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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
By a Farmer Correspondent

EATONVILLE, Wash.-Yesterday
I received my first check of SO for
over two years. This is a forced
labor or relief work check and I
must hasten to get this off before
some of the enemy class will get
this. With the rest I must exist
for month, which of course no.
body can.
Without the Daily Worker we
would have starved long ago.
Some of those getting a few days
work from the relief set-up must
walk over seven miles to their work
and seven miles back home. When
the check comes they again must
go to this lousy job to get this
money. I must go twice for two
checks for four days work, four
miles each way.
The politicians again have be-
come active in the countryside. Just
before election all kinds of prom
ises are given which never can nor
will be fulfilled by these takers. The
only ones that will receive our votes
must prove by ACTION that they
fight for the interest of the work
ers and poor farmers the year
round. We have several Of them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

movement cannot get along with
out. These are fundamental terms
in the vocabulary of the revolu-
tionary movement, which, even
though difficult at first, must be
explained to the workers and not
discarded. Such words as "Sov-
let" parliamentary" "chauvin-
ISM" "proletariat," are not in
themselves difficult, once their
meaning Is made clear.
In striving to simplify our Ian
guage, we should always keep
these two set of words separate.
There is tendency among GER
tain groups Of people who wish to
undermine the influence of the
Communist Party, such as the
Musteite American Workers Party,
to call these basic revolutionary
words un-American.. As a matter
of fact, American workers, like all
other workers, grasp quickly. on
the basis of their class experience,
the political meaning Of these rev.
dictionary terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

NOTE: A Communist newspa per
has serious problem in making
political ideas clear in a simple
language. In attempting to solve
this problem, the Daily Worker
has made mistakes, and still has
to correct many shortcomings. But
in tackling the problem Of simple
language, there are certain wrong
tendencies that must be watched
out for.
1t is wholly correct to try, where
ever possible, to substitute simple,
easily understood words, for diff
cult, strange words. For example,
in the cartoon above, the words
ubiquitous" "ratiOcination," "des-
"uetude," "capitulate," "Orientate,"
etc. could have been avoided by
substituting such words as ever
present." thought" or '1ogic,"
"disuse," give in" prepare for"
But there are other words In the
cartoon which the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Foul Breath

IN the absence of serious lung
disease, the cause of foul breath is
usually found in the mouth or the
nose. and throat. These must be
eliminated as causes before you can
begin to suspect that the condition
is due to constipation. In other
words, your teeth and gums as well
as your nose and throat. These
must be eliminated as causes be-
fore you can begin to suspect that
the condition is due to constipa-
ton. In other words, your teeth
and gums as well as your nose and
throat should be thoroughly exam
ined, for it is likely that there will
the cause be found. As for the
ordinary personal care of the teeth,
you are referred to the series Of
articles on this subject which re-
Gently appeared in the Health Col
unn. If the mouth and nose are
found to be entirely free of disease,
it is possible that constipation may
be responsible. You have, no doubt,
read in the Daily Worker, Aug. %,
recommendation on how to culti-
yate~ regular bowel habits. Fad diets
and yeast cakes will not help you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

onstration several speakers made
certain phrases which we're not I'M
derstandable to a good many work.
erS.
1t is incorrect for speaker to as
sumo that he is addressing a class
conscious audience. The phrases in
question which were rightly puzzling
this particular worker, a street
cleaner, were: dictatorship of the
proletariat," Soviet power class
less society" "imperialistic wars"
and revolutionary overthrow of
capitalism
After explaining to the worker
these phrases, he was more inter
ested in the meeting and listened
very attentively to the rest Of the
speakers.
In view of the fact that the cleo
ton campaign is nearing, it would
be of utmost importance for speak
ers to use the simplest language in
interpreting the above mentioned
phrases.
Comradely,
8. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Workers Criticise Use of Long and Difficult Words
Oakland, Calf.

