The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1932, Page 3

emenaes — nacineiaiiliiialiaiiianiaeen” — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK SATURDA Y, , JULY 2, 1932 SOCIALIST FARMING VERSUS AGRICULTURAL ANARCHY IN U. S. SOVIET "FARMERS Give Unpaid Gas Bill to the Mayor, Advice of Lorain Workers Unemployed Council Invades City Hall, Gives Bills to City Fathers (By a Worker Correspondent) LORAIN, 0.—Have you any unpaid gas and light bills? ‘Take them to the mayor and Jet him take care of them. BLAZE PATH TO BETTER WORLD No Crisis on Huge Col- lective Farms in Soviet Union Holmetsk, U.S.S;R,. _ Dear Comrades: We are members of the “Ray of Socialism” Collective Farm at Hol- metsk, Dorogobujski County, Western Province. At a general meeting, we decided to write to you and describe our life before the revolution and our life now in the collective farm. Our village used to have 12 home- steads, and the area of land of all kinds, useful and useless, was about 300 acres. The big landlord of the village had 1,650 acres, and he used to rent it out on the most oppressive terms. For working on his land; he used to pay at the rate of 50 kopecks a day for a reaper, and 25 kopecks a day for women doing field work.) Though we lived in terrible condi- tions, we were forced to buy 290 acres of land from the landlord, for which we had to pay 10,700 rubles. In or- der to make the first payment of 3,000 rubles, we poor farmers had to sell our last cow and even much. of our food. In addition to the oppres- sive conditions under which we lived, we had to hire land from the land- lord, for which we had to pay. 125 rubles evefy year, to give him. hay, etc. The landlord was rolling in-lux- ury, but we farmers and hired work- ers were terribly poor. The Hand of the Priest. We suffered equally at the hands of the priest, Vassiliev, who made us pay for funerals, weddings, etc. In the autumn he would come into the village and take rye, oats, etc, and there were cases when he took the last graim from poor farmers, saying that God would care for the poor. No one dared refuse the priest, as he frightened them with hell fire. By the time we had paid the priest and the landlord we had hardly any- thing left. In order to live we had to go into the town to look for work, while our families remained in the yillage and almost starved. The stores were full of goods, but we poor farmers could not buy them. We had no money. Everything wé earned went to the landlord and the Tsarist officials in rent or in land taxes. ‘Then Came the Revolution. Such were the conditions under which we lived until October, 1917. Then the October Revolution swept away all the exploiters, landlords, priests and officials. In place of the little strips of land which we formerly cultivated, we have now a huge collective farm, on which we can use tractors and other agri- cultural machines. As a result, our harvests have increased to 120 poods (26 bushels per acre). We have.180 head of cattle, 75 horses and many pigs and sheep. We have self-bind- ers, threshing machines, drills, seed cleaners, etc. Government Loans, When we organized a big collective farm, the government gave us a long- term loan of 10,000 rubles and a gift of 3,000 rubles. We also received pedigreed bulls and boars and also agricultural machines. The govern- ment has expended a large amount of capital in drainage work. A marshy meadow in our farm has been drained ,and ploughed up with tractors and we have seeded it with good grass. We work in brigades, such as ploughing, harvesting bri- gades, etc. Work is paid for in kind and in money. All work is piece- work, so that those who work hardest receive the most. The profits of the collective farm are divided up ac- cording to the number of working days of each member. ‘The best shock brigadi2rs get prizes. We sell our surplus to the government at fixed prices. Schools Opened. A school has been opened in the collective farm. All the children over & years old go to school and have to complete a 7-year course at least. There are now no illiterates in, the farm. We have a reading room, a day nursery and a children’s play- ground. For the older children there 4s not only the school, but they have the possibility of going to the uni- versity. Many of them attend courses in bookkeeping, stock rearing, etc, At intervals a doctor comes to the collective farm-to examine all the members, including the healthy ones. ‘We collective farm members value the achievements of the October Revolution, and we shall not let them be taken from us. We keep a close watch on the doinys of the wreckers who want to restore capitalism. Our path is not the path of capitalign, but that of Socialism. (Signed) Chairman of meeting, P. Koslov; secretary, I. Koslov; mem- bers: