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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
BY Ben Field

OF earth, never visible to the naked
eye, rolling to new horizon.
We come ito the lawyers office
with Fred's story. On the very same
day that Cook, the storekeeper.
rented the farm to Fred he began
dickering with bunch of boot
leggers, On the day Fred moved on
the farm, he sold it to the boot
leggers. Fred found himself I'D the
creek because foxy Cook never
signed the lease. The bootleggers
promised to let Fred use the land
provided he got his family off it.
Fred went to the organization for
help. We told him on no account
to do that because the bootleggers
only wanted to use him as a fence.
That meant that Fred couldn't plant
a crop. Then the hotelkeeper's wife,
who has mortgage on his COWS,
hearing he was going to be evicted,
started yelping for her money. Fred
offered her 4 of the II COWS. She
wants spot cash. AS COWS are all
the way down, that means he'll have
to sell all to give her the money
unless the farmers stop her. Cook
promised to pay $125 if Fred moved.
That was only STALL He won't
give him cent now.
THE lawyer is a gentle, softspoken
1 lrishman, Jefersonian Democrat,
defeated in the last county elections.
On the wall a diploma, Virginia To
Wit" On the mantlepiece model
of a sailing ship in a bottle.
He says, County Judge Weller
won't give you an equity restraining
order. According to the law you
have another recourse. So long as
you have another recourse, no in
junction is granted to prevent evic-
lions. Your recourse is suing for
damages after you are evicted."
Fred is punched up, his sweaty
hands gripping the chair.
That's the law" says the lawyer.
Fred cries out, do you know
what that mesns?"
1T means that they've got to
place your cattle, house them. If
goes wrong with your cat
tie during the process of eviction,
you can sue them"
Fred wrestles with his tongue.
My cattle, my cattle. My wife, my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
STICK TO YOUR GUNS!

WE DECIDED to pay another visit
w 30 the foxy storekeeper who
rented the farm to Fred Homer and
now wants to evict him. Maybe q
delegation Of us farmers will make
his fur fly and stop the eviction.
Our green organization makes an
other mistake. We let the old fox get
his nose in our wind. When we
tramp into the store, the boy with
the f1yspot eyes is already for us.
Says his pa went to town. The old
man must have spotted us as we
turned the bend irto the village.
The Oldest brother, he's gone away
too. Yet there is his car parked
under a. tree. We circle about a
couple of times as if tracking our
selves and then tramp out. Dutch
Hoffer cusses himself blue streak
for not having thought of sending
out scout first. wen learn next
shot"
We drive to the next village. The
plan is to call up the old skinflint,
making believe one OF Us Is inter-
ested in buying tar paper. Hold,
or maybe chicken wire"
I've got the nickel in the coinbox
already. Make up your mind
Fred rakes his noodle. Make 1t
fourply tar paper"
Hello hello" Must be the oldest
fox pup barking. what do YOU
want my father forp Sure, can
attend to an order. I'm no cripple.
Tar paper. What kind? Fourply.
What kind Of a horse joke is this?
Say, who the hell are your"
I hang up disguised. Fred reels
out of the booth, slapping his
launches and roaring his head off.
The boys get into an argument
about taxpayer. Hoffer swears by
all that used to be holy there is
fourply taxpayer. I'm sure that If
I had asked for chickenwire we
might have caught the old fox.
Our next step before fighting the
eviction by calling out all the farm
ers is to consult the lawyer. We
know he's after our votes. If he'll
work for us, let him fool himself |
into believing the farmers will elect !
him county Judge.
Miller, Fred, and I drive down TO
the county seat. The tires of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
DOckmen Struck Against
Leaders in New Orleans

