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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Olson tOOBusy
For Demands
OF Farmers
BY . Worker CORRESPONDENT

EVMETH, Minn.-The Farmer
Labor Party leaders claim that the
Mesaba Range is one of their best
strongholds, but after hearing what
some of the workers here have to
say about the FL. Party leaves
that statement open to doubt. Or
CARNATIONS, time after time, have
sent resolutions to Olson, Farmer
Labor Governor, dealing with I'M
employment and meager relief, mis-
cradle conditions and impoverish-
ment of the workers and farmers.
An answer has always come back,
not from the champion of labor
and cause of the common man"
who calls out the National Guard
to shoot down workers in cold blood
and in the back, as seen in the re-
cent Minneapolis strikes; but from
Mr., Day, his secretary, who always
answers in the same way to all
communications to the Governor.
THE Governor is busy with this
thing or that situation, but I will
refer it to him when it is con-
venient. I am sure he will take
some favorable action on it. Write
to us again"
Well, either the Governors time
is taken up to such an extent that
he has no time for such little mat
tiers as demands and pleas for more
relief or work, or perhaps he doesn't
want to be put on the spot. Just
before elections it is embarrassing
to refuse the people, so silence is
more preferable.
Through the tireless efforts of the
Communist Party, which always
has exposed the part that the
Farmer Labor Party leaders are
playing in the economic conditions
of our country; exposed their CO.
operative commonwealth, which
they dangle before the noses Of the
people, but always out OF reach;
exposed their class collaboration
and peaceful policies, which are
leading the people into Fascism;
the workers and farmers are
realizing that the only Party
through which they can attain eco
nomic security is the Communist
Party.
After the Steel Trust has taken
all the sap out of our bodies, and
has no more use for us, they have
transient camps, poor farms and
orders to leave town for us, so they
won't have to pay the per capita
tax. Now, by holding back about
five or six million dollars in taxes,
they are attempting to get rid OF
us by slow starvation. Workers,
don't take it lying down, let's Or
ganize into our clubs and demand
that they give us more relief and
work; let's go to the polls and vote
Communist, the only Party that is
fighting persistently for our inter-
ests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

Here's glimpse of one Of our
working class women. Mrs. jose
phine Phillips is the wife of steel
worker, and the mother of four
children. She is Communist can
didate for State Representative,
District II, Muskegon County, Mich
igan. She is the personification OF
the lives of thousand women. She
had a parochial upbringing. She
married young, had children, and
with them all the cares of working
class mothers. She knew what it
meant to wait every night for the
safe return OF her husband from the
steel mill. She saw him come home,
worn out, spent. Her life was busy
with the task of stretching the
pocketbook, warding off from her
family Hines and hunger. She be-
came resentful and began to wonder
about this life that made her hus-
band and her strike SO hard to get
SO little of the necessities OF life.
Early in 1881 she joined the l. L. d.
as charter member, and became
deeply immersed in the problem OF
how to better her own life and that
Of her class. She became active in
defense work and organized a
branch Of the I. L. D. in Muskegon
Heights. She joined the Communist
Party the end Of 1881. From that
time on she plunged herself into
activities to better the conditions
Of herself and her neighbors.
Muskegon township had been cut
off from all relief She helped Or
ganize relief workers strike that
held its ranks solid. Through the
militant fight they waged they
forced emergency relief orders to be
given out, and $50 families to be
placed back on the welfare list.
They also forced a changing of re-
lief officials. She has also recently
taken part in the strikes at the
Campbell, Wyant and Cannon foun-
| dry, and at the Prosperity Laundry.
She is now president of the
| Working Women'S Educational Club
of Muskegon, Michigan, which she
helped organize. She represented
the Club at the Congress Against
War and Fascism. Working Women
of MuSkegon County! Josephine
Phillips is the Communist Candi-
date, a woman, who as all Commu-
mist women, and all Communist
candidates, has been chosen a cam
didate because she has made her
main concern the struggle of the
workers to better their conditions,
now and for all time. Vote for your
candidate! A Communist candidate 1!
Would you like your lentils to
taste as this homely little vegetable
has no business tasting? Try this
Drain a cupful of lentils which have
been soaked overnight Put them
into boiling water and cook slowly
for 30 minutes. Drain them again
and boil in fresh water once more,
until soft. Brown one chopped onion
in fat. Add one can of tomatoes or
two cups fresh stewed tomatoes and
three green peppers, sliced and
seeded. Add salt and pepper. When
boiling, add drained lentils and
simmer for another half hour. Even
a lentil would be happy under such
conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Unemployed Youth Will
Never Get Regular Jobs,
Walter Pitkin Declares

