The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
VICTIMS OF THE DROUGHT
WILL MASS AT STATE
ON SEPT. Il
United Farmers League
To Lead Toilers
With Demands

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. s.
Out of the misery and suffer-
ing of the drought-stricken
countryside will come mass
marches on the State capitals
of western states demanding
food, fodder for the stricken
herds, cash relief for supplies and
clothes, and an immediate turning
OF the resources of the Federal gov
eminent to a real drought relief
program.
On Sept. IA, the United Farm
ers' League in all the stricken states
will lead thousands of farmers.
their wives and children in trucks
and on foot to confront the State
governments with the demand that
the hungry and suffering farmers,
ruined and impoverished, be fed
and protected from the loss Of their
farms and stock.
Basing himself on the Manifesto
adopted by the National Convene
ton of the U. F. L. at its recent
meeting in Minnesota, Henry Puro.
National Secretary, today issued a
national call to all locals of the U.
F. L. to speed the work of organ
izing and preparing the mass
marches for drought relief on Sep
TENDER IA.
Plan of Action
His call lists the following lines
Of immediate action:
l. To call for State relief march,
inviting all farmers organizations
and unorganized farmers to partici-
pate in the march.
/ 2. The call should contain in
structions to call local mass meet
ings, widely advertised, where
the drought situation, demands and
the details of the march be pre-
pared
3. U. F. L. locals must take the
initiative in calling and preparing
these local meetings and modifying
farmers to take part in the State
march.
4. Drought Manifesto of the U,
F. L. Convention and Farmers,
Emergency Relief Program should
be ordered for the distribution in
the local meetings, and able per-
sons must be assigned to explain
the content Of these documents and
then having discussion on the
drought demands and the F. E. r.
B. In all these meetings the en-
dorsement of the F. z. R. B. should
be taken UP. Local meetings should
also organize local demonstrations
presenting their demands on
drought relief to the town and
county boards.
5. State committees as well as
local organizations should report
Systematically to the U. F. L. ma
tional office and to the Farmers
Weekly as to what has been done
regarding preparations of the State
marches and the local struggles on
relief.
6. Farmers Weekly and other
literature must be ordered for dis
tribution in all these meetings. The
U. F. L. should utilize this oppor-
tunity of recruiting hundreds of new
members.
The devastation of the droughs
continues to grow. The cotton crop
has been burned to the levels of
1921. Nevertheless, the Bankhead
Bill providing for the blowing under
of surplus" cotton and the levy of
heavy taxes on all cotton above the
amounts specified in the govern
ment contracts with the planters
will continue, officials declared to-
day.
Wall Street and Chicago specu-
lators sent commodity prices soar
ing to new heights on the feverish
trading that resulted on the news
of the further drought destruction.
Millions of dollars in speculative
profits are being made overnight as
the hunger and misery of the
drought are intensified.
In many localities the substitute
crops. planted after the first crop
was destroyed, have also been de.
stroved.
Typhoid is spreading among the
farmers families as the Roose-
welt government gives no relief
either to the animals or the farm
crs. No food distribution or fod-
der stations have been organized
to relieve the farmers.