The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, S. ATURDAY, JULY 16, 1932 Page Three FIGHT GRAFTERS FOR FISHERMEN'S RIGHT TO WORK ILD Helping Workers Deprived of Living by Politicians (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, New York. In Sheepshead Bay there are several hundred fishermen and their fami- lies who are starving. The fishermen work from 3 in the fhorning to midnight.. Hundreds of pounds of fish are thrown back in- to the ocean because the poor work- ers around Sheepshead, Brighton and Coney Island are unemployed and cannot buy any fish: The dock commissioner soaks the workers 50 cents a.day for the privi- lege of trying to.sell. their fish on the dock. The dock commissioner and the cheap politicians of New “York want to drive Away the fisher- Men because they claim that the workers spoil the “beauty” of Man- hattan Beach. This is because the fishermen are too poor to pay graft money to the grafters. The International Labor Defense has taken the case and is fighting for the right of the workers to sell their Sich, MAIDS LABOR M1 HOURS A DAY Sometimes Get Old Clothes for Psy (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, ©..— Maids and other workers in private homes of the rich are working 12 to 14 hours a @sy at back-breaking work; washing, froning, scrubbing and cooking for a dollar a day and sometimes less, Out of this miserable wage they must furnish car fare-and supply their own work clothes, . They work in damp, ill-lighted basements, washing. all morning and then into the kitchen to cook their master’s meals. Most of these maids are Negro workers and suffer the worst kind of Jim-crow conditions. Porters and gardeners must pick up their work fromhouse to house, earning only 15 to 50 cents per day. The them cast-off clothing for part pay- ment. Although the rich have empty rooms in their houses, they will not allow the workers to live there, Many girls of 12 and 13 years of age are thus employed, even during school term. Lakewood, N. J., Cuts Off Relief iS (By a Worker Correspondent) LAZEWOOD, N. J. — At seven in the morning we were there, at eight, two lines stretched from one end of the hall to the other. When the clock struck nine the lady in charge appeared, adjusting her glasse. upon her’nose. She al- ways argues with everyone. She asks us why we didn’t save some of our wages during the time of “pros- perity”. Presently ‘she announced, “There is no more work.” ‘The “relief” is gone, the workers must take a mouthful of water -and keep quiet. But..why keep quiet? Why not shout your. fiery protest at the bosses of the.town? hy not carry your protest to the streets? Don’t starve; fight! When I left the relief office and walked about the streets, the words were ringing in my ears, “No more work.” I noticed in the Daily Worker that a veteran’s child had died from hunger and exposure. I gazed at my children and thought. No rent for the last four months and the food supply very limited. What will | be next? THREL TO BE DEPORTED FROM CANADA MONTREAL, Canada. — Informa- tion rceeeived here..points out that tnree workers now» being held at Ames are to be edported. ‘These workers were arrested as a result of the May Day demonstration in Rouyn, They are’Anselm Lukkila, Nula Solmon, Veikla Heikkila. rich women sometimes give | Greetings from French Worker Correspondents Paris, July 1, Workers’ Correspondents Con- ference, New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: The French workers’ correspond- ents are greeting you on the occa- sion of your greater New York City Conference and we wish that this conference will lay the basis for a strong organized movement of Amer- can workers’ correspondents. ‘The French bourgeoisie has once more let loose its press, judges, po- lice and stool pigeons against our Rabcor movement (worker corre- spondents) in an attempt to crush it. The old cry of spying was raised again, and seven comrades, amongst them our Comrade Philip, respon- sible leader of the French Rabcors, were arrested and charged with “spy- ing and plotting against the Father- land”! ‘The fury of the left government is that our movement, which js planted inside the factories, exposes every day the war preparations against the Soviet Union, This new attack, which is directly launched against our paper “L’Humanite”, will not succeed in crippling our movement, but on the contrary, we will expose ever more the war preparations of French imperialism and