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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
A Traditional Costume

substance of it, George
Athens Pees the Soviet Union
the familiar philosophy of the lof Of the bourgeois esthee
they wearing Plato They
the possibility change this EARTH they view all things from
standpoint eternity Darvnian and believe with
Baptist that the world static and not evolutionary
worthless.
difficult brief column this
philosophy that has erd for thousands
in the minds of the leisure class.
only point here that George Cronyn,
fighter like
cent knownohng dabbng the peumed eternes all the
wich Village and Harvard College minor poets, aas
This eternal viewpoint of life always ends in daydreamng and
debility 1t has been associated with exploiting
workers time
life the leisure philosophers
them this their Olympus,
the rocks himself understood
nothing world of starving speak
values and to look down hungry nothing but the old familiar
cheap religious racket the stale hired clergyman
values,
Yes George, stating it crudey it's
The smell of complacence hypocrisy thick
particular temple where srayng And the smell
in it, Read history
class hasn't had this a Read the myscs
admired Col Lawrence mperia
and has written the moving spiritual"
could find And he has used all his
that he helped
British Empire and that he
Of England Capitalism and this
Of the eternies fighting worldly
INSCRIPTIONS methods %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
q Want TO Ask a Few Questions"

Dear Nike you others known these
years something for want TO ask few
questions.
theory better place than other
globe HOPE Things be hard
there times beings have through
apprenticeship environment Anyway in theory
anything that will be better than the wretched state OF
have and have had.
Isn't true that the struggle
produces including
the best proearn poetry and fiction really form Of escape
Einstein angle. The vanish in
the hell difference will
million from now? Maybe then
all for social regeneration form of
escape grim live little while and then
o picture. and all of
you Honestly I profound difference
of imagination and that of poets
every all from terrible reality
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Look at Hitler. George

Frankly can't understand hypocrisy carried
into time and space And listen George Hitler your
mysticism The whole fascist idea
notion that society static that there mysterious hierarchy
blood and individual WORTH regn-
Grafton" such as Communism illusions
fasciSts the science history
program based mystic affmaons
destined to rule the world for
destined to rule for the
the working class same
eternal" reasons, ETC.
you active little contact with the
farmers will blow lot of this your mind
stir to write
did write to didde the emotions of virgins
Millions Of people starving and desperate
world war in the air. Well all be dead thousand
this what interests Because like
short don't want shorter eternity
while Mr. Hitler puts us into concentration camps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

THE breeze blowing up from the
river was chilling Ed Sanders,
and he burrowed down in the straw
mattress. He pulled the ragged piece
work quilt around his body and over
his head. He had intended to nail
piece of board over that broken
window pane. but it was Spring and
there couldn't be much more cold
Maybe In the fall when the cotton
was picked and ginned and sold,
he could buy some real glass panes
and Ak all the windows. Liz wanted
some curtains, too maybe they
could afford some cheap curtains,
1t was almost daylight, He could
hear Liz in the kitchen, slamming
the doors on the old wood-stove. He
should've got up and started the
fire. Oh, well, he had hard day
ahead. Had to do some digging in
the garden first; ought to be at 1t
now. Then long day of blowing
in the black earth, working 1t up
for the cotton.
Salt pork frying smell came
through the thin quilt. Every morn
ing, all winter, fried salt pork. And
corn pones. Water and cornmeal.
Lard all gone. Jesu what he wouldt
give for some hot biscuits, soft and
brown, and molasses The molasses
all gone, too. Well, in another
month there should be some garden
stuff. That'd help some,
That rooster outside was Growing
again; the pigs were squealing for
food. Every thing hungry. The
dawn grazing.
Throwing off the quilt he jumped
out on the floor, in his battered I'M
derwear. 1t wasn't so cold. Better
save the underwear for next winter.
He peeled it off, careful not to tear
the rotten cloth. He scratched him
self where the straw punching
through the mattress tick had irri-
tated his skin. His bare feet picked
up sand from the floor. Liz was
good housekeeper, but there was
no way to keep the sand out. He
hated the sand
He pulled on his blue denim over
alls. Liz had patched the knee
again. Must be a million patches
on these overalls, all different
shades of faded blue. They would
not be washed until Sunday. Only
pair he had. Funny. How many
pounds of cotton in pair of over
alls? Couldn't be over two or three.
And he raised twenty bales of cot
ton last year, Thousands, ten thou
sand pairs of overalls in that cot
ton. And he with only one pair.
It's a crazy world.
He slapped at the cold sweat
stiffened overall knees, like hard
leather. They didn't smell so
sweetly.
He stamped into the kitchen.
Morning, Liz"
Morning, Ed"
LIS hair was frowzy, early in
the morning. She wasn't as neat
as sas used to be, when they got
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
CHANGE
TIE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

