The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
The Fighting
Vet
By E. BRIGGS

War. They were the dupes of rich
women like Mrs. Vanderbilt, ETC.,
who out of a sense of duty
donated ambulance corps and
canteens to help "the boys"
The snappy blue, sporty khaki
and religious white uniform
! that were the badges for the diff
ferent branches of service together
with the pep speeches and blessing
of bishops fooled the women as well
as the men. These women like
their brothers in the trenches were
pushed into the horror and filth Of
the last slaughter by the fat
bellied flag wavers who marched
with their boys" as far as the
Hoboken pier, there to excuse them
selves on important business, such
as watching the latest rise in steel
and wheat.
Twenty years after, the veterans,
, now dough-lesS boys, and their sis
tiers who were nurses, yeomenettes,
and even drivers of ambulances
donated by Park Avenue dowagers,
are unemployed, facing eviction,
and where disabled, looked upon as
undeserving treasury raiders"
The Price of Eggs
This letter reveals how little the
ruling c'sss care about the sane
tity of American womanhood" 1t
tears the veil from the false prom
Uses of Roosevelt and his National
Economy League Government. It
also shows us what the ex-service-
men and women are thinking about
today.
Needless to say the National
Rank and File Committee in Wash
ington has taken up this woman's
case and through it's rehabilitation
officer is doing its utmost to see
that she receives adequate atten-
ton and justice.
Here is the letter:
! Chairman Pollard,
Beard of Veterans Appeals,
Washington, D. C.
My postcard protest mailed on
receipt of your capitalistic decision
to reject my claim for War Risk
/ Insurance compensation, was sent
because 7 did not have sufficient
funds to buy a three cent stamp
for letter postage. AS I have since
managed to get that huge sum. I
am able to write more at length.
This letter has been inspired by
the check my husband received this
morning from the Pacific Coopora-
tive Poultry Producers of 1885 for
100 dozen eggs -four cases.. They
credited us with 1896 then de-
Quoted all the rest Of the money
for the high priced feed our be-
loved President, Franklin D. Roose-
welt, forced on the poultry and
egg producers for the benefit Of
the dealers. who are thus getting
enormous profits for grain and
other farm products they have
forced the farmers to sell to them
at ruinously low prices. 1896 aver
ages about 3 cents dozen. and
out of that three cents must be
paid the poultry litter, lights water
for the poultry, interest on our
mortgages, taxes. clothing. living
and-the gas that takes the eggs
in to Portland, about 66 cents a
trip.
No board Of workers or farmers
would have decided that a Swear
old woman, crippled from her waist
down with service connected arth-
ritis. heart trouble, half blind, with
sight impaired in the service, with
feet broken down because Of hard
work on the farm and improper
footwear, and with serious internal
trouble Gall atteSted to by well
known private physicians as well
as your own staff of many doc
tors was well and able to earn
her own living. That remained for
paid board to do.
We farm the land and the paras-
teal class farms u.s. Their decision
is that my husband and I must
leave the place we have deveioped
and enriched by our toll, and your
armed thugs. sheriffs. police. army
and navy will see to it that we go
The War Risk Insurance policy
for $4,000 which I was urged tC
take cut when the last J. P. Morgan
war was at its height, is Joke
and I am the butt of thet joke.
Proud of Revolutionary Ancestry
I used to be proud Of my pre-
Revolutionary and Revolutionary
ancestry, and am still, but for {
different reason. I boast of then
now because they. too, belonged tt
my own class. the workers and
farmers. who DEVELOPED and made
great this country, in spite of the
p2rasitical class that even then was
breeding upon them. They antedatt
the American flag. 1t was not :
piece of bunting that inspired
their ardor. Thew fought for theil
homes and their families. YOU. thc
parasitical class. are now wrestling
our homes and our families from us
while wevirs your bunting. credit
ing it with what WIS ACCOMPLISHED
by the workers and farmers Iona
before it was ever thought Of o,
designed.
] an sendin~ a COPY Of this let
ter to our qood president. who pre-
scri6ed different treatment for
his own stiff Joints than the one
be forces the veterans to accept
Not fer us are $4,000 pools built
nor co1 We bNthH in rerfumec
water. Lucky indeed am ] to hove
any wetar at all in which to battle
c. even drink. Soon it will be cut
off, for we can no longer pay for
electric mower To keen cir wafer