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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Empty Lot Is
Relief Station
In Hazelhurst
BY a Worker Correspondent

HAzELHURST, Pa. = Here is a
picture Of the relief station in
Hazelhurst.
A cold December morning. A
crowd of workers, men, women and
children, are huddled in a vacant
lot. Most of them are grasping in
their bare hands postal card from
the relief board, telling them to re-
port at a certain hour, to give their
life history, or to receive pair of
shoes or a bit of clothing that they
have been waiting months to get.
They are stamping their feet and
waving their arms in order to keep
warm, and as the time draws near
as specified on their cards, they be-
come restless and keep glancing at
the cards.
The stated time comes and goes.
Some of them give up and tread
their weary way home. Others stick
1t out, and at last car drives into
the lot and stops. The motor is
left humming, it is comfortable and
warm inside.
Another long wait, while the clerk
inside the car is ARRANGING the few
articles of clothing and the blanks
for your cradle to the grave history.
Finally a worker is called into the
car, and after a long tedious wait,
he gets out and another worker Is
called in, and so on. The storm is
getting worse and it is getting
colder. More workers, without cards,
have heard that the relief car is In
town and are coming into the vacant
lot.
Suddenly. the purr of the motor
increases, the car glides into the
traffic In the distance can be caught
a glimpse of a vanishing tail light
The Hazelhurst relief station has
left town and the workers are left
holding the bag.
If the workers would take a good
look at the tail light and realize
what the color symbolizes, we would
have the use of one of the many
empty halls in town, and be pro-
vided with sufficient heat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
POINTS THE ONLY WAY OUT
East Orange, N. ].

East orange, N. j.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I am very pleased to see the
articles in the Daily Worker analyz-
ing Father Coughlin's program from
the Shrine of the Little Flower on
Sunday afternoons, with the bless
ings of the heads of the General
Motors etc. However, this alone is
not enough. 1t must be carried fur
Their by means Of small pamphlet
TO sell for two or three cents a copy.
In this way valuable information
would be provided to larger num-
Der of honest workers who are fooled
by Coughlin. Many of my friends.
Irishmen like myself, think he is
the Messiah for the poor and ex-
plotted workers. However. I have no
illusions about him, and it would
be well for those honest Irish work
men to know that here as in Ire
land, when 1t comes to a question
of better conditions, it is up to us
to unite, organize, for the unem-
ployed to become members of the
Unemployment Councils, for those
still working to become members Of
a trade union and fight for better
conditions on the job.
Fellow Irishmen, the writer of this
letter was born in the city of
Limerick. I am member Of the
Communist Party. 1t has often been
said that all Irishmen are rebels.
If this be so, then we must come to
the realization that we cannot make
two halves of the life of a dying
capitalist system hold together by
Father Coughlin's sticking plaster,
not can it be cured. We know 1t
must be cut from the very roots,
and this shall be done by the bayo-
nets of the people under the leader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

though not an English reader, yield
ed to the children's request to have
the paper delivered to them every
day.
OF course, I made my neighbor
understand the influence and role
the comic strips in the capitalist
press play in shaping children's
views on life, and he, being a reas-
oning worker, grasped the problem,
even overcoming the financial hard
ship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

ON the report. But it is clear to
militant teachers and working
class mothers that the fight for
better class room conditions,
against wage-cutS for the teachers,
is also fight against limiting the
education Of proletarian children.
1t is an important issue, and
mothers and teachers have much
to gain by joint actions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
LITTLE LEFTY MAKES FRIENDS

new YORK, N. 7.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I want to relate here how I con-
tacted recently a new house which
the Daily Worker now reaches daily.
For some time I had noticed that
my neighbours children were very
fond of Del's Little Lefty strip
which they read in my house, right
after school time.
One morning the children happily
informed me that they had found
the Daily Worker stuck in the door
in the morning In the evening I
went in to see the father and told
him that the carrier to whom I sug-
gested his name brought the paper
in the morning. My neighbor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Feed Shortage
.ThreatensRuin
of T armers
By a Farmer Correspondent