getting Old of Abe Incon prairie friends wrote him.
and have seen don't want to get into
of arguments however there is letter IN
that ought answered.
It's Conyn author of recent best-seing novel
The Fool of Venus for years
life He has had all the
ought temper whatever steel he has in him.
George and talented painter One
lovely paintings and the horror Of his admrng
the Charles River and set on Tor
cumming trip years Somewhere mountain in
the state Washington and married her Then he
later for two years was
travelling organizer Non-Parn in its best days
He was farming towns by armed
gunner salesman and white collar
a different jobs
George through the struggle for bread IN short
the has managed to write
romantic toubadeur book Of love- and royalty
and dollhouse poetry appealed the sxstarved club
and has made George the first bunch OF jack ne
has probably in his checkered life.
am sure all glad know George at last his
and butcher in the Would that all our
the Communist wants is street
writer's with lucky break Yet nobody
George Cronn gdge him the slightest bit OF good for
him. What does trouble for one is this letter
he writes
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TUNING IN

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23

ri amt funning. It's serious
business, Ed. That's why we're
meeting over at Tom Grants. We're
going to demand our rights, a part
of the guv'ment money, maybe
Ed kicked the slop bucket over.
Tom Grants trouble maker, he
said.
Just the same Tn going over.
We got to do something, get organ
lied or something. I amt aiming
to stsrve."
"Tom Grants a trouble maker, !"
Ed said.
Ben Malone spst in the pig-sty
again. We'll, good bye, Ed" He
walked across the field, kicking at
the dead dried cotton stalks of last
years crop.
Ed went in the cabin TO tell Liz.
Then he came out and began dig
ging in the garden. He worked
furiously; the sweat poured out,
darkened his shirt and overslls.
lie HEARD car coming UP the
sand road 1t stopped In front
Of his cabin. He looked up, the
sweat dripping from his eyelids,
binding him for a moment. Then
he saw the car, big and black and
shiny, Boss lannon's car. All
shined up. Must be going some
.4-t, o,-o Dose LIor,Y0y, uyo. ratfiy1 ~
out. He was all shined up, too.
Must be going somewhere.
''Well, well, Ed, I'm glad to see
you working your garden. You
ought to have fine garden this
year, not having to worry about a
cotton crop Boss Harmon fingered
his heavy gold watch chain.
rs that right, then, Mister Han
non? No cotton crop this year,"
"That's right. Governments pay
ing me a right nice sum-"
Maybe we'll raise corn?"
mo, I'm going to let the land lie
fallow Do it good"
"What're we going to do7" Ed
was wiping the sweat off his hands
onto his overalls.
Oh, you'll have your garden and
pigs and chickens. Work hard and
you'll get along. Hard work is what
gets a, man places
That's right, I guess" Ed was
wondering about that, though. Take
Boss Harmon, for instance, did he
ever do any hard work?
Goodbye, Ed, I'm taking my
folks out to Colorado. Change of
scene will do EN- good. That boy
of mine, he's been running wild
lately" Boss Harmon chuckled,
shaking his belly. He walked back
to his car, carefully avoiding the
chicken droppings on the ground,
treading lightly with his black shiny
shoes.
Ed listened to, the car roaring
away. The cars roar died, but a
roaring came into Eds head. grow
ing louder He dug furiously.
How could he and Liz live off the
garden, the chickens and the pigsP
They could eat, such as it was, but
what about -four, sugar, salt,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
By JOHN L. sPIVAK

