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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Ry q Farmer CORRESPONDENT

CADE, N. YIN 1924 1
bought a farm of 275 acres at Ar
cade, N. Y. This is in Wyoming
County. I paid $3.50 for the farm.
I paid out $2,750 cash, and this
left a mortgage of $4,000 On this
mortgage 1 paid $780, The interest
was s per cent, and kept up the
payments until 1882.
l could not keep the payments,
and was to be foreclosed. The
mortgage was held by John knight,
of Arcade, who is the Federal Judge
for western New York. When 1
found I was to be foreclosed, my
little 11-year old daughter wrote to
President Roosevelt. I got an an
swer from the Farm Credit Admin
istration who said my application
would be given preferred attention.
1t was around the end of March
that 1 got this letter.
On May 7th my daughter wrote
again, and we got a letter saying
that no loan could be given on the
farm. The Farm Credit Admin
istration wrote that they had gone
over the papers of the appraiser.
They said: Our review of the
papers in his case leads us to the
conclusion that the action taken
by the Federal Land Bank was
justified.
No appraiser had come to the
farm. The farm had been ap-
praised in 1882 when I had made
application for another loan. In
1882 the appraiser said that could
not get more than $4,000 on all my
tools and livestock. I had IS head
of cattle, of which 10 were being
MIXED, besides all my tools and a
team of horses.
John Knight blocked this loan. He
did not want the money; he wanted
the farm. Knight told me the farm
had been sold and that the new
owner had tenant ready to move
on it. Today this farm is still
standing idle.
On July 9Th the sheriff came to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
CHAIN GANG TERROR
BY a Worker Correspondent

COLUMBIA, S. CT am again
writing on the white terror in South
Carolina, about the chain gang.
The ruling class say that they must
always keep the damn niggecs"
to themselves on the gang, and also
in the state prison. and in the
county Jail all over S. c.. In this
way we can always manage the
whites and the damn niggers,' "
they say.
The other day in Lexington
County a Negro prisoner and a
white prisoner were talking. The
captain on the gang asked them.
what in the hell are you fellows
talking about. Nothing" they
said, only Our freedom.
That will never happen" he
answered. you damn poor white
bastard, I believe you was teaching
that damn black son of a bitch to
run away. I mean to beat hell out
of you tonight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Negro Worker Faints
From Hunger But Is
Denied Help in South
Bx a Worker CORRESPONDENT

COLUMBIA. s. c. A Negro
worker had collapsed from the heat
and 1 went and got an officer, so
that he could send the sick man
to the hospital. The policeman re-
fused to send this Negro anywhere.
I know this Negro we'll We had
worked together for three months
at Camp jackson on the C. w. A.
project, but he has not had any
work since February, and no food
to eat. He went from door to door
and asked the people to let him cut
their grass in the yard so that he
could get bread to eat. But they
refused him.
This man was laid off in February
and they did not give him food or
work. This Negro worker was just
about starved out, but he was on
the state rolls and he was cut off
because he and his wife are not to-
gether. A single man doesn't have
to live. They are starving by the
hundreds in the South.
I myself am a worker here, and
I have been cut off The inspector
was at my home, and I was not
there when she came, so for that
reason they cut me of, and I am
fighting like hell to get back be-
cause I have no other way out. We
are living in hell and choking in
the South. If you utter a word,
they put you behind bars,
That is how things are with the
poor Negro in the South. but !
hope the day will soon come when
workers will come to the top and
get their rights.
I am hungry now I had but
one days work in July, and no
food, and on the 18th of July my
case was closed, so you know just
how it is with me, but I am will
ing to struggle for what we work
ers want-unemployment insurance
and the right to live, and organize
for better conditions.
The League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights forced me back on the
relief roll again, on July 81.
There are many workers here that
have been cut off the relief for no
reason, whether black or white, but
l hope the day will soon come when
they will see as I have seen. We
must struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Judge Blocks Loan TO
FOrecIOse on Farmer
Member of Dairymen's League Ruined By Milk
Trust and Federal Government

