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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Bridgeton, n.y., Relief Officials
Deny .JObIeSS Workers Relief

money TO go out and rob a bank. ,"
And while mothers with babies
waited out front of the relief Office
hour after hour, the competent"
Mrs. Emerson and other ERA Of
ficials enjoyed a beer party upstairs.
One mother with two children was
put off time and again and finally
Mrs. Emerson told her that if she
came back again she would be
arrested.
These are facts known to every
one. Things stink so bad down here
in the ERA administration that
they can even smell it in Washing
ton and we are told that there is
to be a federal investigation of
Cumberland County.
Bridgeton is the town where the
Jail is that Bill O'Donneu was re-
leased from after serving only %
days of his six months sentence be-
cause the working class would not
stand for such a frame-up.
Now the job is for the relief
workers and those receiving relief
to get together and fight for better
conditions just the same way we
fought the Seabrcok Strike and
fought for Bill O'Donnell's freedom.
This way Of unity of all workers
will win the demands of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
SharecrOppers
Livestock Sold
By Constable
Creditor Robbed Work
ers Through High
Prices
By a Worker Correspondent

NORFOLK. VA concrete ex-
ample of the attitude of the ruling
classes toward unemployed workers
during this period Of depression is
the case Of William Cuffe, a farmer
-cropper of Norfolk County.
Here is a Negro man who. like
millions of workers, has found
things tough going these last years.
Born and raised in this section, he
Is known to be honest. The county
bosses seemed to be under this
opinion. Certainly, they had during
all these years squeezed enough
profit out of his labor to even cancel
any Indebtedness William CUTIE
happened to owe them in his effort
to feed and cloth his wife and five
children.
Harry Stenith is one of these. He
runs a country store. His prices are
very high. Cheese selling elsewhere
at IS cents hCings Is cents to this
Mr.. Stenith. For ordinary meat
selling for is cents a pound else
where he charges Is and 20 cents.
Under these circumstances. is it
any wonder that William Cuffe, I'M
able to obtain work, soon owed
this Stenith SIG? Recently Stenith
decided to collect. He turned for aid
to the high constable. The high
constable then demanded payment.
William Cuffe, of course, couldn't
pay And then he got good taste
Of Roosevelts New Deal for the
Forgotten Man. For this indebted
ness Of $40, the county decided to
sell one horse, valued at 800.
2o0-pound hog at $40; six prize
chickens at S12; six pigs at SIS: one
cart at IS; two stacks Of hay at SIS.
and one wagon lot of corn at s25.
William CufTe is a member Of the
LID. and is preparing to fight
against this robbery, and to put an
end to out and out robbery of Negro
and white workers in this section,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
nv a Worker Corresnondent


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.-I am
writing you in regard to conditions
in the relief set-up here in Okla
homa City.
A committee of more than sixty
people has just completed three
day siege of the relief office, trying
to get something to eat; being
promised every day that something
would be done.
On the first day, after waiting
eight hours for Giles to show up,
they went to City Manager Mosier,
who made the statement that the
relief set-up was rotten and prom
ised that something would be done.
Get Rm-ArOund
He sent them back to the Office
Of Colonel Giles, Relief Admins
traitor, but they failed to see him
after waiting for twelve hours. It
went on this way for four days
and all they received were numerous
excuses and promises. Colonel Giles.
on several occasions, sneaked out
" uA4N belOh OOO1 VI JLlC Duliu4IlE dllu
left the people waiting for hours
in V :, Finally, on the third day
eight q the committee received
dollar food orders and the rest
were told to come back later.
They also showed a marked dis
elimination against Negroes. I
would cite one case in particular,
that Of a Negro man on the COM
mittee who, after waiting for three
days, was given a cheese sandwich
with relish to last him for two days
until they could take his case up.
The state relief brought up
The state relief brought up a
stock of mules to give to the farm
ers and appropriated eight dollars
month to feed the mules and yet
they gave families of four and more
only a dollar grocery order to last
a week, or rather until they could
beg them out Of another order.
Some of these families had been
out of work or relief for over
month.
They give half a rick of wood to
each family to last them indefinitely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Sixty Unemployed Besiege
Relief Office Three DAYS