PROVIDENCE. r. l., Oct. "a
Hitherto we have educated for
success, but nosv we must educate
for failure" Walter B. Pitkin, writer
and professor, declared here last
week at meeting of members of
the Teachers Association in an adj
dress praising the C. c. c. camps.
Pitkin stated that 100000 per-
sons have gone out of high schools
and colleges since 1927 and have
never found regular jobs. A total
Of 100000 persons under 80 years
of age are entirely unemployed, are
working on invented jobs or are
working part-time.
Pitkin declared that the Roose-
welt c. c. G. camps are the one
thing in the Roosevelt program
which ought to survive forever"
Now we face the problem of
showing the willing but unwanted
worker-to-be how he can live well
and hold up his head. although he
never had job" Pitkin declared.
Here he again referred to the
millions Of iobless and projected the
Roosevelt proposal for settlement
homes eadn"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Citrus Union Heads Fail
To Help Jailed Members

cause, they said, the authorities
publicly spologized to the union for
their slanderous attack on the
union as whole The union Off
Gals claim this was sufficient, as
far as they we're concerned.
j. M. Chapman, president of the
United Citrus Workers Union, Inc,
did not make any effort to help
these union men to get a bond, or
in any way to obtain their release
from jail, nor did he approve of
the union members helping these
boys to get lawyer or bond. These
men remained in Jail and were tried
ON Oct. 6 at Barlow, Fla, and were
released after a number of rank
and file union members testified to
the innocence Of their brother
members in Jail.
While they were in Jail they were
subjected to brutal treatment by
Sheriff Chase and his deputies.
Since they have been released, they
have been terrorized by the chief
of police, Pat Murphy, of Haines
City. One of them has been afraid
to even come down the street after
dark, for fear of being taken for a
ride. He was visited a few nights
ago by one Of his friends in town,
another union member, and it took
lot of convincing to make him
believe that his friend was real
friend. This is a result of the ter
roristic threats that have been made
against him in the city by the
authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Shot At and
Jailed Because
He'SpokeBack'
BY a Worker Correspondent

CRANBURY, N. last May I
left my little old hut and five chill
dren and wife and went West look
ing for work. I first stopped on q
strawberry farm at Hallwood, Va.
I decided to stay through the sea-
son and report all that took place.
A Negro worker was accused of
speaking back to the boss's wife. He
was ordered off Immediately. When
he got little way from the farm
the farmer made as though to de-
fend himself, and his wife came
running with a revolver and shot
five times, but missed. Then they
ran him all the way home.
Later he was arrested and given
100 lashes with strap. The Off
GERS took him to Jail and put him
on trial. The sentence he received
was one year in the Accomack jail.
He is there now.
followed the work up on to here
in Jersey, picking potatoes. Both
OF the strawberry and potato sala-
ries that have been cut from 2 cents
to l cent and potatoes from 2
cents to IL cents. I don't know
when I will ever be able to see my
family again at this rate.
On Sept. % a Negro who had
been taken out of bed two hours
before schedule time to do work
sat down to breakfast after he had
finished the work. He was asked
where the hell he was going, and
he said to eat. She immediately
told him to take the entire day off
and eat. She abused him very
much. Now, what I would like tt
know is, if fellow works has he
a right to eat?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
By a Worker Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo. II am sending
you an article of the st. Louis
Argus, Negro paper which makes
an attack upon the Scottsboro boys,
the I. L. D. and the Communist
Party, and supports Samuel Lei
bowitz and the N.AA.CP.
am appealing to all the Negroes
throughout the United States of
America, who want right and JUS
tice, to support the LID. and the
Communist Party against iim-crow
and discrimination that bring about
lynching and frame-up Of the Ne
gro people; and also to fight against
the NAA.CP., which is trying not
only to betray the Scottsboro boys
but the whole Negro race to the
bosses.
Therefore I am calling on the Ne
gro people in churches, lodges, clubs,
unions and all organizations who
want right and justice for your
children as well as yourselves to
stick by the LID. and the Com
munist Party. I am sending
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
By a Group of Soviet Farm Workers

