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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

the farmer sucks the tail. the In
terstate and other cooperatives have
a fling with the government"
THERE is a meeting at Honey
i brook, so miles off to organize
a new local of the U. F. P. A. The
meeting is in the village f1rehouse.
1t takes the Mennonite farmers
long time to pluck up courage to
go inside. We hang out of the
window and look down at them in
the street. A fat business man
harangues them. Trim your lamps
and your cup will be full of oil.
You farmers are not them that's
got the lamp trimmed and so you
are left in the cold Lew cocks
his ear. That tub of CUTS may
try to make trouble. I'll trim him
if he does"
At last the farmers hitch up their
shoulders and advance upstairs.
They sit in the back blinking.
Lew rises. Am I speaking to
farmers or mixed group?" More
than half raise hands to show they
are farmers. Lew looks over some
of the merchants and then goes on:
How many of you farmers know
about the milk agreement" None
jerks up hand. How many of
you farmers worked to draw it up?
None. Then who did sweat over
it? The milk trusts and their henoh-
men, the leaders of the Interstate
Milk Producers. The Interstate held
meetings behind closed doors three
days before the hearing. The In
terState leaders added five to seven
amendments to the agreement and
said they didn't have enough copies
to go round To whom did they
hand the few they had. Did they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
RED FRONT

Left left left left,
The drums hear the drums steady play,
Left left, left, left,
Red workers are marching today,
We march, let no one hinder, We will pass,
We carry the flag of the workingclass
In the face Of our class enemy,
We ask no quarter. they shall not turns us back
We're standing ready for the final attack,
On our enemy the bourgeoisie.
RED Workers, we greet you comrades,
CIench your fist for the fray,
Ranks mbroken, shoulder to shoulder
Strong for the workers great day.
See, there stand our Oppressors
Boldly their weapons they hsunt.
Proletarians prepare for the struggle,
RED FRONT. RED FRONT!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

ago, he let it be known they are
welcome to visit him. "I'll shoot.
But I won't shoot in the legs. I'll
shoot to kill" They haven't bothered
him since.
He is frail-looking, but his face
hardens like cold chisel. His blue
eyes CLINT. He smiles. The bank
ers were going to evict me. 1 had
q conference with them. They
promised to let me stay on the farm
if I would work faithfully. I'll
work faithfully, but not for them"
He has kept his promise. One
day he is over in New Jersey adj
dressing q bunch of farmers. An
other time in Philadelphia helping
the milk drivers with their strike.
Another time south in Pennsylvania
helping organize Mennonites. He
has little time to tend to his fields
or cut wood and milk the COWS.
He says that during the day he
sleeps like a tomcat that's been
mousing and eating all night. Or
he lies in the grass reading Lannon'S
book on Russia with its inscrip-
ton to him by Lamont. Reading
the paper he'll often turn to the
sports section first. He's base
ball fan and roots for the Athletics,
Was pitcher himself once, a pretty
fair spitballer. In the evening oc-
casionally he sits on the porch,
picking ost mites off his hairy arms
and cracking Jokes. The farmers
have been treated like the baby
brought out for an airing by the
nurse. The nurse sa her friend
the policeman and got behind a
tree with him Meantime an organ
grinder dropped around with his
monkey The monkey took the
bottle from the baby and gave his
tail to the baby to suck. And while
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
700 at Symposium on 9Th Communist
Party Convention and IntellectuaIs

Republican and Democratic con-
ventions, at least 80 per cent Of the
delegates we're capitalist minded"
The highlight of the meeting
was the appearance of EuIah
Gray, the niece of Ralph Gray.
Negro leader of the Sbareerop-
pers' Union murdered in Alabama
by thugs in the hire of the land
lords.
She had been q deleg1ate to the
Communist Party convention, and
reused the audience to cheers
when she said it was wonderful
to see how the entire and Negro
workers cooperated so good together
at the convention"
Comrade Gray described the
conditions Of terror under which
Communist organizers are working
in the South, and told of the growth
Of the sharecroppers Union, which
now has 5000 members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
BY BEN FIELD

