The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1932, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 193z Yorker’ Party U.S.A. the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily excxept Sunday, at 50 E. w York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” 4 mall cheeks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N, ¥, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $8; two months, $1; excepting Berough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York O¥ty. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50. Pre-Election Ballyhoo on Unemployment ee publicity m wor achinery of the Hoover government is ing overtime to create an impression of a turn in the tide of the The prostitute capitalist pres port the democratic as weli as the republican parties featuring in big headlines the propaganda of “ind risis. gains” throughout the country. This campaign was i in a conference of Hoover with the newspaper publishers several weeks ago. Columns of the press are being devoted ballyhoo. Moving picture newsreels are being issued ularly inflating every picayune seasonal “pick up”. The radio has been pressed into the x ice and big and small politicians are working to build up the delusion that pros- | parity is once more in sight. The kind of propaganda that is being spread is illus- ted by the story published on the front page of yester- s New York Times, “Industrial impetus gains over coun- with July the fist month to show m 1 expansion, the try trend goes on into August.” Whaf are the real facts of the present situation of the crisis? The following facts are taken from no less a con- vative source than the United States Bureau of Labor ties | | From June to July the decline in the number of worl in 16 major industries employing 4,000,000 workers was 3 per cent. Payrolls declined 6.1 per cent during the same period. In 75 out of 89 major manufacturing industries em- ploying 2,474,141 workers, unemployment rose 4 per cent and payrolls fell 7.9 per cent. In the electrical machinery indus- try 7 cent less workers were employed in July than in June, 2.9 per cent less in the automobile industry; in the iron and metal mining industry a drop of 8.3 per cent in | emvloyment took pl and in the anthracite coal mining 16.1 per cent fewer miners were employed in July than in June. Notwithstanding this fact the barkers of the New York Times speak of the “anthracite mining upturn.” This drop in employment is directly connected with the deepening of the erisis and the further fall in production bas shown for example in the decline of steel production in Youngstown, Ohio to 10 per cent of its capacity as against 18 per cent last week, according to the report of the Wall Street Journal (August 22). The Mahoning Valley Steel Co. is suspending production in its Niles Sheet plant. For the first time in many months, says the Wall Street Journal, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. is to suspend com- pletely its open hearthsteel production. This same journal of the Wall Street industrialists reports that all melting is to be suspended in the Ohio plants of the Carnegie Steel Co. The reports of the State Department of Labor show the same picture of the fall of production and the increase of unemployment. In Illinois, unemployment rose 5.6 per cent in that state’s basic industries for July: In the chief manu- facturing industries in the same state unemployment was increased by 7.6 pe recent and payrolls fell 13.8 per cent. But the capitalist press either entirely conceals these reports or else buries them in the back pages where they will not be noticed. What is behind this campaign of deceptive propaganda? It_is obviously a pre-election campaign maneuver on the part of the Hoover government which has time and again’ exposed | itself before the masses as false prophets and is once again indirectly engaged in the same business of deceiving the Masses in order to attempt to recover faith in the govern- ment of hunger and terror. But this campaign has other purposes as well. It is directed at checking the new tide of radicalization of the masses, marked by the historic veteran struggle ,the battles of the unemployed in St. Louis and other cities, the militancy and insurgent spirit of the Illinois strikers, the revolt of the farmers against their miserable conditions and in a general growth of militncy of the oppressed masses. The capitalist class is aware of the fact that there is no business “pick up,” they know that the crisis is deepening and that the staggering volume of unemployment is mount- ing still higher. But they are aware of a new pick up in the struggle of the masses and this is what they especially have in mind with their deceitful propaganda, Manufactured statistics cannot feed the unemployed. The artificial cheerfulness of capitalist politicians cannot give bread and jobs to the hungry and starving. Relief from the terrible burdens of the crisis can be gained through the fight for the planks of the Communist Election Platform. The masses can lift themselves com- pletely out of the crisis only by the revolution. the Communist Party. mL done! A Block