BY a Group of Soviet Farm Workers
BOOzOOLOOK DISTRICT, U. S.
S. RIVE, peasants of the collec-
tive farm, THE Wave of the Revo-
luton" of the Boozoolook District
of the Mid-Volga, have read your
letter at a meeting of all our mem
bers. and have decided to write you
letter, describing in few words
how we live here.
The climate here is very dry, hot
dry winds often would ruin our
harvests, but now we have an ir-
rigated experimental piece of land,
an irrigated l00-hectsre vegetable
garden and 12-hectare fruit garden.
There are 800 persons in all in
our collective farm and we have
5000 hectares of land.
In regard to cultural life, we
have a club and each brigade has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Fight Betrayers and
Aid l. L. d., Is Plea

warning out to all who at this time
help to fight against the LID. and
the Communist Party that you are
fighting against your rights, in the
factory or out of the factory. Watch
your misleaders, for both Negro and
white misleaders in their ranks.
am Negro woman standing up
for the right Of the people and the
working class regardless Of race or
color. Therefore am against all
traitors, whether they are black or
white AS a Negro woman, 1 call
upon Negro doctors, lawyers, teach
ers, preachers, who want to see right
and justice done, not to be mis-
leaders, but to help the Soottsboro
boys, and in so doing you will help
yourself against lynching an d
frame-up.
am Negro woman who lives
in the South, read the Daily
Worker and I know the LID. and
the Communist Party are right.
SO let us all organize and fight
this rotten system of wage cuts,
speed up, frame up and low stand
ards Of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Worker Correspondents! Into the Drive!

The Worker Correspondence section oudone
ded to enter into revolutionary competition depart
ments in the 100000 drive The others
just starting from
But cooperation of our fol-
lowers, realize quota $500.
larger and improved Daily
respondents themselves their
struggle for better conditions and for the ultimate
am Only the of the contn
alton of the improved national DAILY
Worker correspondents the job
feaures Send contributions and that
this department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
MAKE USE OF DAILY WORKER
MATS

I6OTld, III.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Here's matter which I'd like to
take up: From time to time articles,
poems, etc. appear in the Daily
Worker which, if properly proper
toned off in square or oblong shape
when the dummies are made up,
could be reprinted for organiza-
tional use. Such material could be
cut out bodily from the matrix, a
plate made from it and with the
addition of q few lines of type,
would be excellent for leafiet use
for mass organizations locally, and
could be sold to them by the thou
sands at fairly reasonable price.
The local organizations, for many
reasons, are not able to get out
such leaflets very often, no mimeo-
graph, high cost of printing, etc,
and this would help solve the
problem for them For Example
the poem, Anna Cassidy" by
Sadie Van Veen, in Helen Luke's
column, September %, with the sd-
dition of few required lines for
local use, would make an excellent
leaflet for the Unemployment
Councils. Bedacht's article, Need
for Mass Fraternal Organization is
Stressed October /, is another ex-
cellent illustration.
H E. K.
NOTE: The suggestion that the
Daily Worker print leaflets for
sale to the mass organizations is
not feasible, except where an is
sue is of national interest and i'm
poTtance, as was done in the tex
tile strike recently. The need
and usefulness of the editorials
and articles reprinted from the
Daily Worker would generally
have 10 be determined by local
conditions. But the suggestion
that editorials and articles be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
STRUGGLES OF THE CANA
DIAN WORKERS
New York N V