Oakland, Calf.
Dear Comrades:
I am submitting this cartoon as a
workers criticism of the use of long
or uncommon words in workers lit
erature. 1t is my hope that healthy
discussion will be provoked and that
a start can be made to correct this
fault.
It is not only long or strange
words we sholld consider. Most of
our literature is written in long awk-
ward sentences that makes the most
difficult kind of reading. That tends
to discourage anyone from reading
our stuff" The often repeated idea
that we can have one language for
the workers and another for lad
vanced workers" is, to me, alto
gether wrong. In helping to draw
up leaflets, find the comrades so
full of the old tanglefoot that they
can't get down to earth and talk in
the language of the man on the
street. After several years, the
Party publications are still difficult
reading for me.
With the best of comradely greet
ings, I am, r. W.
Durham, New Hampshire
Dear Comrades:
Permit me TO suggest that you use
more simple words in the DAILY" I
note the continuous occurrence of
the Russian word, Soviet" soviet
power" etc., meaning, Of course,
workers and farmers councils or
government. Why use the foreign
word? 1t means nothing to the aver
age American worker. I notice a
picture printed on the front page of
the Saturday Evening Post showing
big poster from the May Day par
ade which read, in part, For a
Soviet America" No wonder we are
criticized for apparent foreign in
f1uence. There are no soviets in
this country. What the American
people want is a workers and farm
ers' government and they are begin
ming to realize that it must come by
revolution.
Another expression, meaningless to
most would be readers, I find, is
dictatorship of the proletariat,'
"proletarian leader" etc
My god, if you cannot get 100000
readers, it's your own fault, right in
New York! am amazed at the ex-
tent Of the revolutionary sentiment
here in rock-ribbed New Hampshire.
I find great interest also among
the college people. But most of the
people never heard of the Commu-
mist Party, nor of soviet power"
That is our job here and watch us
grow.
Yours comradely,
w. A. w.
New York City
Dear Comrade Editor:
At the International Youth dem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
In THE HOME
Sadie Van Veen
BY LEN KE

Sadie Van Veen, of New York City,
one Of the staunchest defenders of
the right of women to economic,
social, and political equality, is
candidate for N. Y. State Senator
(frem the 18th DISTRICT on the
Communist Party ticket.
The Van" is not misleading.
Sadie is of Dutch ancestry. Her
grandparents came to the United
States from Amsterdam, Holland,
in 1920. when New York was no
larger than Greenwich Village.
Sadie was born in New York City.
and at the age of IS went to work
as clerk in department store.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

Stalks Where
Soil Is Fertile
BIZ a worker CORRESPONDENT

JUNIATA COUNTY, PATHS is
one of the most fertile of counties
of the state. A county of fine herds
and good crops. This is a section
of the aristocracy of working farm
ers. Some have retired. Yet they
lack many of the comforts of the
city worker. No gas, no electricity,
no bath, no cultural life.
Especially with the women con-
ditions are little better than they
were 100 years ago. Cooking, bak-
ing, sewing, laundering, running q
nursery and kindergarten, raising
chickens and tending a vegetable
garden. Winter adds to the house
hold work, trying to heat a house
without heating plant, sometimes
burning wood. Most houses are
built for looks rather than for COM
fort or convenience. There are
needless steps everywhere.
The most prosperous of farmers
wear shabby clothing and eat spar
ingly. Scores of farmers are get
ting direct relief, besides those on
work relief. These are not looked
on by their neighbors as bad man
ayers" Neither college training not
pedigree breeding has halted the
slaShing effect of the new deal.
The supply and demand" slogan
Of politicians is playing losing
hand. Dairy products are much in
demand, yet State-controlled prices
get milk from prize herds at cents.
Dressed beef sells at 3l2 cents.
These farmers are aware of the
existence of exploitation.
Relief Jobs are placed on a purely
political basis. One farmer was sent
from one politician to another
through two counties for pick and
shovel job.
Farm organizations controlled by
politicians and business men still
hold tight rein on the farmers
Bankers and mortgage holders at
tend the same churches as farmers
do. Collection agents are telling Of
the return of prosperity.
The isolation of the farm popuIa-
ton has made it easy to deceive
them into believing church philo-
sophy and political demagogy. Amer
icanism has been great badge
but its value to satisfy hunger is
as great as an iron cross or a VIC
tory medal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