continue our exposure: of the miserable conditions of the French working class. ‘The worker correspondents move- ment is of the utmost importance for all our Party press. It is the clos- est contact of the Party and Party press with the masses inside the shops. There can be no serious Party paper without a well organized move- ment of worker correspondents. The duty of a worker correspond- ent is not mainly the sending of in- formation to his..paper, but he must also be an organizer amongst his fellow workers. A well organized movement of workers correspondents means a bet- ter paper, increase of the paper's cir- culation—and an army from which we recruit the best proletarian writ- ers for the editorial staff of our Party press. We wish you success and we are convinced that you will succeed in this important task. For the French Rabcors, L, M. Editor of L’Humanite. Spies Help to Keep Armour’s Workers Down to $14 a Wk. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Til, July 15.—We work- ers at Armour’s sheep killing depart- ment have had plenty of time off to see the Unemployed Council put back the furniture of evicted jobless work- fers. Mighty good work! On the time clock at Armour’s is the following notice: “All eimployes 1aust wear their badge on the job and in the streets.” The slavedrivers don’t mind telling us now more than ever when they give one man three men’s work to do that “if you don’t want to do it there is a million outside waiting for you to go.” These bootlicking cringing foremen pretend to be reading the Daily Worker or show a membership book in the LL.D. so the workers may expose themselves, and then in a few days such workers are fired. The average wage now is 314 a week when one makes a week. —Armour’s Slave. age-Cuts, Lay-Offs at Atlas Underwear (By a Worker Correspondent) RICHMOND, Ind., July 15. — The Atlas Underwear Co. plant of this city has let off all girls but one on each operation, and gives the others no assurance as to when’ they will be ready to resume even the little work they had been getting. At the time I worked there (some years ago) the speed-up was almost un- bearable, and all the operators since then have received at least six cuts, All the girls are employed at piece work, with serious deductions for spoiléd work. One worker says she drew $5 for the last full ‘week of work, and has $2.50 coming for the part of this week that she worked. THE CHILDREN MARCH by JOHN-ADAMS. + Hu of ciiildren marching. New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Pitts- burgh. “We demand bread and milk and playgrounds.” Delegations of young- sters invade the portals of capitalist politicians. A NEW generation is in she fight for the.right to live. A street meeting in New York. The speaker sees @ scoré..of little under- nourished bodies—they futilely try to conceal missles. It-is @ joke with them to throw things: ‘The speaker asks a question: “Why not fight with us, comrades? We fight for dlaygrounds for workers’ kids.” Puz- Jed faces, a question’ or two—deci- sion—won over as théy listen atten- tively to their new teacher. Jimmy Walker, august mayor of New York, on hig“way to the city hall, Scores of ‘little half-naked bodies stop him, “We want to swim| in Civic Virture.” ‘The august mayor concedes and orders the police ban lifted, Where do they learn this? Through the streets of the East Side they march. “We shine shoes for food, not for fun,” reads a sign of the bootblatks. “Milk and play- evounds,”” Tead others. Hundreds of * them, in union with all the oppressed and toiling peoples of the earth. The fourth winter of the crisis will bring the workers to a higher form of struggle. They will win victories and go forward for more, The chain 4s complete, | IRISH WORKERS DENIED SUMMONS AGAINST THUGS No Warrants Against | Sluggers When They’re Cops | | (By an Irish Worker) NEW YORK.