The United Farmers Protective
Association is one of the most mill
tant of the left wing farm organiza-
tions In this country. Its president,
Lew Bentley, about week ago in
Philadelphia turned Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace inside out like
an old coat to show the guns in
the lining to be used against the
farmers in the proposed is per cent
cut in milk production.
In Washington at the first con-
ference Lew Bentley was one of
the most active of the farmer dele
gates, elected a member of the Ma
tional Committee for Action. His
stomach ulcer made him sick as a
dog there and he had to be dosing
himself with bismuth. That didn't
stop him. Neither did the deputy
sheriff pointing gun at him when
the Pennsylvania farmers fought
the sheriff sale five times at Red
Hill until the law sent out an army
of about so deputies and police to
fight them. The bullet buried it
self in the ground at his feet. YES"
said David Laurie, young farm or
ganizer, in describing Red Hill, Lew
is a second Eugene Debs."
In the week we spent in Pennsyl-
vania We we're able to see the U.
F. P. A. in action under the lead
ership of its fearless farmers. Lew
comes from Schuylkill County,
Pennsylvania, where they used to
pick scabs off the hills with guns.
Worked as a mechanic on printing
presses. During the war had a
job in the Navy Yard, Didn't buy
a single Liberty Bond. And when
the <. <. X. and the American
Legion threatened him not so long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

NEW YORK. - Seven hundred
workers, students and professionals
attended the symposium on THE
Eighth Communist Party Conven-
ton ond the Intellectuals" held
Friday night in Irving Plaza Hall,
18th st. and Irving Place.
The speakers we're Harry Cannes,
member of the Editorial Board of
the Daily Worker; Joseph North.
co-editor Of The New Masses; first
revolutionary weekly; and Mar
guerite Young, Of the Daily Worker
Washington Bureau. All three
speakers reported the Cleveland
convention for the revolutionary
press.
Granville Hicks, literary editor of
The New Masses, acted as chair
man.
North described the composition
of the convention, reported wildly
the speeches brought from shops,
factories and farms by the rank
and-file delegates, and told of the
fighting program of action adopted
by the convention.
Cannes briefly outlined tn e
Party's analysis of the capitalist
crisis, told of the growth of the
Party from 1900 members at the
previous convention in 1880 to Is 900
members at the present time.
Cannes showed how the crisis mas
affected the middle class the in
tellectuals and concluded by show
ing how writer's and other profess
sional workers can actively parti-
cipate in the revolutionary struggle,
Marguerite Young contrasted the
Republican and Democratic con-
ventions of 1882 which she helped
report while on the staff of the
Associated Press, with the Com
munist convention in Cleveland.
AT the Communist convention,
she said, NEARLY 90 per cent of the
delegates we're proletsrians. At the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
zone Is Guilty" At The
Jefferson Thentre

"One Is Guilty" with Ralph Bel
lamy and Shirley Grey, Is nou
showing at the Jefferson Theatre
The same program includes II Liks
1t That Way with Roger Pryor and
Gloria Stuart. Tuesday and Wednes-
day the program will have "Palooka"
with Jimmy Durante and Lupe Vele8
and Lazy River" with Jean Parker
and Robert Young. On Thursday
and Friday the jefferson will offer
Ozark Hazard with Edward G
Robinson, also Love Birds with
Slim Summerville and zasu Pitts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

hand them to you? No, thev
handed them out only to certain
farmers. Why was this done? This
was done to tie our hands in the
fight against the new milk agree
ment. There was testimony at the
hearing for this milk agreement.
But from whom2 Ninety-nine per
cent from the dealers
Lew wears the only good suit he
has-old and rusty that his wife.
Theresa, ironed for him early in
the day. He is clean shaven. AS
ne talks he walks up and down in
front of the farmers. The farmers
are hunched over as if they are
shelling something into hidden pans
with their big hands.
When they asked at the hearing
who was against the new milk code,
farmer after farmer testified against
it. There we're only two farmers
for it. One former county agent
and the other banker who also
owns a pleasure farm"
The village banker had gotten
the firehouse for the meeting. This
doesn't cut ice with Lew.
Why there was so much opposi-
ton to the code that the milk deal
ers, the small milk dealers. offered
some Of us farmers high as 500 a
day to stay longer at the hearing.
And some Of our farmers and In
terstate leaders want us to deal with
the small dealers. get us off our
track and harpoon US. They say
these are the small dealers and they
are our friends. Are they? They're
fighting the code because it hurts
them, Give them chance to build
up end they'll rob you like the big
companies"
ITO be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
By JOHN L. SPTVAK