NeW 1OrR, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
The French Socialist. Louis Per-
rigaud, has unintentionally made
soncs errors on the situation in
Canada Tin his article in the Daily
Worker of October 49, When he
writes, THE great masters of Can
ada are the priests he speaks with
a great deal of truth only of the
province of Quebec, one of nine
provinces. There, it is true, the
priests have hitherto had baleful
influence on many of the French
Canadian workers. Like the former
priests in Czarist Russia, they are
police in SUPPLIES"
But Quebec province contains
less than three million of Canada's
ten million population; and even
there as in the rest of Canada it is
a small clique Of powerful financiers
and capitalists who rule the coun-
try and the government. A hand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

Farmers, how long are We going to
allow the government to skin us
like this?
Here is what the N. R. A. code
and Labor Department Of Washing
ton means and it's worth to the ag-
ricultural workers and farmers; it
means only increase OF profit for
the bosses. They violate their own
laws because they are bosses and
they are the law also.
Since the enforcement of washing
fruit there is more exploitation
than before. They charge $40 for
100 bushels that were washed and
packed. They can wash and pack
over 1900 bushels day Farmers
do not know for days how many
bushels of graded fruit they have.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
How a Medical School Trains Then
To Be Fair Minded"

10 ne II ar N1n0ed
The letter below, from a begin
ming student, speaks for itself, as
an example of how our temples of
learning teach young medical stu
dents. In explanation of the medi-
cal side of it, it is well-known that
though slight weaknesses of the
groin are present frequently in peo-
pie, they do not cause any trouble
until a severe strain, as in lifting,
bending or pulling while at work,
changes them to a frank rupture:
Il have just begun my medical
training at the K University
School of Medicine. While the
courses in professional ethics and
legal medicine are still some years
ahead, our education in the role Of
the physician in capitalist society
has already been started.
Several days ago we were given a
lecture on inguinal hernia. Having
just completed the dissection of the
inguinal canal groin, we were to
be enlightened on the clinical i'm
portance of the region and, as it
turned out. on other matters. DR..
x. Y. T., surgeon and registrar Of
the medical school, spoke to us on
the nature of the hernia (means a
rupture) and the weak spot in the
inguinal region. Some day, he
pointed out, one of you may be
called on to testify in a legal case
in connection with workmen's COM
pensation. Remember then, he
urged, before designating any case
as traumatic (due to injury or
physical strain, as in work., that
for every inguinal hernia there
must be congenital (present at
BIRTH weakness.
In our second week at medical
school we are already being taught
how to evade placing the response
bility for industrial accidents where
it belongs and how to protect the
interests Of the employer.
you may also be interested to
know that the student sentiment
for health insurance is pretty wide
spread here.
Your column, in my opinion, de-
serves high praise. You have real
talent for expressing medical and
scientific matters in simple, clear
language"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Choppers Rental Checks
For Cutting Production
Are Kept by Landlords
By sharecropper Correspondent