—They were clubbed, they were kicked, they were black- jacked, they were foully abused—but still they cannot get a summons against the policeman who led the | cowardly attack on them. John Mullally, Hugh McKiernan, | John Rooney and Martin Moriarty, of the Irish Workers’ Club, had re- | sisted an eviction in E. 147th St., | Bronx. Arrested and beaten fero- ciously, they were charged with dis- orderly conduct. Next day, Magis | trate Harris, publicly regretting that Policeman Kane had not “broken his nightstick over every one of their heads”, obligingly raised the charge t ofelonious assault, Countercharges against the police? Impossible! Released on $1,000 bail, the four | workers again demanded a summons | when their case was heard by Magis- ate McKinery. ‘Take that up Wednesday,” the magistrate said— “the case is adjourned till then.” “We'll Consider” And on Wednesday he said: “We'll consider the request on Friday.” (The prosecution had asked for post- ponement,) Meanwhile the four defendants were secretly indicted by grand jury and were served with bench warrants just as their case was called. Still they pressed for charges, through Al- lan Taub, attorney for the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. “Oh, no, no!” | Magistrate McKinery smiled archly. “The whole matter’s qut of my | hands, Go to the District Attorney.” “What complaint can the men have?” Assistant District Attorney Sylvester Ryan wanted to know “What complaint can they have?” he asked indignantly, “If the men are innocent they will be tried by a jury —what complaint can they have?” Another, Different “Court”. And yesterday they were told: Go back to the magistrate’s court.” Smilingly the district attorney's wo- man assistant assured them of “full co-operation.” ‘Their ribs still ache, the welts still show blue on their bodies—but they cannot get a summons. They were only workers, fighting the brutal wrecking of an unemployed workers’ home. But, in mass demonstrations throughout the Bronx they will carry their case before the courts of the working class. An Ex-Soldier Collects (By a Worker Correspondent) I met them on the road up in New Hampshire, They were just returning from a futile job-hunting tour of northern New England. They told me, among other matters, the story of an ex-serviceman. On June 27th this ex-soldier had landed in Bellows Falls, Vt., dirty and exhausted, His feet were blistered, | but he had to go on, since the town | did- not want to keep persons in his condition. He limped into a small store and asked for a pair of socks, | The owner refused. This ex-soldier insisted. He could not walk other- wise. The owner became freightened and ran out of the store to call a cop. ‘The ex-soldier took a couple of pairs of socks and walked out of the store. ‘Two days later he was in Lebanon, N. H. He asked a housewife for food. Freightened by the reports of a “des- perado” of similar description who was said by the police to be abroad,} she called the police. Six of them came, and pounced upon this one man. They beat him into insensi- bility and threw him into a cell at the jail. In saving the world for democracy, this man had been shell-shocked. The effect of the beating was such that when he regained consciousness, he slit his wrists. Why live in the face of such brutal slavery? The cops discovered his plight im- mediately, and called'a doctor. When the latter had come, all gathered at the door of the cell to rush this one man. He waved his bloody hands nd moved them. The shower of blood was too much for these brave cops. They did not dare to enter. ‘The doctor, however, was a diplo- mat. He pleaded with the soldier to come out. He was a friend. They would not touch him. The ex-sol- dier finally took him at his word.! No sooner had he come out of the, cell, however, than these officers of the law jumped upon him again. They forced him into a straight jacket, | and then the doctor gave him an anesthetic, After the sewing job had been com- Pleted, handcuffs were clapped onto the victim's wrists, and shackles to his feet, in addition to the straight jacket, He was rushed to the State Hospital at Concord. Here they dis- covered that he was an ex-serviceman and that he had been shell-shocked. They became freighteneq and tried to shut him up. He refused. In order to quiet the case he was rushed into the State Insane Asylum. Another ex-soldier had collected on the promise of capitalism, N. ¥. OIL FIELD SHUT DOWN BOLIVAR, N. ¥.—The Tidewater Oil Co, has notified the small well owners here that it will buy no more oil from them. It will cause a num- ber of oi] workers to be added to the FACTS WAN Worker correspondents during played by labor misleaders, etc. AND MOST IMPOR! Especially i to make th it important since the pli 4, Workingelass preparations monstrations. Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent) ARCHIBALD,» Pa., July 15.