LOS ANGELES.-The Sill
yer Shirts meet in the 1. o. o.
F. hall at Santa Monica and
Oxford AYES, usually every
Sunday night. The hall,
capable Of holding over 1000 is well
filled. On some coca sions It is filled
to Overlooking with a respectable
middle class type. They are well
dressed; their wives look we'll FED
and contented. There is an air
about them Of gentility sought after
but not quite attained
Most Of them are young or
middle aged. A good portion are
retired farmers. small business men
and their wives. They had made
their pile" and had retired to Los
Angeles to live out their days in
the sunshine without a worry in
their minds. This is the class
which, for lack Of anything to do
in their retired hours, takes up
spirituslism. Christian Science.
seences and other fine and occult
arts.
Then there is the class Of middle
aged worker who had earned a good
salary out Of which he had been
able to save; he owns or owned,
his own home Others have lost
their Jobs due to the depression or
had their salaries so drastically re-
duced that they are blindly furious
but do not know particularly at
what.
The third grouping are Just the
plain nuts one finds everywhere
who attach themselves to any and
all kinds Of movements.
These people are religious, Their
faith has been severely shaken by
the past five years. They know
that something terrific has hap
/ pened; they know there Is a depres-
sion, but what caused it, or who
or what is TO blame or what to do
about It they do not know Being
somewhat unbalanced with their
spiritualism, seances and general
unhappiness they are an easy mark
for the man who comes along with
a formula which combines the
things they are used to and the
things they hope for q touch of
religion (private talks with God by
the national LEADER; q touch Of
pleasant economics Cno taxes, no
foreclosures); and a touch of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
HOLD THE FORT

We meet today in freedoms cause
And raise our voices high!
Join our hands in Union strong
To battle or 10 die!
Chorus:
Hold the fort for we are coming
Union men be strongl
Side by side we battle onward
Victory will come
Look my comrades. see the union
Banners waving high.
Requirements now appearing,
Victory is nigh!
Chorus:
Fierce and long the battle RACES
But we will not fear.
Help will come whenever needed,
Cheer my comrades, cheerI
Chorus:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
INTERNATIONALLY.

Arise We prisoners Of starvation
Arise you wretched of the earth.
For justice thunders condemnation,
A better worlds in birth.
No more traditions chains shall bind US
Arise ye slaves, no more in thrsll
The earth shall rise on new foundations
We have been naught, We shall be all.
Chorus:
Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place
The International Soviet
Shall be the human race.
(Bepest)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Brings Cash
at "Silver Shirt" Meet

occult CcIairvoyance and claire
audience)
The whole procedure Of 2 Silver
Shirt meeting is a crazy COmbins-
ton of the symbolism Of a church
ritual, the patriotism Of 3 corner
stone dedication by a small town
politician, the densgogic appeal Of
a prediction campaign all Of
which is literally sprinkled over
with the mysticism Of a spiritUalist
seance.
WHEN the audience is seated the
rigmsrol starts. Silver Shirts,
with large Is enblszoned on their
bosonls. march in solemnlv with
the Stars and Stripes on one side
and their own flag with the huge
L on the other, In hUshed silence
the msrchers reach the platform,
cross and plant the flags at either
side Of the stage. Then the speaker
Of the evening is ready to start
dishing 1t ont,
The lectures vary but slightly,
There are snti-semitic sermons"
offered as scientific" analysis,
Each speaker always takes care to
explain that he has no snimosity
against the Jew who keeps in his
place." other lectures deal with
simple economics Of the sort cal-
culated to appeal to the audiences
desires, similar to the stuff Peuey
offers in his published writings,
The audience is urged to 'revolu-
tionary" activity towards the in-.
ternational bankers, Jews and Com
munists with the Third Intens-
tional thrown in for good measure.
Almost invariably the Jew is held
responsible for everything that
happens and the audience mods its
collective head in appreciation Of
the facts"
The talks are sometimes inflara-
mable. They have to be to make the
collection large. Phrases like "mer-
CHESS killings" bloody slaughter"
fills the hall. Advice like DO not
call every Jew you meet a damned
kyke-be patient, stand solid-and
await The Day" is common fodder,
When they have been filed with
this the customary procedure (used
only at this particular meeting so
far as was able to ascertain is
to switch off all the lights for five
minutes to give you a chance to
mediate on what you viii do when
The Day arrives"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
THE SCARLET BANNER