eyict us. There are two children
girl, II years old, and a boy, 6.
They have no mother. The children
were taken in by a worker and his
wife who live in Arcade. These
people also moved the furniture into
their barn, after it had been at
the side of the road for two days.
I was dairy farmer and mem
Der of the Dairymens League, and
sold to Borden's, the rich dairy
trust. I shipped from 300 to 500
pounds a Gay, depending on the
season. In 1882 I got only 28c per
cwt. for the milk. I was supposed
to get CSC; out of this zoe was taken
for hauling and shipping charges
and zoe by the Dairymen's League.
Out of the 28c I had to feed the
COWS, run the farm, and feed and
clothe my family.
Our county was not in the milk
strikes last year. When the milk
code went into effect, we were sup
posed to get not less than $3.50 per
cwt, for our milk. But shipping
and hauling charges and all this
came out of it, and we got only
around 60c per cwt started to
ship to a cheese factory, and got
around 60c-90c.
In Wyoming County the farmers
feel the need of organizing. There
is no farm organization except the
Dairymen's League, and this meets
only twice year. No foreclosures
have been stopped here, and there
are many farmers being foreclosed.
If the farmers got the right lead
ership, they would organize. 1 have
taken the Daily Worker around and
the farmers like it. They seldom
get to see a paper and don't know
what is going on.
My life savings and 10 years work
are gone. Now I must live on the
welfare. I want to say that Knight
wrote me letters on federal sta
tionery telling me I had to get off.
And Knight has had this farm 60
ing from one farmer to another for
years, and has got money from each
one and then foreclosed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Bv a Farmer Corresnondent

BOYD Co.. Neb. - Weather. hot
aSd Iry, no rain. Crops are about
zone, late corn is the only hope,
the last week we suffered from
! Temperature Of 100 up to lis
degrees.
Farmers are moving out cattle to
other pastures, some going to mar
kets, hardly paying expenses. Pigs
around here are worthless, cannot
get buyers to take them away; corn,
wheat, hay, etc., going sky high.
Corn 70 cents to 81 a bushel, wheat
88 cents to 81, hay, they are bidding
Is to $40 a ton, and then can get
none. Farmers are selling their
whole f1ocks of poultry, as grain
even at the above prices cannot be
purchased. Eggs-price 10 to IL
cents dozen; hens are from four
to seven cents a pound. Spring
chickens, eight to IL cents a pound.
The corn and hog program was
signed up Thursday. July 26. over
the county. Farmers are almost
forced to sign, as there is nothing
else in sight, and no feed is ship
ped in even if thousands of head of
stock are starving to death.
Most farmers have also had to
take cut in corn and hog program
from $25 up to 5000 on contract.
Wallace and Co. are cutting out
hogs raised, making goats out of
signers, but whenever hogs are
shipped onto the market, the pro-
ceSsing tax is always the same, SIPS
for every 100 pounds of live weight,
which the farmer pays before he
gets any returns. "a nice jack pot
for some capitalist). Farmers are
beginning to think the New Deal
and Roosevelt are not so hot. They
say that in the campaign the New
Deal promised that no one should
suffer or want in this land of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
PARTY LIFE
Movement in Providence
Is Forging ahead Fast
Daigent Effort Built Anti-Nasi, LID. Branches
Despite Little Organization

