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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Rich Delta
SOiIBreeds
Starvation
''NiIe of America Il
Dotted by Rags
and Stops
By a Worker Correspondent

JACKSON, Miss.-This city is
situated in the middle OF the Mis-
sissippi River delta-which is called
the Mile of America"-in some
counties of which two bales of cot
ton per acre have been produced
and as high as $50 bushels Of corn.
Yet, this being the day following
Christmas-here is what I observed
in two-hour ramble through the
weI-to-do residential section this
morning:
An old Negro woman of rs years
carrying in her hands a pair Of
mems cheap shoes, both Of which
we're torn into shreds tops and bot
toms.
A young white woman with a
bucket of meat scraps and bones
on a two-wheeled discarded child's
express wagon, which a little boy
was hauling from the rear of a
local market.
An old Negro woman and two
girls of IA or is emptying a swill
barrel that had been set out in
front of the house for the garbage
collector, from which they had sal
vaged small pieces of corn-bread,
biscuits and apple peelings, over
which coffee grounds and dish
water had been emptied.
A Negro man leading little boy
of 10, who was almost too weak to
walk, and the wife, carrying an in
FAINT of three months in her arms,
devoid of clothing, except for a
flour sack wrapped around it, both
parents carrying sack Of wooden
fire wood blocks, which they said
had been picked up at the mill a
mile away.
The N. R. A. and c. w. A. are
working fine, the residents tell me,
and F. D. R. is a popular hero, but
restaurants charging their cooks
and mattresses board for what they
eat, employers work their help
longer hours than the code pro-
vides, and 81 a week for domestic
workers is good pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
''Can't Get Anything to
Do" Says Negro Mother
of Nine i'm Black Belt
BY a sharecrOpper Correspondent

By a Sharecropper Correspondent
DADEVILLE, Ala am Ne
gro woman in the black belt. A
mother of nine children, and we
have nothing to go upon-no
shoes, no clothes for my children
or myself. and we can't get any
thing to do to help us.
We haven't had farm in two
years. The ruling class seems
like they treat us worse than the
majority.
Only five of the children are
large enough to work, and then
they can't get nothing for their
labor. They allow only so cents
a day for their work.
School started last year and my
children didn't have the clothes
to start, so I got them only one
piece around to wear on top, and
they went to school two weeks,
and school was out. Now it has
started again, and they are in the
same condition, no shoes, or
clothes and they can't enter now
unless my boys get a job, and it
is hard to get.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Price Below Cost
of Production in
Michigan Region
By a Farmer Correspondent

COPEMISH, Mich. - This is a
farming country with no industries
and no markets except the local
bssinesS and you take what they see
fit to give you for produce and the
price is below cost of production
AS I have only 20 acres of land,
haven't much to sell to any con-
Germ and am not much of farm
er anyway. am molder by trade.
1 belonged to the molders 10 years
until was expelled for radicalism
and blacklisted. I also belonged to
the Western Federation of Miners.
I worked in the mines in the West
for years and was a member of
different labor unions in Seattle,
Wash, and have always spread the
message of unity of the working
class by word of mouth. I have
distributed as much printed Com
munist propaganda as the average
workers. I used to handle I. w. w.
literature and was a member of it.
I left the organization on account
Of double croSSers and stool pigeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
(By a Farmer Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Here is a
good story on the government. One
Of the farmers in Lehigh County in
Pennsylvania was about to be fore
closed. Another farmer held the
mortgage, a rich farmer. The poor
farmer, with a large family and
about to lose his home, went to the
government representative to apply
for loan. The Representative adj
vised the farmer to go down to
Bucks County where there was
farm organization called the United
Farmers Protective Association, and
get them to help him.
So this farmer. who had never
heard of the U.FPA.. drove down
to the headquarters. The farmers
in the U.FPA. told him to go back
and get all his neighbors together
and that they should go as a large
committee and demand that the
mortgage holder not foreclose.
This, the farmer did. He was a
Pennsylvania Dutchman and all his
neighbors were too. And one of his
neighborS was a nephew of the
farmer who was forecloSing. But
when a farmers home is to be saved,
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81
Ysla fIl(, Y llllasG
lS##eN HELEN Lex. 49, 81
NEWS AND NO NEWS