lOnEshoremen's unions: the hide
pendent White and the Independent
Colored Longshoreman's Association.
Some 5000 dock workers Joined, not
realizing that both locals we're com
pany unions. Most Of them still 90
not realize it. It is union to them
and it is hard for them to get even
the occasional Jobs on the wharves
unless they are members, so they
keep their membership, though most
Of them have not the dues to pay.
One Of the interesting things
noticed here and in Charlotte. n. c.
is the gradual breakdown Of the
color line when economic necessity
forces white and black together.
Whites do not associate with
Negroes, yet when their union mem
bership becomes depleted and they
need the Negroes, the color line is
somewhat broken. In Charlotte.
when membership in A. F. Of L. 10
Gals dropped so that there were
scarcely enough persons present to
call the meeting to order, white 10
Gals invited Negroes in the same
craft to meet with them in the same
hall. Each sat in different pews. so
to speak, but they had broken down
the line partly by inviting them to
meet in the same hall.
Here, since 30 per cent Of long
shoremen are Negroes and there are
not enough whites 10 hold meetings
Of any consequence. the whites meet
jointly with the Negro longshore-
men. The jim-crow line is still
drawn by placing whites in sepa-
rate section of the same hall but
both black and white participate in
discussions. It is apparent that eco
nomic necessity has driven the
opening wedge into the color line
here between southern workers.
At the present writing the long
shoremen are in the same nebulous
state the rest OF New Orleans seems
to be in. The dock workers are
beWildered, crushed by the effects
Of the depression, the impossibilitv
Of earning a living wage, the lack of
a union of any force and they do
not know which way to turn. The
A. F. Of L. union is still gasping for
breath and trying to get them or
ganized. The company unions have
the largest membership but are use
less to the workers, but If the work
ers do not belong to them they can
not get even occasional jobs from
the ship companies which are be-
hind these locals; and the Marine
Workers is too small 10 be Of any
consequence.
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

old car are bum. Fred has to
pump the rear ones up twice on otu
way down.
We pass a couple Of large farms
and estates as we approach the
town. Fred is tired. He blurts out
This fellow, Sunstone, that owns
that paddock there and them
meadows near the golf course, you
know he lives holt the year in
France, Got chateau there. Skins
the French farmers too. We ought
to bomb his place"
Miller Is driving the car. Hold
on, Freddie. Why bomb it? Well be
able to move your six kids and your
wife onto it after us farmers run the
whole damned shooting match"
Fred is little ashamed of his
thunder. He cracks smile. "Righto,
you old turnip." He yanks out of his
pocket his lights, binoculars that fell
cut of a French officers airplane
over in France during the war. He's
always got them with him, and uses
them as If from a crows nest. He
trains them on the pine wood
crowning distant hill. His bristly,
racked face softens.
FRED Is a war vet, was shellshocked.
gassed in the Argonne. Has II
stitches in his belly, and walks
around all punched up as if he were
in irons. Last summer Roosevelt
took his pension away, and now this
eviction. Can you blame him for
explodingp
Fred leans back. Tells us he's been
reading Whitaker Chambers Can
You Hear Their Voices?" Ordered it
from the Farmers National Com
mittee For Action. Hell. there are
parts he'll never forget: the way the
farmers must bust into Purcell's
barn and MIXED that rich bastard's
cows, and the way they went gun
ming thru the town and bust into
the Red Cross TO give their starved
families some grub. Every word
there is like one of them big Ajax
shells. Every damned farmer in the
country should make this his guide
for action, his bullseye. His eyes
burn as If ne we're using giant lights
and seeing for the first time miles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
By ROBERT GEssNER,

instructor, New York University
DR.. Max Winter taught a class
Thursday afternoon at New York
University. That morning the Col
lege Bulletin carried his picture
on the front page. He looked like
a kindly, grey haired school teach
er, with graceful white moustaches
that curved with his happy red
cheeks. Being the first Socialist
to reach these shores since the
revolution Of February u" the Bull
letin read. 'he hopes to acouaint
audiences here with the nature Of
the revolt" That sounded like hot
news. In the next paragraph the
words got hotter: Mr.. Winter was
active recently in directing the de-
Tense Of his home district, Press
baum, a Viennese suburb"
I went. The Student League for
Industrial Democracy were the
sponsors and they had filled a small
classroom to capacity. DR.. Max
Winter sat behind the professors
desk. His Austrian suit. collar, tie
gave him foreign flavor; and his
accent was typically German. He
read his speech with apologies.
Il have devoted my years" he
said in essence, Ito the Kinder
Freunde, an organization of chill
dren, founded with the objective of
education Of children for the cause
of peace"
Now that there was no peace in
Austria and little prospects of it
remaining anywhere else, I Won
dered what the Herr Professor had
to teach the orphans of the Helm
wehr terror.
I'VE must reorganize and teach
again the children" he said in es-
sence, international peace"
Who was this speakingP Preacher
Fosdick? Even Rabbi Wise in a
peace talk would express hatred of
FaScism.
This was National Student League
Week and / looked at the students.
They seemed suspended between
respect for the Herr Professor with
his grey moustaches and an itch
to get out into Washington Square
Park where the afternoon sun was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
About That Writers and Artists Dinner Club