Our movement is making head
way in Providence. true in some
what disorganized manner. but still
the last six months have left an
unmistakable mark of growth. 1t
is particularly impressing because
of the complete absence of the
guidance that Communist unit
should give if one was functioning
effectively.
There is a Communist Party in
Providence consisting of few de-
voted comrades, but there is no
leadership at ALL Yet the last few
months have witnessed the organ
izing of an English speaking branch
of the TWO, a 25 per cent in
crease in membership of the Jew
ish branch of the TWO, the even
tual establishment of youth
branch of the TWO, the decision
to establish a branch of the Frei-
heit Gesangs Verein, independent
of other cities, and what is really
important, the organizing of what
promises to be a really live Cam
paign Committee for the Commu-
mist Election Campaign, the estab-
lishment of a large and influential
branch of the League to Help the
Victims of German Fascism and a
very promising branch Of the LID.
1t is about the last two organiza-
lions that I want to take space,
for they are important as examples
of what determination and devoted
work can accomplish.
For months our branch of the
Two. has discussed the Fascist
question. We made attempt after
attempt to establish a united front
organization against Fascism. We
were failing, when we thought we
were succeeding = the Socialist
Party sabotaged and asked that we
include in the Fascist countries also
the Soviet Union; the liberal pro-
fesSors talked, but were afraid of
action and association with Com
munists, yet persistent effort has
won to the extent that the Kurt
Rosenfeld meeting that was ar
ranged by the newly established
branch, despite adverse weather
conditions, brought out what is con-
sidered a large attendance here, and
the cash collection for the victims
of German Fascism Melted $113
The chairman of the meeting was
Presbyterian minister, upon whose
recommendation from the platform,
IS copies Of the New Masses were
sold. The committee consists of
college graduates, a professor in one
of the colleges here, YM.C.A.
secretary and a number of inf1u-
entail people. In short we are max
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Radish!

Health Farm, Olinville, N. "
We have had your health" farm
investigated and found that your
claims are false. You have neither
farm nor the most elementary Sani-
tary facilities, except five-room
shack Your eggs, butter and
cheese are bought at the A 81 P
stores and the doctor" on your
premises is a young man of 18 who
hopes to be able to study medicine,
some day. Under the circumstances,
your offer to give readers of the
Daily Worker so percent dis
count is. a gross imposition and a
severe strain on our gullibility. In
other words, you are what Lenin
called a "radish'; red outside and
white insidel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
CLASS JUSTICE
BY a Farmer Correspondent

BEMIDJI, Minn.-A farmer was
fined $40 or 40 days in Jail for using
license plates, belonging to one car,
on another automobile, although
both cars had belonged to the fam
lily and this farmer had no way
of getting license for the other
car.
I was told that the Mayors son
had been before court for being
drunk while driving and that the
judge said he would impose sentence
at some later date. But so far no.
body heard whether this sentence
was imposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
How the Circulation Drive Affects
This Column and Vice Versa

The other night we took a walk
to get some fresh air, after a day
of gruelling work. 1t was 1870 and
we could not go very far, so we
strolled in the neighborhood, in
what is known as Greenwich Viii
lage. We had intended to return
to the office in about half an hour
and stop at 14th st. on our way
back to get copy of the next days
Daily Worker. We knew from ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
WORKERS SHOULD DEMAND
BETTER CONDITIONS

The capitalist press carrie d
screaming headlines telling us about
the returning prosperity to Amer
lea. They tell about the big ap-
preparations that the Roosevelt
government is making for the
drought-stricken farmers. Then we
turn the pages of the Daily Worker
and see letters such as Claud Rey-
nold's, stating that he has muir
dered his children to keep them
from starving.
My advice to parents who are
thinking of taking the same way
out as Reynolds did, is-join the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
FARMERS HIT BY DROUGHT AND PROCESSING TAX
Farm Workers
organizing in
Trenton, n. ].
NV a Worker Correspondent

TRENTON, N. J.-For few
months each year 1000 unemployed
workers, mostly Negro, get a chance
to work on farms. picking beans,
potatoes, etc. They only make
about 81 to IS for three days work
each week. Most of these workers
live in houses which have not had
gas or electricity since the depres-
sion began. Now that they have a
chance to buy few things that
they need. the state has cut them
off the relief roll and stopped pay
ing their rent. Now they are worse
off than if they didn't stop work.
Some Of the workers are organ
izing committees to send down to
the relief authorities. A group of
farm workers have started to form
a local of the Agricultural and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
NOTE:

