The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 4

Wet mitepige Es . ts Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily 18th Street, New York City. N. Y. Telephone Algonquin Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East at AL 50 Fast WORK." Dail orker Berty US.A By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3 ot Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy, Foreign; one year, $8+ six months, $4.50. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs wie ST ATEMENT of the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON INTERNA- TIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (ORKING Women of the United States! The economic crisis in the United States which is part of the general capitalist crisis is forcing daily more and more burdens upon you. Due to the capitalist rationalization, millions of women workers haye been mobilized into industry. The continuous division of labor and rationalization places you today in the most hazardous occupa- tions. You are subjected to the most fierce speed up. Your role in industry is tremendously in- creased; the lengthening of the working day and the continuous slashing of your wages, the | | | | | | | | | increase of your physical exhaustion through the | speed up system, the total lack of social insur- ance for the protection of motherhood and child- hood, éhe mass lay-offs and the severe unem- ployment among married women especially are International Women’s Day must be the means of calling sharply to the attention of the whole workingclass the special problems confronting the mass of women, both the women of indus- try, on the farm and the workingclass house- for the immediate struggles confronting them in wives. It must mobilize the whole workingclass which the women workers play an enormous part. The women workers have reacted with stub- born determination and strugg® to the attacks of the capitalist class. They have participated in the whole series of struggles not only as mill- | tant fighters but have in the forefront and lead- causing the most intense suffering to women | and women workers in the United States. The women workers—one-fourth of the army of workers in the United States—are being drawn Mmto industry in larger numbers to displace men workers at lower pay. As one of the most ex- ploited sections of the American Workingclass, unorganized, discriminated against and forced to | bear the double burden of caring for their fami- ies as well as of bread-winning, the women workers are especially hard hit by the crisis. On the job, they face hard work, much speed up, no special protection against the hazards of in- | dustry, against night work, against long hours, their children deprived of nursery care, cs un- employed workers, they face evictions, hunger, charity and bread lines. Side by side with the women in industry, the wives of workers and poor farmers are equally hard hit by the mass unemployment and the lowered standards of the workers. 3 In many’ states there are no special laws limit- ing the work day for women. In the southern textile mills. a 65 or 70 hour day is not uncom~- mon:- Night work for women exists in many in- dustrial centers. The number of deaths of women in the radium clock shops is a witness to the lack of protection of the working women In spite of these conditions, you are totally unorganized, left without defense. The Ameri- can Federation of Labor claims about 150,000 womén members in their various unions. But what are these organizations doing? Led by a fascist leadership, the American Federation of Labor has never attempted to organize women | workers and-is following a systematic policy of discrimination against the masses of women workers in collaboration with the bosses. The so-ce"led. Women’s Trade Union League of the American Federation of Labor is only a counter- part of the fascist American Federation of Labor bureaucracy. which with the spreading of pacifist and social fascist propaganda, with the arrang- ing of banquets, etc., try to divert the women workers from their struggles for better condi- tions; from the class struggle, and bind them to the wheels of capitalism. One in one country are the women workers completely free and participate in the same duties and-rights as the men in the building of socialism and in the building of a new system. It is only in the Soviet Union that women are continuously drawn into industry, not for the purpose of displacing men and increasing unem- ployment as is the case in the capitalist coun- tries, but because unemployment has been abol- ished. It is only in the Soviet Union that the workers achieved the seven hour day and the five day week. It is only in the Soviet Union that the workers, men and women, have regular paid vacations, that every worker is guaranteed social insurance, that night work is abolished, that the women are free from domestic drudgery ‘and from the care of their children by the tre- mendois net work of dining rooms, laundries, nurseries and kindergartens provided by the government and the trade unions. This was possible only through the victorious revolution of October Which broke definitely the capitalist gystem there. ership. The strikers in Kingston and Danbury and many of the dress makers in New York and Philadelphia, where