The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
The Drought Crisis

ROOSEVELT is Investigating" the
- drought area.
But %, 900, 900 people, the impoverished
farmers and their families are being
crushed by the joint blows Of the Roose-
welt A.AA farm program and the furies
Of the heat wave.
And the Roosevelt government does
nothing for them It subsidies the greatest
slaughter Of cattle in history, that the big meat
packers the undergraduates the wealthy land
lords can be protected.
But the human welfare of the poor farmers and
their families is being criinaly, wsntony trampled
upon by a government whose sole concern is to act
IN the interests of the big capitalist property-owners
The farmers need cash relief fodder for their
herds water and food for their families, the dis
tribution of all available fodder food supplies IN
the drought area These needs are embodied in the
Farmers Emergency Relief Bill proposed by the
Communist Party as the program OF the impover-
ished, mortgage-ridden, drought stricken farmers
ON one hand is the program Of Roosevelt. This
us capitalist program It is program of misery,
inadequate handouts, that give the farmers no re-
lief It is program Of driving the small, drought
stricken farmers into pauperism. into new mass
migration so that the rich landlords can proceed
to monopoze the farm lands and farm produc-
ton. 1t is program of protection of mortgage
holders and food monopoles. It Is, in short
program that spells ruin for the vast majority Of
the farm population.
On the other hand is the program of the Com
munist Party embodied in the Farmers Emergency
Relief Bill. It is a program that calls for imrne
diate payment Of s2OOO,0O0o0O in cash relief 10
all stricken farm families The Roosevelt govern
nent spends $4,000 900 900 for and destruction
why not for the welfare of the stricken farmers?
The Communist Farm program calls for the i'm
mediate opening up of all grain elevators and
wealthy grain stores Of the big landlords for i'm
mediate distribution to the stricken small farmers,
It calls for government free food and fodder dis
tribution It calls for the cancellation of all mort
gage debts at once
The Communist Party program for the farmers
is in the interests OF the vast majority Of the small
and middle farmers and is aimed against the bank
eSs mortgage-holders, and wealthy landlords. The
Communist Party program expresses the immediate
vital needs Of the drought-str1cken farm popula-
ton. The Roosevelt farm program is solely in the
interests Of capitalist profit no matter what misery
and suffering this causes the impoverished farmers.
THE Nebraska Holiday Association in state con-
vention has adopted the Communist Party Farm
bill, showing that the farmers will hgft for this
Bill as their own.
The fight in the drought areas against hunger
and devastation is now a fight TO force the Roose-
welt government to enact the measures outlined IN
the Communist Party Bill
The issue Is clear-the welfare OF the stricken
farmers or the profit interests of the landlords,
meat packers food monopoles and grain SPECTATORS
In the drought area, the Communist Party calls
for fight in the interests Of the toiling farmers
against the capitalist profit sharks and their
agent Roosevelt