We publish letters from farm
ers. agricultural workers, lumber
ard forestry workers. and cannery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
tiers about thar conditions of
work, and their struggles to organ
ize Please get these letters to us
by Monday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

ing roads in the ranks of the in.
.terectuals.
Our LID. branch consists at
present of nine Negroes and eight
whites. The Negroes are workers,
the whites are unemployed or
partly employed professional men
and college graduates, who are dis
playing such interest and activity
that will surely result in one Of
the best LID. branches in the
country.
All of these results have come
from the activity of our unit.
E. S., Providence.
One of the Causes for FIuctuation
In reading the Party Organizer
for May-June, I found under
Growth of Party" page IL, that
the Party lost $4,000 members from
1930-19 One of the reasons for
this is the slowness in issuing mem
bership books. I think this is the
worst thing that can happen in
the Communist Party. This way,
instead of gaining we will lose
members. Those who are responsible
for this stage of affairs ought to
be removed from the Office and be
replaced by workers who are dis
ciplined enough to live up to their
duties.
To give you an example of how
this particular work is done, I can
prove that in my unit, with ii
members, four members had to wait
for their membership book from
two to five months. Right now we
have comrade who has been watt
ing fer his book for four months.
Don't you think that there
should be some way to correct
this situation? 1 am Ger
man and am used to discipline.
That's why 1 can't understand that
mistakes like this happen. This has
been going on since the Party exists.
and like the Party Organizer proves
in the worst manner.
L. L., West Forest Hills, L. I.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Rise in Meat Prices
Predicted Next Year

BALTIMORE. Md, Aug THE
price of meat will rise next year,
according to a statement made here
today by John A. Kotal, executive
secretary of the National Associ-
alton Of Retail Meat Dealers.
Speaking before the annual con-
vention of the association, Kotal,
whose own firm is in Chicago, de-
clared that such price rise would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
SOAP WORKERS STRIKE
(DaiIy Worker Midwest Bureau

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-More than
100 workers in Lever Brothers soap
plant in Hammond, Ind, struck
Monday for a 10 per cent increase
in wages. Police were on hand in
an attempt to prevent militant mass
picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

Send FIFTEEN CENTS u5c) in
coins or stamps coins preferred
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 w. 18th
St. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Millions Of Sheep. and
Cattle To Be Destroyed
By a worker CORRESPONDENT

BARNHART, Texas. = This guy
called Uncle Sam is just now buy
ing outright 100000 sheep and the
agent of the Blue Buzza-d Gang
sters tells me they will kill, destroy
outright, Is per cent of sheep and
IS per cent Of 100000 cattle.
I am making the trips to the
wholesale killings. There is no
doubt that the banks get the money
and the ranchman keeps most of
the sheep.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
United Front
Wins Relief in
Roswell, N. M.
BY a Worker Correspondent

ROSWELL N. Mex-We are
fighting here at fearful odds in ac-
tual starvation, killing all the cat
tie on account Of the drought, and
the only thing that is keeping
things up at all is some govern
ment relief If this stops this win
ter it will be too bad.
We have united front now with
Farm Holiday, Socialists and Com
munists fighting for relief side by
side. Our leaders are arrested
weekly in all the big towns, but so
far we have forced their release
each time.
Yesterday a huge mass meeting
at Clovis was raided and leaders ar
rested, and here they are under
Is days sentence in Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

Communist Party and fight for the
rights of your children and your
self instead of taking the easiest
way out. Comrades, to do that
we are only showing we are fur
ther ready to submit to the OPP
preston of the -livered capt.
talists.
A READER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Letters from Our Readers

worker can make ends meet. And
the cure for such rotten conditions
would be first to organize and fight
Tor the Unemployment Insurance
Bill H. R. 1898, against war and
1ascism, and for a Soviet America.
S. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
DISSATISFIED WITH NEW
DEAL
~ a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

