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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
By BEN FIELD


AN OLD Mennonite with black
n hat and chinwhiskers like a fox
tail walks in and sits down on the
edge of the chair. These are the
farmers so difficult to organize.
Lew waits till he's settled. Now
where is the Shaeffer who is sup
posed to represent you farmers at
the code hearings? Has he reported
back to you? No. He's hob
nobbing with the dealers. saying he
does so so he can get at their weak
nesses. Do you find any real dirt
farmers hobnobbing2 No we go out
to fight them. Were the dealers
and your leaders interested in get
ting better milk prices for youp
Were they interested in getting rid
of that racket, the checkoff? The
checkoff which they force even
non members of the Interstate to
pay? This code is forcing out all
small distributors, farmer dis
tributors by its licensing provision.
The fine of $500 for violation of
the code is a farce. The dealers
can afford to pay such fines, and
then do you think they'll take the
license away from a big distributor?
Clyde King, milk commissioner, has
arbitrated two milk cuts for the
farmers, has been kicked around
like football because he's a dealers
man, and yet Wallace has appointed
him milk commissioner over our
protests"
Lew filings his fist open into
pronged fingers. Here is the New
Deal for you. Clyde King, the
Federal Farm Financing Act, cut
down mortgages to Az per cent and
reduce principal to 10 per cent. Can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Letters from America in 1885

pARsoNs born Montgomery, 1s4s year
correspondence From Pittsburgh he writes:
Since writing last report in the Alarm spent days
the wagesaves of Pennsylvania. Allegheny City,
wealth Pittsburgh
misery hunger
around about its mills
America and of the distinction capt.
astic masters of proetaiat bogeoe the
weldefned.
The at the Edgar steel Braddock
Pittsburgh suburb had strike II exhaustng
What them Over 100 armed with 14-repeatng
and about 40 deputy she armed to the teeth employed
the law and order" These
Veryev Father Hickey
work and describes the situation
legal right the rights others
class strengthening the police the army recruiting
militia building ja houses
peniteniaries Entrenhed behind law
bayones supremacy capitac
and order regime
OF the wagaves the proletarians not Indifferent
to the conditions them
N labor organizations.
February 4
words of this May the challenge
lean capitalism which today
of the of the
of capitalism and the establishment
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Meet Lew Bentley, Fighting Farmer

GO HE goes on, the man whom
y Lem Harris considers one of the
most militant and politically adj
vanced of the 10000 farmers or
gained under the Farmers Ma
tional Committee for Action. 1--WE
drove into Allentown with $50
quarts of milk Distributed it free.
In 20 minutes it was all gone.
Crowds of children were ready to
smack each other over the head
for the milk. Yet Wallace SAYS
there's milk surplus. And Al
lebach cries to us we should go
into the agreement because the
codell give us better price. What
of it9 It's like the two highway
men. One takes it all. And the
other takes it all but 10 cents. What,
should We thank that highwayman
for leaving us 10 cents? What
shall we do2 Put real dirt farmers
in charge of our organization. Have
reflections every year. not every
three years. Cut salaries of officers
SO they don't get $4,000 or $4,000
and circulate in another class and
think in terms of that class. If
We could only capture the Inter
state. Just think of it: we've got
to capture our own organization. AS
for the small dealers, don't worry
about them. Did you ever hear of
cat and mouse playing together?"
One old farmer with his fingers
over his belly like an old rail fence
mods thoughtfully.
This is a war" hammers Lew
with his long lean arm. TN a war
you don't pat the other fellow on
the back or go eat with him. No,
you attend to your business which
is fighting him tooth and nail, If
you stand on line, you'll lose the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

