc
the square foot laid this fall. I don't
doubt it. They ate everything, ever
the tree leaves. We didn't even have
potatoes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
United Farmers League Gets Many New
Members in Warsaw Foreclosure Sale
Push Fight to Free TiaIa, arrested for Organising
Against Bankers Robbery

menD to the tiny town Of Goshen to
hold meeting of farmers. The fact
that the United Farmers League is
getting hundreds of members around
there, since the Warsaw foreclosure
fight, may have something to do with
it.
Roy Harter, WakaruSa, is State
Secretary of the United Farmers
League. He has issued leaflets, wide
ly read, urging farmers to fight fore
closures, and attacking American Lee
gion leaders who tried unsuccessfully
to get the rank and file to resist the
farmers.
The red scare has been raised, but
the farmers don't give two boots. This
is interesting, since they are all ma
tive American. staunch Democrats and
were among the most backward in g
state noted for its backward farmers.
They go right ahead by the hun
dreds joining the United Farmers
League.
The trials come up Feb. IA. There's
going to be a mass foreclosure on
Feb 10. This will be crucial test
Of the U.FL., as many farms will be
sold on this day and undoubtedly a
small army of state police, deputies,
ETC., will be there to see that it goes
through.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
LAPS at Campbell Soup Go.
NO9U IN Industrial Union

scribe to / 400 copies Of Labor Rec
ord" weekly, at 2 cents copy. This
means s28 a week would be taken
from the union treasury, OF union
dues would have to be raised. This
motion was defeated at the Saturday,
Feb. 10, meeting and carried over
to the next meeting Feb. I5) to get
favorable action.
Rank and file members should de-
feat this at all times.
At present, the program Of the
ings. This means to keep the rank
union is-no politics at union meet
and file ignorant. or to betray the
future of the working class to the
bosses. Labor unions in the past as
well as in the future, who have no
working class political background
are and will be sell-out agencies for
the bosses.
One Of our immediate needs Is q
shop paper with an editorial staff
elected from the rank and file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
Mass LayOffs
In Last Few
Weeks in Tampa
By q Tobacco worker Correspondent

By a Tobacco Worker Correspondent
TAMPA, FIa.-The cigar industry
here is shot to pieces. The factories
have as yet to resume normal
operations this year.
The C.W.A. workers here who are
still lucky enough not to have been
fired. had not collected for their
weeks work a p. m. Saturday. The
last few weeks have witnessed mass
lay-offs. Thousands have lost even
the miserable SO a week throughout
the whole state during the past sew
eral weeks.
In striking contrast to the alleged
lack of funds for paying starving
workers and their families, I noticed
Yesterday, while passing by the 116th
Field Artillery arena, that the store
houses Of army equipment had been
freshly painted, and I was surprised
how splendidly kept up the whole
row Of buildings and grounds was.
I have just gone out with the
comrade who delivers the papers, and
have collected 1925, which we en-
close.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
U.F.L. Breaks Into
New Territory
By a Farmer Correspondent

EVERETT. Wash.-Three we ks
ago the United Farmers LEAGUE held
its first meeting in Sisco HEIGHTS.
This was new territory for a militant
organization.
At the first meeting P. J. Cantwell
the county organizer of the A. F. of
L., explained the National Conference
and the State Conference of Farmers
along with the role of the U. F.. l..
in this locality. There were 16 who
applied for membership at this meet
ing.
Since then two more meetings have
been held, and the membership has
increased to 40.
Some time ago this was strictly
Grange territory, but since then the
farmers have lost interest in this
organization, because they found out
that the Grange has done nothing
for the farmer to help him out of
this crisis. After the q. F. L. came
in and organized, some of the old re-
dictionary Grange members sent otter
the Grange organizer and tried TO
revive the Grange. This ATTEMPT
ended in total failure and this COM
munity Is now solidlv organized on
the one and only farm organization.
The membership Of this local is
very enthusiastic and the youth of
the locality is coming in rapidlv to
fall in line with this program. The
membership at the last meeting voted
unanimously to go in a body to the
county G. w. A. setuo and demand
what has happened to funds that
were appropriated for road in their
locality which would be a benefit to
the locality and also help extend the
time of the C. W. A. in that territory.
Tonioht, Feb. 8, the county organ
izer is breaking into new territory by
holding a meeting in the East Sunny
side Hall. to bring forth the pro-
gram and role Of the United Farm
ers' League. There are six more
meetings scheduled in this county
namely, White Horse Grange Hall,
Maltby, Kellog Marsh, Darlington,
Jordan. Granite Falls, and there are
more applications for meetings COM
ing in every day.
The county organizer handles most
Of these meetings himself and has to
do his work on foot. In the near
future Snohomish County will be or
the map as a strongly organized
farming district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
LOUISIANA FUR TRAPPERS VICTIMS
OF POLITICIANS AND A.F.L. LEADERS