A brief note from Comrade
Esther L. notifies US of something
we evidently missed. She writes:
This little quote from Comrade
Wan Minis report 70 the Comm
tern (Inprecorr Feb. 5, 1884 is
good supplement to the very slight
report in the International Women's
Day issue Of the Daily Worker on
activities Of Chinese women
In Soviet China, under the
leadership Of our Party, every toiler,
including women and children,
stands steadfastly at his or her
post. The role of the women in the
military operations of the Red
Army against the attacks of the
Kuomintang is exceedingly i'm
portant The activity of the women
is by no means limited to work in
the Red Cross groups, laundries,
sewing circles, ETC., but they directly
participate in the fighting with the
enemy troops. In Szechwan Prov
ince 500 Red peasant women sue
ceeded in diSarming a whole regi-
ment of the White Army
There are grand stories Of the
militant Chinese women in Agnes
Smedley Buffers Chinese Des-
TIMES, which is in the Workers
Bookshop circulating library"
(There is also, by the way, small
pamphlet, Chinese Toiling Women,
printed in London and costing two
pence or five cents, which is filled
with very interesting information
Comrade Eleanor B., who sent
from Chicago one of the pumper-
nickel recipes, wonders what sue
cess the comrades had with it. q
haven't heard) She sends Mora
Wan recipes for the R. I. G. B. and
says in a postscript: THE minute
biographies are swell Let's have
more. And what happened to DR..
Toozan?"
Comrade Nellie K. writes from
Pennsylvania: quite some time ago
your column contained articles by a
certain DR.. TooZan. These articles
I almost considered masterpieces
because of the clear presentations
of conditions of American womas1-
hood under capitalism. Would it
be possible for you to get DR..
Toozan for your column again2"
Well, comrades, I too am Won
dering what happened to DR..
Toozan. CThe crisis, you see) At
the time the first articles were
written he was removing from New
York City to a Western state.
am only afraid things may not have
gone well for him, for have had
no news. And 1 don't think in this
case no news is such good news
I liked those articles, too, i'm
mensely, and I'll try to get in touch
with Dr. Toozan and tell him his
audience is shouting for encores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

C. R., Hancock, Mich.-We have
not seen the article in Golfers
describing this species of the human
race with natural six-inch tails on
one of the Pacific islands; but we
can tell you, confidently, that there
"ain't no such animal" We are
surprised that you fall for such non
sense.
Ovaltine has been referred to in
this column before. 1t is a nutri-
tious food drink; but it is not a
remedy for nervous conditions, in
Guiding insomnia. Any warm liquid,
even plain water, has tendency tc
cause people to sleep better. Fur
thermore, you can make a drink
similar to Ovaltine by mixing the
yolk of a fresh egg, a tablespoon
of cocoa, and cup of milk which
will cost you much less than the
patented article.
Ringworm
Mrs. Ethel B., Chicago.-Try to
paint the affected area with tine
ture of iodine, every other night
and let us know the result at the
end of two weeks.
Biology In Russia
M. C.-The Russian Government
does not concern itself with the
theoretical aspects of biological
questions; excepting insofar as they
may have a bearing on practical
medical or other problems and con-
ditions. The majority Of scientists
in Russia have the same opinion
about heredity and environment,
and the Mendelian law of domi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Government Agent
Cheats Farmers in
Buying Up Land