Baranov, Kovakov, Levchenko, Burenov. RELIGIOUS BRAWL LARNE ANTRIM, Ireland, June 27. —Two hundred Irish Protestants (Orangemen) got into a fight with 1,400 Catholics on a si going to the Eucharastic C yesterday, Many pilgrims were found to have face and head injuries by the time the battle of bottles, stones, etc., was over. The Orangemen seem to have had rather the better of it, This is how we get rid of our unpaid bills. We called a mass meeting June 19 and asked the workers who had unpaid electric tight and gas bills to turn them over to the secretary of the Unemployed Council. In ten minutes over 50 bills were turned over to the secretary. a On June 20 the City Council met and the Unemployed Council had mobilized over 400 workers to protest against hunger. The chamber was overcroded. enna —@ 1, Callow, erganiner Gf Sie Unein- Meeting of Worker Correspondents to Be Held in N.Y. July 11 NEW YORK.—A worker corres- pondents’ conference, called by the Writers Group of the Workers Cultural Federation, will be held Monday, July i1 in the Workers Center, 50 E. East 13th Street. All trade unions and fraternal organizations are urged to send their correspondents to this con- ference. All worker correspond- ents in greater in New York are invited to attend. The conference will form a functioning correspondence group in the city of New York to contri- bute regularly to the revolutionary press, Following the conference regular meetings of the workers corres- pondents will be held where lead- ing proletarian writers and editors will lead discussions on revolution- ary journalism and take up the problems of the workers’ press. Worker Correspondents are urged to send in their suggestions and proposals for building a cor~ respondence group in New York to the Workers Correspondence. Editor of the Daily Worker. SLANDERER OF USSR SCORED Toiler Exposes WCTU Red Baiter Dayton, Ohio, Comrade Editor: On June 7 there appeared the fol- lowing ad in the Dayton Daily News: “Mrs. Griffith, just returned from Poland, will talk on “Why Commu- nism and Why God.” The ad was so written as to imply that she had been in the USSR. She is the rat poison carrier of the WCTU to mislead the workers thru the church. Her first blast was against the bonus marchers as Com- munists. Then she said that mis- sionaries had their throats cut in Po- land but she wasn’t sure that the “reds” did it! Then she said the protestant church was growing by lewps and bounds under Russian per- secution. She said that if we could go to Russia we would see babies swinging in straw sacks and workers and peas- ants living in mud huts, I challenged her during her speech to show a Polish visa and tell where she had been in Russia. She admitted that she hadn’t been there and said that she got letters from there. The WCTU is carrying on a campaign of slander against the USSR in order to make religious workers believe that Jesus needs the support of armies to get back into Russia and make them hysterical enough to let another war be started. —Dayton Worker. JOBLESS DENIED HALL IN HARVEY, ILL. (By a Worker Correspondent) HARVEY, [ll—Our Unemployed Council here has been denied all halls and we even are not permitted to meet on vacant lots. ployed Council, spoke and demanded that the city supply free light and gas for the unemployed and holding in his hand the unpaid bills demand_ ed that they be cancelled. For a mo- ment it looked as though nobody wanted to take the bills so Callow threw them on the table before the president of the council. The room remained silent for a few moments. The silence was broken by the president. He said something must be done. Some councilmen got up and began to yell about Communist prop. aganda and Russian agents. Charges and counter charges between the councilmen and Callow followed. The mayor then got up and took the bills and said he would see to it that they were taken care of. He was just about to make a dem- agogic speech when the organizer announced: “Comrades, the bills will be paid by the mayor. Let us go out- side and continue with our meeting. HUNDREDS JOIN JOBLESS COUNCIL Fight Cops, 1 Legion in Eviction Case ( By a Worker Correspondent) WAUKEGAN, Ill—In two months the workers of Waukegan and North Chicago have joined the Unemployed Council by the hundreds. This month we prevented an eviction of a Communist. Four hundred work- ers attended the protest meeting and the chief of police was there but was afraid to do anything in face of these workers, On June 14th, the chief and sixty dicks and Legionnaires threw furni- ture of a poor worker's family out on the street. The U. C. promptly put it back. When the meeting was over about thirty workers were attacked and 17 of them were jailed. The police were armed