QUINCY, Ill - The disappoint-
ment with the New Deal is painted
in every persons face. Only the
fathers of the city are looking full
of feigned optimism of the condi-
tons, but small business men are
despairing.
People don't dare to express their
dissatisfaction because of the spy
system here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Comradely yours,
elise K"

While we subscribe heartily to
Conrade Elises views, we Just wish
to qualify the statements in her
second paragraph, which claim that
he who has many mouths to feed
is compelled to participate in anti
working class activity. Although
the dependence of a large family
upon worker does exert a more
considerable pressure upon him
toward accepting ANY pittance or
crumb,' such large family must
not be regarded as a compuIsion to
scab, or otherwise aid in strike
breaking or anti working class ac-
tiyity. On the contrary, it is one
more reason to keep up militant
fight.
To limit the size of the family,
of course, lghtens such pressure.
We might add that the preference
sometimes given, when workers are
hired, to those with dependents.
arises not so much out of the ben
evidence of the boss as out Of his
desire to secure docile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
In THE HOME
A Woman Speaks Up
BY HELEN LUKE

More and more, however, they are
getting fooled in this kind of ex-
pectation when they hire fellows
with seven or eight kids at homeD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

inevitably follow the wide spread
government slaughtering of cattle
this year and the effects of the
present drought throughout the
middle west
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1899 is available in sizes
"a. So, 38, 40, AZ and "A. Size SO
takes 334 yards 39-inch fabric.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

From Philadelphia, Pa. comes a
note declaring a woman's attitude
toward birth control in no uncer-
tain terms:
Il read the letter from Comrade
Joe x. in your column today pro-
testing the Communist sanction Of
birth control. I. as a woman, wish
to protest against Comrade Joe's
point of view. I believe it is I'M
worthy of a Communist. How can
he help but realize that opposition
to birth control is an effective
means for the capitalist class to
still further enslaye the workers!
There are times when hungry
mouths at home compel a worker
to join in such anti-working class
activities as scabbing and strike
breaking. If a worker has many
children depending upon him Tor
food and shelter he is forced to
accept any pittance or crumb his
employer may wish to dole out.
"Comrade Joe speaks of birth
control as a barbarous act; would
disagree with him to the point of
saying that those who forbid birth
control aim to reduce the worker
to medieval serfdom.
"As a woman worker and a Com
munist sympathizer I am glad to
see that greater masses of the
workers, both Negro and white, are
daily availing themselves of the
benefits of knowledge on how to
control the size OF their family.
There are still, however, countless
obstacles and difficulties attached
to the mass dissemination of birth
control information. Certainly the
practice of this would be the privi-
lege of every man or woman, if he
or she so desired, under a Soviet
state.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
Home Cooked Vegetables

Tanya: Home cooked vegetables
are not necessarily superior to the
canned product. II you overlook
them or discard the water in
which they are boiled, large per-
centage of their vitamin- content
and of the precious minerals is
lost. The canning companies are
in a position to make use of the
most scientific methods of cooking
(under vacuum and straining. Our
fresh" vegetables are often sew
eral days old; while some of the
large canneries pack their products
on the spot, within a few hours
after they are harvested. Further
more, many of the fruits and vege-
tables are picked before they are
fully ripe; otherwise they are liable
to rot before they reach the con-
sumner. Canned tomatoes and pine
apple, for instance, are liable to be
ripper than those we get on the
pushcart or vegetable store.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

Unemployed? Join the Red
Builders!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09
DIR. LUTTINCER ADVISES

perience that there was no other
place in the entire Village where
we could get an advance copy Of
our paper.
You may well imagine our sur
prise when we saw a Red Builder
selling the Daily Worker, within
two blocks from our office. We
watched him for a few minutes and
noticed that he had a brisk trade.
mainly from nearby cafeteria.