and sometimes they are forced to
carry 1t clear across the town. Such
is the justice of the Relief Admin
istration. Yet, the capitalist papers
a few days ago made the statement
that $4,000 had been appropriated
by the State of Oklahoma for the
month Of January. Only a few days
ago City Manager Mosier made the
statement that over $2,0OO.OOO had
been appropriated for dam at
Fort Reno, and yet the people of
Oklahoma are suffering from mass
starvation. Where is the money for
relief going?
We would like to see some letters
in the Daily Worker telling of the
injustice of the Relief Administra-
ton. Have people from other parts
of the country tell about their set
up. We would like to know the con-
ditions in other cities as we'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17

Every family gets in one or two
dailies, many get magazines as we'll.
We have organized a lending IL
brary and in our spare hours we
get together and read aloud the
works of our great Soviet writer's.
Many take books home to read. We
have organized a lot Of circles to
study together this winter. We are
very keen on learning, for life on
collective farm requires a lot of
learning and keen wits, if we want
to improve our methods of work
ing the land. All our children from
the age of eight and up to sixteen
go to school. We have an eight
class school in our village, and
from there they can go to any col
lege or university they please, and
become doctors. engineers or scien-
lists, if such is their wish.
We have no jobless, nobody is
obliged to go around looking for
work, on the contrary, everywhere
hands are wanted. In our collective
farm we build all anew and we
have a standing agreement with
the Khabakovsk Metallurgical
Works to send them workers. Many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
MusiciansHead
Okays Firing
W ithoutNOtice
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-An agency agree
ment between the Federal Broad
casting Corporation and the Knick-
erbocker Broadcasting Company
was terminated last week. This. in
plain English, meant that all the
people employed by the Federal
were discharged. 1t involved the
jobs Of about one hundred people.
All of us were given notice on
Thursday, Jan. 10 that by Saturday
Jan. IL, our jobs were to be ter
minated.
However, there is a ruling in the
musicians bylaws which states
every union man must get his four
week notice. The contractor insisted
upon that. The case was taken up
to the Governing Board of Must
clans Local 802 The men got their
four weeks.
But, entirely dissatisfied with this
decision, Weissman, personal rep
resentative and lawyer for Donald
Flamm, owner of the Knickerbocker
took the case to Joseph N. Weber,
President of the American Fedora
ton of Musicians.
What did Weber do? In true spirit
with his reactionary cohorts, Green,
LaGuardia, ct al, Weber rescinded
the decision of the local board
P. S.-The boys got out last Sat-
urday. The big bosses won over the
working class. The millionaire
Flamm saved few dollars. assisted
very neatly by a representative of
the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Sleeping Sickness

I. L., Bklyn., N. YIN your let
ter you ask for a good nerve
tonic" and state that your nerves
need Strengthening" These terms
are not good ones, and should be
avoided entirely because they have
no real meaning. The term weak
nerves" may be used for something
trivial or, on the contrary, for a
variety Of really serious conditions.
1t would be advisable for you to
write us a description of the exact
symptoms as nearly as you can do
so.
Nerve tonics" constitute one of
the worst forms Of patent medicine
quackery and you should, therefore,
use the utmost caution in taking
such medicines.
You ask for information concern
ing the disease known as Parkin-
sonian type Of Enchephalitis. This
disease is more commonly known as
Sleeping Sickness. During 1919-1921,
there was an epidemic of this dis
ease. 1t affects people of all ages,
but mainly young adults from the
ages of eighteen to thirty-five and
causes stiffness of the muscles of
the body, weakness, difficulty in
performing various movements
which require skill Sewing, type
writing, etc., greasiness and seal
ing of the face and hunched up
position. In addition there are ire
mors of the hands and sometimes
of the head and various other symp-
toms such as excessive formation
Of saliva, easy fatiguability, etc. The
mind itself is not affected The pa
tient is fully able to realize his
condition.
There are various forms of treat
ment, none of which is very sat
isfactory. In general, 1t may be
said that warmth tends to relax
the stiffness of the muscles. There
are drugs, such as, Atropin, Stra-
monium and Hyoscine, which also
relax the stiff muscles and lessen
the secretion of grease on the face
and diminish the saliva.
The tremors are not affected by
this treatment. Eventually many
of these patients require chronic
disqualification. Unfortunately there
are few hospitals equipped to give
long treatment and care for such
patients so that many of them ter
inmate their illness in State hos
pitfalls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
22%Delinquent
Called Model