with tear gas bombs, machine guns, etc. I went to jail to see them and could not find one of them. Four of the workers, including a Negro wom- an worker, were brutally clubbed, Six more workers were arrested at a pro- test meeting. Sixty dollars in litera- ture was seized in a raid on our hear- quarters at which furniture, etc. was destroyed by this fascist-police raid- ing squad. Vets Warned to Beware of Lloyd Brown in Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska, Daily Worker :— Lloyd Brown, the so-called radical leader of the Wild Cat chapter of the D. AVs in Omaha, who is still spout- ing phrases about sending veterans to Washington and defying his state and national commanders is nothing more or ness than a petty politician and a phrase monger who is de- liberately misleading his own bud- dies by his radical mouthing. He thinks that in this way he will gain notoriety and political prestige among the veterans in the state of Nebraska, —Ex-Servicemen’s League Member. ATLANTA “RELIEF” Jobless Workers Told to Go to Hell (By a Worker Correspondent) Atlanta, Ga, Editor, Daily Worker: When they stopped giving relief to the starving in Atlanta on June 18, the charities of Atlanta ended a rec- ord of the most stinking kind of fa- kery. Where they have now openly told the workers to go to hell, they used to cover up their crookedness and graft with all sorts of lies and hypocrisy. Now full-time workers, of which there are practically none now, work sixty hours a week and get on the average of ten dollars a week. Five and ten cent store girls were also forced to contribute out of their wretched wages. This was the way that the “philanthropists” raised the money for their philanthropies. After the charity money was squeezed out of the workers, the job- less, just as in other towns, get al- most nothing of it. High salaried of- ficials and investigators got about all of it. There were about a regi- ment of these leeches, and all of them have private offices and telephones. Some of the “experts” got paid around ten thousand a year, I think. Third Degree Whenever a worker out of a job went to one of the “relief” agencies to get some help, he was treated like a dog. They asked him or her all sorts of questions all about their pri- vate Mves and pry into their family life. After this third degree they usually refused with the lie that it was the worker's own fault that he ‘was out of a job or that he had some kin-folks to take care of him. If you were lucky enough to get a few dollars from these fake agencies they insulted and degraded you by telling you not to come begging for any more help and by making you buy only certain things from certain stores, The final closing down of the relief agencies seems to be becoming the straw that broke the camel's back. —Atlanta Worker, FARM CHILDREN FROM TWO LANDS a Colorado beet worker. To the right is the happy, healthy child on a Soviet collective farm. The undernourished and ragged little girl to the left is the daughter of “Will I Eat Question (By a Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D, C.—With a tor- rent of contempt and ridicule the capitalist press has against the veterans in their march on Washington. From insisting it is all the work of the Reds, to calling it an “escape gesture” from the reali- ties of life, the press as usual sets its lying propaganda to work in another attempt to fool the workers and up> hold tottering capitalism. The veterans are now being helped in the way of food: by the government WHAT DO Hoe BUMS, z. (952 er Panvsuay™ through its fear of its own creation. They are told of the so-called ter- |rible things the Communist Party stands for. They are being saturated blazed forth) Co Ths Confronts "with me more . imbecilic lies and stapid idealism. Will I Eat? But in the end the veterans have | not gotten nor will they get their| Their condition has not been | improved one iota. Of what good will | bonus. those pats on the back and fair} speeches be to them? After listening to President Hoo- ver’s absurd predictions and pleas for | patience they will be forced by their | “Have | very circumstances to think. fundamental principles and economic conditions changed?” coherent fashion. “Will I eat.” is the reality the stupid superficial conservative press calls an “escape gesture.” This is the question every veteran must face and carry with him. Will See Truth Then through perseverance the| Communist Party will have a hearing. | Then the more backward will be brought to see the truth, the reality. Slowly but inevitably the conscious- ness of their class will be understood by the veterans. This is the great significance of the Bonus Marc.. on Washington. It represents the t2ar- ing away of another illusion from the eyes of these members of the working class. It shows them the fundamen- tal deep-rooted class feeling and le- galization which exists today. It is just one more large wave in the roll- ing of the masses toward the inevit- able revolution, as caused by the| structure of capitalistic society. Funds by Y.M.C.A. Black-Jacks Suit Threats a Bemand Before Bringing Suit EMPIRE COLLECTION AGENCIES 300.301 Fenton Buildiog JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK isin of Every Worker Vet ¢~ DETROIT, Mich.