The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 3

1930 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, Page Three Negro Farm ‘Labors “Farmers’ Union” Abject Tool of Wall St. Bankers a Sugar Cane "MONTANA “FARMER-LABOR” MEET TALKS RADICAL, BUT AIDS BUILD ENEMY PARTY Poor Farmers Don’t Want Phrases, but Real Action Against Bankers’ Government rs on Plantation Tammany Judge Tells Worker Boss Is Law EW YORK, N. Y. Work N Editor Dai October 1929, I worked in an upholstery shop at 7304 Third avenue, the Bronx. I just worked for this boss four and a half days, for which he refused to pay me my wages. I went into the court on 161st street, and got a summons for him, The judge called him to the court three times, which he didn’t go to. The judge then gave judgment all alone because the boss didn't || want to come into court. Yesterday I went again to court to see the judge. The judge’s name is Morris. He told |Poor Farmers Have Real Fighting Organization in the United Farmers’ League The “United Farmer” to Be Issued Again; All Vode Porniaee Must Subscribe Knutson, Miltiant Farm Leader, Calls for Break from All Bankers’ Organizations iene ee : me I lost the case, that the boss Sg et ; . RAYMOND, Montana. Plowing a sugar cane field in Louisiana. Swing Galloway peal arde ad i Ee tne Bismarck, N. D. To Daily Worker :— Terrorized by the lynch rule of the: dig landiords and plantation, bosses, forced to live under the most || jaw. To “Daily, Worker”: I was in Plentywood, September 6, when the “farmer-labor” con- vention was held, at which county candidates were chosen. I do not think these fellows—those who were at this meeting—are on the right track, True enough, there were a lot of good promises made, but how will these benefit the poor farmers? We must have action now, more so than ever before, not mere words. Vague Phrases Think of what Taylor, for instance, sald. He said that, in order to miserable living and working conditions, these Negro working farmers and farm laborers are feeling the heavy pressure of the ccpitalist crisis. They sec in the Communist Party their champion and fighting Party, both in N. Y. and N. J. Worker TEXAN READY TO BEAR ARMS Correspondents Conference Why am I out of the law. I never saw the right laws for the working people in the A. This is justice in the U.S. It is for the rich, not for the poor, E. B. OREGON RANCHER For years farmers have been asked to follow bourgeois reformists who hold out glowing promises about “quick and sure” returns to the farmers if they but organize “farmers’ co-operative elevators,” “farmers’ terminal elevators,” etc. Farmers’ Union Boss Agency One of the worst organizations to mislead the farmers in this re- “farmers’ stores,” spect is now the Farmers’ Union. With great bombast it parades as RIGH FARMERS WORK KIDS 14-16 HOURS IN CAL. Hetch-Hetch Victims Are Buried Sacramento, Cal. waily Workert Editor—A few weeks ago the farm- ers of Tracy had employed several boys under 16 years of age, making them work in the fields 14 to 16 hours @ day for $1.50, When the kids re- turned to their homes at night they complained to their parents of how the farmers made them work so fast that two of the kids fainted in the field, and in spite of the terrible heat the farmers did nothing for them nor let them rest for a while. No; these rich farmers want the profits out of children’s sweat and blood. Funeral for Victim I happened to pass a crowd gath- ered about and I asked an acquaint- ance of mine why it was gathered. He told me it was another victim of the Hetch-Hetch who were caught in the tunnel by the electric motor that inflicted serious injury to a fellow worker, M. Popovac. The company doctors, instead of giving him medi- cal assistance, cemented his leg that turned to poison, and after 24 hours the fellow worker died. It ‘shows how the bosses treat workers when they get hurt on the job. In that crowd I saw a fellow worker by the name of M. Sjbicick who had been seriously hurt on his shoulders and front of his head at the same infamous Hetchy Hetchy ‘Water Power Company. They have a company camp and kitchen where they deduct $1.50 a day. I have spoken to many workers and their feelings are in bitter op- position to these terrible conditions. I gave them. several copies of the Daily Worker and they certainly ap- preciated it and say that everything in it is the truth and are willing to organize in the industrial unions of the Trade Union Unity League. FARMER-WORKER. FILNT WORKERS ALA LOSE HOMES Boss Parties Shark’s Aid in Repossession ae Flint, Mich. Daily Workert There is also another class of rob- bers here in Flint, as this is a great industr#l city. Real estate sharks have reaped a golden harvest for themselves. Many Buick, Chevrolet and Fisher men have lost their homes by repossession. Some have had as much as two thousand paid in these homes. The Modern Housing Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors. They have taken back many homes from their workers who created these homes by the wealth