is punished to the full extent,
whether or not he caught the animals
on the land actually under the in
junction.
Senator Fisher now has control
of the land formerly in the hands
of Mr.. Brady, another politician who
cheated the trap for a long time.
Joe Fisher, nephew of the Senator,
is the ward leader in jefferson par
ish and likewise is in the ring against
the trappers. He sells the shells
gathered from the lake bed to the
government at 50 cubic yard,
though the government already owns
the shells.
Racketeer Breaks Into Union
Nine or ten years ago Joe Fisher
broke up the first union among the
trappers. Before the Fishers inter
fered with the fur industry, the
trapping lands were free to the trap
pers Brady and Joe Fisher grated
as much of the land as was possible
into their own control The first
union was broken up by the younger
Fisher. who coaxed the trappers to
vote out of office Glen Parand, who
was running the union very honestly
joe Fisher thus got Pyramids place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15

The Communist Party, Ohio Dis
trict, held a two-day District Plenum
on Feb. 3 and 4, at which there were
present 100 comrades. All sections
Of the district except Dayton being
represented. The agenda Of this Dis
trict Plenum, which opened up the
discussion for the Eighth National
Convention, included three points:
illumination of the work and
activities of the Party in the Ohio
District for the past three months in
the light of the Central Committee
and 18th Plenum E.C.CI. resolution,
report by Williamson, District Or
ganizer.
2-Repcrt on preparations for the
Eighth National Convention and
Ohio District Convention-repo-ted
by Bart, Organizational Secretary.
Examination of the work in
the youngstown section-report by
Burns, District Organizational In
structor.
Comrade Williamson gave a two
hour report divided into two parts,
the first dealing with the chief fea-
lures of the world situation as elabo-
rated upon at the 18Th Plenum and
urther concretized by the Central
Committee Plenum. The second part
of his report dealt with the growing
offensive of the Roosevelt govern
ment and consequent rising strike
wave, placing as the central task Of
the Plenum the modifying of the
Party to give leadership to this strike
wave and resistance of the toiling
masses against the policy Of inaa-
tton as the latest phase of the
Roosevelt New Deal"
The report examined in detail the
work of the Party in Ohio in each
of the main industries and sections
The PIenum discussed and adopted
the resolution which aimed at max
ing clear to the entire Party men,
bership the main features Of the
present situation and main tasks
confronting the Party, outlining
eight control tasks of the District
Committee up to the time of the Dis
trict Convention.
In come lion with the Youngs-
town situation, the Plenum adopted
a short resolution which included the
removal of the section organizer fol
responsibility and drunkenness, il
addition to his general INCOMPETENCE
and inability to carry through ever
the most simple tasks ASSIGNED. Thes;
actions on the part of the District
Plenum were the recommendations
of the Youngstown Section Commit
tee and the section functionaries. The
Plenum also adopted after the sum-
mary of Williamson series of short
resolutions, one of which endorsed
the resolution and report Of William.
son; another which took cognizanct
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
BRONX UNIT SELLS 225 ANNIvER-
SARY DAILIES AND MAKES
MANY CONTACTS

Dear Editor:
Our unit, IS Of Section Is, District
2, Is here submitting some expe-
riences that we comrades had in sell
ing our Jan. 6 issues Of the Daily"
There has been a branch Of the
Women's Council concentrating in
this reighborhood (Webster Ave. to
Concourse, from 10th to 175th ST. as
well as an L. L. D. branch for about
TWO years. Only in the last eight
months was Party unit organized,
a workers center established, where
open forums are held each week.
AS a result OF this work, the coun-
Gil, always accustomed to ordering 25
DailieS on special editions, ordered SO
and had to come for more, selling in
all about 80 copies.
/. In one house, a Nazi woman gives
out free paper weekly. Here we
sold our Daily.
2. Sold to seven people in one house
two already had paper, otherwise
would have bought it.
8. A relief worker bought a Daily
and joined the Relief Workers League
on the spot.
4. a superintendent who bought the
daily asked If we couldn't organize ali
the janitors and superintendent.
5. An unemployed man who just got
Job, first one in two years, thought
he'd lose his Job If found reading the
Daily Worker, but we changed his
mind for him, and left him feeling
sympathetic.
6. One worker joined the I. L. D.
z. One woman wants to join q
Women's Council and was glad tc
hear how many Dailies were being
sold in the territory.
In all we sold about 225 Dailies
though our mobilization was not what
it should have been. Comrades still
do not realize the Importance o.
spreading our paper and particularly
notifications such as Jan. where il
a unit of 10 comrades, only 8 showed
up. 200 per cent better than MAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
Citrus Workers
Cheated by Boss
With Promises
By . WORKER CORRESPONDENT