DR.. Won, former vaudeville
actor classed as a 'ham." He
couldn't get booking 50 he
came to Hollywood to go in
the movies. The movies
thought he was a ham" too.
so he became a Silver Shirter and
vents his hate against Jewish own
ers Of the motion picture industry.
He is active IN Hollywood. He has
some Nazi touches in that he likes
to initiate fairies when speaking
on the platform, On maybe it isn't
imitation.
These few will give the reader a
notion Of the type Of leaders the
out-and-out fascist groups have.
THE formation of the vigilante
committees was inevitable with
the growth of Communist activi-
ties. Due legal processes would
have to protect organizers-which
the controlling element that places
law officers in power did not want.
For the law to have taken extra
legal steps would have forced the
state to preserve the Integrity" of
the law and the Constitution by
taking, or pretending to take, steps
to counteract it. The formation Of
an extra legal body like the vigil
ante committees accomplishes the
desired end and saves the law from
showing its position too openly.
That is probably the reason or
at least one Of them why the law
not only closes it's eyes TO the vigil
ante committees, but whenever pos
sible co-operates with them though
not too openly. Law officers take
legal steps" openly, such as pass
ing statutes prohibiting meetings.
etc, though these statutes are on
the face of them unconstitutional
But legal measures can be met by
legal measures and a long drawn
out battle can be waged by means
Of tnjunctions, trials, etc. What the
fruit and vegetable growers want is
quick action; hence, this extra
legal fascist group development.
Those small farmers who go
along with the vigilsnte commit
tee are disillusioued about condi-
tions, but do not understand that
the big grower is responsible for
their conditions and not the worker
in the fields who wants little raise,
In the areas where there have been
no strikes, it is interesting to note.
the small farmers hate is directed
against the power company or the
finance company, instead Of the
workers.
At present scattered vigilante
committees function chiefly in;
Tulare-San Joaquin Valley; Stock
ton-San Joaquin Valley; San Jose
Santa Clara Valley; Jacksonville
Salinas Valley.
In all of these areas the vigilan-
tes have among their members
some of the local law officers or
have tscit understanding with
them for cooperation instead of
interference.
1t is apparent from the tendency
disclosed by the merging of the I'M
perial Valley scattered vigilante
committees that it is only ques-
ton of time before the various
anti Communist associations, now
separated by valleys as the original
vigilantes we're separated by coun-
ties, will merge into one powerful,
armed fascist body which even the
state will have to consider.
As IN the gold strike days of '49,
n word has spread that the Silver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
By Dee Brown

matches9 What about clothes, shoes,
the window panes, the curtainsP
He was thinking hard. Why was
the government stopping the grow
ing of cotton? And he with one
pair Of overalls, two shirts, no socks.
We are starving and naked because
we have too much: he had read
that somewhere. But why were
there so many starving and naked2
It's crazy world. He dug furiously
Later he heard Boss lannon's car
roaring up the sand road again. He
heard a radio playing in the car.
He would like to have a radio; Liz
liked music.
1t was funny; there was a fellow
he knew down in Marshallton.
Used to work in q radio factory
up in Ohio. The man was laid off.
"The factory was cutting down
production, the man had told Ed.
Making too many radios, Over
production" Funny He didn't have
a radio None of the sharecroppers
had radios. It's crazy world. He
dug furiously.
Maybe he could sell the hogs in
the Autumn and get some money.
Have to fatten EN- up, though. The
acorn season a long way off.
He threw down his hoe, and went
to the corn crib. Liz came out OF
the cabin, watching him. She had
been crying.
She watched him carry the corn
across by the pig-sty, She walked
down and stood beside him.
PITY we couldn't do something
like them farmers up in Ioway,
fighting off the undergraduates. .
Ed looked at her in surprise. Liz
was usually a meek sort of woman.
He held the slop bucket full of
corn, staring at her.
Tom Grants having meeting
right now up at his cabin" he said.
"Why'nt you there2n
Jaw, Tom Grants a trouble
maker"
He dumped the corn into the
trough He watched the big hog
fighting off the others, standing
over the heaped pile of yellow ears
The big hog would eat an ear. then
fight the other seven pigs off
There was actually more corn than
one pig could eat.
For a minute the seven skinny
pigs huddled together, their beady
eyes watching the fat pig eat.
Reckon pigs amt got much
brains,' Ed said.
Then suddenly the seven skinny
pigs massed together, bore down or
the fat pig, snarling and tumbline
over the trough, jostling the large
hog into the mud. Noisily the sever
pigs chewed the corn.
Liz laughed. Il reckon them
hogs got more sense than some Of
us men," she said.
The roaring was growing in Ed;
head. He wiped the dirty sweat of
his neck, He slammed the slor
bucket down on the ground.
Tn a-going over to Ton
Grants" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Sharecropper