| the farmer pay even that when the
farm he paid $4,000 for is worth
$1,000 now. These are bankers
orders to save them the mortgages
and have the government back il
up with your money and the work.
ers money. And again eviction is
left to the discretion of judges who
are the mitts and balls of bankers
and insurance companies. So that
leaves us farmers in our old boots,
tromping around one corner alter
another corner, looking for pros
perity, and going around it so often
it's no corner any longer. Putting
Allebach of the Interstate and King
of the government together like peas
in the same pod. And we go to
split the pod and shake them
apart
The Mennonites sit passively on
benches and chairs. Not a grin
no clapping of hands. One of the
overworked farm women leans back
with a face that looks like heapeo
CUTS.
so we're in the hole the farmer
was who had a COW and calf
Took COW and calf and tethered
them together in the lot. Cali
sucked and sucked on the COW and
grew fat. The COW, tied to her
small circle, grew leaner day by
day. In time the calf was so fat
couldn't walk, the COW so lean she
couldn't walk, How was the farmer
to get out of this mess?"
The farmers don't answer.
Lew waits.
YELL jahbing up my pencil
"Wean the calf"
That's it,7 says Lew "Wean it,
wean Allebach. Wallace, the rest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

farms, the very beds your children
sleep in. If you get together, Moth
ing can stop you. That's what we
are doing in Bucks County. That's
what the farmers are doing out
west. If this is a national crisis,
why should the farmers and work
ers bear the brunt of it? Why not
all share proportionately? Any
body who wants to clamp the brake
down on the long pull back, let's
throw him out. Put in farmer
who'll stay on your side. If you've
got an organization, get into it and
work, If the leaders are no good,
yank them out. Too long we've
had other people farming the farm
ers. Fight on the platform of
united action, Some people talk
and don't do anything and like the
dead man get UP from the grave
and go out and point to the living
and say they're dead, No, we're
the living and we got to fight to
stay So"
Lew gets through and sits down.
Not a clap out of any of the farm
ers. The hat is passed around and
the collection for expenses is good.
The meeting is over. And then
the Mennonites show they have
been touched. They come slowly
around Lew. One fills an applica-
ton for membership in the U. F.
P. A. Others sign protests against
Clyde King. Lew answers questions
carefully, patiently, his face fur
rowed with fatigue And so the
U. F. P. A. fires its opening shell
in new territory under the leader
ship of man who comes from
Schuykill County where the work
ers in an earlier ere picked the
soabs off the hills with their guns.
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masses Of mankind. Of those that
sufferer, perish, fight, win through.
It is not individuals. but great
masses of people that figure most
frequently in his drawings. We see
these masses in motion like the in
Vulnerable black waves Of some i'm
n1ense expanse Of ocean,
Ellis depicts the contemporary
struggle between classes as vast and
ominous. The struggle proceeds in a
darkness illuminated by lightning
flashes, amidst the crash of the fall
ing buildings of the old word He
succeeds in conveying to us the i'm
mensity Of the struggle and Of the
masses that wage it. and he does
so on scrap of paper no bigger
than child's palm.
In drawings like Against Hunger.
War, Poverty and Unemployment, y
The League of Nations AS It Is, -
and For Soviet China" he shows
us the millions.
Drawings Inspire Hate
Never before have we seen draw
ing. inspiring so much hatred Of the
sufferings Of the masses. There is
very little Of the incidental in the
work Of Ellis. Almost obIvious of
! particulars, he presents us with gen.
eral monumental images.
Ellis reveals to us the very essence
of capitalism, fascism and class
struggle. The essential is olsen
numbered from the Insignificant, is
shown against the back ground that
serves to disclose the scale Of the
subject depicted.
In representing fascism. Ellis
shows up a vast expanse Of land
drenched in blood. Here and there
half flooded rocks protrude. They
bear the Inscriptions Failure of the
Economic Conference" Trade De-
preston" A fascist. up to the
knee in blood, strides over the ex-
panse, blood-stained axe in one
hand, and black banner, Sagging
from the blood it has been drenched
in, in the other.
Attuned to the Fantastic
Ellis is frequently attuned to the
fantastic. Then, men rise high above
the buildings of large cities and hold
the globe like a ball in their hands
His drawings frequently depict verit-
able battles between dark and light
Death, in the form Of some fan.
tsstic monster. consorts with living
men. This quality of fantasy that
Ellis at times betrays does not re.
move him from the common life
rather does 1t help him to present
q truthful picture Of that life AL
that is normal in the drawings Of
other artists is frequently less true
than the most unreal" of Ellis car.
toons.
The frsil figure Of woman
smashed by a fascist swastika l.
also an unreal figure. But, what
other artist has made the horrors Of
the fascist dictatorship more rea
to the workers than Ellis ha'
through this image?
Too frequently the cartoons o.
other artists give us the impression
of gay show booths, where funny
puppets impersonate the class
enemy. Ellis in his cartoons por.
trays the world stage with the pro.
letarist graphing with the monster
capitalism. Both kinds Of perform.
ance are needed, but the strength u
Ellis is that his art mobilizes us fol
action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Bedacht to Lecture
On Union Problems

