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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
HDAidS FIGHT
OfFarm ers
against Bank
BY a Farmer Correspondent


MOsHERVILLE, Mich.-One far
mer out here and his four sons
have to cut q 10-acre wood lot to
sell the wood so as to pay the
banker and keep his farm.
One of the farmers sons got only
so per cent of his deposit from the
same bank, the Grosvenor Savings
Bank, louisville, Mich. Some of the
robbed depositors, last Halloween,
drew row of "privies" into town
and put them in front of this bank.
They draped them with wreaths
and signs such as frozen assets"
drop your deposits here" a per
cent paid on all deposits" and
many others. About 8 am. we tried
to get a photograph, but the bank
got them away too soon.
This farmer must pay the bank.
At that, only the resentment of the
local farmers organized through the
HillSdale branch Of the I. L. D.,
stopped this banker, Charles White,
from taking the farm away over a
year ago for a debt of $135. This
was on purported note said to be
negotiated by the deceased father
Of this farmer, the deceased father
having left his son a life lease. and
deed in fee to his grandsons on the
death Of his son.
Mass meetings were held, lea aets
and petitions circulated, collections
made, legal talent supplied and now
he has time to pay his debt. where
as at first they wanted him to pay
Immediately.
The weapon used was a petition
by said bank through Charles White
to the Probate Court to have the
claim allowed. Then an injunction
was gotten, stopping the farmer
from deposing of the wood or any
thing on the place. The wood is all
the farmer has to pay the debt
with. Then, a motion in chancery
to set the deeds aside. These moves
have all been checkmated for over
a year now by our local LID.
Samuel B. Keene of Detroit is the
attorney in this case.
A Hillsdale doctor told a comrade
last week that he has many work.
ers coming to him that are simply
starving to death. Malnutrition is
rampant. This county has never
set aside any money for emergency
relief. A very inadequate sum is
appropriated quarterly by the
County Supervisors for soldiers and
sailors relief. The Federal Emer-
gency Relief administered here,
while very poor, is nevertheless bet
ter than what the vets get from
the county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Negro Farmer
ShOtforA Asking
For His Cotton
BY SharecrOpper Correspondent

BY SharecrOpper Correspondent
SELMA, Ala.-W. J. Jones, over
seer for Mrs. ]. A. Funrich, shot
w. H. Hardy, Negro farmer, in
the arm and shoulder.
Jones took a bale of cotton from
Hardy and sold it. When Hardy
went to him and asked him about
the cotton, Jones told him that he
was going to give him hell. Now
Hardy can't go back to the place
at all.
We have learned that Hardy went
to the headquarters of the A.A.A.
They told him they couldn't do
anything for him until he went
back to Mr.. Jones. Hardy has
failed to do so.
The Negro masses almost had a
rebellion here in the fields when
Mrs. J, A. Funrich told them that
Jones had killed Hardy. She found
the spirit of the Negroes so high
that she was forced to take back
what she had said to the Negroes.
This is what the landlords do
here in the countryside.
1t is getting so that the Negroes
cannot have a dance at all here
when the landlords have a gather
ing. The landlords drink and they
go out on the countryside beating
up the Negroes, and taking food and
stuff and throwing it over the
ground and stamping it with their
feet. And they dare the Negroes
to say anything about it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Tells
about Visit
To Consulate

BY a Workers Child Correspondent
NEW YORK-A group of 20 Pion-
GERS were picketing the German
Consulate Saturday morning. A
committee of four Pioneers and two
adult comrades went up to the 18th
floor to see the consul.
When the janitor directed them
to the office, he told the elevator
man, Get some plain clothes men,"
The committee was not allowed
inside but a secretary came outside
to speak to them. The committee
told him that they came from a
children's organization to lodge a
protest, and he told the committee
that the consul did not wish to
speak to them. When the spokes-
man asked him if he could take that
as the consuls answer he replied,
YES"
Then the spokesman asked him if
that was the answer he wished to
be printed in the press. He replied
that he didn't care. The committee
saw that they couldn't get anything
more, as he went in and locked the
door, so that the committee should
not be able to get in.
A PIONEER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Land Sharks Victim
Defended by Pickets
Belongings Are Rescued from Sheriff, and Home
Is WOn Through Mass Mobilization