Der of the Social-Democratic Party,
and here she met I. Amter She
and Amter married. HE, too, was
at that time a member of the S.
D. p.
At the outbreak of the war in
1914 Sadie returned to America,
she left the S. D. P at the time
of the split in that party, and be-
came charter member of the Com
munist Party.
To make a survey of conditions
there for women and children, she
toured the Soviet Union in 1928
and 1924.
In 1927, again in America, she
helped to organize the miners in
S. E. Ohio and West Virginia for
the strike of that year; also helped
to organize the American Negro
Labor Congress. She further or
gained one of the first Unemploy-
ment Councils in Cleveland 1929
1880 and was arrested many times
at unemployment demonstrations in
that city. During the great ma
ilOl4d1
tons on March 6, 1890, she was
present at the first unemployment
n, eting held in Paterson, N. j.
1882 she toured Massachusetts,
c, ecticut, New York and Ohio,
Campaigning for Foster and Ford,
Communist candidates for President
and Vice President. She organized
the unemployed in Schenectady, N.
Y. again suffering arrest. She has
been active in Harlem, Negro sec
ton of New York City; was on the
staff of the "Liberator" during the
first six months of it's existence.
Sadie has two children, a boy of
10 and girl of 81. Gifted not only
for artwork, she writes well too,
using this ability in a practical way
in the interest of the working class
for whom she has fought so long
and uncompromisingly; is author of
Our Children Cry for Bread" and
helped write Homeless Youth and
"Seottsboro Mothers"
She has done much work for the
I. L. d. and the w. 7. R.; has been
speaker countless times, having
spoken in the textile fields as we'll
as others. During the present cleo
ton campaign she has been speak
ings in N. Y. c., notably in York
vile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
WnEAR Editor.

GENEAR Editor,
" 81 used to be Socialist who
believed in Socialist theory and
tactics. However, in the past year
my eyes have been opened to the
splendid and determined struggle
that the Communist Party is wag-
ing against the capitalist class.
81 have since then become a
Communist sympathizer. I would
like to become a member of the
Communist Party; however, am
unable to do so as am govern
ment employee. I fear the loss of
my job if 1 were found to be a
member of the Communist Party
I am, therefore, trying to help the
cause by supporting the Daily
Worker, New Masses and other
Communist publications. I some
times take part in demonstrations
and also try to convince my
friends and acquaintances of the
worthiness of Communism
Il am enclosing 81 towards the
100000 drive.
Yours for Soviet America,
H. r.
NOT content with merely con-
~ tributing (they have contributed
more than $50 SO far) the Tyomies
EMPLOYEES of the Finnish publica-
tons have challenged the workers
of the Freiheit, Wins, Radnik,
Eteenpain, Uus lin, Rovnost Ludu
and other language newspapers.
The success OF the 100000 drive
will be an understandable language
to the capitalist class.
ANOTHER newspaper challenge
n comes from Seattle, from the
Voice of Action. It challenges
every publishing house in the
country.
The workers on this paper have
evolved their own way of raising
money. Members of the editorial
staff will, in their spare time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Threatens Choppers With Jail

government check stopped; some
of the tenants didn't get their
check. All of the people that live
on his land are really out of doors.
He says he and all the rest of the
landlords in this county want rent;
or no Negroes on no land. His adj
dress is Dadeville, Ala.
That is what boss did in Camp
Hill, Ala. He is the postmas er.
There were some leaflets distributed
and Mr.. James Aaron wrote poor
worker a letter not to be out at
night or he'd catch him. He took
this letter and put it under his
doorstep himself and the poor man
got unnerved and moved. This Is
what Mr.. James Aaron did. His
address is Camp Hill, Ala.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
ND. Farmers
Exploited in
OWn State
BY a Farmer Correspondent


BERGEN, N. DIT sure is a
pleasure to receive a real working
mans paper where we can depend
on getting the truth and facts
about the workers and farmers
struggle. We need the Daily
Worker and the Farmers National
Weekly to tell the truth and ex-
pose farmers organizations such
as the Farmers Union and the
Nonpartisan League, which haven't
brought us anything.
Today, here in North Dakota,
we are faced with starvation and
foreclosure after years of hard
toll. We men folks haven't only
worked ourselves, but we have
worked our wives and children to
the bone.
We came here to this new state
IS years ago. All we saw here
was the raw frames and we were
filled with hope. We worked and
toiled, plowed the prairies and
built the barns and houses here,
dug the rocks, built the roads, the
school houses, the churches, and
these towns to what they are to-
day. We had hope that when we
got the country built up we would
be independent, free from the
bankers debts and mortgages. But
we find today that under this
exploiting capitalistic system the
class that produces everything
has nothing, and the class that
produces nothing has everything.
But we are going to join hands
with the workers of the city and
overthrow Wall Street rule. And
take over the earth and machines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