LA CROSSE, Wis., was very
glad to see my letter published in
the Daily" as through this letter
I have come into correspondence
with some new comrades in other
cities.
I wanted to send my dollar for
the Daily" ever 50 much, but
couldn't get hold OF any money.
Then my brother got a job at the
Gauge" here, so that I could pay
for the Daily" again. Geel I was
almost forced to stop sending for
my paper, but that would be like
cutting off my right arm.
The work on the airport here,
which was being built under the G.
W. A., has been stopped. And yet
no plans for further work have
been made. Some workers say that
no more work is to be done on the
airport.
The farmers that had woodland
or hay meadow are forced to sell
their land, as dam is to be con-
Structed out in the bottoms. Some
farmers sold their land few years
ago. This is the way the govern
ment does it: An agent goes to the
farmer, buys as many acres as he
wishes, gives the farmer a dollar
and tells him he'll get the rest of
his money after five years. A
farmer who sold his land about six
years ago didn't get his money yet.
The farmers, in seeing that they'll
have to buy their hay-mow and pay
for pasturing their cattle, turn
around and go to work in the fac
tories. They'll either have to give
their cattle away or else kill and
bury them.
Since my brother started work.
ing at the Gauge he has been tell
ing about few things that have
happened there. He says that since
Christmas about So fingers have
been cut off by the punch-press
and 81 workers had their heads
cracked. Last Friday night an in
spector came to inspect the ma
chinery at the Gauge" While he
was inspecting the press, the crank
shaft broke, hit him ON the head
and cracked his head open. He was
rushed to the hospital to keep the
workers from knowing what had
happened. 1t is believed that this
inspector is going to die; his con-
dition Is terrible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
TWO Must Push Struggle for
.JObIeSS and Social Insurance
International Workers Order Head Urges
Support of Workers Insurance Bill
By

this struggle for social insurance.
The workers Join mutual benefit
societies because they expect from
them a reduction Of those sufferings
which their economic insecurity
causes them. 1t is therefore the
duty of our proletarian fraternal or
ganization, the duty of our Interna-
tional Workers Order, to help our
members and to help the working
class, to reduce these sufferings
even beyond the help which the
mutual aid Of the Order provides.
All members, all branches, all
leading committees and all City
Central Committees must keep
the campaign for social insurance
on their order of business. The
of and the campaign for,
H.R. Bill 1888 must be made into
tire aU-dominating mass cam
paign Of the Order.
Build the ChiIdren's Section
The building of a strong chill
dren's section of the Order is
main task set by the National Ex-
ecutive Committee for the entire
Order in the months Of March,
April and May. The section cannot
be built without the direct help of
the entire membership. In par
ticular, every adult branch must
the building of its junior
branch as one of its primary activi-
ties.
There should be discussions In
all adult branches on the children's
question, on the role and conditions
Of the workers children in capital
ist society. Wherever children's
branches already exist, the parent
branch should arrange a "Children's
with program given by
the children, as a comradely get
together of the older and younger
generations in the struggle.
These discussions and affairs
should lead to definite action on
the part of the parent branch,
such as: The election Of a Chill
dren's Committee to supervise the
work Of the Juniors; a regiStra-
ton of all members children and
their recruitment into the Junior
branch; a constant connection
between the adult and Junior
Branch based on relation of a
parent to his child. The adult
branch is in all cases responsible
for the growth and development
Of the Junior Branch.
Support the New Pioneer
Some time ago we began a cam
paign in the Order to support the
children's magazine, The New Pho
neer. We set ourselves the goal of
81 200 to help save the New Pioneer
from suspension. Up to the present
moment, we have reached only a
very small fraction of this quota.
The children themselves have raised
between three and four times what
the adult branches have raised. All
branches should Immediately see
that they sell the Pioneer stamps
and send the money to the National
Office, so that we can prevent the
suspension of the magazine which
is so much beloved by the children
and which is our best instrument to
win them for the cause of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
~ Doctor
ZAAisaQe't
ndG,f4ea:
BY PAUL LuTTINGER. MD.

nance and the law of segregation,
as the majority of scientists all over
the world. Environment is recog-
nized as being much lesser factor
than heredity in the anatomical and
physiological makeup of the indi-
vidual. On the other hand, we re-
cognize that environment has a
powerful influence on the psycholo-
gical development Of the individual.
In other words, environment will not
produce genius out of a feeble
minded person, but the wrong en-
viroment might prevent a normal
individual from developing to his or
her fullest capacity.
1t is not true that Wiggan in his
book, Fruits of Family Tree"
proves that when a wealthy per-
son marries a proletarian woman
his grandchildren will develop into
epileptics, drunkards, etc. What he
does state is that when an indi-
vidual marries into feeble
minded family, his progeny is liable
to become feeble-minded. There
are feeble-minde individuals
among the rich as well as among
the poor. AS to his contention that
eugenics could solve the economic
question, he is all "wet." Under
the present capitalist scheme, It
would take about a million years
before the true science of eugenics
could be properly developed and
practiced. But even among a race
of supermen, the economic ques-
ton would still play an important
role, unless the pangs Of hunger
could be abolished snexn human
physiology.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Letters from Our Readers