—Out of t the Ford Hunger March by his the “Dream Car”. has all the necessary “extra par bloody stamp of Henry Ford’s r wide tours have been arranged demonstrations of the against the workers. 6 A demonstration in the Youngs-|' town steel district on June 11 ‘re- lic vealed its nature. And it’s no acci dent that the public newspapers || played up this demonstration at the | very same time that the city govern- meni announced drastic reductions in| local relief. This car by the Ford} Co. includes a long and short wave | radio, machine guns, shot guns, pis-| |tols, gas bombs, siren, bullet-proof | | windshields and bullet-proof tire guards, Local police and ‘steel trust | gun thugs,'to whom it was demon-| strated, characterized is as a “Dream! Car.” Murder Weapons Displayed. | On these tours of the “Dream Car” | there is a small sideline by the| Sub-Machine Gun Co., | This is the| question which shall force itself on | every veteran’s mind in more or less | This | | { | ERS!” | dex monstrating their latest murder | |w In addition to demon-/ | strating their gun, which shoots regu- lar bullets, tracer bullets and bird | shot, special demonstrations are given | jin the use of short-range tear ee |and tear hand grenades. | The Youngstown audience of au trust thugs and police officers was | full of praise after seeing these mur- | der weapons. Mr, Burt Hogan, chief | of police of the Youngstown Sheet | |and Tube Co.; Mr. Butler and Wil- | liams of the Republic Steel and scores of local police officers, all came to! a common conclusion that every steel mill and local police department | should be equipped with the murder | | Weapons and a “Dream Car” | |factured by the Ford Co. The Dies Anti-Alien Bill, troops! sent to strike zones, police attacks, | these demonstrations of murder wea- | Pons are the first glimpses of what are hidden under the skirts of “Miss Liberty,” the vampire of the White House, Against the first sign of re- action and capitalist terror must rise | American working class. During the election campaign the widest strata of | workers, Negro and white, native and foreign-born, must be reached with the slogan: “AGAINST CAPITALIST TER- ROR: AGAINST ALL FORMS. OF) SUPPRESSION OF THE POLIT- ICAL RIGHTS OF THE WORK- HUNGRY MEN MARCH (By a Worker Correspondent) the march of the veterans here is a march of hungry working men. They “Dream IF ord’s Latest Deca Car is Bullet Proof, Carries Machine Guns Steel Mill Owners and Police Officers Pleased) With New Medel he murder of auto workers on| gun thugs Mr. Ford received an inspiration which has resulted in his newest model called It is far from a luxurious limousine with soft cushions, fellow workers. It’s a Lincoln 12 police car. It ts” for the suppression of pro- | tests and demands of the unemployed for jobs and relief. The name is the guarantee. Nation- by the Ford Company to give Car” and its effectiveness Span h Navy Man = Says Fleet Is with | the Workingclass || Cadiz, Spain. | Daily Worker:— | As a consequence of the gen-| eral strike against the bosses’ ter- |ror and deportation of the most militant workers to the Spanish penal colony, Guinea, in Africa, and against hunger and wage-cuts, the entire military garrison of Ca-| diz and nearby towns is confined to barracks ready for action at a | moment's notice against the work- ing class. The strike call by the revolu- tionary trade unions succeeded in paralyzing completely the shops and factories of the entire prov- ince, as well as the navy yards, | auto busses and street cars. Aboard the batleship of the| Spanish war navy in which I am | confined, the entire crew are fully | alive to the oppression and class| distinction we are subjected; the | sailors being conscripted amongst the workers and poorer | peasants, while the officers and higher ups spring up among the) exploiters and parasite class. Among the sailors of other | | Spanish warships whom I am in touch with I observed the same) class conscious spirit of solidarity, and there if a wide-spread opinion | among us that as soon as the| workers and farmers rise in re- volt against the present system of | oppression, we will fight side by side with the workers. Long live the workers’ solidarity! Long live Communism! —A Red Sailor. BOSS PARTIES