—Over 500 workers who were formerly em- Ployed in the various collieries lis- tened to speakers who spoke about ers to organize into the unemployed councils and demand relief from the local relief organizations. Over 80 workers joined the unemployed coun- LCR.R. WORKERS Lay-Offs, ~ Starvation, in Miss. Town OXFORD, Miss. Dear Comrades: , I am working at Water Valley, Miss, the Illinois Central center. workers complain of having twice as much work as formerly for half the pay. They only work fourteen days, with a similar period of lay-off. No- body dares complain for fear of being fired. Over 157 workers have been laid off in the past three weeks, This is the town where two Negro boys were framed avyear.ago for the alleged murder of a wealthy miser who owned plantations in Nicaragua, and of his wife. One of the boys was but 14 years old. They were hung. Senator Wagner would celebrate the wages of labor down here, 35 cents a day for sun-up to sundown. Nobody can live or pay rent on this, but Wagner would call it “relief.” The workers are infuriated over their conditions and condemn the failure to pay the bonus strongly. To hear them, one would think the revolution was “around the corner,” and they were all taking part in it. A Worker. Doak’s Thugs Try to Stop New Orleans Literature Agent (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, July 15. — A squad of immigration officers has been put on the job here to curb the activities of the “reds”, The Section Literature agent of New Orleans was trailed the other day by immigration officers and then third-degreed and warned that un- Jess he stops selling the red papers he will be thrown in jail. This liter- ature agent is a militant native-born worker, He is now selling 50 Daily Work- ers every day and 50 Liberators every week, and we may expect an increase in Daily Worker bundle or- ders soon, WAR PREPARATIONS] in sending in news of the struggless of the unemployed throughout the country and of the increasing misery caused by the Hoover Hunger pro- gram, There are some phases of the workers’ struggles that have been neglected, however, One of these phases is the struggles in the shops. || More+ stories, comrades, about wage cuts, speed ups, strikes, the role NT OF ALL, W ABOUT THE BOSSES’ WAR PREPARATION: anything on that from worker correspondents during the past week. August 1 anti-war issue, of which 1,000,000 copies are to be issued, a smashing blow against war plots, Send in facts at once on the following phases of the war danger: |! 1. Propaganda and conspiracies against the Soviet Union. 2, Manufactures, shipping, etc. 3. Activities of the pacifists, “liberals,” “socialists,” and A. F. of L. misleaders in helping the bosses put over the war. Movement Grows in Anthracite Mine Area Repel Police Attempts to Break Up De- monstration the necessity for unemployed work- | SUFFER SPEED-UP, Everybody talks railroad, and the; TED ON | | the past week haye done good work MUST HAVE STORIES We have had hardly worker correspondents are relied on » of ammunition and other war sup- for the August First /nti-War de- Council |cil and pledged to come to the next | meeting, where the workers will or- | ganize various committees. | The two speakers, Sacco and| Daugher explained why the biggest| majority of them will never go back to work because of the speed-up and/| the labor-saving devices that the coal| companies are installing. The local police did not attempt to| break the meeting because of the| mass of workers present. Many part time workers reported | that the company was holding back | money coming to them. ‘The workers agreed with the speak- | ers when they exposed the role of| Maloney and Schuster, who misled the miners. Especially in the two) major demands endorsed by Mayoney | and the fake General Body by assess- | ing part-time workers and equaliza-| tion of working time. Councils Organized. In the anthracite over 100,000 mine workers are unemployed permanently. |In the last three weeks several un- |employed councils have been organ- ized. The unemployed workers at the meeting contributed $1.36 to arrange mass meetings in the other towns. Eynon and Larksville are scheduled and later. affiliate with a county executive council. |AUTO. PRODUCTION DECLINES 44 PER CENT During the first half of 1932, | 912,353 units of passenger cars and is a decline of 44 per cent. to” form unemployed councils soon, ‘YOU HAVE US ALL'Red SAY FARMERS IN) SILER, KY., AREA Sign Petitions, State They Will Vote Communist SILER, Ky., July 15.