the women dressmakers have shown great militancy in clashes with the police; the women on the picket line; in the tremend- ous unemployment demonstrations where women have shown energetic resistance to the brutal attacks of the police show the growing revolu- | tionary strength among the women workers which can and must be turned into channels of greater struggle for the immediate improvement of the condition of the workingclass for the development of the struggle against the capital- | ist system. WOMEN WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES! While you become more and more slaves of capitalism, the social fascist and | bourgeois pacifist organizations such as “The conference for the Cause and Cure of War,” “The Women’s Trade Union League,’ the church missions and charity organizations are mobiliz- workers’ wives for the coming militarist war and for the intervention against the Soviet | Union. The capitalists are doing everything possible for the militarization of the masses of working women by drawing them directly into | the war apparatus and militarization, which can be seen in the training of women in production of ammunition, in the building of women’s mili- tary organizations, etc. ‘The women workers must mobilize, must or- ganize not only to fight against the speed up system, against the wage cuts and lay-offs, against their present slavery conditions but also against the preparations for militarist war which will involve not only the workers but also the men and women from the farms. The women must mobilize and organize against the prepara- tions for intervention against the Soviet Union. ‘They must prepare themselves with the rest of the proletariat to transform the militarist war into civil war, into proletarian revolution as the only way that will emancipate them together with the rest of the proletariat from capitalist exploitation, and the only way that will eman- cipate completely the women. The women workers of the United States who | have given such splendid examples of class bat- | ties in the past in Passaic, in Gastonia and.in | the present in all strikes that are developing | in the country, must be in the forefront of the | class struggle fighting shoulder to shoulder with their fellow workers. OUT ON MARCH 8, Make March 8, 1931, a historic day of class struggle; a day of strug- gle for your rights; a day of struggle for better | conditions; a day of struggle against the mili- tarist war; a day of struggle in defense of the Soviet Union. OUT ON MARCH 8! Fight for immediate unemployment relief and social insurance. JOIN THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS AND TEN- ANTS’ LEAGUES and struggle against evictions, for nourishing food for the children, for free rent, heat and light. JOIN THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE AND THE REVOLUTIONARY INDUSTRIAL UNIONS, the only organizations that will lead | you in the struggles for better conditions; in the struggle against wage cuts, speed ups and dis- criminations. ing the masses of working and farmer women | Social Demagogy in Chicago Elections By BILL GEBERT. the Chicago Mayoralty Election campaign all of the capitalist candidates are using a great @ealof social démagogy with the purpose of winning the support of the masses of workers. ‘The Republican Party, candidate “Big Bully” ‘Thompson blames the unemployment situation in Chicago to the Hoover administration. The fas- cist Judge Lyle blames the unemployment situa- tion on Thompson. Both of them claim that if they will be elected they will solve the problem of unemployment, But, the outstanding social demagogue is Anton: Cermak, Democratic Party candidate for mayor. In a speech delivered the other day he declared “the Republicans cannot fool the people with their ‘Full dinner pail’ cry this time, because the dinner pails are empty.” And then. he goes to explain how much he will do to solve the problem of unemployment, and even speaks of his supporting the proposal of $2,-. 009.4°9.00 relief for unemployment in Cook -- After this he appeals to the workers to Yote Democrat” as a protest vote “that will be heard in Washington, and regarded as our protest against ‘Hoover prosperity.’” ‘The social demagogy of Mr. Cermak is neces- sary for the capitalist class in the face of 500,- 000 starving, unemployed workers in Chicago, with hundreds of thousands partially employed, and general wage cuts in all industries in Chi- cago. Mr, Cermak adopts the very same policy fn Chicago as Senator Lewis of Illinois, as Mr. Murphy adopted in Detroit, LaFollette in Wis- consin, Roosevelt in New York, and other cap- italist politicians, who by raising slogans that they will give support to unemployed relief, have been elected. Mr. Cermak, on his platform, feels sure that he will be the next mayor. Of course, this platform will not be sufficient to elect Cer- mak, There is to be something more substantial to support his candidacy, and that more sub- stantial thing is the support he is getting from the Willlionaires of the city of Chicago. Colonel ‘Albert A. Sprague, well-known leader of the big capitalists in the city, organized a 's campaign committee in behalf terested in solving the problem of unemployment, but because he is the best defender of the in- terests of big business. Mr. Sprague