Egg Price Rise Helps
Only Spectators, Says
Oregon Poultry Farmer
By a Farmer Correspondent

by a Farmer correspondent
SHERWOOD, Ore.-We are
poultry producers ruined by the
A. A. A, and are trying to sell
our place. Having forced thou
sands of small poultry producers
out of business, curtailed prOduc-
ton will naturally increase the
price of eggs for the benefit of
the packers, whose warehouses
are full to overlooking with the
poultry and eggs we small pOul-
trymen were forced to sell them
last year at prices that ruined us.
Now officials OF the A. A. A. are
cOngratulating themselves at the
improved prices" of poultry and
eggs.
The government should force
the packers to return the differ
ence between tOday's prices and
last years to the producers on
the farms.
. Instead, the huge profits to the
packers will be advertised, as
usual, as increased farm incomes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
By a Sharecronper CORRESPONDENT

BY a SharecrOpper Correspondent
CAMP HILL, Ala.-We are the
union workers of the black belt. We
are writing a few lines to let other
workers know how we are getting
along. Our condition is bad. The
boss wants us to pick cotton for 40
cents a hundred pounds. We are
demanding 81 per hundred pounds
for picking cotton. Some of us were
getting little relief. They cut us
off to force us to pick their cotton
for 40 cents per hundred pounds.
We can't live at that price. Food,
dry goods, is so high until we can't
buy it.
Our children are hungry and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

Of production and produce for use
and the welfare of the people in
stead of for a bloody profit as is
being done under capitalism and
private ownership.
/ used to organize the Holiday
Association and the Farmers I'm
ion. But I found out that bank
ers and lawyers were at the head
of it.
I got wise to the fact that if the
people are going to free themselves
from war, misery and poverty, we
farmers and workers got to do it
ourselves. Elect our own rank and
file farmers and workers leaders
and do it through a militant
movement. It's the only way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
RELIEF CUT TO KEEP
PICKERS' PAY DOWN

naked and barefooted and cry for
bread. Mr.. B. M. Meadow says that
he will not pay dollar per hun
dred pounds for picking cotton, and
Mr.. G. B. Harper says that he will
let his cotton rot in the field be-
fore he will pay dollar per hun
dred pounds. Mr.. w. B. Roos wants
to pay nothing for work. Mr.. Cliff
Meadow says he will let his cotton
rot in the field before he will pay
the price.
They say that the Negroes won't
work, but they won't say that they
don't want to pay them for their
work. They want us to work for
nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
PARTY LIFE
One Unemployment Councils
LeGtfet to Textile Strikers
Example of Correct Reaction to Immediate Issue
Is Guide for Party Fractions to FOILOtU

We are reprinting leaflet dis
tributed by the Unemployment
Council in the Philadelphia strike
areas to the textile strikers, as a
guide to the Party fractions in all
Unemployment Councils in striking
areas.
To the militant textile strikers!
The Unemployment Councils of
Philadelphia greet you in your her
oic struggles against the boss class
and all of their agents, the police,
the stool pigeons and the scabs.
The Unemployment Councils, who
are fighting for adequate cash re-
lief for all Employed, unemploy-
ment insurance, against evictions,
sheriff sales of poor farmers and
workers homes, have from the very
start of your strike placed demands
with the local and state authorities
for relief and cash rent for all tex
tile workers on strike.
Four hundred unemployed dele
gates from the entire state attend
ing the special legislature session
in Harrisburg last Wednesday
sharply raised the demand that all
textile strikers be given relief dur
ing the time of your strike. Our
membership stands ready to join
with you on the picket lines and
and also to assist you in every way
possible until the boss class is
forced to grant every one of your
demands, which we fully endorse.
Fellow textile strikersl Keep
up your fight! Increase your picket
lines! Refuse all proposals for
arbitration until all your demands
are granted.
The unemployed are vitality in
terested in your fight and stand
ready to help you win
Long live the unity of the en-
ployed and unemployed workers.!
Call at any of our headquarters,
any time.
UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS.
Philadelphia District.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Units Should Use Initiative IN
Issuance of Leaflets
Comrades should be trained in
writing and ISIS \ >g leaflets.
1t seems to me that we under
estimate the value of leaflets. At
this time every Y. G. L. and Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