A course arranged especially for
trade union functionaries and &C
tive members on how to fight
against Fsscism and Social Fas-
cism will he given by Max Bedscht
on three consecutive Saturdays, be-
ginning Saturday May S, at $50
pm. The three lectures have been
arranged by the educational depart
ment of the Trade Union Unity
Council and will be held at the
Workers School. All workers are
invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

ttonary ardOr
this artis |
scarcely has an
equal.
Ellis gives eX-
preston to the
essentially in
t erna t 10 n a ]
character Of the
class struggle.
He is before
all things, the
artist of t h {
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Into the Streets May First!

Into the streets May First!
Into the roaring Squared
Shake the midtown towers
Shatter the downtown air!
Come with a storm of banner,
Come with an earthquake tread,
Bells, hurl out of your befries,
Red flag, leap out your red
Out Of the shops and factories,
Up with the sickle and hammer,
Comrades, these are our tools,
A song and banner!
Roll song, from the sea of our hearts,
Banner, leap and be free;
Song and banner together,
Down with the bourgeOise!
Sweep the big city, march forward,
The day is a barricade;
We hurl the bright bomb of the sun
The moon like hand grenade
Pour forth like second flood
Thunder the alps of the air!
Subways are roaring our millions
Comrades, into the Square!
ALFRED HAYES
From May Issue Of New Masses)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Hunters
Nv DON WEST

ALI men are hunters,
Pursuing quarry.
And I also
I have been a great hunter,
Even as I have been a lover.
I have sought
Love
And beauty
And JOY
I've found something
Once I shot a rabbit
And found something there
Something in its
Death cries
And pleading eyes
Sorrow
Love
Fear
And hate
I never killed another,
But I'm still a seeker
Restless and wary
I've sought beauty
In morning fog
Sleeping on the bosom
Of a sluggish
Southern river,
In the n1ists of a rainbow
Climbing up
From plowed dirt
After a summers rain,
And in the silence
Of mountain stiffness
Before a storm :.
I found something,
Something that made me
a greater hunter
I have also sought love-,
And found it
In a tenement house,
A lonely cabin.
I've found
Love
And JOY
And sorrow
And fear
Leaning on
The bowed shoulders
Of working mother -.
Still I'm seeking
Something just beyond
My finger tips.
Once I almost clutched 1t,
Almost got down
Deeper in living
Where desire wanders.
Yesterday I found dreams
In a ditch digger's mind
And poetry
On the lips
OF cook
I have looked again
And found music
Rising from the Threats
OF toilers
In the fields
And factories :.
I heard music
And the rhythmic throh
Of forty million toilers' feet
Beating the earth
In unison
And I thought
It's like the pregnant feel
OF q highland evening
Before q storm
Finds the mountains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

WJz--Gals Page, Songs; Ray Perk-
ms, Humor; Stokes Orchestra
WABC-Gray Orchestra; StoopnaTlt
and Budd. Comedians, Connie Bos-
well, Songs
ANNOUNCEMENT Events
1890 WOR-Johnston Orchestra
wJz-Nationsl Women's Press Club
Spelling Bee
WABC-Chrysler Male Choir
10 as WABC-Harlem Serensde
II 90 WEAF-Leaders Quartet
wOR-Moonbeams Trio
WJZ-Lope5 Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

JOE WANG lectures on Soviet China"
at wilkins Hall, 1880 wilkins Ave, $40
pm. Auspices Of East Bronx sBr. FsU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Fred Ellis AN
Excellent Artist
In Our Midst
(Abridgd translation from Soviet
skoye Iskusstvo')
RE p. KONYAKHIN

THERE is an excellent artist in our
midst. His name is Fred Ellis
With respect to the scope Of his
themes and the depth Of his pene-
traitor. No less than his raVnlu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
"Patriots," Please Notice!