in his statement to the press declared: “As a business man I am interested in the present mayoralty campaign, because Chicago business and business | men are openly challenged.” It is true that not only business but the capitalist system in Chicago is challenged by the working class, It is Mr. Cermak, who to defend capitalism has been chosen by the leading capitalists. And here is a partial list of the outstanding capitalists anl exploiters of labor in Chicago who are putting up the candidacy of Cermak: Melvin A. Traylor, president First National Bank; William V. Kelley, president Miehle Printing Press Co.; William R. Dawes, senior vice-president Central ‘Trust Co., Republican; Frederick R. Rawson, chairman First National Bank; Lawrence R. Stern, president Lawrence F. Storn Co., Republican; Stanley Field, presi- | dent Field Museum; John McKinley, president Marshall Field & Co.; Thomas W. Hinde, retired capitalist; Alfred Austrian, attorney; Richard J. Collins, vice-president A. T. & 8S. F. Railway; Tracy B. Drake, Drake Hotels Co., Republican; John T.. Connery, retiring builder; Alfred Alschuler, architect, Republican; Dr. Frederick Tice,‘ Republican; H. T. Hollingshead, Illinois Nash Distributing Co.; Julius Smietanks, banker, attorney; Fred W. Sargent, president C. & N. W. Railway, Republican; Oscar G. Foreman, chair man Foreman State-National Bank; Charles W. ‘Thompson. Earl H. Reynolds, chairman Peoples’ Trust and Savings Bank; Dr. Brown Pussey, Re- publican, To compare the statement of Cermak and Sprague it is clear why social demagogy is neces- sary. It is necessary to cover up the fact that Cermak is a candidate of big business, that he is a candidate of open shoppers and strike breakers who hide under the cloak of unem- ployed relief. He is to deliver a blow against the ever growing militancy of the workers, in struggle for Workers Social Insurance Bill and for immediate appropriation of 75 million dol- lars as Emergency Unemployed Relief by the city of Chicago. Capitalism is challenged, and that is why the | given definite assignments and places to concen- Columbus, Ohio, Jobless Demanding Relief February 25th at the City Hall PARTY LIFE | | Conducted by the Organization Department of | the Central Commitiee, Communist Party, U.S.A. Youth Work Among the Jobless) in Chicago | 'E National Youth Committee of the Trade | Union Unity League at 2 West 15th Street | has received a letter from the Youth Committee of the T.U.U.L. in Chicago from which the fol- lowing excerpts are reprinted: “The demonstration (Feb. 10) took place on the south side, in the heart of the Negro work- ing class section. The estimate is that 5,000 participated in the march. About 400 (by count) were Young Negro and white workers. About 60 per cent of the youth were Negro. Because of bad technical arrangements we had no youth section in the March, but as much as possible we tried to keep the youth together under one bahner but we weren’t quite successful. “So far as we have been able to check up about 35 youth were recruited at the demonstra- tion itself for the Unemployed Councils. All ap- plication cards are not in yet, “Main concentration was on the Western Elec- trie and Stockyards territory, Comrades were trate on. The employment offices at the West- ern Electric was covered almost every day, also themstockyards. As a result of the activity ground, the Western Electric an unemployed council was formed consisting of a good percent- age of youth, A number of inside contacts were also gained. “Poolrooms in the neighborhood were also con- centrated on. On the South Side the main concentration was on the fiop houses, and bread- lines—because there is where a good proportion of the Negro youth are found. On the morning of the demonstration a meeting was called in Cicero (WE), and in a proletarian Negro section. Following the meeting in Cicero about 25 work- ers (15 youth) led by our comrades boarded street cars without paying fares—and transferred in like manner until they reached the demon- stration. “As a result of the Youth work carried on for Feb. 10 we expect to have 4 functioning Youth Committees in the Unemployed Councils by the end of the week. 2 are already clinched. Several eviction fights took place before the 10th and in 2 cases we called upon the Young ‘Workers from certain poolrooms were concen- trating on and the response was excellent. The main shortcoming in the preparation were that the assignments were not sufficiently carried out and most of the work was really begun about 10 days before the demonstration. The experi- ences we gained from this demonstration will help in furthering our work. Also work has be- gun in neighborhoods for February 25.” Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Gum- munist Party. Name, Address Ate eaeneeenerareeecseseeseseseenceaenses OMY abisss sspsescovcesadsoses! Btataee Occupation -Mail this to the Central Office. Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. ward’ &is candidate. Cermak is -ap- | foreign born workers who a large percentage of voters. At the same, e is the outstanding enemy of the born kers as well as native and Negro, as he is the candidate of the capitalist class, which op- presses and suppresses all the activities of the working class, as the resolution of the 12th Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee states “is the unchallenged leader of the struggles of the workingclass for the smallest and most intimate demands, link- ing this up with the general class demands and revolutionary aims. The gap must be which separates the daily life of the from the revolutionary aims of our Party.” _ ine Oklahoma Farmers Defy the Fish Committee By HARRISON GEORGE. 'T is a rare pleasure for the writer to act as a referee between a hypocritical’ capitalist con- gressman and a discontented American farmer who, though not yet a Communist, is beginning to shed old illusions. The argument takes place by mail, between the farmer, C. J. McDonald of Tuttle, Okla., and a democrat congressman from Oklahoma, Jed Johnson. The principal subject under dispute is the United Farmers’ League of New York Mills, Minn., which the congressman freely misrepresents as a “Communist” organ- ization merely because its program and its struggles are supported by Communists. We first give the essential parts of Congress- man Johnson's letter to McDonald, inserting our comments, It is dated Feb. 4, at Washington, on official government letterhead of “Congress of the United States,” and begins: “My dear Mr. McDonald:—I have your letter of Feb. 2 advising me that Mr. Hamrick had shown you my letter of inquiry relative to a charge made by Congressman Fish of New York to the effect that there had been a Commuunis- tic meeting in Grady County.” So, to this “democratic” follower of Thomas Jefferson, Communists have no right to hold a meeting, since it is a “charge” to claim so! “I must say; Mr. McDonald, that I am some- what surprised to learn that Mr. Fish was cor- rect in his statement that there had actually been held such a meeting.” Congressman Johnson, you are certainly due for more “surprises.” “Permit me to say, in this connection (!), that I was reared on a 74-acre hillside, mortgaged farm; that there were ten of us in the family, and I know what it means to struggle to make ends meet and help keep little mouths from going hungry. My heart goes out in sympathy to the farmers of Oklahoma and elsewhere who are not receiving anything like fair prices for their products, and yet are forced to pay ex- horbitant and unreasonable prices for the things they have to buy.” ‘The congressman must drag in the old hokum about “I was a poor boy,” etc., though he drags it in by the hair. What has it to do with whether there was a meeting of the United Farmers’ League in Grady County, to discuss means to struggle against thieving landlords, bankers, tax robbers and capitalist monopoly bandits? Only this, that by this oily demogagy, Congressman Johnson tries to get the present “hillside, mortgaged” farmers from effectively fighting these thieves, robbers and bandits. “I am sending you, under separate cover, some speeches I have made in Congress along this line. I especially call your attention to my speech against the Grundy Tariff Bill... and would thank you if you would do me the honor to read it and pass it along to some of your neighbors.” Speeches are the cheapest thing on earth. ‘There is “over-production” in capitalist dema- gogy. And one of the most vile deceits is the tariff. It is always in favor of a monopoly, and it is completely impossible for farmers to rig up their own monopoly, though they keep vainly ‘trying. It is impossible because it reauires credit power, and credit is already monopolized by the great finance capitalists. This capitalist politician “made speeches” against the Grundy ‘Tariff. But if he were a republican he certainly would claim that the 42-cent tariff on wheat “saved” the grain farmers (maybe Johnson also voted for it!). But it did mot save the grain farmers; it only helped the capitalist specula- tors who bought their wheat and later were kindly paid more for it by the Farm Board which helped to reduce the price paid to the farmer by first saying the board would buy no wheat—then reversing itself to pay the specu- lators a nice profit after the wheat was in their hands, ‘ “While I am in thorough sympathy with ‘the farmers and their problems and anvreciate all you say about the low price of miJk and farm products, I must sav to you frankly that I do not believe you or the farmers thoroughly un- derstood what the Communist organization really stands for, else you would not have allied yourselves with such an un-American organiza- tion.” You now see why the Congressman dragged in his palaver about where he was “reared.” He “makes speeches” for the farmers, but his real business is to keen them away from “Com- munist Organization.” as he calls the United Farmers’. League. which is comnosed of, and whose nolicies are determined by, American farmers. But from misrepresentation he goes on to outright lving: “I have seen these Communists parading in Washington; have read their un-American signs and have noticed that practically all of them are from Russia or some other foreign country, They carry signs similar to this: ‘To hell with America,’ ‘Down with the American flag,’ and other objectionable and disloyal state- ments. I am sure you do not belong to that type, and do not endorse such un-American propa- ganda, but that you and youur neighbors are good, law-abiding citizens who simply are pro- testing against