married two years ago, and started
sharecropping on Boss lannon's
plantation.
Maybe thingsll get better. They're
bound to. Don't ] come from good
stockp Wasn't my father mayor of
Marshallton once9 Thingsll be bet
ter for me; I'll own my own farm. "
He rinsed his mouth out with q
dipper of cold water from the rusty
lard pail Water tasted of the tin,
He dashed cold water on his face,
washing the sleep-yellow from his
eyes,
THEY ate on the kitchen table,
The dried corn pone fell to pieces
as he ate 1t. He stuffed the greasy
pork down his throat. He closed his
eyes, drank the hot water, pretend
ing it was coffee. He rolled cigar
cite in brown wrapping paper, using
rabbit-tobacco, a weed that grew
down in the swamp. He pulled it,
was dissatisfied, threw 1t out the
door
Got TO feed the pigs"
Liz piled the dishes in the same
pan in which Ed had washed his
face.
1t was a fine day, The sun was
on the rim of the cotton field,
cherry red and round. The damp
breeze from the river had died. It
would be a warm Spring day.
Ed picked up eight ears of corn
from the rapidly diminishing pile in
the crib. There were eight pigs. He
jerked off the shucks, threw them
in the COW pen, and dropped the
eight ears in bucket of slop, dish
water. He started for the pig-sty.
The pigs saw him coming, squealed
louder and louder, making a terrific
clamor. The largest pig climbed up
on the pole fence, snorting.
He poured the slop in the filthy
trough. Fighting and squealing, the
pigs bit and slashed at one an
other The largest pig, forcing the
others aside, devoured six of the
corn ears. almost swallowing them
whole.
Too bad, but I suppose he's the
best pig, The others are kind of
skinny looking.
Someone was coming across the
field. Ben Malone, neighboring
sharecropper,
Hello, Ed"
"Hydy, Ben"
Il guess you're going over to Tom
Grants? Thought I'd come by and
walk over with you"
What's wrong? Somebody sickP"
Amt you heard?"
Heard what?"
Ben Malone spat in the pig-sty.
"Well, they amt going to be no
sharecropping this year, they amt
going to be no cotton crop"
"Aw, what kind of a tale you
telling2"
That's right. Guv'ment's paying
Boss Harmon to take his plantation
outa cultivation"
Sure enough?"
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Officers of the Law" Aid
California VigiIante Groups

Shirts have struck 3 paying mins
| by organizing the fascist sentiment
This belief has resulted In new fss-
cist groups with hate the Jew. hate
the Communist" motif cropping up.
In most cases these new and
hopeful fascist groups last a few
days or weeks and peter out. When
pay dirt" is not found in the large
quantities expected and the outlay
for printing has been exhausted.
the poisoning fascist groups dis
appear.
Only two comparatively important
ones remain here-both branches
Of national fascist organizations:
the Silver Shirts and the Crusader
White Shirts. The White Shirts like
to call themselves the American
Reds"
This latter organization, the Cali
fornia branch of the Crusaders for
Economic Liberty, started with a
typical Chamber of Commerce go
getting idea: stickers for auto win
dows. The stickers show a red flag
and the Stars and Stripes crossing
one another lovingly and carry a
slogan LEAVE TOWN COBdAU-
MIST" Under this is the slogan
THE AMERICAN REDS"
It is perhaps very funny when
one looks at it purely from the
standpoint Of these organizations
alone, especially their plans to cap
ture" the government. The gravity
of the situation lies not in these
weak organizations but in the trend
they disclose. The only reason fas-
cism has not made more Roadway
here than it has is because the two
shirt movements are being worked
first as an out-and-out racket for
money and the second by nut
drawing to his folds more nuts.
Let me quote from grand piece
Of salesmanship issued by the White
Shirts. 1t is supposed TO be the
General Orders" giving detailed
instructions how to capture the
government" These orders are
signed by George w. Christians,
Commander-in-C Chief Of the ma
tionsl White Shirts:
mo unit of the Crusader White
Shirts should attempt any positive
action until it has been thoroughly
drilled and Differed and perfect
discipline has been obtained, nor
should 1t attempt to move until it
is sufficiently strong to accomplish
its purpose without any chance Of
failure.
The first objective should be to
take control of the local government
in the following manner: March in
military formation to and surround
the governmental buildings. Then
by sheer numbers and a patriotic
appeal, force the officials to accept
and act under the direction of an
economic advisor appointed by the
President Of the G. F. f. l.. This
advisors first duty will be to repu-
date the public debt and utilize the
payments assigned thereto for the
public welfare.
Dishonest officials should imme--
diately be brought to justice. You
should remember that most politi-
clans are unfamiliar wttb modern
business methods, and that their
accounts are apt to be badly mud
died and may be short. Greatest
care should be exercised 50. that the
situation does not get out of con
troll and some poor, muddle-headed
but honest politicians get hung
without a fair and legal trial.
ITO Be Continued
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