The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-31

election friends" carry out the
policy of the bankers and trusts
Still their living standards became
lower; the gradual loss of their
land and small savings continued
Today, like workers and farmers
ell over America, their faith in pol
iticians is shattered.
Greater consciousness Of their
defeat in the field of parliamentary
action has led, during the past
few years, to the building and
strengthening of their organiza-
tions. the United Farmers Leagues
the Unemployed Leagues. In other
places they are using the Holiday
Associations and the Farmers
Unions. And the Communist Party
is steadily growing.
The life story Of G. H. Sharp
Workers and Farmers United Front
candidate for Congress in the First
District, corresponds very closely to
the history Of the farmers strug-
giles in South Dakota.
His parents came to South Dakota
In 1888. Through the demonstrating
laws and by hard work, they ac-
cumulated four or five quarters OF
land. Here they raised a large
family. The childhood Of the
Sharp children was one of hard
work, the usual lot of the farm
child. The family worked hard try
ing to prove the bankers state
ment that farmers who worked
hard and saved their money could
look forward to the accumulation
of fortune
But with grain dealers fixing the
price on the farmers grain and
livestock; with the railroad COM
panies and the bankers getting
their "cuts," together with monopoly
prices on the things that the farm
ers had to buy, the farmers found
It impossible to do more than make
living
Stirring of Revolt
Revolt was even at that time
making It's first STRINGS among the
farmers. The old Populist Party
was formed. Sharp's father was one
Of those who Joined it in a vain
hcre that it would provide solu-
IT, for the farmers problems.
ways, as now, the bankers and
ncliticians tried to placate the
f7r-2ers and explain the reasons
Why the farmers failed. At that
time they told the farmer that he
didn't know how to farm scien-
tif1cally. SO Sharp,S father, like
many others, sent his BOYS to the
State School of Agriculture at
Brookings, South Dakota. to learn
how to grow two blades Of grass
where one grew before. The knowl-
edge gained at the Agricultural
School was duly put into effect on
the Sharp farm, but still the mort
cages continued to grow.
In 1903 the old appeal to Reason
was widely circulated in the farm
ing states. and it was from ad-
vertisements here that young Sharp
along with many others. first came
in contact with the works OF Marx
which gave him some understand
ing of the economic background
behind the farmers struggles.
In 1915 Sharp married and bought
farm Of his own. At that time
the farmers were enjoying the tenn
porary prosperity brought on BY
the wartime demand for farm pro-
ducts. But this was short Lived
Sharp was caught in the panic of
1921, and lost his well-improved
farm.
From 1921 on he worked as a sales
man and at various trades. But
he could not escape from the work
ers' and farmers struggles.
Every day of the workers and
farmers life, the economic strug-
giles arises before him. Thousands
of these toilers today have CROPPED
their way to the understanding of
the class struggle Sharp was among
these. In 1880 he joined the Com
munist Party.
Active Organizer
Sharp has been active in organiz-
ing the workers in the towns and
cities. both employed and unem-
ployed, that mighty army of toll
ers with whom the farmer must ally
himself If they are to win against
the common enemy When the waves
CT foreclosures and evictions began
swcoping down UPON the farmers
in 1881 to 1888. Sharp was active.
helping to mobilize the farmers to
stem the wave. Today, when the
drought has burned away the prai-
ries and relief is the only thing
that keeps the farmers from actual
starvation, Sharp leads the struggle
for more relief. He is now South
Dakota District Organizer for the
Communist Party.
Today he appears before worker
and farmer audiences as their can
didate, placed on the ballot by six
thousand signatures. He offers
them program Of struggle for en-
actment Of the Farmers Emergency
Relief Bill, against war and fascism.
for full equality of all races. He
brings to them the revolutionary
program of the Communist Party.
He points out the necessity for the
revolutionary way out of the crisis.
to WELD the mighty power of the
workers and farmers to smash the
rotten capitalist system of exploita-
ton and build workers and farm
ers' government In America. For a
Soviet America!