ers who were dubbed at the And
st. Library. This suggestion was
agreed upon by the members, and
the letter was sent.
The aim of our meetings are to
impress upon the people the horrors
Of war and the meaning of pre-
paredneSs which is being carried on
throughout the United States. An
other point which is being made is
to show the people that in unity
there is strength and that all work
ers, regardless of the party to which
they belong, must unite in an effort
to prevent the coming war.
1t is mainly with the co-opera-
ton of the younger generation that
we can expect to reach our destina-
ton. S. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
French Peasant Tells About
Rising Taxes, Failing Prices

francs a year. Thus, after a year
of obstinate work, the peasant can
hardly succeed In making ends
meet. All the earnings go for keep
ing up an army OF traders and an
apparatus of government officials.
The bourgeois newspaper of our
province, Petit-Jiroud," is flooding
Southwestern France with all kinds
of lying stories about the Soviet
Union, as Starvation" Forced
Labor" ETC., telling fairy tales in
order to conceal those tremendous
achievements which exist on one
sixth of the world, in the land of
the Soviets, where the peasants are
masters of the land, till the land
with their own tractors and enjoy
the fruits of their own labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Egg Producers
Get Less While
Food Prices Rise
BY a Worker Correspondent

BRIDGETON, N. jim the Vine
land egg tract, despite all the bally-
hoo about the higher farm produce
prices, egg prices have been six to
eight cents lower this year than they
were last year. This in itself is bad
enough, but food prices have gone
up from 80 to 40 per cent.
Last year an egg farmer had to
work like horse to make living.
This year he works like horse
and doesn't make a living. Many
poultrymen have dropped out of
the egg business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15

said he had to close
down the C.W.A. jobs to pay these
teachers. My children cannot go
to school because they have no
clothes or shoes. We are going to
and fight for better con-
ditions and demand what we want
because we can't go naked and hun
CRY. Some of the bosses here said
the other day that they did care
if we we're like that but I have
been to the relief Office and they
gave me just enough for two of my
children to eat, and only because
was around their necks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
By a French Peasant Corre-
spondent

FRANCE am the owner of a
little farm $40 hectares, including
forest land, in the commune of
Sout- Suben (Yota- Garof). In 1912,
the amount Of land taxes was so
francs. In 1898, 33e francs. AS you
see, the taxes increased six times,
and the farm products get lower
prices.
For fire insurance and all other
kinds of insurance at 10000 francs,
l have to pay premium of 200
francs year. Besides the live
stock and other expenses amount to
over 600 francs year. The whole
turnover amounts to 2,500-3,0OO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15

comrade was to prepare himself
thoroughly on all points IN this
article, so that any and an qaes-
tons might be swiftly and correctly
answered. The article was read
aloud at the circle and was to be
discussed and analysed paragraph
by paragraph.
Right here I wish TO bring out
very important point. In choosing
the article to be read, there was a
sharp difference of opinion. One
group was in favor OF the article
suggested. The other group held
that it was too difficult aad ad-
vanced for the workers who a.
tended the study circle, and that
we should undertake a more e4e-
mentary subject, preferably current
events. After much discussion it
was voted that the article Sakg-
gested be accepted, and that dis
cussion on this point be brought up
at the study cirele. This was done.
Much to our surprise, the very
workers whom we considered back
oAAh Low W0AC VIC OAO0 WAAO
voted for continuance OF this and
other such articles.
Not only have we created enkhu-
siasm. Not only have We a1wanced
these workers pol9$icaafH. We have
also made some gains orpaEi9atAoEa-
ally. The unit which We drew into
our circle has reczyabed Two nsw
members. In oar house 10 house
canvass Of literature, invfeaeious ses
made to the circle and We hops ia
this way to recruit more neEubeKg
for the party and sch more HSeEa-
tTRFe.
May this Letter be aQotlaee abone
10 the Building of @lS Hpsataepfk
PsoAetaEdan Parry, fhs @ Rt6. & A.
the vanguard Of tE1s American
working class.
Yours for a Red Front,
Agit-frop DEecsOx
Unit Is, District "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15