ANSWERING request for enlightenment Maxwell
Al in the activities
Club" in
Ihe Artists
at 40 East 10th Street The organization
present writer knows by David Plotn his wife, John
examines the work of applicants helps
wealthy people who sometimes inclined
and writer's Each member receives card
it with him. he promptly repmanded and threatened with
of his meal Complaints
and the companers informed that
only too anxious take their The scanty
hepngs taboo The Chinese watersno
members little service possible And this mddecass
organization bureaucratic
members deprived of the
Each member check he
hand to the waiter though institution
forbidden to bring noneatng friend alongfor
share their meal with
noentary visitors while they eating
to assemble at but they invariably
minutes to before they spite
are frequently deprived their meals with the they
to arrive on time Meals Saturday
the members must remain hungry these
the club indulge in good food the organization
should be exposed and the members should
into their hands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

i1l5-News Reports
ii;20-Anthony Frome Tenor
II 5o-Denny Orch.
12.oo-Pollock Orch.
1880 A. M-Stern Orch.
WABC-860 Kc.
100 P. M.--Myrt and Msrge
7:15-Just Plain BilI-Sketch
;30-Armbruster Orch; Jimmy Ksmpsr
Songs
:45-News-Boake Carter
s;Oo--Men About Town Trio; vivien Ruth
Songs
5:15-News-Edwin O. Hill
s:S0-Bing Crosby, Songs; Lofner Orch.
Mills Brothers, Songs
s:O0-Philadelphia Orch.
s:15-Fray and Braggiotti. Piano Duo
9:So-Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Jones
Orch; Florence Reed, Actress; Charles
Judels, Comedian
1o:oo-Wayne King Orch.
1o:50-Connie Gates, Songs; Bton Boys,
Songs
11;Oo-sylvia Froos, Songs
l1:15-News Davis Orch.
11:45-Nessner Orch.
12:00-Belasco Orch
1890 A. M.-Pancho Orch
l:00-Light Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
.Greek Gifts. from the World.T Telegram

TYPICAL of the liberalism of the WorldTeleam
the other which Unions play Peace on
Earth as one of the most exciting play speaks
message Of speave Importance play
glowing arnestne but nevertheless play spirit and
teigent understanding"
AS matter fact this quite point that the
regular WorldTelegram critic days the
opening seerd at the monstrosty Some time
later George Ross another WordTegam writer dubious
words to about Peace Earth"
But the editors of the World Teegam-always
their mpeccabe fairneswait before the closing
of the
ing SPECTATORS to give few lines praise
brethren let recall the American labor
journalist of earlier John that Journal
ISM once profession and then trade. a crime"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

was followed slowly. Neither dock
workers nor their leaders raised
their voices in sympathetic protest
against the scattered cutting Of
wages and before the longshoremen
knew It all of them had their wages
trimmed and at the same time their
work was increased under the speed
up.
When the rank and file realized
their situation they broke out in a
strike against their leaders advice.
They did not trust their leaders any
more This was the beginning Of
the 1881 strike. They lost this strike
because the depression had set in
earnest; charity organizations would
not help them because they could
get work If they wanted to" and
starving Negroes from the back
woods of Mississippi Louisiana and
Alabama were again brought in to
take the strikers places.
The longshoremen at that time
got rs cents an hour. When the
strike was crushed they we're given
SIS cents an hour when they
worked. Today the scale as about the
same, except for few sugar boats
which pay as low as SO cents an
hour.
The MIRA. has had no effect
whatever along the docks. No extra
longshoremen have been put TO
work. There was an overabundance
of labor and the speed-up before the
NRA. and both are still here.
Most longshoremen, even if they
got 81 an hour could not earn q
living wage now because Of the
lightness Of shipping. They work
whenever a ship comes into port to
discharge or take on a cargo. It
may take one or two days to load
or unload her. Since charges for
docking are high, ship owners work
the longshoremen over the eight
hour limit and pay them time and
a half for overtime.
When they have finished with a
vessel they may not get work again
for week or two. A few scattered
individuals get more or less steady
work but their percentage is so small
as to be almost negligible in COM
parison with the three or four thou
sand who work only sporadically.
| TITLE organizational work has
Il been done by the A. F, of L. to
organize the demoraIized longshore-
men. The old A. F. Of L. union
lives on like the other unions in
New Orleans-just name with a
business agent. 1t still has few
who still talk of the day
when capital and labor will get to-
gether and the ship companies will
see that it pays to treat the long
right" There was con-
siderable dissatisfaction and rest
lsssness among the average long
because Of the lack of
union and someone to deal with
the ship companies so the ship COM
panies aided by the New Orleans
Association organized two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