SHERMAN, N. Y.-Conditions are
pretty bad up here for the farmers
and cannot improve much until we
can havest crop again, and that
will have to be q good one to do
much good.
For two seasons this section of the
country has been hit hard by
drought, so meadows for hay are
badly damaged and some will have
to be plowed up, cropped and re-
seeded with clover seed $40 to $12
per bushel and Timothy at SIS.
Some farmers are feeding buck
wheat straw as part of the hay
ration for their cattle, and unless a
lot Of ground feed is fed, milk pro-
duction must fall. Many farmers
are short of ensilage chat is corn
cut fine while green, and placed in
silo where it will heat) owing to
the poor farm crop.
On account of the scarcity Of hay
and the feeding Of straw henhouses
cannot have the litter changed so
often; consequently, dampness will
become excessive and hens will not
produce so good, also sickness among
them will be above normal here,
killing many before Spring. My own
small flock Of hens are $66 behind
receipts since Aug. 7, and my hens
have done better than some around
here.
A good three pound broiler ten
weeks old might bring a farmer
sixty cents, but the day old price
of the chick and feed cost close to
fifty cents, and when one figures
the ones that die or are killed by
hawks and weasels, ETC., cost per
chick raised would be above fifty
cents without figuring overhead.
1t is no wonder so many farmers
are driving old model T Fords and
other old models of cars that should
really be in junk yard.
Should the farmer have car at
all? Yes, he should, because under
modern conditions it is necessity.
Hard roads would ruin the average
farm horse even if the traffic acct
dents didn't claim him.
One feature that is detrimental
to the farmer is that so much of
the business of farming has been
moved off the farm to the villages
and cities and is handled by bust
ness men and that part of farming
that one might call the gambling
part is left on the farm.
For instance, chickens used to be
Matched under hens or in small
fifty to five hundred egg incubators.
With proper incubation and fertile
eggs, chicks are sure to hatch and
with little gamble about It. Now
this part Of farming is largely NOV
ed into hatcheries with more or less
capital back or them and the far
mer can devote his time to raising
more of other things that comprise
the big gamble. The farmer buys
the day old chick from the hatchery
and then the big gamble in raising
chicks starts and the farmer takes
the risk and not the hatchery man.
The N.R.A. protects the hatcheries
but it doesn't protect the farmer
after he gets the chicks. There are
other things with similar features.
II I could spare the time from
work and figure out my problems,
I could write an article similar to
this every little while.
One wonders why the farmer
doesn't fight back more than he
does. The answer is he doesn't even
get time to fight. But the farmer is
getting awful mad and there is no
telling when he will take day off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
NOTE

We publish every Thursday
letters from farmers; agricultural,
cannery and lumber workers. We
urge farmers and workers In these
industries to write us of their
conditions and efforts to organize.
Please get these TO US by Monday
Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Letters from Our Readers

Because OF the volume Of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can print
only those that are Of general interest TO
Daily Worker readers. However, all let
tiers received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

Who said William Green h \
wall-fiower? Come down to Wash
ingtOn and watch him dance with
Fannie Perkins. Watch them both
dance into the hearts Of the U. s.
Chamber of Commerce and the
Manufacturers Association. The
Daily Worker tells you to what
tune they dance! Subscribe to
the Daily Worker!
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BUT NOT HOPELESsLY
Detroit, Mich.

OcGTOlI, MICH.
Dear Comrade Editor:
Enclosed you will find my vote in
favor of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill CHR. 1899. In
my opinion any worker who could
not favor this bill must indeed be
hopelessly hypnotized by the prop
uganda Of his class enemies.
A. NICK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
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ship of the Communist Party. AS a
worker, I ask you to join the van
guard Of the working class, the
Communist Party.
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Our Answer

A patent medicine company can be
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

An interesting letter comes from
Martins Ferry, Ohio.
WI asst fall my daughter entered
High School. About a month
later she told me that they have
a very good teacher. did not
pay much attention to her, think
ing that she meant that he is not
strict with them. But later, when
she started telling me what the
teacher talks about, 1 started to
take notice.
UMORE than once, my daughter
W said, Mr.. Stevenson talks just
like you, ma. He talks about the
conditions, the N. R. A., the teachers,
and their conditions. Among other
things he said is that it is getting
so that soon the proletarian chill
dren will not be taught anything
more than to write their own names.
And the rich children will have
separate schools. But If it was the
same here, as it is in Russia, there
would be no difference between the
rich and the poor or their children.
He does not blame the people for
fighting for Communism, because
that is the only way they will get
freedom So during every history
class, he would talk about the con-
ditions of today.
GtXUE WERE real glad that our
W daughter was taught by a
teacher like that. We were afraid
that the school board would throw
him out-which did happen. They
fired him two months before school
was ended.
"Comradesl Proletarian mothers!
ask you all that if you have such
teachers in the schools, do not let
them fire them. We could have
kept our teacher in the school here,
too, if there would have been enough
of us who are class conscious"
THE report made by the Com
1 mittee on Education to the A.
F. L. Convention not SO long ago
bears out what the militant
teacher Of Martins Ferry told his
students. Look what it says about
today's education of working class
children:
UyIIE ARE facing the passing of
W the public schools. In fact, the
public schools have passed in many
sections of our country. A program
of retrenchment has reduced school
efficiency and educational opportu-
nifty to the point of extinction.
1.-TWO thousand rural schools in
twenty-four states failed to reopen
in 1888. A like situation prevailed in
the cities where the increase in
school population was met, not by
additional classes and teachers, but
by increased enrolment in the al
ready overlarge classes. The per
pupil cost of education was cut %
per cent last year. The teachers in
service were reduced five per cent
The school year has been shortened
in a large number of cities. The
building and repair program fund
for schools in the United States has
dropped 576 per cent in cities in
the last two years. Salaries have
been reduced from 10 per cent to
| IS per cent"
II Is not recorded that the A.
F. L. Convention took any action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
IN DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET
UNION
NEW YORK. N. Y.