—Siler votes is over 300, yet in only one-third of | the section we got 102 to sign the pe- tition to put Frank Reynolds, the Communist Party candidate and an ex-soldier of the world war, on the balot for Congress for the Ninth Kentucky District. They said, you have us all, and if |there was more you would get more signers. One farmer told us he had 52 voters on the other side of the creek who told him they would sign, plus their wives, and vote Commun- ist straight. When asked why the | whites should vote in the South for Negroes he bravely stated: “Workers against bosses. “We are all Communists because we see the bosses fightin it, so it must be gocd for the workers. We se! Comrade Reynolds over in Tenne: and he brought an organizer who told us a thing or two that opened our eyes. We learned how the operators use race hatred in the ranks of the workers, and we figured it out that if |we get toether we outnumber the 80 Workers Join at Single Meeting in | Archbald, Penna. | bosses 20 to 1. “I’m a preacher. I went to the bottom of this Communist Party and find it good for the workers. I am a worker. Why the bosses’ preachers fight the Party is because the bosses foree the workers to pay their preachers by cutting their pay check on the check-off, so we pay the bos- ses’ preacher to tell us to starve quietly, that god will give us rest after we die quickly, that god will give us rest after we die quietly, but that after we are raised from the grace these same unholy bosses will still be on our backs again, so we have decided to cast off the unholy bosses altogether.” —By a Worker. Vet With 7 Children Is Refused Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 15—I am a World War Veteran, but I have not |been working for a long time, and I | have no bread, no clothes. There are | seven members in my family, and all | under age. The War Relief Agency used to give me $5 weekly for groceries for about a year and seven months; but on May 13, 1932, this allowance was discontinued. The social worker who came to investigate (her name is me any help. Then a few weeks ago I went to Commissioner McSweeney in order to receive help from his de- |partment. He told me that he had |nothing to do with the War Relief Agency. | trucks in the U. S. Canada were pro-|served in the 347th Regiment In-| portance of organization duced as compared with 1,639,027 in| fantry. There I broke my leg. I did | tempts to érganize the trade in the the first six months a year ago. This | not fight for myself but for the rich | past resulted in failure. people of America. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—We working women of the Soviet Union want to tell you how we were greeted on our arrival to Moscow. from different points in the U.S.S.R. Here we found out that for passengers travel- ing with children and going to far destinations there are special rest rooms. Here the children were ex- amined by a nurse and a doctor. The mothers with nursing babies went to the nursery. The nursery room is large and light, with cribs for infants. At the windows are flowers, The children of pre-school age were taken to another room, where there are attractive looking and strong small tables and chairs, all kinds of toys and a piano. On the SOVIET WORKER army of unemployed their class sisters, garment workers CORRESPONDENTS Women garment workers of Voroniez, U.S.S.R., corresponding with of Germany and Holland, We stopped at the Northern Rail-| way station in Moscow on our WaY/» special room. Here the children|tions of check-up, picketing and dis- | EDUCA’ cities to different) ‘To the Working Women of ( Capitalist Countries | Walls, carvings made out of ply wood, | trains with children, children’s dem- | onstrations, Music and Drawing. For children of school age there is receive instruction in music and | drawing and carry on conversations with the instructors. They are also games. After dinner, from 1 to 3, to §rest. These “mother and child” rooms are a great relief for the parents. Their children are well taken care of and they do not have to worry about their little ones when they have to go away. There is a shower wash diaers, an electric drier, and electric iron. The children can get haircuts: at very low prices, 20 kopecks. Children whose parents do not earn much get haircuts and also dinner free of charge. The price of a dinner consisting of two dishes is not more than 20 to 40 kopecks. | If for any reason travelers are de- | tained for a few days they are pro- vided with a comfortable place to sleep in these rooms. All these ser- vices