of the Soviets. In 1918 he joined
the Bolshevik Party and became
commander of the Ninth Army. At
the end Of 1918 he took command
Of the Tenth Army which had been
led by Voroshilov and Stain, and
later took command of the Four
tenth Army.
In the autumn of 1919 Yegoroff
became commander Of the South
ern Front and in 1920 was appoint
ed commander of the South West
ern Front. In 1881 he was APP
pointed Chief of the General Staff.
He is a member of the Supreme
Military Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

was not a con-
certed move in
which all COM
panies cut wa ges
S i m UNANIMOUSLY
because even in
the ir democrat
lied S t a t e the
Ion g shoremen
might have re-
b ellie d. Some
s nip companies
kept paying the
union scale, while
on some d 0 c k S
W a G e S " e T e
trimmed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
The Activities and
Purpose of the
City Clubs
By J. LANDY
Secretary, City Club CouncH)
PART IL

Under the guise Of a crime pre-
vention drive" the police are en-
6eavOring to close down many Of
our clubs on the excuse that they
are breeding places for crime" We
are calling territorial conferences of
all workers and social clubs to or
ganize defense groups against this
menace, as well as against the Flu
sion and Tammany supported gangs
Of hoodlums that terrorized and ex-
tort protection money from the
social clubs.
We are making rapid strides in
the cultural field. Five choruses and
seven dramatic groups arc in re-
hearsal with promise of more in
the immediate future. Sports s~e
becoming q major field of our clubs
with plans for boxing and wrestling
tournaments, hikes, games and
other activities being pushed rap
idly ahead. We plan to send an
athlete to the Moscow Spartakiade
to be held this summer.
The first issue Of a monthly club
bulletin is ready.
Can the clubs become an impor-
tant factor in the trade union field?
An interesting experience proved to
us Just how much they can. A shop
nucleus had been trying for months
to organize a radio plant employ
ing more than 1900 workers, but
without much success. Yet many of
the workers whom they had been
trying to organize actually came
down to the club ard attended
dances and other affairs of the
Communist Club in the neigh
borhood.
Anti Fascist, Anti-War Struggle
The struggle against war and fas-
cism must be continued and inten-
sifled, the recent conference de-
cided. Since the U. S. Congress
Against War, most Of the clubs have
participated in anti-war struggles
on a local scale. Open-ai meetings,
conferences, synposia and lectures
on war and fascism have been held.
A few clubs, notably the Progress
sive Culture Club, have utilized this
issue as means of contracting
neighborhood social and political
clubs. We have protested the show
ing of the Nszi propaganda film
IS. A. Mann Brand" and have mo-
bilized our members to counteract
National Defense Week" of the
Roosevelt war making machine.
From March l to May / we are
launching drive for 1000 new
members.
THE possibilities of growth for the
l English speaking club movement
as result of the increasing misery
Of the working class are unusually
favorable. In New York alone there
is room for at least 100 clubs. This
movement is rapidly becoming ma
ton wide. New Jersey has about
ten clubs. Washington, Massachu-
sets have a few. In Seattle in the
latter part Of last year the Young
Communist League launched club
movement that spread like wild
fire until an unclarity of policy
stunted its growth. It's future de-
velopment as a nation wide move
ment depends upon New York be-
cause the seat Of all workers clubs
is in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
TUNING IN
TONIGHT'S PROGRAM
WEAF-66O Kc.