TAMPA, FIa.-The citrus workers
employed in large plant here went
cut on strike two days ago, demand
ing one-half cent increase in wages.
The strike was Immediately set
tied" by the bosses who promised
that the demands Of the girl workers
would be met. But their first act
was to fire the most militant workers,
once the strike had been called of.
With demagogic promises they lured
the workers back into the plant,
making them believe that they had
won victory.
When the girls realized that they
had been tricked. they renewed the
agitation for another walk-out, based
on the demands that the militant
workers who were fired be reinstated
The bosses refused to take back the
fred workers, and called on the po-
lice to intinidate the employed work
erS and prevent them from demon
strating their solidarity with those
who were fired. This is another ex-
ample showing that the workers can
not depend on the promises of the
bosses when settling strikes. Lack
Of conscious leadership was response
Bile for this error, but 1t has taught
the citrus workers how empty are the
bosses promises.
The Party did not participate SUI
flciently in this strike, but It has con-
facts with the employed workers and
Is forging the solidarity which will
bring the citrus workers their de-
mands for higher wages and the re-
instatement Of the discharged work.
ers.
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of the growing war situation, partcu.
larly as evidenced in the Natlonal
Preparedness Week called by the
Roosevelt government. In meeting
Isis situation. the Plenum called
ijDcD every section to organize mass
meetings and ordered right there
5000 additional copies OF the Daily
Worker and $4,000 leaflets for dis
tribution. w
other resolutions included a can
.Fcr the workers of Ohio to send mass
6e.sqations to greet the opening OF
the National Convention on Monoay'
April 2, as well as a challenge to the
Detroit District that the Ohio Dis
trict will complete its quota in the
Daily Worker sub drive quicker than
Dst-oit
The Plenum finished with a deci-
sion that the Red Flag carried at
the head of the 1919 Anti-War DEM
cnstration. which was headed by G.
E. Ruthenberg, recently presented TO
the Communist Party by the group OF
workers who had carefully preserved
il all these years, should be presented
from plenrim to plenum to that Sec
zion which made the best efforts In
carrying through the Party's task.
This District Plenum assigned this
Red Flag representing the fighting
traditions OF. the Cleveland proleta-
riat to Section 1, Comrade Larkin,
| the section organizer Of Section l,
pledged IN the name Of the section
that thep would not only fulfill the
control tasks of the Plenum but that
they would surpass them and were
confident that they would keep the
fac and challenged other sections to
win it back from them. High enthusi-
ISM prevailed throughout the entire
Plenum, combined with most So
Der examination of all Of the prob
lens confronting the Party. There
were present at the Plenum repre-
sentativesn from eight shop nuclei, as
well as workers from other factories
who made resi- contributions to the
work of the Plenum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
New York.


Dear Comrade. Editor:
wish to briefly point out that our
attack against the Roosevelt support
of the banks with R F. G. funds fails
to state our position on the small
depositors in these banks. Many of
them believe that these huge subsi-
dies are necessary to keep them from
closing and thus stop payment OF
deposits. This criticism also applies
to our slogan of "City funds for the
unemployed, not for the banks
Every time we attack subsidies and
interest payments we must point out
that we stand for the guaranty Of
small deposits.
In addition our columns should
contain an article now ard then on
the number of small depositors and
the proportion of their savings to the
whole I recall that recently We had
an article showing the decrease in the
number of depositorS. This was good
but we need more detailed informa-
ton.
A series of articles on the Worker
and War is necessary. Many young
fellows of my acquaintance believe
that it is necessary to defend the U
S. when invaded or threatened with
invasion. More detailed information
on the conflicts between U S. ant
Great Britain and U. S. and Japan is
what we need. Most of us don't un-
derStand how the economic battles
like the battle over the gold standard
is related to war. Wherein, concretely
do American and Japanese interests
conflict. "Hegemony over the Paci'
f1c" means nothing to most Of us.
Another point. Now that lie gov
eminent is carrying on patriots
propaganda in so many forms WI
must counterfeit it with exposing thu
role that this stuff played in the las
war. The material in this field i
very rich We should expose all tn,
tricks (Hun stuff, submarine atroci
ties, the Lusitania excuse, etc. anC
show in memoirs, speeches ant
various exposures, just how callousl!
Americas entry into the war was pre-
pared.
Comradely,
I JOHN MORRIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
BY a Worker Correspondent