wrung from them through the killing speedup methods, Chevie Workers Speeded The Chevrolet employees are the most exploited workers of all the General Motors plants, as they are forced to work unéer the bonus sys- tem, where, unless the maximum pro- duction is not produced, the workers’ pay is very small, . The Fisher Body No. 2, whcre the Chev. body is built, is used to set the prices for all the other Fisher plants. The General Motors policy is a standard wage to be introduced in all its plants and to use Chevro- let body. prices for all their different grades of work, This same rule applies to the motor car division and in order to put the gigantic wage cut In force the bonus must be put in all factories of Gen- eral Motors, Productions Schedule Schem: So why not begin right at home and Fisher body No. 1, where Buick body is made, gets the group system in some departments. Now this group system is a wage cut sugar coated. It works like this. They have a pro- duction board where the amount of bodies produced that day are marked up and a lump sum is paid per body .for the department with no prices on operations to the men, but the total divided between the number of men working in the department. As its’ 4 very much easier to lower the price of the whole job than to cut each operation, ‘ get somewhere, we must have a gov- ernment like they have in Ru a workers’ and farmers’ government —and to get this we must build a “farmer-labor” party. But they didn’t do it that way in Russia, not by a darn sight! There they built a re- volutionary party, not a capitalist party. ja— Take Boss Ads The Producers’ News in Plenty- wood is misleading the poor farmers here, It is not honest with us tarm- ers. You get the impression it is strongly for all the poor, but at the same time it takes advertising from bankers, the power trust, Standard Oil, the American Legion, etc., and writes nice things about the rich. To me such a paper is the worst kind of a paper. The editor of this sheet seems to be a “communist,” a “farm- er-laborite,” a capitalist—all in one. Such enemies of the poor farmers are surely dangerous. United Farmers League I read the Daily Worker when I can and note from one recent issue that the United Farmers League is to move to Chicago soon. I don't know much about this movement, but from what I have heard I believe it is good. I suppose also the United Farmer will be gotten going again. No doubt, both the organization and the paper will take well with the poor farmers here because a revolu- tionary farmers’ movement and a re- volutionary farmers’ paper is what the militant farmers are now looking for. FARMER. OGENT COTTON: BANKERS GET ALL Landlord Won't Advance Credit, So Farmer Can’t Get Necessary Clothes By a Farmer Correspondent Steele, Ala. Iam 48 years old and I never saw times like they are now. Cotton 9 cents and the landlord won't advance anything for another year. I don’t see what I am to do, don’t see any- thing in sight but hard times. I have got four boys here and they all barely got winter clothes and won't get any. I can't pay thém but 50 cents for picking cotton with board, and I am not able to do that. I am sorry for the poor boys: They can’t get nothing to do nowhere else. Every farmer {is in had shape, I guess. We will have to do something to live. I will write more next time. I do hope our party will win. I myself am going to fight like hell in every way. And I hope and pray that the A. F. of L, will sink in hell! A WORKER-FARMER. ILA in Houston Does Its Dirty Work for Bosses (From The Southern Worker) (By a Worker Correspondent) Houston, Texas. The Houston local of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association intends to surrender to the bosses on their wage cuts in the latter part of this month. Workers in the I. L. A. and I. W. W., don’t show your yellow streak on this cut in wages! We workers in the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union intend to fight this wage cut, The bosses have not cut down the freight rates on cargoes leaving this port for European coun- tries. The Mallory S. 8. Co. and the Morgan Line are not cutting down on the prices of the fares to New York, but they intend to cut our wages. A. Me. tionary workers’ press will be held at 1179 Broadway. foreign language press, in New Y DAYTON CITY ADS PER! fi i le J This Same Tool Will Workers to Vote for His £ Party—Answer by Voting Communist! o3s DAY Daily Worker : The | Company ‘, Ohio Pennsylvania Railroad is building rhead railroad in order to let th trains pass without traffic. The Batson Rozers Co. of Chicago has charge of the j Mr. Smith is head job. blocking the man on Fool Men Men hired to work on the overhead railroad receive 35 cents an hour, Carpenters on the job re- ceive 60 cents an hour. At the time the concrete was started a new gang of laborers was hired and promis 45 cents an hour. Pay day came around and the pay check showed only 35 cents an hour. When asked why the difference; they were told were hired for and hut up or get out. Everyday men hired and The work is 1 Too hard for workers even though they know thei family is on the ve ti to accept for a hour. doing * was all they just better that the; » as the ver March gn City Hall While these men are paid starvation wages and speeded up to the limit the same thing is going on in every factory in Day- ton. Thousands unemployed do not even look for jobs any mare because they feel it is usele: | At the time the Uners:!