part of law and order served their
clever end by distracting attention
from the Doyle residence. While
the victims we're in court and only
handful of sympathetic UFL.
members were on hand, II deputy
sheriffs armed to the teeth, with
sawed-off shotguns, swooped down
on the Doyle family in the early
morning, and, in the most abusive
manner, seized all of their personal
effects, even to the destruction of
their food supply, and drove the
helpless mother and children out
onto the public highway. Their
possessions were taken to a store
house in Solway.
With all possible haste, faithful
UFL. members gathered from every
quarter and in a mass of 10 deter
mined men and women marched to
the store manager at Solway and
demanded that he contact the
sheriff at Beltrami County and
secure release of the personal prop
erty of Grover Doyle. This righteous
storekeeper made a pretenSe- of call
ing the sheriff from the Court
House in Bemidji Our brave mem
bers were not to be trifIed with and
soon discovered the ruse, whereupon
Mr.. Storekeeper saw that discretion
was the better part of valor and at
once made connection with the
sheriff at the Wilton liquor store.
Belongings Released
1t is needless to say that in very
few minutes, the Sheriff released to
the UFL. all of Mr.. Doyle's belong
ings. These were taken again to
the scene of eviction and the Doyle's
went to housekeeping in tent on
the roadside. Here began picketing
by the UFL., which maintained a
camp of guards and pickets in pro-
test before the public eye of these
outrages being perpetrated upon
helpless farmers and home-owners.
Now the county workers of the
Federal Emergency Relief came
fearful le;5 public opinion be
aroused in behalf of the Doyles, and
attempted to force them into a
shack not fit for a stable. In the
meantime, the UFL. sent a tele-
gram to the Governor of the state,
giving him the facts. At last,
representative of the State Relief
Administration arrived on the scene
and secured a suitable home for the
Doyles and such temporary aid as
was needed. A victory for the
U.FL. and mass presSur but
tremendous hardship and un t o d
agonies suffered by Grover Doyle
and his brave family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08

they never read a paper that tells
the truth like the Daily Worker
does.
For about three years we work
erS worked on two frames in the
finishing room. The night workers
worked from 6 pm. 10 am, with
only 20 minutes for lunch, from
midnight 10 1920 an.
After the 1888 strike we went
back to work on two frames again,
The men started to talk about one
frame for one man. We told the
shop chairman, John Tovano, that
we wanted one frame. He told us
that he couldn't do everything at
once.
About two or three months later
we brought it up again. Then the
shop chairman, another worker and
myself went to the manager. We
told him that two frames was too
much work. He asked us what we
had to do. He knows well what
We had to do. The manager asked
the chairman two or three times
if it was justified demand. The
chairman said yes. Three days
later we got one frame.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Medical Care Under Fasoism


THE following was quoted in the
N. Y. Times of Oct. %, 1884. 1t
is a proclamation published in the
Physicians Gazette of Berlin b. Or.
Seiles, head of the Medical $50
citation of Dusseldorf:
TN the elections of Aug. 19, the
Maria Hospital of Dusseldorf re-
jected the Fuehrer and National
Socialism by a vote of more than
so per cent. This election result
represents a provocation of the pro-
fession of the city and of the State.
The Dusseldorf physicians will try
to make good this alien attitude by
the Strictest boycott of the hospital
to the point of economic annihila-
ton.
81, therefore decree that any as
signments to the hospital are rigidly
forbidden. will publish in cir
cular the names of all German
physicians, who, in spite of this pro-
hibition, still assign patients to that
hospital"
This proclamation neatly contains
the attitude of fascism toward all
social activity, no matter how use
full. FasciSm does not ask, will the
doctors and patients be benefited
or harmed by boycotting this hos
pital? Fascism will only ask, does
this hospital support our reign of
terror? Fascism will only ask, who
dareS to challenge the greedy rule
Of capital?
In striking contrast to this at
titude is the one shown by the So
Wet Union toward Professor Ivan
Pavlov, eminent psychologist. Dur
ing the period when Pavlov was
speaking openly against the October
Revolution, the Soviet Government
gave Pavlov money and apparatus
to furnish his work. On Pavlov's
85th birthday, the Council of Peo-
pies Commissars sent him the fol-
lowing greetings: THE Council
especially notes your inexhaustible
energy in scientific creativeness, the
successes of which have deservedly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Social Workers Protest
Relief Cut in Chicago