they get free of charge. We get train tickets promptly. Working women of the capitalist countries, please, write to us about your life. How are the working mothers and children of workers taken care of in your countries by the state? Do you have special chil- dren’s rooms at your railroad sta- tions, and who makes use of them? Write to the following address: Moscow, Tverskaya 48, Room 15, The letters will be forwarded to us when we come to our destinations Kosenko—peasant woman from Ukrainia going to Samara; Scheg- lova—wife of a worker—from Voro- nezh to Jaroslavl; Khominskaya— wife of a worker—from Crimea to Semipalatinsk; Kotova—wife of an employee of the Kursk-Railroad sta- tion—to Irkutsk; Gooseva—a work- er’s wife—from Kerch to Kostroma; | Parizhiva, a worker's wife—trom| Vozhigi to Moscow; Kosinetz—wife of an employee—from Ukraine to the Far East, and others bath for the children, a place to) | Fork R Cross Flour Is the Only Pay at idge Mines Operators Give No Wages in Forced Labor Scheme Gun Thugs Terrorize Town to Put Plan Over (By a Worker Correspondent) FORK RIDGE, Tenn., July 1 Fork Ridge mines have been cuttir wages until they have got the mi cut down to one and $wo days es week. They are not paying the work- ers anything at all. the workers jget is flour and a smile from the | company officials, The Red Cross in Middlesboro sends | flour to Ford Ridge for them to give AWAKENING OF PHOTO WORKERS ‘Strike Marks First | Organization Step , H.R. All | By | The recent strike of the 33 photo- | graphic workers of the Kaiden-Kaz- janjiau studio, 724 Fifth Avenue, |marked the awakening of the pho- | tographie worker, | ‘The struggle of the Kaiden-Kaz- anjiau workers dealth a deathblow |to the old conception that the pho- | tographic worker is an “artist,” hav- jing nothing in common with the | working class. Three Wage Cuts, The Kaiden-Kazanjiau workers | were subjected to three wage cuts in |a few months. The final cut, robbing lan additional 25% from the already |meager earnings, brought about the strike. Wages of most of the work- ers were cut to $18 and $20 a week. | ‘There was no alternative. They |retouchers down to errand boys. Pro- duction was tied up completely. The | Strike lasted a week. Why was the strike lost? | First, it must be pointed out that the photographic worker on the In 1917 I was sent to France and I) whole does not yet realize the im-| All at- | The Photographic Workers League, | organized a little more than a year | 280, is doing all it can to organize |the trade, but it is as yet small and ineffective. Of all the strikers, only Lehisee are members of the League. | Strikers Isolated. | Under the cry, “we want no out- | siders,” some of the strikers, especial- lly the most skilled, were instrumen- jtal in isolating the League from the | strike. This was the first blow at the {success of the strike. The other fac- |tors that promoted the loss of the |strike were looseness on the ques- | clpline. | Awakening. | The League, however, saw to it that jorganized fashion. As a result, the | boss. a| get }to the workers in order to keep the mines still running. The men that live in Reliance and Mingo camp have to walk to Middlesboro, Ky., and their own sack of flour, but the in Fork Ridge camp get their flour at Kork Ridge’s office. Ridge is planning to put up a sub Red Cross station in their of- fice, and run their mines altogether on Red Cross groceries. They are | giving out late potatoes, sweet potato plants, tomato plants and a few other seeds now Gun Thugs | This company has got two hired gun thugs and about 10 sub-deputies. |The deputies led by the gun thugs go around and terrorize citizens, |When they are on a road they all |carry high power rifles, pistols, and |sawed-off shotguns and breastplates from their toes to their eyes. | The Sterling Coal and Coke Co, after running wage cuts and stealing coal at the scales, finally shut down. They ran their mines on Red Cross charities for the last few weeks, The company hauls water to drink from Midlesboro, while they force water in the camp from an old ming ;named Clondyke for the workers té drink, but the officials of the com- pany say the water is not fit to put in the radiator of their car, but coal diggers can drink anything, Bryson, Tenn., has not got any gun thugs. But they have got old Solo- mon Marsee, a sky pilot. He acts as gun thug, stool pigeon, coal operator's tool, and any other fake work against the workers. Solomon is right on the spot. ‘STANDARD OIL | HIRES SOLDIERS | Forces Workers “0 War on Arabs — (By a Worker Corresponde: NEW YORK.