OFFER NO FOOD ‘We Have Found a New Party, Says Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The two} | parties have just had their state con- vention here. The GOP spent two {days in a fight over repeal of the 18th amendment but no constructive program for the starving workers of Indiana. Now come the democrats and hail the mighty militant protest of the| themselves as the champions of the} workers and the ones who are going to bring back prosperity. Keynoter Clarence E. Manion, Notre Dame Uni- | versity law professor and Jesuit priest, | said: “We do not come here to} draft a platform but we write a con- tract, sacredly given and sacredly kept.” But all of this demagogy doesn’t |make a roof over our heads. The Party who not only have a program) with words but in day to day fights, | |was not worth 1 from| | |YOUNG AMERICAN FARMER SPEAKS OF REVOLUTION Can’t Sell Products While City Workers | Hunger for Food The following letter is from an American farm youth to a com- rade in the city. It describes the effect of the crisis on the farmers and shows how the American farm- er is being drawn into the reyolu- tionary movement. The place and names are purposely omitted. ah Dear Comrade:— I -have many things to tell you. Your last letter was wonderful for T have never seen such mass actions as you describe, strikes, demonstra- tions, et Zour description makes me feel like struggling harder, and to think of the day when we, workers and farmers shal! : final battle for a classless After a vear I feel that it was best I joined the Party, that I am in close touch with the world movement | of the revolutionary workers. It used to seem so isolated up here that life ng but now I am |getting more a though keeping |my membership secret on account of |the small locality in which we live. | After a youth in which I absorbed | much religion, I feel today very bit- | ter towards these bishops and all who |live on our misery. Can you blame | me? I started this letter last night and | now I am on a hill watching the sun- | set, so you will excuse my writing the |rest in pencil. Sunday, today, is the | only day I have to mself and I wan- | der around with my gun and also study out here in the woods, After working fourteen and fifteen jhours a day it seems a relief to get here right where where I am _stand- |ing. |_ Something happened in 1928. that I recall. I and a group of, young workers in the logging camp abaut 12 |miles from here started hi on |Saturday night on the logging Tain. | Here we came to a bridge and the engineer stopped the train and, told |us to get off. The fireman walked j across the bridge and the engineer | started the engine on a slow throttle |and got off, also. When it reached |the other side the fireman got on and stopped it. I couldn't under- stand this manouver and they ex- plained it to me. The bridge was so rotten that they were afraid to ride across it. It was a ramshackle af- |fair but the lumber company did not |care about risking their workers’ jlives as the state only pays ten dol- |lars a month to the dependent of a dead lumber worker. Conditions Worse In Lumber Mill. | I went through the lumber mill |near home the other day and things jwere worse than I have ever seen them. One man is doing the work formerly three did. The speed- jup is terrible and the company pur- |posely hires only married men. We aroused a militant spirit among the |workers before the mill shut-down |and the bosses blacklisted the mili- | tants. We knew nothing of strike |strategy at the time otherwise the |bosses wouldn’t have found us out |S0 easy and gotten away with it! But bid is our defeats that teach us the | lessons that brings us victory. Forms Study Circle. | I am carrying on my studies with eed workers in a town near here. I like going to meetings very much |as we get together and one learns so much in that way. There is one woman in the class and that is a |victory for us as we do not have | enough farm women in the class |struggle. The class is very lively, everybody taking part in the discus- | workers of Indiana have found a|sions and helping to plan future work. | the I have been selected to lead cxt educational discussion on WASHINGTON, D. C.—In reality| battle for the needs of the workers. ‘ag book, New Russia's Pirmer. Here in Indianapolis we gre rallying Can't Sell Product. More about our life out here. Here XM tA. Bide. Fund Against are the victims of the decaying capi- talist order, But one thing the vet- fieorge Hibbard them in the sum of ‘You will please take notice that the above named creditors clim that you are indebted to Live and_00/100 erans must learn—that is, to join their struggle with the fight for un- employment insurance. 