By a Farmer Correspondent

~ . AAACA Correspondent
HILLSBORO, Ore.-At the an
nual meeting Of Washington Ma
tional Farm Loan Association held
in the Chamber of Commerce
Building, Hillsboro, Ore, Jan. 8.
1885, the secretary announced that
the Federal Land Bank of Spokane
sent word that the washington
County subsidiary was in the best
financial condition of any of its
branch farm loan organizations and
that the Federal Land Bank rated
it as Al in the matter of meeting
its obligations.
The secretary also stated that out
Of 412 farmer borrowers from the
Federal Land Bank of Spokane. in
Washington County, SO were de-
linquent in their payments of inter
est on mortgages, some very seri-
ously sol
one wonders what the percentage
OF delinquency is among farmer-bor-
Towers in other counties not so
highly rated!
Answering a question as to why
the Federal Land Bank does not
reduce mortgages placed several
years ago when land values were
very much higher, to a ratio in &C
cordance with present land values.
similar to the procedure now being
followed by other mortgages, the
secretary explained that the farm
mortgage reduction plan did not
apply to such institutions as the
Federal Land Bank, the insurance
companies, ETC., but did not give
any reason why the big rich COM
panies were expected to receive their
credit loans and interest in full
while the small mortgage who de-
pended on his income for living
was expected to make the sacrifice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17

Of our farmers work in winter at
the works and come home in the
summer to the farm.
We could write a lot mere about
the good life we are leading now,
but this time we won't write any
more. We beg you to answer our
letter and write us about your life.
Let us get into steady fraternal
correspondence. Tell about our let
ter to your friends, let them also
write us.
We are sure that the day is not
far when you will also get the bet
ter Of capitalist oppression and will
be the masters of all the riches of
the land, of all that the bosses have
robbed from you.
We send your our best greetings
and await your answer.
In the name of 200 collective
farmers from the collective farm
"SELC.'
K. STININ,
President of the farm board.
Our address is: USSR. Sverdlovs-
kaya Oblast, Krasnopoliansky ray
on, selo HarloYo, kolhoz "Selo."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Increase Productivity
Through Improved
Methods

BY a Soviet Farmer Correspondent
U.S.S.R.I have come to know
through our Peasants Paper, that
farmers and workers all over the
world are interested in the life of
our collective farmers. So decided
to write you and describe in few
words how I lived before and now.
My family consists of five peo-
pie. Before the revolution I was
not well-to-do. I had very little
land, only two horses, two COWS and
few sheep. Now I am member
Of the collective farm "Vpered"
Forward. -Four of the members
Of my family are able to work and
together we have got 900 workdays.
In our collective farm we are go
ing to recc' this year 3.5 kilo-
grams wheat per workday and 25
kilograms other cereals, 6 Kilograms
grain in all, not counting money
vegetables and other farm produce.
I have already received in advance
l kilogram wheat per workday, al
most a ton grain That is quite
enough to last me the year round
and when I get the rest, I will sell
1t to the co-opS or to the govern
ment. With the money I will buy
clothes, shoes and all the rest that
my family needs. We are already
entering on the well-to-do life our
Comrade Stain spoke about.
Land Yields More
The best thing is, that we have
forced our land to yield more. In
former years we usually got about
10000 Kilograms per hectare land,
and this year we got 750-1O00 kilo-
grams per hectare, all because of
the improved methods of working
the land. We receive lot of help
from the Government. For instance,
government tractors helped us to
gather our harvest much earlier
than we used 10. We are a little
behind with our sowing, because we
began only on Sept. 6, but we had
finished by Sept. 20.
We have school for our chill
dren and special classes for grown
ups in winter, for nobody is allowed
to remain illiterate in our land
Many of our young people attend
college in the evenings. We have
club and picture house attached
to our MTS (machine and tractor
station. We have a summer camp
about seven kilometers from our
village, where we live when work
ing in the far fields. In the eve
nings games and dancing are organ
lied for the younger folk and lee
lures and talks for everybody. There
also is a Red Corner, where you
can get papers and books to read.
We have communal kitchen and
altogether we live much better than
we used to-
I would like to get an answer
from you. My address is. USSR,
Asovo-T chernomorsky Kray. Belor-
etchensky Rayon, selo Velikoe, Kol-
hoz Vpered.
With fraternal greetings,
IVAN SAVERTOUNOFF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17

