The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
BY C. A. HATHAWAY
Editor. Daily Worker
Especial to the Daily worker

NSPceiai 70 the DAILY WORKER
MINNEAPOLIS, June "a
The devastating drought was
the central theme of the re-
port of Henry Puro, acting
secretary of the United Farm
ers' League, at today's session
of the U. F. L. convention
here.
The rich farmer, mortgage holder
drought relief program and the
formulation of ia uers drought re-
lief demands. together with the or
gani5ation of united mass strug-
gle to force the granting of these
demands were the very center Of
Puro'S speech as well as the center
Of discussion Of the delegates. AS
one farmer put the question: THE
drought is not the the basic cause
Of our difficulties He'll knows we've
been getting it in the neck ever
since the war but the drought COM
ing on top Of foreclosures. mort
cages, low prices, etc, makes our
position unbearable."
Drought Manifesto
While this first U. F. L. National
Convention has set itself the task
drafting a basic U. F. L. program
on which the commission is work
ing, special drought manifesto
occupies the attention as the point
around which immediate struggles
will be developed and the U. F. L.
built.
Points now considered in the
formulation of the drought mani
festo are: ID broad mass cam
paign for immediate drought re-
lief; ~ a special session OF Con-
gress for immediate and adequate
cash relief to be paid directly to
farmers and for adoption Of the
Farmers Emergency Relief Bill as
the Communist Party proposed it.
(3) The use Of A. A. A. funds for
relief rather than for crop destruc-
ticn. Also R. F. C. funds; az de-
mands for the relief of agricultural
workers and families; 90 appeal to
all old line farm organizations. par
ticularly local bodies, for united
front for relief for drought-strucken
farmers.
Joint struggles, together with the
city workers, for higher prices to
farmers against spectators and
against risees in food prices in
cities.
Henry Puro in his report in addi-
ton stressed the above points and
traced the organization Of the U. F.
L. from its foundation in 1928 in
North Dakota to the present with
organizations in 10 states. After
dealing in detail with the situation
of the farmers, using Department
of Agriculture figures showing the
improvement Of farmers and the
growth Of tenantry, he took up the
bourgeois program Of the Roosevelt
regime showing the fascination pro-
cess in the A. A. A. as well as in
the whole New Deal"
With the masses of workers and
farmers putting up growing resist
ance to the robbery of the new
DEAL" said Puro, "the government
resorts to force to carry through
the so-called voluntary codes allot-
ments.' Machine guns and tear gas
is being used against workers on
strike. Militant fighting farmers
like Alfred Tiala, Harry Lux and
Julius Walstad are thrown into jail.
Injunctions are being issued against
militant farm organizations to make
them illegal, as in South Dakota.
BY various means (Bankhead Bills,
etc. the farmers are being forced
to reduce their acreage. Dairy
farmers who oppose the A. A. A. are
being driven out of the market with
the aid of milk cooperative leaders
who have made their organizations
subsidiaries to the milk trust. EHic-
tions and forced sales are being
carried through more and more
with the use of force. ALI these
New Deal measures to break the
resistance of workers and poor
farmers are steps toward fascist
rule as exists in Hitler-ridden Ger
many and Fascist Italy
Speaking of the drought, Pure
n