The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Drought-Ridolen Farmers to Battle
ROOSeueLt's Sham Relief Schemes

of it; nothing shall go to the banks
and mortgage dealers"
ROOsevelt's New DEAF
Running through the various re-
ports of the delegates like red
thread was a steady attack on the
widely heralded new deal of Mr..
Roosevelt. The report of Lou Scott
of the travelling school on wheels
for farm organizers which has been
holding its monthly sessions at seven
points in the country, clearly re-
Elected that this sentiment against
the New Deal and the whole A.A.A.
apparatus exists in every farm sec
ton of the country. The school has
held its sessions in Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Mis-
souri,, California, and now is in Ore
gon. The central idea of this travel
ing school, Scott replied, has been
to train new forces for the militant
farm organizations. A hundred
farmer students have been so trained
III GAAC 1dSb JCll 1IiOllbltS.
I'VE work out our practical prob
lens right in the community where
we are, by taking part in the
struggles of the section. The prob
lens of the various organizations,
including share troopers union,
Nebraska Holiday Association, and
Michigan Farmers League, have been
made 8 central point of study for
the classes. And in analyzing the
local and national problems, we al
ways run smack into the workings
Of the agricultural adjustment ad-
miniStration. We have considered
it an important part of the schools
functioning to study the real in
terestS and reasons lying back of
each step in the administrations
program. We found that the ex-
perience of cotton farmers, and
wheat growers, to cite but two
examples, show that the effects of
the A. A. A. have been to help the
rich farmers and harm the smallest
and poorest"
School Develops Leadership
To summarize, this Ford truck.
carrying three organizer teachers,
library, mimeograph, typewriters
and cooking equipment, has left
behind a trail of professional farm
organizers. 1t has been a great
factor in breaking down the isola-
ton of the various militant farm
organizations, by building up real
collective leadership.
The advance agent of the travel
ing school, also at the convention.
reports that the next stops are all
organized in the heart of the
drought region-where the struggles
for mass relief are taking place.
The next stop, close to the Mon
tana-North Dakota line at Flax
ton has already organized ten stu
dents from Montana and 10 from
North Dakota. Next stop will be
South Dakota on farm close to
Sisseton where the now famous trial
of the II prisoners took place.
Build Farmers Weekly
Some of the farmers who were on
trial for their part in helping to set
an evicted family back on its
farm will be students at the South
Dakota stop. Here the number will
be limited only by the quota, which
is 30. A large part of Monday
afternoons session was devoted to
one of the central tasks of the
United Farmers League, it's part in
building the mass circulation of the
Farmers National Weekly. John
Miller, Business Manager, described
the achievements of its first year of
existence, and announced it's pres
ent goal-the gaining of another
10000 new readers by September
18th. He emphasized that the
drought had brought more clearly
than ever the necessity of the
fighting organ of the farmers.
Scores of picnics are taking
place, many of them right in the
heart of the drought region. Ac-
cording to the delegates comments
from the floor, it is precisely in the
drought areas that they are finding
the greatest response to the paper,
the most fertile field for selling
subscriptions. The delegates showed
by their comments that they en-
dorsed the policy of strict financial
accounting which the paper has
been pursuing.
Following the line laid down in
the report of acting secretary Henry
Puro for the executive council yes
terday, delegates today one after
the other showed the misery to
which the farming masses are sub
jected as they carefully discussed
measures which should be taken by
the United Farmers League to
stimulate widespread mass action
throughout the countryside.
Many delegates who spoke came