-yod | Councils led the wnemr'oyed workers to the City Hall to de- mand social insurance the lead- ers were arrested. The Manager, Mr. Ejichelberger he could do nothing and fur more refused the Communist Party the right to speak on Au- gust 1st and since then. Boss Agent |! ‘This same man, Mr. Hichelberger. cannot help the workers, but just as soon’ as he is called on by the bosses of Dayton who pay him, he Is ready to throw any sort cf cloak for them to cross the mud puddle And that's what he has done on the overhead job. Mr. Smith, the very efficient boss for the job, is a faith- ful manager. He must think of some way to hurry up the job (although there is no special rush about it) without making any extra cost to the company. (The poor, penniless Pennsy), His efficient mind told him that he must get the men to work on Synday. But came the problem: Sunday—state law against men working on Sunday; if they do. double tinie pay. A real problem for Mr. Smith, But these efficiency ex- perts and especially when they are NEGRO WORKER SEES NEED TO FIGHT Reactionary Scheme Is Mis- leading Many Militant Negro Workers Pittsburg, Cal. To the Daily Worker: L-have found that most of the militant Negro fellow worker: who are excellent material for the T. U. U. L. unions and the Party, have fallen for Garveyism and have never come in contact with a clear exposure of this agent of the bourgeois. Many. have never had a question as to whether or not Garveyism is a betr: of the Negro workers, 1 wish the Daily Worker would not slow up in the drive to mobi- GARVEYISM SPREAD it would continue to systematic- ally and clearly explain how Gar- vey and the other fakers ene- mies of the organized w io class, particularly of the Negro members of it. Many Negroes regard Garvey’s ! stablish a fatherland in Africa as a great move to give dignity to the race. But it is easy to explain the ab- surdity and impossibility of such a plan, and it takes only a little effort to show that the plan is designed to divide workers on the false of Come on, Daily Worker and Liberator! More persistent education of Negro and white workers in re- gard to Garveyism and kindred Jim-Crow plans! More of us have been fooled ¢han you rec- ognize. The first city-wide conference of werker correspondents of the revolu- Organized into a definite body, meeting for the exchange ot experiences, receiving guidance from the Central Bureau for Worker Correspond- ents, the worker correspondence of the worker press will become a more effective weapon in the struggles of the workers. Worker Correspondents of the Daily Worker, Labor Unity and the especially urged to be present at this conference. r Sunday, October 5, 1930, at 2:00 pm., erk and Northern New Jersey, are GEN OPERLY PEED UP WORKERS e paid a lot of money for } alled up Mr. Ric? r, the r, helping the stre compat over the raise in ch to the nnot anythin loyment situati igh not man: bein level . ar who denies and who e, is | put the n Dayton, do un- Eichleberger in any special ne -but we want to have the without vio- Mr. Smi out. we ar et this j it up. work on Sunday the state law.” ted to know the way id not know that a had just quit and room when this con- jWas in the ne | tion was on, getting h pay check, He knew the Dayton paners would not print the story, so is sending it to the Daily Worke: The city manager then played the ae of Sir Walter ~Raleigh, and magically produced a cloak. “Why don’t you creat an emergency? The jlaw states that only in emergency |can men work on Sunday. If you do that everything will be okay.” For the past two weeks now, the | men have been working on Sunday for straight time. Mr. Smith is a y clever and faithful manager, Mr. |Hichleberger sure is a good fellow |tor the parasites. | Such is the stuff that ‘our City | Commission is made of. Such is the | stuff of the city managers. All rep- yes of the Capit: s' Do- their duty by capitalism. The] rs must have their own repre rtives in the Capitalist govern- in order to bring the problems tho before the millions worke They must have some} one who will put up the fight against for the sight of free e cuts, for the} wo | ot | ainst anize, munist < in on nd the coming Octobe for Mth tt the vote r who job. lees Confer | Io Milwar'sees Demand Relief (By Mail)— representing MILWAUKE de! hty-nine councils of the un- ‘vith 16 fraternal dele- ept. 26 in the United Front Conference For the Support of the Workers Unemployment In- surance enh After hearing the main reports by Bill Clark, Wisconsin sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League, and of Bill