were unable to supply them at all
and food cards were consequently
destroyed as worthless. The dietary
habits of certain racial groups have
been completely ignored, since no
provision has been made for sub
stitute foods"
The resolution also attacks the
commission for placing the burden
Of responsibility for carrying out its
1.-THE commissioner policy squarely
Upon the shoulders of the employees,
despite the fact that the relief en-
ployees were not even consulted
Aim to Cut Wages Further
Besides saving money for the
bankers and industrialiSts, the cut
has as its major objective the driv-
ing down of wage levels even lower.
In bulletin which was issued to
the personnel of the Illinois Emer-
gency Relief Commission (No. 1870
it was boldly stated that unem-
ployed workers on relief must &C
cept jobs offered as long as wages
equal the family't relief budget. OBJ
viously then, a slash in the relief
budget will force unemployed work
ers to accept jobs at even lower
wages than was the case hereto
fore.
That the bankers and industrial
lists of Chicago were primarily re-
sponsible for the cut and not so
much the F. E. R. A. pleading lack
of funds, is clearly born out by the
private statements of Leo M. Lyons,
relief administrator for Cook
County, who boosted that he could
reduce relief standards in Chicago
still further. He said that he hoped
in time to reduce relief in Chicago
still further. He said that he hoped
in time to reduce relief standards
to the Rockford level, where he was
a faithful agent for the relief adj
ministration. He explained to one
of his supervisors that he could
carry out any budget reduction and
still keep the unemployed from
creating too much disturbance as
long as he had loyal staff. The
present avalanche of relief workers
protest proves that social workers
are ready to show an identity of in
terest with other workers.
The argument that Mr.. Reynolds,
secretary of the commission, was
supposed to have brought back with
him from Washington, lack of
funds, was blasted in the same reSo-
luton, which pointed out that "the
R. F. G. has loaned countless mil
lions to railroads, banks, and other
Industries. The P. w. A. has al
located hundreds of millions for war
purposes and other -liquidating
projects. More recently it was
learned through the Senate Arms In
vestigation Commission that the So
called cotton and wheat loan for
$40,000,000 to China was used to
arm Chang Kai Shek's armies.
Funds available for such purposes
can be readily converted for unem-
ployment relief"
The following demands were sub
mitted to tie commission: cd The
immediate resembling of the 10 per
cent cut and the consideration of
an increase in the food allowance
commensurate at least with the
average rise in food prices since the
last budget went into eject % The
substitution of cash relief for the
present method of relief in kind"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
By a Farmer Correspondent

SOLWAY, Minn.-Grover Doyle
came to this state and county from
Nebraska one year ago, through the
subtle inducement of one Martin
Sorenson, shrewd politician a n d
land shark Of this place. Through
correspondence with him, he pur-
chased a farm near Solway, making
cash payment of 5000 down on the
transaction, The farm purchased,
being at the time occupied by an
other farmer, Mr.. Sorenson oblig-
ingly secured temporary quarters
for the Doyle family, $35 additional
being paid by Mr.. Doyle for rent of
same. When the family Of eleven
arrived from Nebraska, we can pic
ture the surprise and disappoint-
men which greeted the Doyles to
find instead of the comfortable
home, represented to them by Mr..
Sorenson as being on their farm,
they found only small three-room
log hut, and, in place of 30 cul-
tivated acres on the farm, there was
a clearing of or acres.
However, with the typical courage
of his race, Mr.. Doyle and his
f mily took up residence on the
rented house, pending the vacating
of their own home, but, alas it was
never vacated!
After being bled to the last drop
and the time of rental being up, the
Doyles were ordered from their
shelter.
Farm FOreclOsed
Suit was brought against Mr..
Doyle and eviction from the rented
place was ordered. simultaneously
proceedings of foreclosure were in
stigated against Mr.. Doyle on the
farm he had paid down on, but
never had possession of. The good
Judge ordered a 24-hour limit for
vacancy on the rented place, which
any sane man of mature judgment
would know to be a practical i'm
possibility for farmer with a ia
nily, household goods, stock an d
machinery.
The United Farmers League at
this juncture stepped into the pic
ture and started modifying to fight
the eviction.
Four burly deputies came to en-
force the good Judges decision The
UFL. by holding the doors, resisted
successfully their first overtures.
This seeming victory left t h m,
however, with bitter pill to swal-
low. Grover Doyle and one UFL.
member were hailed to court on a
trumped-up charge of stealing tim
Der. These shrewd tactics on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
PICTURE OF A FASCIST