Committee, and How It Was Organized (By a Worker Correspondent) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. —“Swanson did it,” thus explains one unemploy- ed member of a live Block Commit- tee, when questioned as to the method used in organizing, “You see, this man Swanson came to see us here in this block he had a petition for placing Communist candidate on the ballot. He He talked Maloney and Jones and Horris and some more of us. He found there per out. These smiling gentlemen have too many banquets to attend with | the bankers and charity racketeers. | “We are all ready to meet at Har- ris’ house the next day. There were eighteen of us, Some of the women came too. Swanson brought an or- ganizer form the Unemployeq Coun- cil with him. This comrade told us tha program, and fourteen of us signed up that night, | and the Soci was only one man in the block wha ‘had a job, and his pay had been cut. Swanson wanted to know if we were getting relief from the Welfare Board. Some of us were getting a little bit; but it was one hell of a hard job to live on what were getting. So, Swanson says, ‘Let's organize a Block Committee. We agreed with him that we couldn't depend on the Farmer- La- | “Hell it works fine. When one of us isn’t getting the relief we are en- titled to or when one of us is cut off | the list, we just get a committee to- gether and go down to the Relief Department with this member.” “Our Block Committee will take @ more active part in the demonst- rations and Street meetings from now | on, We are helping to organize other Committtees too. We are going to | REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT! AH capitalist politicians and their lackeys in the labor move- ment are offering various schemes to restore the shattered system of capitalism, These schemes are an admission of the bankruptcy of the capitalist system—some are pure and simple quackery, unworkable under the profit system; others, particularly those proposed by the Socialist Party, which call for na- tionalization schemes, are actually intended to sirengthen the noose around the necks of the working class. The plans of the capitalist parties and that of Norman Thomas e all intended lists for their the way of increased poverty, ruthless cutting down of the workers’ living stand- ards; and attempts to restore capi- talism at the expense of the work- ing class. The Communist Party shows the REVOLUTIONARY WAY out of the crisis; In the following an- alysis, William Z. Foster, the Party's candidate for President, treats concretely what measures a Workers’ and. Farmers’ Government | in the United States would take to lift the masses from the swamp of the capitalist crisis. The following is part of Foster’s new book, “To- ward Soviet America,” and is the viewpoint presented by him to the thousands of workers and. farmers | whom he is addressing at present on his national campaign tour. Other sections of the book, dealing further with the revolutionary way out of the crisis, will be published in later issues of the Daily Worker. Sa ing: By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER FTER .providing for the emer- gency defense and provisioning requirements, the first steps of an American Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, which is the dictator- ship of the proletariat, will be di- rected towards the revolutionary nationalization or socialization of the large privately-owned and state capitalist undertakings. In industry, transport and com- munication this will mean the im- mediate taking over by the State of all large factories, mines and power plants, together with all mu- nicipal, and State industries; the whole transport services of rail- roads, waterways, airways, electric car lines, bus lines, etc.; the entire communication organization, in- chiding telegraphs, telephones, post offices, radio; etc. In agriculture it will involve the early confiscation of the large landed estates in town and coun- try, including church property, to- gether with their buildings, facto- Ties, live stock, etc. and also the whole body of forests, mineral de- posits, lakes, rivers, etc. In finance it will mean the na- tionalization of the banking system and its concentration around @ central State bank; the taking over of the department stores, chain stores, and other large wholesale and retail trading organizations; | the setting up of a State monopoly of foreign trade; the cancellation of all government debts, repara- tions, war loans, etc., to the big | foreign and home capitalists. CONFISCATION— NO PAYMENT! The socialization program will be carried through on the basis of con- fiscation without remuneration, ex- cept for special consideration to small investors. Such a program naturally evokes loud protest from capitalists and the defenders of private property, especially the so- cial’ fascists. The latter's idea, again expressed by Norman Thom- as in his book, “America’s Way Out”, is for the workers to buy the industries and land from their cap- italist owners, Thomas even pro- poses the absurd plan that, through holding companies, the workers can secure control: with a minority of the stock. Such social