NEW YORK, N. Y.
DAILY WORKER
WE FORTY YOUNG WORKERS
AND STUDENTS AT A HOUSE
PARTY IN THE BRONX AFFIRM
OUR STAND TO DEFEND THE
SOVIET UNION AGAINST THE
ATTACKS OF THE ENEMIES OF
THE WORKERS FATHERLAND
A GROUP OF YOUNG WORKERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27

II is not recorded that the A.
F. L. Convention took any action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
In THE HON E
''Don't Let Them Fire Teachers 70
by ANN BARToN

An interesting letter comes from
Martins Ferry, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
UXUE WERE real glad that OF

THE report made by the Com
1 mittee on Education to the A.
F. L. Convention not so long ago
bears out what the militant
teacher Of Martins Ferry told his
students. Look what it says about
today's education of working class
children:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
TRIUMPH OF 1917 is LEADING
TO BASIC, WORLDWIDE CHANGES
Bohevk Revolution Has Raised the Fighting Spirit Oppressed Peoples
OF the Entire World, Stain Declares

But the october Revolution has not stopped short
at this 1t could not stop short at this After shat
tering the old bourgeois order it proceeded to build
up the new Socialist order. Ten years of the Oc-
tober Revolution are ten years of building up the
Party the trade unions the Soviets the CO.
operatives the cultural organizations, transport and
communications, industry and the Red Army.
Socialist Construction
THE indubitabIe success of the Socialism Of the
l Soviet Union on the field of construction have
palpably shown that the proletarat can success
fully rule country without the bomgeoisie and
against the bourgeoise; can successfully conduct
the whole national economy without the bougeosie
and against the bourgeoise; and that it can sue
ceSsfully build up Socialism in spite of the capital
ist environment The old theory" that the
plotted cannot do without the exploiters, has now
become the cardinal point OF the political phil
oSophy" Of the social democracy in general and of
the social democratic policy of coalition with the
bourgeoisie in particular This theory which has
assumed the character of prejudice, constitutes
today of the most serious obstacles in the way
Of the revolutionary proletariat in the capitalist
countries. One of the most important results of
the October Revolution is the fact that it gave a
deadly blow to this fallacious theory"
Such generally known facts as the steady growth
Of Communism in the capitalist countries, the in
creasng sympathy of the proletarians of all coun-
The WORKING CLASS III OIe OOVleO anu
finally the flockng of workers delegations to the
land Of the Sovets demonstrate beyond dispute that
the seed scattered by the october Revolution is al
ready beginning to bear fruit.
2. The October Revolution has shaken impe-
rialism not only in the centres of its rule in the
mother countries" 1t has also delivered its blow
against the Outposts of imperialism, well
against its border districts and undermined the rule
of imperialism in the colonial and dependent coun-
tries.
The October Revolution, by overthrowing the
landowners and capitalists, has broken the chain
of national and colonial suppression and, without
exception, liberated from this yoke all the subju-
gated peoples Of this gigantic State. The prole-
tariat cannot emancpate itself without emancipat-
ing the subJugated peoples The October Revou-
ton has accomplished these national and colonial
revolutions in the Soviet Union not under the ban
of national hostility and of collisions between
the nationalities, but under the banner of mutual
confidence and of fraternal impeachment Of the
workers and peasants of the natonaties not in the
name of nationalsrn but in the name of interna-
tionalism.
Precisely for this reason the pariah peoples, the
slave peoples have, for the first time in the his
tory of humanity, risen to the level of peoples who
are really free and really equal, and who have by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07