New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
For the first time 1 heard a faS-
cist at Union Square. He was of
the real American" type, blond
with a blue shirt, open at the collar.
About six cops were protecting him.
He was very eloquent, could hold
and move a crowd, and quote by
rote from Lenin and the Communist
Manifesto.
He sounded very radical in his
jabber about the concentration of
wealth. But it soon became evident
whom he was really for. He attacked
Communism on the ground that it
did not permit a man to own his
own home; that it necesitated an
equalization of wages" appealing
to the white collars; that it put
an engineer on the same level as a
ditch digger, and gave them the
same wages.
He quoted Lenin in order to prove
Lenin'S "nationalism," and several
workers clapped, showing that they
were being taken in. He referred
to his movement" but never mem
toned what the name of the move
ment was, and had no sign UP to
signify it. He said openly, I'VE are
anti-Communist," but his repetition
of the word revolution" and his
demagogy confused the workers,
some of them at least.
Fellow workers, this man is a
Fascist. He distorts the teachings
of the Marxists in order to incite
you against the Communist Party,
which is the leader in the fight
against capitalism and its off shoots.
starvation, low wages, unemploy-
ment.
Watch him when he bends to quote
The words that Mark and Lenin
wrote.
We recognize this fascist quack
Who stabs our Party in the back.
l., s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
BY a Social Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO, Ill.-Just prior to the
Illinois Unemployment Conference
which was held in Springfield, Oct
%, the Illinois Emergency Relief
Commission quietly announced a 10
per cent relief cut for Cook County,
effective Nov. /. This decision, COM
ing at time when thousands of
unemployed workers were Storming
relief stations demanding more food
because of sharp rise in prices,
came as a shocking surprise even
to the employees of the Illinois
Emergency Relief Commission hard
ened by five years of faithful service
to the relief administration and the
bankers.
In one relief station the profess
sional workers at a staff meeting
voted almost unanimously to pro-
test the relief cut A sharp reso-
luton describing the terrible effects
this cut would have upon tens of
thousands of families in Cook
County was drafted by an elected
committee of five. The resolution
also exposed the illusory promises
of the agents of the commission that
the slash in relief would be offset
by an increased allotment of fed
eral surplus foods.
Protest Circulated
Under the pressure of the rank
and file case workers, the execu-
tive committee of the Social Work
Association, an organization having
the official endorsement of the adj
ministration, also sent a vigorous
protest to the commission, circu-
lating at the same time copies of
the resolution to it's membership for
endorsement of its stand. The work
ers in the relief stations were so
aroused over the high-handed ac-
ton of the commission that large
numbers of them paid 81 initiation
fees to join the organization in or
der to register their protest. Many
workers frankly admitted that they
fear to go out in the field to tell
their Clients" of this cut.
The Federation of Social Service
Employees, the rank and file pro-
tective organization in the field of
social work in Chicago in it's sharp
protest resolution to the Illinois
Emergency Relief Commission,
pointed out that the new starvation
budget, effective as of Nov. l, actu-
ally slashed relief by much more
than 10 per cent, since the price of
milk and the food boxes was raised
and the value of the grocery orders
was decreased accordingly. Actual
calculations show that for large
families getting large boxes, the
slash in relief is about 25 per cent.
The previous budget, at the time
it was prepared March, 1880, was
a subsistence" (starvation), budget.
Since then, however, food prices
have risen over nine per cent, ac-
cording to the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics.
The statement of the commission
that the relief cut will be offset by
an increase in federal commodities
is exposed as an empty promise by
the resolution of the Federation,
which states, Previous experience
has shown that distribution of these
foods was faulty. Since grocers
were not being paid for this service
they were reluctant in handling
these commodities. Frequently they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Insurance Firm Kept
mFarmer'sHOnne
Petition Campaign Blocks Foreclosure; N em
u. F. L. Local Built as Result