1CoA SOIlll duG,
"INASMUCH AS I BELIEVE YOU
AND YOUR READERS TO BE
INTERESTED IN ALL THE So
CIAL PROBLEMS OF THE
WORKERS, I am coming to you
for advice This is my problem.
MY husband, who is a Party
member. and I, sylnpathizer, have
two children-boys, one nine years
old the younger only seventeen
months. My question is this: If
capitalism and everything such as
bourgeois education and culture is
doomed, as the Communists say
(and I, myself believe to be true)
what can we do about our nine
year-old son who is really a very
bright student in the public school?
IF he continues his schooling in
this country, what then? 1t will be
too much to ask of him-to so COM
pletely revolutionize his whole men
tally, that he can understand
new order.
I'm asking you. is there way
whereby we might take the children
to Russia so that their education
would be based on truth at least?"
MRS. LORA P.
THIS MOTHER ASKS THE
QUESTION can she educate
her child in the ways of truth
which means the ways of the work
ing class? Shall she attempt to
take her child to the Soviet Union?
In my mind, this would be no
solution to her problem at all
Would this be any solution to this
same question in the minds of hun
dreds of thousands of class conscious
working-class mothers whose chill
dren go to the public schools?
1t is true the public school teacher
is so speeded-up that she cannot
take time to probe the problems of
the individual child. The public
school system is for the purpose
of maintaining the existing social
order Therefore it teaches patriot
ism. It teaches that strikes. DEM
onstrations are "riots." But there
the proletarian mothers task be-
comes very clear.
Many mothers think MY child
must have his fun. Let him worry
about the struggle when he is older.
In later years he will be forced to
enter into the fight. But now
leave him alone!" This theory is
false. A child's development does
not begin all of sudden when
he is Is, IT, 18. He is receiving
impressions, almost from the time
he can see. Almost from that time
he must be prepared for the world
in which he lives.
The Pioneers are mot sad faced
little boys and girls. They are more
poppy and alive, have more fun
than any other children have seen.
And yet, they participate in the
class struggle as it affects the class
room.
A PROLETARIAN MOTHER with
the interests of the future Of her
child at heart, must train and teach
her child to be a working-class
fighter here. in this country. Work
e-s cannot migrate in hundreds Of
thousands to the Soviet Union. They
must make their own workers gov
eminent in this country. Send your
son to the public school. But do not
leave his entire teaching to the
public schools. Your job must be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
County Seizes 1920 for Nneteen-D Dollar Indebtedness
Farmers Boycott Hits
Strikebreaking Firm
And Petty Merchants
BY a Farmer Correspondent

By a Farmer Correspondent
LOUP CITY, Neb.-The Fair
mont Creamery, that helped
organize the riot on June IA.
1884. against the farmers who
had pledged their solidarity with
the girl chicken pickers who
were on strike, has now laid of
most of the girls because the
,srmers are mad and won't sell
chickens to a damn concern that
expects to keep girls working for
Sl97 a week.
After the June IA riot. the
Farmers Cooperative built a
chicken house and took all the
trade away from Fairmont. The
business men of Loup City that
had something to do with the
riot, are also feeling the wrath
Of the farmers as all the hog
and corn checks as well as the
wheat allotment money is not
being spent in Loup City as was
expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
3 Hogs Net Farmer
1925 As Pork Chops
Sell at l8c a Pound
By a Farmer Correspondent