their example infected the suppressed peoples of
the whole world
That means that the October Revolution has
opened new epoch, an epoch of colonial revou-
tions which will be carried out by the suppressed
peoples of the world in alliance with and under the
leadership of the proetariat.
One of the most important results of the o.
tober Revolution is the fact that it has shown by
deeds that the emancipated European peoples
who have been drawn into the process of Soviet
development capable of producing real advanced
culture and real advanced civilization which is in
no way behind European culture and civilization.
The October Revolution has shown by deeds the
possibility and practicabilty of the proetarian in
ternational method of liberating the subjugated
peoples as the only correct method; it has shown
by deeds the possibility and utility of the broherIy
alliance of the workers and peasants of the most
varied peoples the basis Of free choice and in
ternationalism.
The era of exploitation and subjugation of the
colonial and dependent countries without revolt and
resistance on their part is past.
There has commenced the era of emancipatory
revolutions in the colonial and dependent countries
the Of the awakening of the proIetariat of these
countries, the Of its hegemony in the revolution
3. The October Revolution, by shaking imperial
ism, has at the time created in the first pro-
letarian dictatorship powerful open center of the
lHtcEhaGOndI revolutionary movement, Wn1cn Lne
latter had never formerly possessed and around
which it can now crystalline by organizing the
luionary united front of the proetarat and of the
suppressed peoples Of all countries against imperial
ism.
That means above all that the October Revolu-
ton has dealt world capitalism deadly wound from
which it will never recover Just for this reason
capitalism will never again win back that balance"
that sterilization" which it had before October
That means that the October Revolution has also
raised the fighting spirit of the suppressed peoples
Of the whole world to certain height and COM
PEELED the ruling classes to reckon with them as a
new and serious factor. If formerly there was no
international open forum before which the hopes
and aspirations of the suppressed classes could be
demonstrated and formulated there exists today
such forum in the first proletarian dictatorship.
The destruction of this forum would for a long
time darken the social and political life of the "ad-
vanced" countries with the cloud Of unrestrained
black reaction Even the simple fact of the existence
of the "Bolshevik State" curbs the black forces Of
reaction and facilitates the suppressed to fight for
freedom.
End of Capitalist Sterilization
THIS is the also for that fierce hatred which
the exploiters of all countries cherish against
the Bolsheviki Just as at one time Paris the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07

development in various branches of
municipal economy and the tremen-
dous achievements of the red cap
ital in every field of economy and
culture.
All Moscow is living an exuberant
life on the eve of the holiday. This
is shown in large and small things
A characteristic feature is that the
demand in the stores has greatly
increased for neckties and various
articles Of dress. The proletarains
of the Soviet capital want to meet
the great revolutionary holiday not
only with great productive up
surge and fighting songs, but with
good suits, new neckwear, elegant
footwear, etc. Stores everywhere
are full from morning to late
evening. One big department store
alone, "Mostorg," during the last
four days sold goods valued at five
million rubles. Yesterday it had a
record turnover for it's entire his
tory-one million, six hundred and
seventy thousand rubles. In ten
days this store sold sixty-one
pianos, all of them to working
families. This instance alone IL
Illustrates the growth of the ma
terial and cultural level of the
great masses of the workers in the
Soviet Union.
On the seventh of November all
the world will hear Red Square.
Bubbling over with hatred and
rage, the enemies of the Soviet
Union, but first of all the workers
of all countries, full OF Joy and
hope, will listen to the triumphant
march of the columns of the Mos
COW proletarians. These columns
will pass before Lenin's mausoleum.
saluting the workers and peasants
government with victories on all
sectors of Socialist construction. In
this great festival millions of free
citizens greet the Socialist Father
land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
Cleveland C.P.
Asks for Unity
With Socialists
Suggests Joint Fight To
Halt ReactiO n airy
Attacks on Jobless

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 6.-Fol-
lowing the police attack against a
demonstration Of jooless and impov-
erished workers on Monday, the
Communist Party here addressed an
open letter to the Socialist Party
and its membership proposing that
committees be elected to confer on
plans for joint action against the
reactionary attacks of the Davis adj
ministration against the workers in
this city.
1T is quite clear" the letter states,
that the answer of Davis to the
demands of the workers in this
sixth crisis year of unemployment
and misery is increased terror. To
cover up this brutal fact, he tries
to raise the red scare That dem
onstration Monday night was held
by organizations whose membership
is Overwhelmingly non-Communist.
These attacks are not aimed alone
against the Communist Party. They
are aimed against all workers, the
trade unions, the Socialist workers
as well as the Communists. These
statements of Davis are the threats
of fascist rule right here in Cleve-
land.
"We appeal to the Socialist Party
for immediate joint action with us
to mobilize the broadest possible
front of all labor and liberal organ
izations against this action Of Davis.
The fist of fascist action right here
demands not a moments delay. The
action of your last N. E. c. meeting
which stated Meanwhile we are
aware that there are questions aris-
ing from time to time, mostly in the
field of civil liberties, in which it is
desirable that there shall be eff
fective local action for the defense
of workers rights. We are, there
fore, drawing up plan to govern
possible cooperation in this field,
gives you every inner Party author
ity, plus the needs Of the workers,
for this action.
we stand ready to meet with
committee from your organization,
at any time, but we reernphasize the
need for speedy action. Our Dis
trict Committee has elected sub
committee composed of John Will
Hansen, A. R. Onda and Maude
White to confer with any of your
designated representation"