that money is so scarce. Here on
Sunday I sold Henry Rows two
bushels of corn for one dollar and
that was all he could buy as that
was the last dollar he had, and
you know he used to be among the
richest farmers around here. And
here is Mr.. Curry who was supposed
to have plenty to live on for the
rest of his life. He had to mortgage
his personal property to pay his
taxes last year, and they are all in
the same boat.
Your father,
C.. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
NOTE

We publish letters from farm
ers, agricultural workers, cannery
workers and forestry workers
every Thursday. These workers
are urged to send us letters about
their conditions of work. and their
struggles to organize. Please get
these letters to us by Monday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Fort Dodge, Iowa.

FOIU Dodge, iowa.
Daily Worker,
Dear Editor:
Enclosed find So for the following
causes:
One dollar for 1.-THE Scottsboro
Case" from Negro worker and 81.
for the cause to help the Austrian
Victims of Fascism and for the help
of German comrades-$1. for each
cause.
With comradely greetings,
"a Fort Dodge Friend"
Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Force Opening of
Camp Hill Schools

by Sharecropper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala.-What about
these rural schools? We believe that
there is trick in these schools,
because they closed in December
and have just opened Feb. 1918.
Comrades, we know that our organi-
cation is making them do it.
Down here we let the boss know
it, because the National Relief Ad-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Send Us Name and Address

New York, N. Y.
Will the comrade who wrote to
the Daily Worker, requesting litera-
ture for an American boy IA years
old, of Italian parents, send the
name and address of this boy so
that we could write to him per-
sonally and send him some litera-
ture? Write Daily Worker, CO News
Department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15

The all over-Shadowing issue at
this moment is social insurance.
The International Workers Order
must learn to understand and must
make the masses Of workers under
stand that adequate social insur-
ance alone can give the working
masses that chance to live and
maintain their dependents which
mass unemployment, old age and
disability takes away from them.
The ruling class does not want
social insurance. 1t wants to keep
the working class on the verge Of
starvation. Such a working class,
they argue, is an easier victim to
those miserable wage
standards which ssK.
profit hungry cepi- ~ s,
til considers ideal. & tsfSsgt2
The BOSSES DO not s 3l1Sees5r
want a social insur- esABSiSsesf
snce which would sssRs
considerably reduce
the economic insecurity Of the
workers.
Militant organization Of the
wc~kers is the only power that
car counter balance and out
weigh the advantage which the
control of the means OF produc-
ton gives to the capitalist mas
tiers over their wage-slayes. That
is why they do everything to pre-
vent militant workers Organiza-
tiOns. They try to make them IL
legal, but especially do they try
to maintain capitalist illusions in
the heads of the workers. These
illusions are made TO order to
keep the workers ont of organiza-
tons and struggle against their
bosses and the boss class.
The present noise about the New
Deal is such a bosses effort to
create or maintain capitalist illu-
Sions in the minds of the workers.
The capitalists shout so loud about
a New Deal because they want the
workers senses dulled to the in
ability of the capitalists to solve the
crisis for the workers and to the
need Of the workers to solve that
crisis themselves.
Workers Must Deal Themselves
New Deal
The New Deal, the MIRA, does
not help the workers. It is a method
of the capitalists to help themselves
10 more and more profits out of
The workers. An increase of the
capitalist profits is an increase Of
She misery of the workers.
As AGAINST this New Deal of the
capitalists, the workers must raise
the issue of a New Deal of their
own. They must not merely de-
mand a New Deal, but organize
and prepare to deal a new deal
themselves. The first card in this
new deal must be the demand of,
and organization to struggle for,
social insurance. Our demand for
social insurance must out-Sound
he noise of the capitalists about
he New Deal. Whenever and
wherever the agents of capital
ism advocate, praise or discuss
the N.R.A., the demand for So
cial insurance must come back to
them as an discriminating echo.
We Of the International Workers
Order have the greatest duty in