Arise you workers. fling to the breezes.
The Scarlet Banner. the Scarlet Banner:
Arise you workers fling to the breezes,
The Scarlet Banner. triumphantly
Chorus:
Wave Scarlet Banner, triumphantlyl
wave Scarlet Banner, triumphantlyl
Wave Scarlet Banner, triumphantly
For Communism and Liberty!
The sweating millions, the working masses
March onward under the Scarlet Banner
The flaming standard of the suffering masses,
The Scarlet Banner, triumphantly
Chorus:
Sailors and farmers and factory workers.
United under the Scarlet Banner
Raise up our emblem against the shirkers
The Scarlet Banner, trtumphantly
Chorus:
One party welded Of all the races,
We carry onward the Scarlet Banner.
We face the danger-the rebel faces
The Scarlet Banner, tr1umphantly!
Chorus:
Arise you workers, your chains Of slavery
Will vanish under the Scarlet Banner
Come rally round it, come show your bravery.
The Scarlet Banner, triumphantlyl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN

GENERAL weeks ago. one of my batting days for Mike
Cold commented the change of policy of The Amer
lean Mercury and referred to the advance publicity for
an article entitled The RussO-apan War Myth by George
E. SokoIsky. l charged that Sokosky "a paid agent
mperia country which would pay the
price expert worked for British Jap
Imperialism Moreover asserted that
sokolsky dirty British Imperialism while writ
China and in the employ Of the muir
der of thousands of Chinese and pesantsang Kae
Sokolsky didn't particularly like putting these facts
into print, for lie writes follows:
Dear Mr.. Garin
your Change the World Of April 1s in
which you pay compliments friendly and comradey
Nearly evmhing that Of is false and from
standponts stupidity false you could do much better
you took the trouble truthful.
your that Chang Ksishek the
workers and peasants also untrue
your standpoint you that both sides of
win the Of the fighting human beings
Chu-teh have expended
many China Chang Kaishek has And both sides
will probably continue their destructive activities until one or the other
call Chang Kahek murderer ought to
recognize your Generals in China doing just
a much numbering.
expect Communist because
your theory bourgeoie concepon Of fair
play. difficult to forgive misnformation.
Respectfully yours
GEORGE z. soKoLsKY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
SOLIDARITY FOREVER

The workers learned their lesson nov
As everyone can see.
The workers know their bosses are
Their greatest enemy.
Wen fight and fight until re win
Our final victory,
For One Big Solid Union.
Chorus:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the Union makes us strong.
The men all stick together
And the boys are fighting fine
The women and the girls are all right
On the picket line.
No scabs, no threats can stop us
AS we all march out on time
Through One Big Solid Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Dear Garlin:

Garlin
TN case" writes L.,
Commissioner Rice gives to utilize
water don't forget to mention gratitude the
City in allowing millions of
beaches Coney Island Brighton which
poluted and to be thankful that seashore
land to remain undeveloped OF
have been built for purposes may by any
or child who has money gas bridge tolls
expenses plus little lighthouses
Othe~T1se think your letter TO him swell" M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Gilbert and SulIiUun Group
To Offer "IOlanthe" Tonight

'Iolanthe" will be offered this
evening at the Majestic Theatre "a
the fourth Of the Gilbert and 5ulh-
van operettss to be presented by
the former troupe Of Aborn players,
Frederic Person, William Danforth,
Vera Ross, Roy Chopper,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

Arms and the Man, will be revived
on Wednesday evening at the ST.
James Theatre by the Knicker>
booker Light Opera Company, Ths
company is headed by Charles Pur~
cell, Bernice Claire, Detmsr Poppen
and FRITZ Won Busing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

The dictatorship of the prole-
tsrist must be State that en-
bodies a new kind of democracy,
for the proletarians and the dis
possessed; and q new kind Of
dictatorship, against the bour-
geoisie-Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
WHAT'S ON
Monday

PIERRE Degeyter Club Membership meet
ing, $40 pm. Instructions for May Day
Mass singing.
LAST Of series on History Of Soviet
Russia. The New Economic Policy, and
the Five Year Plan by Theodore Bayer
at Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. DAT willouEhby
Ave Adm. free, pm. Auspices Williams
burg Br F.s.U
SPECIAL Membership Meeting, Browns
vile Br F.sU., at 100 Glenmore Avenue
Last arrangement for May Day Celebra-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