fascist proposals have nothing in common with Socialism. ‘They represent a definite support | of the capitalist class and the land- lords in their claims for the right to exploit the workers; they seek to conserve the dominant position of these classes in a new form, State capitalism. The workers will never buy out the ,capitalists, nor could they if they would. There is no warrant in common sense 6r historical precedent for the work- ers to buy the industries and na- tural resources from .the present tuling class. In confiscating this property of the big landlords and capitalists, the workers and poor farmers will simply be taking back that which has been ruthlessly stolen from them. This lesson of expropriation without compensa- tion by a revolutionary class has been amply taught in the British, French, Russian and many other revolutions. “The revolutionary American colonists did not com- pensate the British landlords; the Northern capitalists did not pay the Southern planters when they transformed the Negro chattel slaves into wage slaves; and the working class will follow the same course of revolutionary confisca- tion. IMPROVE WORKERS’ CONDITIONS. The socialization of the key sec- tions of industry, commerce, agri- culture and finance will lay a solid economic foundation for the build- ing of Socialism. Doubtless, private property will survive in small farms, in petty industry and in trade. But this will be only tempo- rary. With the consolidation of growth of Socialism and the gen eral spread of well-being all the al A gd a i : i i CAPA Co leeds je. 2 AQ mS Billede, Drawn by Burck Serious difficulty be nationalized, and all industry will be concen- trated into the Socialist Soviet economy, The central purpose of the revo- lution is to conquer political power for the workers and to funda- mentally improve the economic and social conditions of the producing masses. Immediately an Amefican Soviet government is established, the shut-down factories will be opened. Production will be started to relieve the impoverished workers and farmers. The great stores of necessities now piled up and un- salable, will be released to the masses. The unemployed will be fed, housed and given work. Pend- ing any delay in putting the in- dustries into full ‘operation, the unemployed will be paid social in- surance on the basis of full wages. The “general policy of,,the. Soviet government will be to.at once put into effect at least the immediate demands that the workers are now demanding of capitalism. Wages will be sharply raised, especially for the lower-paid workers; then there will be established the seven- hour day or, very probably, less, with a correspondingly still shorter work day for young workers and those engaged in dangerous occu- pations; there will also be the de- velopment of the system of social insurance against unemployment, old age, sickness, accident, ete.,.on a full wage basis; the abolition of the many discriminations against Negroes, women and young work- ers in industry; the establishment of free medical services, vacations for warkers, etc. The Soviet government will ini- tiate at once a vast housing pro- gram. All houses and other build- ings will be socialized. The great hotels, apartments, city palaces, country homes, country clubs, ete., of the rich will be taken over and utilized by the workers for dwell- ings, rest homes, children’s’ clubs, sanatoria, etc. The best of the skyscrapers, emptied of their thou- sand and one brands of parasites, will be used to house the new gov- ernment institutions, the trade unions, co-operatives, Communist Party, etc. The fleets of automo- biles and steam yachts of the rich will be placed at the disposition of workers’ organizations. A great drive will be made to demolish the present collection of miserable shacks and tenements and_ build homes fit for the workers to Ifve in. LIBERATION FOR FARMERS, ‘The Soviet government will im- mediately free the poor farmers from’ the onerous burdens of mort- gages and other debts which now hold them in slavery. Of the total ~ income of all farmers in 1927, 17 per cent went for loans and mort- gages. Land rent will be abolished, both in the form of cash and eae crops. The land will go to the users. The present monopolistic prices for agricultural machinery, fertilizers, will be drastically cut, Taxes will be slashed and shifted off the backs of the poor farmers. For the mil- lions of “one-horse” farmers now living at the verge of starvation in many states, more land will be al- lotted; they will also be furnished with the necessary seed, machinery, fertilizer and expert instruction. Food and other necessities of life will be given to those in need. Pro- duction of foodstuffs will not be curtailed, but greatly stimulated. Such a program is not a matter of speculation. This is the line that developed in the Soviet Union and it is the one that will develop here. Even in the face of their gigantic tasks the necessity to build indus- try from the ground up in the teeth of world capitalist opposition, the Russians have been able vastly to improve the conditions of the toilers of factory and farm. In the the United