circulate petitions in the neighbor-
hood.
Five cars worked all day Sunday,
the final day given the SeeleyS to
leave the place. 1t was hard days
work, driving from farm to farm,
but we did it and got home for
chores in the evening. We had
twelve petitions filed out with the
names of neighbors far and near.
These were taken on Monday by
a committee to the sheriff and
Judge Of Clackamas County, Ore
gon, and then down to Salem to
Hawkins and Roberts, the Pruden-
tial representatives Leniency has
been promised. We hope for a
square deal for both farmers.
Due to the widespread interest in
the case we were able to build an
other local Of the UFL. at WILSON,
vile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
United Farmers League Groeus Fight Against Evctions
Farm LabOrers' Pay
Cut by Piece York
b. Farm wOrker Correspondent

By Farm Worker Correspondent
HGHTSTOwN, N. MY last
job Of the harvest was at John
COEmar's truck farm. He said
that he could not pay more than
a dollar a day.
Two other workers and myself
were put to picking beans at Is
cents a busheI while they we're
green. When the frost killed them,
he put us to husking corn at 5
cents a shock.
When he found out that we
could make more than a dollar
a day, he stopped two of us and
put us on old frost bitten beans
at rs cents a bushel. We could
not even pick two bushels a day.
We stopped the whole thing, and
the three of us wanted to report
him to the Labor Board, but we
did not know how. So 1 decided
that one way to show him IN was
to publish it in the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
COMRADE SPIvAK ENTERS
THE DRIVE
New York CITY,

New York City.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Realizing the need of funds for
the support in the drive for the
Daily Worker, group of comrades
have decided on an idea to enter
John L. Spivak into Socialist COM
petition with his articles, Plotting
the American Pogroms."
We want to express our admira-
ton for Comrade Spivak's marvel
lous work in exposing all fascists
and anti-Semites, who are the worst
enemies to the working class and to
a Soviet America.
Enclosed please find a dollar to
start this competitor at once.
Yours for Soviet America with
the help of the Daily Worker,
III. II. L.
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BY a Farmer Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ore.-The Sherman
Seeley eviction did not yet take
place, and the Seeleys are as yet
in their old home.
They had no title to the place.
Mr.. Seeley had signed that away to
the Prudential Insurance Co. three
years ago, before there was United
Farmers League. This past August,
when the insurance company had
made a contract sale with another
farmer, Mr.. Seeley had permitted
the new farmer to move his cattle,
machinery, etc, into the place and
also to store his furniture in a
vacant room in the house.
We were handicapped in every
way. We had several meetings two
weeks ago, the final one on Satur-
day, which lasted until after mid
night in the school house at Will
sonville. We decided it was best to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
DYE Strikers
appreciate
Daily Worker
By Dye Striker Correspondent

BY a Dye Striker Correspondent
GARFIELD, N. il am a dye
striker from the National Dyeing
and Printing Co., East Paterson,
N. ]. We all came out on Oct.
25th.
There is picket line every
morning morning. About 100 to
$50 are on the picket lines. We are
out to win with the rest of the
dye workers.
I am a member of the U.T.W.,
local 1888. Our shop chairman,
John Tovano, did not want a picket
line in the general strike. The
militant workers demanded one.
I read the Daily Worker every
day. After I read the paper 1 give
it to my fellow workers. They say
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
COMRADE COLDS COLUMN
APPRECIATED
Baltimore. Md

Baltimore, Nd.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Michael Colds column on the
self-entombed miners is a classic.
This column should be reprinted in
a separate pamphlet or circular, for
it is an outstanding contribution.
The stark tragedy of the starving
miners and the vicious greed of the
rulers of their country can be wildly
understood. One cannot help but
be sympathetic and wish for en-
lightenment, particularly after read
ing Michael Colds column.