Gebert, Com- munist Party district organizer, and after spirited discussion by many delegates, the conference voted for the following demands: “$25,000 emergency relief fund to be set aside by the Milwaukee com- mon council to pay each jobless man $25 a week. The fund to be accumu- lated by assigning 10 per cent of the city government income, cutting police appropriation one-third, cut- ting salaries of political officers one- half, and special, taxes on the rich. “Prohibition of evictions, “Free fare and lunches for work- ers’ school children.” A delegation of 13 was elected to present these demands to the com- mon council, \ pal Wake Ee Despite Firing Still a Fighter! CHELSEA, Mich. 0 union loc; rganiza tions ates met here Dear Comrade: I notify you with this letter what I had to go through since the March 6 issue. Because I was at the dem- onstration and reading the Daily who | Sees Starvation in Farm! Country Mithfleld, Texas. Daily Worker: Dear Editor—Just a few lines to let you know how things are in this t of the country. Everybody is in retty bad shape here. I don't see people are going to do; it looks ion to me, and I am good like s and re: to shoulder a gun and go after these bloodsuckers any time. For that is the only way out. Never | was there a change made any other I can’t do without the Daily Worker it is almost like doing without something to eat. I wish we had some good organ- rs down here, for I believe the field is ripe and is the time to harvest. You can print this if you will. M. L. R. BUILDING TRADES. | John |same time he is in the building ma- | Worker that’s why I was fired from Ford's. And on May 2 I was fired from the Woverin Malt Company. Then T was out of a job for months, and finally I got work on a farm. But the farmer, poor soul, did not like me because I am reading the Daily Worker. I got a job again on a farm, but IT don’t know how I will get along here. But, anyway, I am standing for the workers’ duty. Down with capitalism, for a workers’ and farmers’ govern- Z. | ity FAKERS BOGS ALD Rlay the Bosses Game | While Men Are Hit CHICAGO, Ill, Daily Worker: We, the building trades workers of Chicago and vicinity, are deeply af- fected by this economic crisis, with no relief in sight, either from “Hoover's bunkology” about prosper- returning {n 60 days or from the labor faker Bill Green who is against | unemployment insurance, cially the Unemployment Insurance Bill as proposed by the Communist Party, | the vanguard of the working cl: Fascist Tricks Nothing can we expect from either, | Hoover, Bill Green, John Fit: patrick or e Woll, nothing but t er: esy are the real and open cist methods against us building | tradesmen all over the U, S. A, es- pecially in locol 21 (Bricklayers and | Plasterers A. F, of L, union). Local 21 head is “High Priest” rech, pr and at the | ident, When one of the , Who has an as a building inspector, es such as these are too numerous to mention, but just the same it becomes the solemn duty of every worker to expose these fakers $6,009 for Wisdom Workingmen, let us take a look at that robbery by the union officials of local No. 21 by giving Pete Shan- sy's wife $6,000 per year after his death (Pete Shann was president of our local and died two years ago). Workingmen, let us once and for all put a stop to this. Our treasury is being drained, the business agents are having good times in City Hall and the builders building paying $6,000 to a grafter’s widow, scab jobs are ram- pant over the whole city and the business agents give not a snap to stop these jobs, although they are few jobs in number. Must Fight to Live This is the situation with which we are confronted with today. And how are we to put a stop to all this? Comrades, fellow workingmen, there is but one solutton to this problem and this {s, you must know your class enemy these labor fakers esnectally by organizing into solid industriai unions based upon the class struggle, The Building Trades Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, section of the R. LL. U.; that's where I stand. BRICKLAYER, Police Break Up Glassport Rally; Arrest Candidate GLASPORT, Pa.—The election campaign meeting arranged by the Communist Party with E. P. Cush, Communist candidate for U. 8. Sen- ator from Pennsylvania was broken up by the police on Monday evening, September 29. The crowd was dis- persed and Cush arrested, kept in jail 20 hours and then released, The police here have a consistent policy in trying to cripple the Com- munist election campaign by break- ing up meetings. In Monessen, controlled by the Pittsburgh Steel Co. (a Mellon com- pany), the meeting was not broken up but the 150 workers that came to the meeting were terrorized by the police, and only 35 came into the hall, The rest stood outside the hall, Another meeting on a large | EVICTED BY BIG \Jobless Worker ‘sure that every unemployed worker BANKING CONCERN Spent Years of Toil in Building Up Farm Las Vegas, Nev. Daily Worker: I arrived in Las Vegas, Nev., Feb. 22, 1929, after being evicted from a ranch near