—A few days fo. answered an advertisement for weld- ers to work in the Far East. I ap- plied at the address given, 26 Broad~ way, where I met a Mr. Cox, wha represented the Standard Oil Co. and who was recruiting men to work in | Mrs: Burns) positively refused to give ' struck, from the operators, printers, |1taq, for the Near East Development Co. I was given a questionnaire to fill out which asked, among many other things, for full details as to military experience. A short time ago I received a letter from a brother member of my union who wrote me from Iraq that after going out to work as a welder on the oil concession of the Near East De- velopment Co. he found himself com~- pelled by the company to take part lin military expeditions against the Arab natives. And in connection with this, the readers of the Daily Worker might |be interested in the following news |items that appeared in the World- |Telegram recently: | British bombing machines have |been dispatched from the Croydon jAirdrome, London, carrying 150 troops, who will be supplied with ma- |chine guns to put down reprisals of | the rebels (Arab) at Iraq. IN NOT FOR WORKERS MADISON, Wis., July 13—Educa- tion is not for workers. Unless you have enough money to live a year, taken out for hikes and outdoor/the strikers returned to work in an| don’t come to the University of Wis- |consin, warns Alice V. King, super- the children lie down on folding beds} workers are treated better by the|intendent of the student employment | office. There aren't any jobs. FARMER ANSWERS FORD AKINS, Okla, July lé—A sharp and searching attacking on Henry Ford’s widely heralded “back to the land” scheme is made by a farmer in a letter sent to the “Oklahoma Farmer,” a local paper. Part of the letter is reproduced below: q “I was certainly disappointed in Henry Ford's article on Self-Help. 'T am surprised that you published it. He belongs back in the Dark Ages, so far as mental progress is con- cerned. Every suggestion he makes is puerile. Why should men be forced out into the corner of some man’s field to cultivate a patch of land with a knife and fork? We are living in the machine age. Commodi- ties can be produced by machinery |too cheaply for any such plans as Ford suggests. This world should not be considered the private prop- erty of a few lords,,as Henry Ford thinks it is. If you read carefully between the lines, you can see a deeper meaning in what Henry Ford says. “*No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a patch of land.’ Bosh. People are not going back to cul- tivating a plot of land, as they did under Feudalism. The whole page is shot full of holes with such non- sense. “There are farmers who would be lad to give a decent indigent fam- ily a corner of a field on which to live and provide against next win- ter. Ye gods! If that farmer with the entire field cannot make a liv- _ Hing, how in the kingdom come doer Mr. Ford expect a poor family from the industrial centers to go out and make enough in one corner to live on? And where is this family to get jmaterial to build a house to have | protection from the bitter cold, and |who is to feed that family while it |produces food for next winter? Yes, and where is the family to live while the father works on the corner of the field? Yes, and what is the family |to work with while it produces enough to keep it from want next | winter? | “I live on a farm, and while T feel kindly toward the workers in the industrial center, I should hate to have a family of such, move onto @ corner of my field. Honestly, Mr, Ford, that family would starve to death. All I could furnish that fam- jily to work with would be a knife and fork, for our old cultivater ts all jrun down, and with cream at eight |cents a pound and eggs five cents a dozen, I don't know when we can buy a new cultivater. You see, if | those industrial workers could stay |where they are and make cars and |cultivaters, they ought to be able to buy our cream and eggs at a good price. They know more about make ‘ing cars and cultivaters than they do about making a living cultivating land with a knife and fork. “We don't need to go out farming with crooked sticks and knives and forks. Our system is broken down, Or rather, your system is broken, for i have yery little ownership in this business syasemn, ‘Yours, Pa —*P. A, OLIVER”