BY Farmer Correspondent
JOPLIN, Mo.-A farmer took
three hogs to the local market
each weighing ninety pounds.
He received 1925. He was
charged a commission of eighty
cents. Yet, in the butcher shops
pork chops cost eighteen cents a
pound and ham sells for seven
teen and a half cents a pound
and up.
Another farmer brought a COW
Weighing 815 pounds and got
$1109, paying one dollar for
hauling. Beef sells for fifteen
to twenty-five cents a pound at
local meat markets.
Certainly the farmer is
skinned.
A poor farmer at Arcadia.
Kans., had to give two teams Of
horses and two COWS to a bank
as security for loan Of only
fifteen dollars at ten per cent
interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Sheriff Prepares for
Evictions in Spring
By a Farmer Correspondent

LOUP CITY, Nebr.-Santa Claus
gave Sheriff Thrilkill as a Christ
mas present lawsuit for abusing
and neglecting a prisoner that had
been arrested for unlawful assembly.
The prisoner asked for a doctor
to have his foot dressed. The sheriff
told him that he did not give a
damn if the prisoner rotted in jail
Then the sheriff pulled out his
poker knife and said, "I'll dress
your god damn foot" He finally had
to take him to a doctor.
This shows what the tools of the
capitalist class will do to worker
or a farmer that refuses to submit
to the rotten conditions we are liv-
ing under.
There are rumorS that the new
sheriff of Sherman County has said
that he will have to get more men
together as there will be a great
many evictions and foreclosures this
spring. In other words. he is be-
ginning to organize vigilante gangs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Swill Beer As Clients
Wait in Office
for Hours
Ry q Worker CORRESPONDENT

BRIDGETON, N. I'D like to
have the workers all over know just
what kind of miserable conditions
exist for those needing relief here
in Bridgeton, N. J. Bridgeton as
you know is the town made famous
last summer by the Seabrook Farms
Strike down here. Bridgeton is
controlled by big farm and cannery
owners like Seabrook and the bosses
Of the Owens Illinois Glass works.
Naturally these are the "compe-
tent people according to Hearst
who run things so we'll
Here's how they run the relief
racket. One man who had put off
going to the relief as long as he
possibly could by borrowing money
from relatives, selling this and that
and working whenever he could and
starving it out for while, when he
did apply for relief was told by
Mrs. Emerson, local director, to go
sit with the rest of the buns She
told another man that if he wanted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
In THE HOME
Class Struggle and the Classroom
BY Nm BAR TO N

to train him to examine what he
is taught from working class point
of view Then when he is old
enough, get him to join Pioneer
troop. He will learn working class
truths there, among children of his
own age. His mind will become
clear He will develop fast. He will
be trained for taking his part in
the world he must face, few years
hence.
That is my idea what course this
working claSs mother should take.
I think the readers of this column
should write in to give their point
of view to this mother.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17

You can mere easily win better
conditions in your factory or shop
II the workers there are class
conscious and willing to organize
Tor improvements. Get the Daily
Work er, guide your shop mates.
ASK the District Daily Worker Of
nee to place a Daily Worker seller
outside your factory, or write di-
rect to the rational office, 50 e.
18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Buy Kerosene Lamps,
Mayor Advises
Unemployed
ers no matter what they are.


The yellow livered bosses curl up
and crawl in a hole when the work
ers come out all together demand
ing and fighting for those demands.
And the only way We can defeat
the boss class in Cumberland
County is for all of the workers
down here to get together. Over
in Vineland the relief is little
better because they are organized.
But I heard that the Mayor told
them to go back to kerosene lamps
when the workers demanded that
the city-owned electric plant
should furnish them electricity.
That is the answer of the com
petent" capitalists Back to kero-
sene lampsl I am glad that we
have. the Daily Worker and the
Communist Party which says, MOI!
NOT BACKWARD, BUT FOR
WARD! to the workers of America.
Not backward to coal oil lamps but
forward to an electrified Workers
and Farmers Government!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
NOTE

We publish every Thursday let
ters from farmers ana agrtcuI- Z
tural, cannery and lumber work
ers. We urge farmers and work
ers In these industries TO write
us of their conditions and efforts
to organize. Please get these let
tiers to us by Monday Of each
week.