Ashland, Oregon, as I s short just $500 of meeting the ear’s payment. I turned in as first payment on this 250-acre ranch a home and the sav-| ings of 21 years’ labor on the rail- | road. At the end of eight months I} had built this ranch from nothing to | a dairy ranch, with one of the largest most modern dairy barns on the Pa- cific Coast. Had 48 dairy cows, milk- 32 with monthly cream check in- come of $480 to $500. Doubled Ranch Value | Yet I ‘was evicted because I hadj loubled the value of this ranch the first year, and it could be sold for double the price I had contracted to pay. he company I was dealing with the Balfour-Guthrie Trust Co., Portland, Ore, a multi-millionaire concern, with offices in every prin- cipal seaport in the world. Owning arge elevators, exporting grain, have | numerous flour and cereal mills. Many More Victims Thousands of workers and farmers on the Pacific Coast and workers of other parts of the world have been victims of their vicious exploitation | and swindling. All I could claim after eviction from this farm was my wife, an Aus- tralian sheep dog, a trunk of clothes, ome bedding and an old Star tour- ing car, but in good mechanical con- dition, and a little grub, carpenter's tools and some cash. | ARMER. Greets Meeting to Welcome Foster | NEW YORK CITY. Mr. Editor: I read in your paper about the meeting in Madison Square Garden to welcome Foster and the rest of the Unemployed Delegation. Now I am myself unemployed for | a long time and I admire your cour- ‘ous fight for the social insurance bill. It seems to me that we ought to popularize it more. Why not ar- range a parade to welcome Foster | when he comes out from jail, I am will join in such a parade to welcome the brave delegation, thereby show- ing the parasites what the unem- ployed think of such “criminal: AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER. Chicago Jobless Have Action Program CHICAGO, Il. Daily Worker: The jobless conference at Peoples’ Auditorium on West Chicago Avenue makes a sharp turn from a loose propaganda stage, to unemployed councils of action, committees of ac- tions. Immediate relief and the fight against evictions will be carried into the city council? and finally to the state legislature at Springfield. The plans are well laid. If carried out we can expect unemployed coun- cils to be well received by the un- employed here and well hated by the bosses, and their poodle dogs of the A. F. of L., Socialist Party, LW. W., ete. AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER. a “friend” of the poor farm but an open and avowed agent of finance capital, a treacherous enemy of the poor farmers. Farmers ever where should not be slow in finding this out, and it is to be hoped they will make systematic efforts to fight this organization openly with all the power at their command. The Farmers’ Union is now being used by finance capital, through the Farm Board as a medium, in seizing control of marketing and marketing facilities. Terminal grain elevators are being built, ostensibly under Farmers’ Union auspices to handle the farmers’ grain “profitably.” One large such elevator is now under con- struction in the Twin Cities. An- other of about 250,000 bushels capac- ity is being built at Williston, N. D., while others will come into existence as the need for them arises, The funds for this purpose comes from the big banks, which now, obviously, control the Union, Go Into Business In North Dakota the Farmers’ union is already taking over sev- eral scores of country grain ele- vators in the interest of finance capital. Farmers’ Union leaders tell the farmers that the “gov- ernment” is giving the Union money to “help” the farmer mar- ket his crop. . Some “help,” this, to thé poor farmer, to be sure, when this same government is dominated by finance capital, the farmer's biggest and worst enemy! Finance capital alreadys dominates marketing and marketing facilities in the United States, just as it now s 'so, in parasitical form, has penett 3 agriculture in production, and it uses the so-called “farmers’ co-operatives” to a very great extent, in exercising this control. The money bags find in the bourgeois reformists of the type of Huff, Thatcher, Thompson, etc., servile tools to their interests. The reformism which is so noisily said to be of “help” to the farmers fs really being utilized to strengthen and con- solidate the powers-that-be. The ‘mers’ Union et al. is, therefore, to d by the poor farmers. Join United Farmers’ League The poor farmer must turn his face away from bourgeois re- formism and towards revolution- ary action. He must join the United Farmers’ League, the only revolutionary farmers’ organizi tion in the country, and fight for the abolition of his taxes, his debts; fight physically against foreclosure and eviction, demon- strate openly against the capital- ist authorities, and make com- mon cause with the revolutionary workers in the industries for the overthrowal of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. ALFRED