The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 16

™» ° f sss ena OUTLOOK OF FEDERATED PARTY #s0seramancey This will be a Federafed Farmer- Labor Party year. The outlook for the Federated Farmer-Labor Party in 1924 is very bright. Born in the last months of 1923 it has become the leading force in the national drive for a Labor Party. It is rapidly sinking its roots into the whole sub-soil of the eco- nomic and political life of the farm- ers and workers. It will carry on its work among the exploited farmers, among the indus- trial workers, among the foreign-born workers directly. It will also work with the state Farmer-Labor parties and take part in the national nomi- nating convention of the Farmer- Labor parties at St. Paul, May 30th. That is the program for work during 1924, Already it can point to growth during 1924, recently the American Lithuanian Literary Association with 7,000 members in 250 branches affili- ated. In Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, a branch of the Federated was organized, and affiliated with it are local unions of miners, steel workers, and building trades men with thous- ands of members. The Western Progressive Farmers with headquarters in the state of Washington is taking a referendum on affiliation. Indications are that it will affiliate. The state Farmer-Labor party of South Dakota has also lined up with the Federated. The economic ruin and bankruptcy of the farmers is rapidly | bringing about a condition comparable only with that of the European peasant. As illustrating this deplorable con- dition the following facts are worth quoting: In 1923 an apple raiser in the state of Washington shipped 9,000 boxes of the finest quality apples to a commission merchant. For the ship- ment of 9,000 boxes he received $5.47. In 1923 in the famous Yakima Valley, in the same state, a man sold ten acres of Winesap and Johnathan apples, totaling ten thousand boxes. He received $10.00 and figured he got off lucky. A wheat raiser grew 19,000 bushels in 1928, and after selling the wheat he had to borrow $1,500 to pay the deficit and taxes. _BEFOGGED - By CHARLES OLUF OLSEN NCE I saw an old _ laborer standing by an employment- office blackboard. His face had PB look of marred blankness that re- Minded me of a scheolboy’s slate— a little soiled, with half-obliterated writing on it. As I regarded him he turned his eyes to mine and this is what they said to me: “I work because I must. This torture of work is hateful to me— why, I do not know. I tire of it easily; it has no interest for me; I am always trying to get away from it. But there 1s the greater torture of being broke. When I have no place to sleep and it is cold; when I am hungry and have no food; when I am hunted an despised because I can- not pay my way this torture drives me to the lesser torture of work. “However, as the sum of my wages ~ mounts the torture of work becomes greater and my remembrance of the torture of being proke grows dim.! When the sum of my wages is big enough to enable me to go back to the city and buy my freedom for a time, I go; then I shall sleep in a warm bed each night, eat whenever I feel like it and the people who supply my wants will be my friends and smile on me as long as my money lasts. When my money is gone I shall stand the torture of being broke until the torture of work again seems the lesser; then I shall be driven to work again, “I KNOW some men LIK) work. What do they find in it that I cannot find? Is there a meaning to work that I cannot see? ) “Once I almost understood. It was a morning when I felt real well—a bright, sunny morning, the morning of pay-day. I nearly liked work that morning; but the next day I quit. “T believe that if I could go away some place, where the torture of work and of being broke could not reach me, and sit with my head in my hands for a long time and think, I could solve the question.” Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. A stock raiser sold three four year old farm horses. In Kansas City he received $2.40 for each of them, Be- coming disgusted with stock raising he shot 7 horses and used them for bait to poison coyetes and made $7.00 from each horse by selling the coyote pells, on which there is a bounty. A farmer sold two cows in Port- and, Ore. They were good and fat. He received for both a total of $11.50. When out of this he paid $5.00 dray- age and $1.25 commission he had $5.25 clear profit. The answer to the condition that these facts illustrate, coming from the politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties is: “diversified farming”, “economy”, “less demand for education” and other phrases. The Federated Farmer-Labor Party will not attempt to meet the farmers with such nonsense, The mission of the Federated among the working farmers during the coming campaign will be to drive home the necessity for fundamental changes in the present marketing and owning methods and the necessity of close solidarity with the city worker. It will rally to the fight for a Labor Party the militant section of the trade union movement. The Giant and the Torch (A Fable) By MOSSAYE J. OLGIN