After such a record, further argu-
mentS stating Sadie Van Veen's fit
ness to represent the interests of
the workers in the Senate, are quite
Superfluous!
Vote for Sadie Van Veen!
Vote Communist against any cur
tailment Of educational facilities,
for continued and increased State
aid to education; for the State pro-
vision of free adequate food and
clothing for the school children of
unemployed and poor generally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 20S5 is available only in
waist sizes 26. 28, 80, 80 and "a.
Waist size % takes 2 yards "a inch
fabric.
Pattern zoos is available only in
waist sizes rs, %, 80, 80 and 81.
Waist size % takes l So yards 81
inch fabric. Send FIFTEEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

unit should get out at least one
good leaflet a week-on the textile
strike, relief, election and other
subjects of vital interest to the
workers. The main thing is to act
while the subject is still hot. There
is so much happening now that we
can't afford to delay getting them
out.
New York should have been
flooded with leaflets "a hours after
relief was cut off, but instead we
waited for over five. days. The same
is true of the textile strike and the
Moro Castle Red Scare"
How many of our comrades know
how to get out leaflets? Not many.
We should train the unit squads
by each uEit assigning one group
a week to get out and distribute a
leaflet. We should not depend on
the sections for the mimeograph
machine but have them in homes
of unit members. Every leaflet
should carry the slogan Read the
Daily Worker"
B. b
New York.
NOTE
Party Units and Party Fractions h
the textile areas:
Send us copies Of the Leaflets
issued by your unit to the textile
strikers. We want to know what
the Party units and Party comrades
are doing in this strike. Write brief
reports Of your activities and send
them to us for use in this column.
ORG. COMMISSION, G. C.
P. o. Box 81, Station D.
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
BY q sharecropper CORRESPONDENT


CAMP HILL, Ala.-The big land
lord, Mr.. G. L. Pearson, is the rich
est guy in Tallapoosa County. He
bosses as many as 300 tenants.
This is what he says Every damn
man that lives off his land must
gin their cotton at his gin mill, and
if they don't he's going to have
them put in jail; he will get their
cotton and sell it himself.
Two workers have sold some cot
ton and he said he is going to have
them put in jail. He said that
everybody that lives on his land has
to pay him rent; if you don't he's
going to have the K. K. K. raid
your home and have you killed.
He said he is going to have their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
3 Sentenced in Oregon
For Strike Militancy

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 20
Three militant rank and file men,
bers Of the International Long
shoremen'S Association, Black,
Samuelson and Hanlon, were SEN
fenced last week to one year each
in the county Jail for working class
activities during the recent long
Shoremen's strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Small Cotton Farmer
Robbed by Government
Through Renting Plan
fBy a Farmer Correspondent

N0J !" a HIAOH OVHI .
OPELIKA, Ala have a one
horse farm, and have to pay 500
pounds of cotton for rent. 1 rented
the government seven acres and
they only paid me $2.11 an acre
and it cost me S4.25 to make my
crop. They only let me plant
eight acres of cotton, and can't
pay my debts at the present prices
of cotton. / am asking for rs
cents for cotton this fall.
Please help us Negro farmers
out through this struggle. We
are asking for our rights. Help
in every way you can.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

At Is she joined
the Soc i ali S t
Party in Denver,
Colorado.
Having talent,
she went to Ger
many to study
d r a m a an d
pain t in g, sup
porting hers e If
by m a k i n G
TRANSACTIONS and
teaching E n g.
lish; h ere she
became a mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
NOTE:

We print every Thursday letters
from farmers, cannery and agri-
cultural workers. We urge farm
ers and workers in these indus
tries to write Hs of their cOndi-
tiOns and their struggles to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
us by Monday Of each week.