present-day conditions which all of us know are deplorable.” Oklahoma has produced many things, but un- til this infernal liar Congressman Johnson came off that hillside farm, nothing has appeared to challenge the supremacy of Congressman Fish in falsehood. We wish to state: 1. That Wash- ington has not yet seen a demonstration of the United Farmers’ League (when it does, however, they will be called “Russians” by such liars); 2. That ne signs such as described by Congress- man Johnson have been carried by any Com- munists either in Washington or anywhere else— even in Moscow; 3. That Johnson is a liar and knows it; 4. That he lies to induce the farmers to obey laws for the benefit of big canitalists and against the poor farmers which he, as a lickspittle of big capital, makes in Congress. To crown all this demagogy, misrepresenta- tion and falsehood with a cheap effort to in- gratiate, Congressman Johnscii closes with the following bit of unconscious irony, to a poverty- stricken farmer whose family lives always in want and semi-starvation: “I am sending Mrs. McDonald a little cook book called ‘Aunt Sammy’s Radio Receipts.’ I trust that she will find this little booklet inter- esting.—Sincerely, Jed Johnson.” To the above, Farmer McDonald replied, in part, as follows, on Feb. 13: “My dear Congressman:—After reading your letter of Feb. 4, also the Congressional Records which you sent and studying it over—I mean seriously, I have decided to write you another letter in regard to our farm organization. “Now, Mr. Johnson, I want to say to you frankly that we don’t object for having your or other peoples’ sympathy, but we know that won't do us any good. “Mr. Johnson, we have an out and out dic- tatorship in this country and it all comes from organized capital. There is someone to set the price on our products that we sell and another bunch of the same stripe that sets the price on what- we consume, hence you see what that produces—a bunch of millionaires and billion- aires at one end of the string and a bunch of mortgaged. farmers, hoboes, bums and soup kit- chens at the other end.” Ke McDonald is roughly correct on the main line. Only it’s the same bunch, finance capital, which works both games. Also, there are economic laws which limit their ability to “set” prices. Which does not deny that by monopoly they increase their robbery. But they would still be robbing farmers as capitalists even if they were not monopoly capitalists, because capitalism is a system of robbery. The farmer continues: “Now you know sympathy is not worth any- thing in the fight, The United Farmers’ League proposes to look into these things and if I hayen’t missed my guess we intend to have some- thing to say about it and it’s going to be serious. “Now, Mr. Johnson, in regard to the Com- munist (CQ) Party and the movement. Now I don’t know about those Russian people, nor I don’t doubt that they carry such banners as you say they do. I certainly don’t approve of such sayings that doesn’t do any good, besides it sounds bad. My honest opinion is, the treat- ment they have had in this country is the thing that has produced that kind of hate. Remem- ber they have worked for those great corpora- tions—such as the steel mill you talked about in your debate on the tariff. You know how you state the corporations lobby and defraud the government of just dues and taxes. My opinion is that they treat those downtrodden Russians a great: deal worse.” McDonald mistakenly believed the capitalist congressman’s lie about the signs. But he sur- vived it and came back with the simple logic of one who toils. Let all who think that the American farmer, or worker either, will be for- ever bamboozled by national prejudice, beware. And McDonald makes clear he is an American. “If I have been rightly informed I am one of the sons of the revolution of this country. My people came here in the colony days. My father was a Scuthern soldier. We sent two sons to France to make the world safe for democracy. Fevee I claim to be a fairly good American citizen.” Nevertheless, McDonald, if you foin the ficht ageinst canitelem, va mow ernment to be called a Russian—and many other things. “Mr. Johnson, I think less of » mon that wants to deprive the peonle of this conntry the rieht to sneak and organize than I did of the Kaiser, “Being over to the city a few davs ago, I de- cided I would look over some of those soun kitchens and T run onto a bunch cf soldier bovs, the first place I went. I wish you could have heard those boys talk. I believe they could make those Russians you speak of ashamed of themselves cursing this country. One of them who seems to be the spokesman said he was a pretty fair bricklayer and an expert plasterer. He was in the 90th Division and went into Ger- many. Now, Mr, Johnson, he made the remark very distinct to me: that he had been in the soup kitchen six weeks, and he asked me—What Beets | By JORGE eee No Exaggeration It was funny, from where we are in New York, to see the capitalist papers lying about the number of demonstrating workers in Union Square. The “old reliable’ Times thought it was doing well to lop off 24,000 or so from the 30,000 present, and called it 6,000. ‘The New York Telegram is a “liberal” paper, so it cut the Times estimate in half and gave 3,000. The “World,” going