The giant lay in a stupor, the giant was weary, the mind of the giant was in a haze. The pigmies said to them- selves “This is our opportunity.” The pigmies got busy. They twisted ropes with which they fastened the giant’s fingers and toes to the ground of the cave he lay in. They shar- pened tacks with which they tacked to the ground his:hair. The giant paid no heed; The pigmies pro- ceedeq to do their ugliest mischief. Some perforated his skull with tiny cunning instruments and cut a multi- tude of winding paths through the substance of his brain, while a group of their kin, black-robed and oily- faced, sang a hymn of. heavenly justice and love and beauty on earth. Others perforated his chest and sank into the chambers of his heart an array of pipes through which they } pumped with cleverly constructed pumps his life-giving blood, while an- |perceived the pigmies. The hymn-singers put more honey in their voices, more oil in their tunes. The giant stirred. The parchment- bearers brought new mountains of learned material, put more emphasis in their lullaby-chant. The giant groaned. The uniformed brethren redoubled their mellow tale. The giant braced himself. All the time the path-cutters and blood-pumpers and bone-sawers kept on busily doing their work. The giant writhed, His bulky body became tense. The friends of the giant were scat- tered throughout the cave. The friends of the giant sought to wake him up. The giant was still over- whelmed by his slumber. The voices of the hymn-singers and peace-chan- ters kept him asleep. The oldest friends said, “Bring in the torch.” In they brought the blazing torch. Right between the eyes of the giant they planted the torch. Piercing rays of light struck the giant’s eyes. He woke up. He looked around. He He shook other coterie of their folk, be-| himself with all his might, he loosened spectacled and armed with folio parchment, chanted soothingly a chant of co-operation and harmony and peace. Still others dug files through the skin and the muscles of the giant and sawed pieces of his his bones, sinews and tissues, while their brethren in gala attire suavely purred a lovely tale of equality and fraternity and freedom for all. The giant got restless. The giant sighed. the fastenings that held his limbs. He lifted a hand and “Bang,” the blood-pumpers ran away in fright. “Crash,” and the bone-sawers dis- persed in every direction. “Clang,” and the giant rose to his feet, the giant opened his mouth and the first word he said was “Soviet,” The giant left the cave, and went into the wide, open world to live and enjoy the light of the sun. LE er eR RENIN DSNES > Mm artin SSE SENOS In the campaigns to be conducted by the various state parties that are fast lining up with the Federated a new note will be struck. In South Dakota our land program was adopt- ed and the Farmer-Labor Party is now entering a campaign for the primaries with the slogans: “The land shall belong to the users of the land”, “A five year moratorium for all working farmers”. In that state this is already having the effect of separating the wheat from the chaff. When one of these states elect a U. S. Senator, he will strike a new note in Washington, when he talks about: “Occupational, proportional represen- tation”, The chief task of the Federated is to organize for the coming national convention at St. Paul. This will tax all our energy and support. The May 30th convention must be made a suc- cess. In the coming months of the new year it will be the task of the Federated to overcome the inertia of the masses brought on by the domi- nation of the rank and file of the unions by the bureaucracy. Hun- dreds of branches of the Federated must be set up in every state in the union. 1924 is a _ political year. People will think of political prob- lems. Their economic distress must be given the correct analysis, The Federated is the only national organ- ization that faces the new year and its complex economic problems with a broad and comprehensive program that makes for the unity of the mili- tant section of the farmers. and workers organizations. The Feder- ated Farmer-Labor Party greets the New Year with high hope, and con- fidence that out of this years strug- gles will come a great mass move- ment of exploited farmers and work- ers; organized permanently for the greater task that leads to a workers and ~farmers government, More Greetings Will Be Published in Future Issues. We have received hundreds of greetings to the Daily Worker from well wishers, labor unions, prominent communists and communist organiza- tions in -this and other countries which are unavoidably held over due to lack of space. These messages will appear in future issues of the Daily Worker. Greetings to “The Daily Worker” - BROOKLYN, N. Y. Bartul Lovrovich Andy Backs Lorenco Bujacich Dionizji Lovrovich Victor Smolyan Chust Kustera Nick Kustera Joseph Mastruko Marian Mikelinic Tom Cuca Marian Kustew J. & W. Swireit Nate Baraba Nick Telesmanich Philip Fian Joseph Bezich Anton Sandrin Nick Lozina BOSTON, MASS. W. Chernoff B. Kernoga D. Bedny D. Fedoruk H. 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