CROWN POINT, lathe Stein
berg brothers of the Steinberg 81 Co.,
fur merchants, own large tracts OF
land in Jefferson parish of Louisiana.
These Steinbergs have an office in
New Orleans, and other offices in
New York City and Chicago. The
trappers are obliged to pay 35 per
cent of the sale price of their furs
to the Steinbergs.
State Senator Jules Fisher, repre-
senting Jefferson parish and nearby
parishes, is in the racket with the
Steinbergs. Also Senator Fisher is a
very intimate friend of Senator Huey
P. Long.
Under the MIRA, the Louisiana
trappers must pay Is cents Of every
dollar from their sales of furs to the
government. The trapping license
used to be 50 a year.
The Steinbergs have an injunction
on only a few of their many acres
in order to keep the trappers off
those lands. But in these hard times
the trappers sometimes risk heavy
penalties and trap furs on the land
controlled by the Steinbergs. When
the trapper is hailed into court, he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
A Debate With a
Farmer-LabOrite
(By a Farmer CORRESPONDENT


OKLEE, Minn.-On Feb. 2, when
the Garves Farmers Club of Plummer
held its annual meeting, they also
had debate between Mr.. Alabo and
Ed G. Baumann on the question.
Resolved that the Farmer Labor
Party is a party of capitalism. Mr..
Alabo is the editor Of one of the
leading sheets of the Farmer Labor
Party of this territory. Ed. G. Bau-
mann is known thrc''~hout P10''|'i
Section as leader and fighter among
the toiling farmers, and as a Com
muniSt.
The meeting was held in one Of
the rural schools close here, and close
to $50 tanners crowded every inch
of space in the building.
All we have to do is use our "legis-
lative action" Mr.. Alabo maintained.
There is no necessity for the workers
and farmers to come out on the street
and demand the right to live only to
be met by an armed force, the militia
or the police, he said" When an
swering comTade Baumann's state
ment that the chief spokesman c
the Farmer Party, Governor Olsor
had come out in the beginning tc
help put over the N. r. A., he ad
mitted that he said Olson had "in the
beginning thought it would turn OH
to be all right. When he later saw it
was not all right he as an intelligen
man, resigned"
The Communist Party did not think
for one second that the N. r. A. was
a way out Of the crisis. 1t was the
Communist Party who from TIE v@rv
first minute began exposing the N.
R. A. and pointing out to the workers
what the N r. A. would lead to.
Instead of giving the militant work.
ers of the HORNED Packing Plant the
credit for winning their strike last
| fall in Austin, MINI. Mr.. Alabo didn't
mention a word but instead pointed
out that the arbitration board con-
sisted of all Farmer-Laborites and
gave them their demands"
Regarding unemployment Mr.. Alabo
had nothing to offer. Regarding the
fact brought out by comrade Bau-
mann that the Farmer Labor adj
! rrlinistration had not done anything
| to relieve the distress and the misery
of the unemployed other than raise
finances that came out of workers and
farmers and not out of the swollen
profits of the big mining corporations
and other monied interests, Mr.. Alabc
answered that it was because of Their
not having, the majority in the legis-
lature. He did not attempt to an
SWer comrade Baumann when the
latter pointed out that one Of the
representatives in the State legisla-
ture from this District, Farmer
Laborite, had voted for the bill ap-
propriating funds for establishing
Citizens Military Training Camps.
If the general sentiment Of the
workers and the farmers present al
the meeting means anything, then
we can say that the Farmer-Labol
Party has no place among the des.
titute workers and farmers in lead.
ing them out of the crisis. The
meeting undeniably pointed out to thu
rank and file Of the Farmer-Labol
Party, that the only way out of the
crisis is through militant struggles
through the unity Of the workers anc
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15
BY . Campbell Soup Worker

CAMDEN. N. J.-Campbell Soup
workers who are organizing into the
Cannery Workers Industrial Union,
have answered the company union
verInin by increasing the Cannery
Workers Industrial Union from l,400
to l ,425 members. The first company
union meeting showed an attendance
Of $50, whereas the second company
union meeting was attended by only
IS, consisting mostly Of pushers and
rats.
The rank and file should be more
on guard against such rotten practice
as took place at the last meeting on
Saturday, Feb. 10, where a motion
was made and carried to bar the sale
of literature and tickets at the meet
ing, a motion which should have been
defeated. A motion was also made
to make the Labor Record" Labor
Racket the official organ Of our
union, which is published by David S.
Schick in Philadelphia, and to sub