BY a Sharecropper Correspondent
UNION COUNTY, N. CT am a
Communist Party member and shall
write you of the conditions existing
in my county. The Negro and white
farmers are allowed by the govern
ment to grow five bales of cotton
three for the landlord and two for
themselves. I have large debts to
pay back and have to feed and pay
these debts on two bales of cotton
I have II in my family.
Everybody says they don't know
what they're going to do. I recent
ly drew rental check. Some OF
the sharecroppers have received nc
rental at all. The landlords keep it
Some are saying they will not
vote a Democratic ticket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

full of men control about 30 per cent
Of the wealth of the country; and
the prime minister's cabinet Is a
cabinet of millionaires.
1t seems unfortunate that Amer
lean workers know so little of the
struggle of the Canadian workers
struggle that for the past several
.years has been a heroic and power
full and ever widening one. Under
the leadership of the illegal Com
munist Party of Canada, the ranks
of the militant workers have swelled
to thrice their former size in the
past few years. In the West and in
the thickly populated industrial
province of Ontario, the ma iority of
strikes have been under the leader
ship of the left wing unions. Even
in Quebec the workers have lately
been breaking free from the gag of
the Catholic unions and taking
their struggles into their own
hands.
B C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Soviet Collective Farmers
Win Fight Against Drought

small library and receives all the
big central and also the local pa
pers, except that each brigade has
its own mural paper in which is
depicted the brigade's life and
work. We have a day-nursery for
the babies, so that the mothers may
take part in the work and social
activities. Our children attend not
only primary school, but secondary
school, colleges, technical schools
and universities. Instead Of the
former hungry, illiterate, oppressed
village of old, under the Soviets,
thanks to collectivizstion our vii
lage has become one class-con-
scious, cultivated and well-to-do
family.
MASOOROVA; KALOOJSKY;
TATARINTZEFF; SAVINA;
BARSOOKOFF; SOONDEYEVA;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25

having used third degree methods
in order to force them to plead
guilty.
The authorities publicly stated
that the union was responsible and
accused Bill Masters, militant Union
man, and Home Smith of being the
heads of a union firing squad.
These men were Immediately put
in Jail under heavy bond, which
they could not raise, and the union
officials refused to help these boys
or protest to the authorities or try
to get bonds for their release, be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
By a worker CORRESPONDENT

HAINES CITY, Fla.-About
month ago several houses were
burned in Haines City, Fla. The
county and city authorities imn1e-
diately jumped on the most mill
tant union members of the citrus
union, pointing at them as the ones
setting fire to the houses. There
were several arrests made of work
ers at that time, the authorities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Letters from Our Readers

because of the volume of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can print
only those that are of general interest
to Daily Worker readers. However, all
letters received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement OF the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Workers Lab Theatre Has
Met Almost Half Of Quota

Laboratory contribution s22 brings
quota The Film Photo League,
makes its first
tribution of $40.
Daily Worker Chorus sends $40 From affair conducted
by Professional Group 500 realized.
large intimate Daily Worker af
parties gatherings will aid in out the weekly
of paper Hold of theml
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Negro Woman Calls for United Scottsboro Struggl.
Aged Couple in Texas
Gets $7.20 a Month
After Life of Work
Br a Worker Correspondent

SPUR, Texas.-My wife and
are the first in Dickens Co., Texas,
to send for the Daily Worker. We
enjoy reading it.
am 70 years old and my wife
is 81. We have worked plenty,
but of course the masters enjoy
the fruits Of our work.
We two are allowed $7.20 q
month to live on. We have no fuel,
just pick up anything We can get
to burn. We have no money to
buy coal. We have no winter
clothes either.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
THE HOUSEHOLD

Many workers nowadays who "set
up housekeeping" find the purchase
of real silverware beyond their
means; even that from the dime
store puts a severe strain on the
frayed old pocketbopk. This dime
store ware is silver plated, but very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
NOTE:

We publish every Thursday let
tiers from farmers, agricultural
and cannery workers. We urge
farmers and workers in these in
dustries to write us of their con-
ditions and their struggles to or
ganize. Please get these letters to
us by Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Two Years on Relief,
Gets $40 a Week
With Nine in Family
BY a Worker Correspondent

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Il have
been on relief for two years. I
am only getting 80 cents an hour
when I should be getting 20.
Working 10 hours per week. I
have nine in the family, no clothes
or shoes, no wood or coal, and we
are very cold. We will be thrown
out of my home, and nowhere to
stay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
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