PARSONS who born in Montgomery Ala in 1913 the of
the appearance of by
Frederick Enges.
MY ancestry writes Parsons in his leknovn Autobiography
goes back to the earliest settlers of this country the first Parsons
lily landing the shoes of Nraganse Bay from England 1882 The
Parsons family and their descendants have taken active
full part the social religious political and revolutionary
in America One Of the Tompkn mothers side with
Washington battles
Valley Forge Samuel Parsons of Massachusetts direct
ancestor officer the Revolution of IT'S
wounded at the battle Bunker Hill There
the United
The historic thread of revolutionary struggle from Haymarke
the Communist Square today
and nboken 1t did not begin with the founding the
American Workers Paryand unhappy for the capitalist paios
native the United ynchngs
police terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Everything Was Smooth

MO trouble picking Henry the baif simply stroned
~ to the Chicago police stations brought the hangson
to fill the With the aid Of the capitalist jurors
quickly arrived verdict In fact the prospective
admitted before they seated that they
defendants Gary eated
to the late Gary the Steel Trust, made the
told the
conviction gone ground they
actually participation In the particular which
death of Policeman the killed. but the
on the they generally
and print classes of particular individuals
but classes left the
the time and place when the individual will within
whatever individual listened
their advice that that advice
known did throw the this principle
law, then the defendants of entitled trial"
In such atmosphere the verdict could easily predicted
Parsons Fischer Engel ngg condemned death All but
Lngg died the scd the County Jail in Chicago
chill morning November H. either
suicide murdered in his cell told
WINGED that this
to death in his cell by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!

-Br SENDER GARLIN

ct UCY PARSONS? She was never much of friend of
II mine" It was Emma Goldman well-pubiczed anarch-
list and professional sanderer of the Soviet Union speaking
to reporters in recent interview She seated in
room on the eighth floor Of the Hotel Astor in New York
CITY, Outside striking picketing but that didn't
the lady who lays claim to being one
of the bearers of eighhour day struggle the
United States
looking meeting all friends again aren't
YOU Miss Goldman" reporters asked
course, am" Goldman answered Il have very good
luck my friends" she added proudly.
your fend?" the reporter for the Daily Worker queed
certainly the grand dame replied trace Of s1spouness
in her eye.
WELL the Daily Worker reporter observed Il was in Chicago
several weeks ago Lucy And she told
friendship with because wrote articles
n the capitalist press attacking the Soviet Union"
"Oh Lucy much Of friend of mine,
Emma Goldman replied irritably
Some newspaper looked little puzzled and would
especially the Parsons seemed
unfamiliar Goldman chose to shift the
versation to her the South Of France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Albert Parsons and Nav Day


Parsons Haymarket martyrs And Parsons
ndissoby International for he Of
the struggle for the ehthour day in Chicago in the
sos and before
Railroad mine and factory strikes convused the United States
its political elimination in the great Strikes
the demand labor for the eghhour day
May B. 1885, that protest meeting called in Hay
Square, Chicago protest against the killing of six strikers
the Mccormick plant by Pmkeron agents Speeches made
Spies the editors of the "Arbee zeitun Albert
Parsons, editor of the Alarm" and Samuel Feden.
often told the meeting
had left satisfied that
the asembage orderly" threw bomb which
killed and wounded fifty There doubt that the hurting
individual
Smith suggests his excellent pamphlet "The FrameUp SyseO
the work of rovoca paid by the corporations to create
violence
Many workers arrested in general police dragnet consult
the files Of the Chicago of the time and will find the
for framing contained in its
sewngs against the militant leaders of the Chicago labor movement
anarchists tried
spnacy Spies Felden Schwab Neebe Lngg Fischer Enge
had not been seized by the police walked into court the
first day of the trial and took his place the defendants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Railroad Company
UniOnASkSPay
For Publicity Only
Part of Scheme to Stop
Real Organization
by Workers
BY a Railroad Worker Correspondents