Down tools May 1st! Show your
will for the overthrow Of capital
ism, for Soviet United States!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
SONGS FOR MAY DAY

Keep this page with you when you Join the
Nay Day parsdes and demonstrations tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Both Sides Of a Revolution"

sOKO1sKY. please permit you questions.
many standpoints stupidity which statements
false which stupidity false do not
the trouble to indicate It seems to that the hasy per-
which you dismiss charges indicates perhaps
Consciousness of guilt part
most illuminating part of letter however, found IN
Chang Kashek the murderer Of thousands Of
that reveals where
political pates e and sngered
write that both sides Of revolution
the the fighting human beings lose
their lives friends Holung and Chuh CRed Army generals
s. CD expended China Chang Kai-shk has
other culpabe the white guard
Denkn the
Thousands engaged in this struggle
Is thu your logic?
compare Lung the heroic the 4h Red Army
with mperast brayer the Chinese Revolution
Chang Kai-shek.
You put Chu Teh the commander the
category
perass Chang defending viewpoints
reyolution-is that
sokolsky you say fight
win What revolution Chang Ka-shek fighting for
apparently that the increasingly victorious drive of the Chinese
Armies the extension Of Soviet China under worker rule the
division of the exploited peasantsyou
that all this simply different kind revolution" than Chang
Kahek fighting for Especially when personally
contact with the Chang dynasty that Chang Kahek
the paid tool of the mperst bandits China aughteng
Chinese workers the Of
domination al exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
How Do You Explain?

MOREOVER the Red Army has 100000 soldiers
m in the field heroicaly battling against
under Chang Kai-shek difference your logcP
How do explain the almost daily executions peasants
and sudenhundreds Of them not Communists mpass7
How do explain the execution Shanghai
recentlof 30 antmperialis
Shanghai has battor
Chinese freedom The
mperialst butcheres of Chang
How do feel about the slow of
the Chang activity
behalf of Chinese liberation?
To apparently your position OF
supreme mparaity" paid propagandist for
peria1ss
And lastly you deny helped nsigate police of
Chang Kashek arrest and mpast fighters through
editorials in the North China Daily News organ
imperialism
perhaps on your own part in aiding
the bloody Marking regime which you sensitive?
This Stuff About Fair Play!'
you conclude saying do not expect fair
ness from Communist theory excludes
bourgeois conception of
Here Mr. sokosky trying put slippery We
Communists believe real fair you
The bougeoe
democracy lying press helps the masses by
ruthless dictatorship captafor you incidentally
Enge in the Communist Manifesto That's
sky We declare purposes boldly deany
geois to which
working class by demagoc
mated fair
Your ideas of play" play the foreign borgeoisie
ee out the Chinese workers
Shareholders people melted on, bv fs+
mpahst in rkshaw sweating grooming cooie ickhaw
puler
end your plea fair play with the statement that
it difficult to forgive transformation nowhere in your letter
have given specific citations inaccurate
Our feeling is that the
specific charges made against
on but rather justify service of the
enemies of the Chinese workers peasants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

Read the Revolutionary Press!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

ITO be continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-07

14CAA4CAA4s III D1C1 L 111lSS tourney SUdr.
Heinlein.s pace-setting, round was
two strokes better than that of his
nearest competitors, Paul Gentry,
Wedmore Smith and George Urqu-
hart, all of Tech, who had 74s.
A field of nearly $50 took part in
the eighteen-hole qualification over
Indianapolis most difficult public
links. There were a few with
drawals and some late starters
failed to turn in cards after learn
ing it took a score in the low 80s to
be among the thirty-two who be-
gan match play this morning.
Seven in Playoff
1t took a score of SO or better to
qualify. There were twenty-six
scores of 80 or better, necessitating
playoff this morning between seven
boys, each with 83s. The winner
completed the bracket of thirty-two
contenders.
Those who tied at 83 were Hugh
Baker, Cathedral; Flick Beaver,
Castleton; Bill Musgrove, Short
ridge; Marcus List, Oakalandon;
Louis Valiant and John Laffey,