WEAF-660 Kc.
7:Oo-Gould and Shelter, Plano Duo
7:15-Billy Batchelor-sketch
7'So-sflirley Howard, Songs; testers Trio
745-The Goldbergs- Sketch
s:0o-Dramatic Sketch
a:So-Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera
Tenor; Concert Orch.
s:O0-Gypsies Orch; Frank Parker, Tenor
s:5o-ship Of Joy, With Captain Hugh
Barrett Dobbs
lo:Oo-Eastmsn Orch; Lullaby Lady; Gene
Arnold
i0:So-Stock Market Regulation - Repre-
sentative Samuel Rsyburn Of Texas
i1:Oo-John Fogarty, Tenor
l1;15-News; Lopez Orch.
11:3o-Lucas Orch.
12:0o-Olsen Orch
1880 A. MINISTERS Orch.
W0R-710 Kc.
700 P. M.-Sports Resume
-7:I@The Jazz Judge
7:30-Maverick Jim-Sketch
S:0O-Selvin Orch; Jones and Hare, Songs
s:30-Sorey Orch
9:00-Musical Revue
MISUNDERSTANDING Balkin
94s-Birthday Dinner TO Rabbi Stephen
8. Wise. Hotel Aston
i0:tS-Current Events-Harlan Eugene
Read
io:30-Mr. Fixit-Sketch
i1:o0-Moonbeams Tro
II :5o-Dance Music
WJZ-760 Ke.
700 p. M.-Amos m Andy
7:l5-Baby Rose Marie, Songs
7:3o-George Gershwin, Piano; Concert
Orch.
7:45-Kraueter Quartet
s:00--Morin Sisters, Songs; Kings testers;
Stokes Orch; Cliff Soubier
S:30-Michael Bartlett, Tenor; Concert
Orch.
s:45-Red Davis-Sketch
9'00-Minstrel Show
s:So-Pasternack Orch; Theodore webb,
Baritone
10:00-Henri Deering, Piano
10l5-Dzark Mountaineers
l0:30-Birthday Dinner for Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise. Hotel Aston; Speakers. Former
Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby,
Mayor LaGuardis
l100-Ramons, Songs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Has ''Mysterial and InspiratiOnaI Knowledge"

Has 'TAysteraI and InspratiOna Knowledge
THE picture candidate
Ballyhoo0
up a militant note:
"HARKEN-A dcyng deplorable condition of De-
pressed People, calling their Deance and the election of s. A
Mayor Joplin mystera nspirationa know
edge knows low % deliver bondage
A Joplin the 10th November, 1898
been from his earliest
election being kidnapped at the of three with
parents their He taken into the wds
for years
working for his captors,
AT the IA away the Otis captors; leaving
evening" barefooted
not known relative and place confronted
the wolves wild prae only midnight
shelter with outlaw hut in the lonely hs
During years gone many
rendng hardships
guide recollections
enticng ungs the underworld
proach good morals and law abiding his
him; he has Intoxicating
liquor and all together his life he has 30
saloon, pool hall, gambling house of i'll fame.
equibumst independent; believing
free from executors law"
The candidate winds up his appeal
so appeal workers every GLASS; you clerks
med by tourist and will be Of throughout
Nation MODEL CITY. will
bring good people Joplin"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN

QPRNG is here, and with the capitalist press
" its traditional monopoly poems of Spring and all the
finer emotions which inspire them. For time own
poetry editor becoming discouraged until he received
the following contribution which seemed to both of to
problems by phenomenon Spring:
The poets sing concerning spring
say the bird Oh the wing
Upon my void this is absod
wing S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

became commander of the regi-
ment. In 1918 he joined the Party
of the left-social reyolutionaries.
Yegoroff participated in the
Second Congress of the Soviets
as soldiers deputy, and later
worked in the Military Department
of the Central Executive Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
By JOHN L. sPIyAK

NEW ORLEANS, La. -
When ship owners here saw
the Generalization in the In
ternatiOnal Longshoremen's
Association, affiliated with
the A. F. Of L. the lack of obiec-
ton to their entertainments on the
part Of the union leaders. a gradual
cutting Of wages was instituted, de-
spite agreements with the union. It
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

and will be pro-
duced by the
Theatre q n ion
next Fail, it was
a n n o u need by
Chas. r. Walker.
X ecutive board
head. Peace on
Earth" closed at
the Civic Roper
tory T h e a tire
s a t Il rdsy, and
the entire The
3tre Union staff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

The Strange American Election Campaign in Joplin
AT fertile brain Of the
publicity Joplin Commerce We refer
to the handful announcing Biography
Joplin disturbed by the fact that
the handful said that OFT
by Unemployed Council sent wire to Peter
Chaunt Party organizer Louis Chaunt replied sA
OFT NO CANDIDATE OF PARTY OR UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL
thought Unemployed
in the United States endorsing such fantastic character and
fantastic platform"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Leaders of the PrOletarian Red
Army of the U.S.S.R.

ALEXANDER YEGOROFF was
born in 1885 in a peasant family.
He became transport worker and
blacksmith and later attended the
high school and infantry school in
Kazan, During the World War he
was gradually promoted until he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Cleveland Workers School Appeals
To Sections and Units

CLEVELANDThe Cleveland appeals all men,
bers the Communist Party
signed by the units register for the spring term
Of the school Registration win continue during week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Proletarian Novel
Dramatized for
Theatre Union

NEW YORK. - Dramatization of
Grace Lumpkin's famous proletarian
novel ITO Make My Bread has been
almost completed by Albert Bein