down with its Pul- itzer flag of opposition to “the predatory poor” flying at the masthead, gave a picture of the, crowd showing about 20,000 of the 30,000 pres- ent, and sald there were 3,000. From many cases in the past—and present— it seems that some of our Party comrades think that because the capitalist press lies so gro- tesquely in minimizing the size of demonstrations, that we should exaggerate “just a little bit,” to sort of even up the score. We are no Solomon, and from this distance we refuse to judge who is correct or if one comrades over-estimated and anoiher under- estimated in the case noted below, but on Feb. 25, be got the following letter from a Worker Correspondent: “Too bad I did not have time to write before, but better late than never. In the recent dem- onstration on Feb. 10 in Boston, the Daily carried the news to the effect that there were 7,000 on Boston Common. “Well, I was there and I certainly want to state that there is some mistake, or somebody from your organization who sent in that report is bad figuring crowds. I was there with my friend and the most we figured at was be- tween 500 and 1,000 workers. “Now I certainly would like to see not 7,000, but 10,000 or 50.000 and more demonstrate on reports hurt not only the movement but the Daily Worker, and I think Jorge should have something to say about this in his column. —LD.” If Boston exaggerated—and as we said before we cannot judge that particular case—it has many a precedent and no monopoly. The Love- stone era of bluff and bluster gave many com- rades the habit. But it is a bad habit, a bour- gois habit, which the Comunist Party is against. The Daily Worker can only give the figures it gets. It wants them to be accurate. When they are not, the Daily Worker can’t help it, though workers who get the paper might think the Daily is to blame for what they see is an exaggeration. Moreover, it distorts any analysis made by the Party leadership, hence may lead to wrong policies and is downright bad. So watch your step! eee eee: Forced Labor? Listen! While the Soviet rule is that “He who will not work, neither shall he eat!”—in these United States it is fixed up so that he who does work cannot eat. And down in Mississippi, if you try to leave the job. where you get nothing to eat, for some place where you get 51-2 cents worth of food a day, they fix it up so you lose that and have to go back to all work and no eat. Here is a news item, cut from the New Orleans Times- Picayune of Feb. 17: “YAZOO CITY, Miss., Feb. 16 (A.P.).—In order to keep laborers from deserting farms in Yazoo County, the county Red Cross chap- ter has cut down on drouth relief and now is administering only to cases of extreme desti- tution, Planters requested discontinuance of the daily distributions, saying hundreds of la- borers were leaving farms to seek charity. For 10 days the Red Cross has been assisting 18,000 persons as a cost of about $1,000 a day.” Talk about the miracle of the “Five loaves and ive fishes!” Look at this Red Cross who “adequately” feeds people at 51-2 cents a day each, for that is what $1,000 for 18,000 people means! ¥ Now what kind of conditions must there be on the farms, if laborers get so little there that they leave and go to the towns to “live” on 51-2 cents a day? And with what “moral indignation” does the whole school of Fish rise up and squeak about “forced labor” in the Soviet Union, while they are silent about this case where, to help the belly-roBbing plantation owners, thousands of workers who are so starved that they welcome a: ‘ckel a day for food, are forced back into worse starvation than even that! And at hard labor! Of course, these are probably Negro workers and, as the|New York Times recently said, Ne- groes are “sustained by their unfailing good humor,” They don’t need any food, according to the capitalist notion. It’s about time to figure that good humor is neither filling nor fattening, and Negro workers who want to let the white capitalists know they are not “sustained” on good humor, should get downright bad-humored and turn out to demon- strate it on Wednesday. in the hell the Kaiser could haye done to me any worse than this?’ “I am not mad at anyone and I try to use sense. We had a United Farmers’ meeting at Maldon schoolhouse Monday night. We signed up 18 new members. I think the only thing that we want to do and are going to do is to write up our demands and bring them to the state and national governments in the most intelli- gent way we can. You tell Congressman Fish he will have some job keeping us from it.” It is right to “use sense” and to bring de- mands “intelligently,” but it is no harm to be mad at anolorists for canitalist robbery. Wher you see how the canitalist government treat: your demands, you'll have reason to be mad, Mc- Donald. | The farmer closes his letter .by telling th: congressman that if he will write and ask an: question. he (the farmer) will answer with th: truth, We believe it. But we also believe i would be wholly wasted, as a capitalist con gressman doesn’t know what truth is. Take th truth to your neiehbors, McDonald, and buil: the United Farmers’ League to use as a weapo) against those who rob them, The 4 their demands {s not in their justice, but 1 the number and militancy of those who bac ,them up.