KNUTSON. Cut Wages and Crews on Ripley Boat; Undermanned (From The Southern Worker) (By a Worker Correspondent) Houston, Texas. Two wipers were assigned to the S. S. Waban (Lykes Bros. Ripley 8. S. Co) on August 14 through the U. S. Shipping Board at Houston, Texas. The vessel at this time was undergo- ing boiler inspection and general re- pairs. On a job like this there. is plenty of dirty and hard work. Dur- ing this time the bosses cut the wages of the seamen and also the man power of the crews, The crews were cut from 36 men to 26 and the chief engineer quit, saying he did not care to take a ship to sea under- manned. The first assistant engineer, who was a good owner's tool, got the chief's job and the second assistant who was a Greek and scabbed in the 1921 strike was promoted to first as- sistant. He fired all the American workers and hired his own kind, —A Seaman. Discriminate Against Negro Women Workers; Only Half Hour Allowed for Lunch Gary, Ind. Daily Worker: At the Double L Laundry, where a majority of Negro wom- @n were employed, they are beina laid off daily and being replaced by white workers. Those tjiac have the dirtiest jobs, the hard- est jobs are yet working, they are compelled to work much harder, and even for less money than the white workers. TEN-HOUR DAY All the girls are compelled to work 10 hours with only 30 min- utes for iunch. The slave driving foreman don’t allow the girls to GARY LAUNDRY WORKERS WORK I-HOUR OAY Fl R37 WKLY. WAGE talk or sit down, They must stand on their feet from the time they start until the 30 minutes’ lunch period and again until 5 in the afternoon, When the girls come late they are sent back home and if they lay off one day to rest up they are fired. Some of the girls are working for only $7 per week and the highly paid ones or the fastest ones get $10 per week. acpuBliche PARTY rs, when as a matter of fact it is nothing ALA, FARMERS WORST RIT IN ALL HISTORY Rallying for Fight Against Bankers (From the Southern Worker, Farmer Correspondent) Whitney, Ala. I want to tell all workers and farm= ers that we are the worst hit we have ever been in history, since I can re= member. The landowner quit ture nishing us about June 1, so we couldn't work our crops out like we would have done if they had fur- nished us like they had promised to do. We can’t sell anything in town. One man carried some corn, peas, and tomatoes to town and couldn’t sell at any price. So we all know what to do, that is, join the Com- munist Party and fight back at the landowners and bosses. Let them know we are not what they call us Southern people—yellow, like them, No, we have got guts to fight back. We are all darn good fellows, but have been on the wrong road. We are all going to fight like hell and we know who to fight, since the Com= munist Party will lead us to victory. A FARMER. WAITERS’ FAKERS SELL ALL WORK NEW YORK. by & Daily Worker: At the Thursday membership meeting of Waiters Union, Local 2 of Brooklyn, the members of that union voted the “labor chief” out of office. This $75 a week “labor leader” is supposed to hand out work to all members alike, was selling the jobs, Another faker was elected to his po- sition. But when the members came to the headquarters Friday, Septem- ber 19, with the idea of getting an equal break, they found the same thief in office under gangster pro- tection, Local Fascist Rule ‘The rank and file of all A. F. of I. unions must realize that the A. F. of L. officials are a fascist outfit sold to the bosses, hook line and sinker. Waiters’ local of New York had a dic- tatorship. All meetings are sus- pended. The so-called progressives are going to the courts to get local automony, expecting “justice” from the same judge that hands out in- junctions when workers fight for better conditions. There is only one way out of this, That is to build in each restaurant, hotel or cafeteria shop committees and join the Food Workers Industrial Union affilated to the Trade Union Unity League. MW. Farm “Relief” Based On Farm Mortgages WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2.— Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has announced that farmers seriously affected by the summer's drouth in Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri and Al- abama, will be pérmitted to borrow from the remaining $550,000 fund ap~ propriated by Congress for seed loans, in order that they may buy fertilizer and seed for fall and win- ter pastures. But each farmer must give his promissory note and a mort- gage on his crops. Two thousand ap- plications for loans have already been received, Landlord Takes All Crop That Tenant Raised By a Farmer Correspondent Griffin, Ga. Everywhere 1 go the people ask, “What in the hell are we going to do when winter comes?’ it qui tion. My crop having been heav- ily damaged by drought and the boss says, gather your crop and hand every bit of it over to him or he will cut off credit, He your crop up and when fall # he doesn’t get it, it is not hie fault. | ; 6 for Communism, Maa A FARMER.