238 y gleoner St, | masses of workers to ty Communist | |Party. No more will they believe the |at home we have 80 acres, a good dairy fairy tales of the great engineer, with |herd, with good average milk pro- lhis “two cars in every garage, and | duction and are considered a little chicken in every pot.” better off than the average poor farmer around here. Are we? Here {are the figures for July. It is not an {exception or unusual low but the last —Worker. Dollars art thereof demand for suit shows how the Y. M. C. A, black jacks money out of workers in Jamestown, George Hibbard was accosted by a Y.M.C.A. solicitor. Hibbard said he wasn’t working at that time and therefore could not give the money. Hibbard was ac that time unaware of the scab role of the Y.M.C.A, The for pledge —___, pnd that although duly demanded, the same has not been paid nor any ‘Now Wherefore, Unless you remit or appear at our offices, 800-01 Fenton Building, Jamestown, N. Y., on or before the 17h day of dune. A. D. 19._32.., at ten o'clock in the forenoon ‘of the said day, and make payment to us of said claim, with interest thereon, or provide for the adjustment thereof, suit will be brought forthwith for the total amount with interest. And when, Judgment is obtained, Execution and Proceedings Supplementary to Execution will be duly issued and you will then be required to state under oath what property you have, a garnishee will then follow ‘and you will be required to pay all court costs to date, ‘Wetnesaeth, Our hands this 15th day of June oe eR fad ak WU Re MLN NCE RRM (By a Worker Correspondent) JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—The above | solicitor lured him THE JOB (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—We walked up Sixth Ave. from 43rd St. to Radio City at . 50th St. Thousands of workers milled about in the streets, looking at the “jobs” placarded in front of the agencies. Many looked hopeful but few climb- ed the stairs. We stopped to listen to the workers in their little groups around the signs. “I tink I take dat yob,” Swede giant. “G'wan, felia,” says a little Cock- ney, “they tikes yer merney and you works a couple days and out you go.” Don’t be tiken in by them.” A girl comes stumbling down the stafts. Her rouged, pert face, is EMPIRE COLLECTION AGENCIES Jamestown, N.Y. says @ into ‘signing a pledge “to pay when he got it.” Imagine his surprise when he re- ceived a letter from a collection agency threatening to sue him if he | Streaked from tears. She reaches the did not pay—interest and all, bottom and everybody looks at her. The next step of these religious|She starts in telling that the job shams will no doubt be to sue little} Shark has her “last five dollars” and children who do not bring their pen-|Tefuses to return it, One worker tells nies to the church on Sunday, her to go up to the Daily Worker sell- Shark Forced to Return Worker’s Money \one I have record of. Cows, 26; pounds of milk, 14,295—price 31 cents. {Value of produce $192.64. Cost of (roughage, $50; Grain, $61.50. Value - jabove cost, is therefore eighty-one | dollars and forty-one cents. A family jot eight to provide for, grocsries,« |light bill, butcher, etc. Also federal! loans to repay, notes, etc. Isn't that a hell of a mess? And |a hundred mies away, workers’ kids. jare going without milk while we can | | not sell all we produce, Tue farmers | | will and can and must be organized } for without them, we cannot win our | battle. I have made two new con} tacts since my las’ letter to you. I am reading Lenin's State and Revolution and Engels’ Socialism, Scientific and Utopian. They are AGENCY er on the next block. Another in-| tervenes, “She's a redsand will get| you into trouble, see the cop.” We all look. She launches to the workers, She flays them for a woman wi off into an address Some are hesitant. for fearing to fight} r,’ Mor respond. Off they march to the agency. We go with them. After all, where the Class struggle is, we must be. A freightened shark, “I never heard of this Unemployed Council. Where’s|fine. I have just heard that our your credentials?” |comrades in the city were acquitted The paper girl answers, “Behind in the frame-Up over a strike here. tna) these Workers here.” That is progress. Well I will oer ai a 6 via b » [as this has been rather long. “Give her the money, y —. ay Ariestehaie v The shark wilts, She hands over the] ee ae sum demanded. We march out.) ois CAN'T HAPPEN IN THE Smiles light up the faces of all. The more timorous wait below. They too, (By a Worker Correspondent) smile at our return. NEW YORK.—I work for the Ax- We walk on. All is quiet, the knots /ton Fisher Corporation as @ salesinan. gather in front of the agencies. There | or wor! king 14 hours a day I vad / are fewer than before. id $15 a wee’ Tecei : USSR. | |