BY Railroad Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, HIN Fridays issue
Of the Daily Worker March 2nd)
there appeared in page 9 news
item with a Pittsburgh headline
stating that following a meeting
Of representatives Of $4,000 railway
shop workers in Cincinnati on Feb
%, demand for a 10 per cent In
crease in wages and the resembling
Of the 10 per cent wage cut for
railroad shopmen was delivered &c
five division managers Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad"
The impression created by this
news item is that the Pennsylvania
shop crafts organization, which is
company union Of the most feudal
kind, is on the job protecting the
interests Of the Pennsylvania shop
men. OF course, quite the opposite
is true.
On Dec. 9Th, at q similar confer
ence Of Representatives" Of "Allied
Independent Railroad Labor Or
CARNATIONS" Of the western lines
similar vote on 20 per cent wage
increase was taken and given wide
publicity in the capitalist press,
Recently the Advisory Committee
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Vol
untary Relief Association passed
certain amendments calling for an
increase Of SO per cent in workers
forced contributions to this fund in
addition to other amendments lin
iting the privileges Of members Of
the association. The workers were
overwhelmingly opposed to any such
increase in dues, but the increase
took place just the same.
Recent rulings Of coordinator
Eastman, following conference with
the open shop railroad heads In
Washington, have Iegalized the
status of these company union out
fits and the roads are now out to
sell them to the workers. The most
bitter fight is going on on the Penn
sylvania, the Erie, the Delaware,
Lackawanna g. Western, the Rock
Island, the Illinois Central, the
Southern Pacific, against allowing
the workers to Join any but the
company organizations.
Resolutions like the one passed
at Kansas City in December, and in
Cincinnati last week, are nothing
more than publicity getters for the
company unions. OF course, the
workers on the Pennsylvania want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
ON IMPROVING THE DAILY

First I wish to send greetings to
the DAILY Worker" the paper that
some day will have the largest cir
culation Of any paper In the United
States of America.
Next I would like to throw out
few suggestions for the improve
ment Of our paper. In order to
criticize paper one must Judge 1t
from Its main objectives. The
"Daily's" main objective is to make
workers class conscious. 1t attempts
to take him out of his supposed
position as citizen in g republic
and places him In his category as
an exploited wage slave
The most difficult barriers to a
worker reading the Daily" for the
first time is the unusual termin-
ology. Obviously then an attempt
should be made to clarity and sim
pity the paper. Also an attempt
must be made to connect the ma
terial Of the paper with the workers
day to day life, that Is, the more
familiar aspects.
Now for concrete suggestions.
First I would suggest portraying
Of historical events of interest to
workers in the form of pictures, as
illustrated by the enclosed clipping.
Besides the educational value, it
would sustain the interest of read
ers from issue to issue and possibly
,roi Y,1Ora et,Iocn,.ibare posei1@I,,
phases Of history for portrayal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
SPY LEARNS A LESSON

By an I.R.T. Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-An Irish
T.R.T. worker on his way to dance
uptown, entered a station, showed
his pass to the ticket agent, received
an OK. and, replacing the chain,
walked to the Mushroom where he
took a slug Of whiskey out of a
bottle, The "Spotter' followed him
n and demanded the number of
lis pass. Realizing that a workers
life and tastes are his own after
working hours, he turned quickly
md smashed the "beakie" on the
3aw, leaving him cold. The incident
IS still being discussed all over the
syStem and the opinion is that the
"beakie" got just what he deserved.
But it is pointed out little pro-
gress can be made until all I.R.T.
workers get into militant working
class union, union that will fight
for the interests Of the workers and
not for the bosses. Organized In
this way, the bosses will then re-
alize that they must not SOY on or
try to interfere with the private
life OF any worker.