States, however, the revolution, because of the superior industrial equipment here, will be | able to advance the American workers’ standards of living much more quickly and drestically. It will also make it possible to len assistance to the more undeve! countries. It is true that the power-' ful and ruthless American capit ist class will seek to prevent all this by destroying the industries cnne ie pata kelgror only emphasizes the ne for breaking The revolution will put a stop to the whole series of capitalist leaks, wastes and thieveries which now prevent the rise in standards of the masses. It is the marvel of the capitalist world how the Soviet government, with virtually no for- eign credits, manages to raise the many billions necessary to finance the FiveYear Plan, The explana- tion is to be found in the gigantic economies inherent in the Socialist system as against the inefficiencies and grafts of capitalism. These economies will be much greater in the United Soviet States of Amer- ica. First of all, the American Soviet government, by taking over the ownership of industry and the Jand, will put a sudden stop to the manifold forms of robbing the workers and farmers, All forms of capitalist interest; rent and profit, will be. abolished. Capitalists, mort- gage holders, land owners and cou- pon clippers perform no useful function in society. Their rake-off from industry and the land is sheer robbery. This is, one of the great lessons of the Russian revolution. They are a deadly detriment. The first requirement for further social progress is to abolish this class of parasites. The economist Veblen stated the case very mildly when he said that “the capitalist finan- cier has.come to be no better than an idle wheel in the economic mechanism, serving only to take up some of the lubricant.” In reality, the capitalists, with their program of mass poverty, exploitation and war, are a menace to the human race, WILL INCREASE PRODUCTIVE FORCES Ending the gigantic robbery which is the very base of the capi- talist system will at once release vast values for useful social ends. How yast may be realized from the fact that in 1928 the total na- tional ineeme in the United States was approximately 90 billion dol- lars, of which is estimated by Varga, the Soviet economist, that no less than 46 per cent was taken by capitalist exploiters in the shape of corporation profits, ground rents, interest on mortgages, official sal- aries and bonuses for themselves. An American Soviet government, stopping this monstrous expropria- tion of the toilers, will turn these great sums to the improvement of the living and cultural standards of the producing masses. i Secondly, ‘the setting up of a Socialist system will greatly in- crease the productive forces and production itself. By liquidating the contradiction between the modes of production and exchange, it does away with economic crises, with all their waste and loss. Where there is no capitalist class to de- mand its profit before production end distribution takes place, and where the producers as 4 whole receive the full product of their labor, there can be no economic over-production and crisis. Conse- quently, unemployment, with its terrible misery and suffering, will become a thing of the past. The many millions who now walk the streets unemployed will have fruit- ful work to do, to the benefit of all society. With the deadly limit- ations of the capitalist market re- moved, the road will be opened to virtually unlimited expansion of in- dustry and mass consumption. Thirdly, Socialism will result in an enormous increase in industrial and agricultural efficiency. It is the proud boast of the capitalists, particularly the Americans, that eir system represents the acme of economy and efficiency. But this is so untrue as to be grotesque. The Socialist system of planned production, based upon social own- ership of industry and the land, is incompérably more efficient than the anarchic capitalist system founded upon private property, competition and the exploitation of the workers. In his book, The Tra- gedy of Waste, Stuart Chase es- timates that of the 40,000,000 “gain- fully employed” in the United States about 20,500,000, or 50 per cent, waste their labor totally. Re- cently, Iron Age stated that by put- ting all the industrial plants in the United States ck hoisting of mod~ ern technique it w« possible to shorten the working day to one- third of the present, while at the same time double the output. So- cialism will wipe out these great wastes, inherent in the planiess, competitive capitalist system. It will liquidate the hundreds of use- less and parasitic occupations, such as wholesalers, jobbers, and the en- tire crew of “middlemen,” real es- tate sharks, stock brokers, prohibi- tion agents, bootleggers, advertising specialists, traveling salesmen, law- yers, whole rafts of government bu- reaucrats, police, clericals, and sun- dry capitalist quacks, fakers and grafters. It will turn to useful so- cial purposes the immense values consumed by these socially useless elements. NATURAL RESOURCES WILL BE SAVED Socialism will also conserve the natural resources of the country which are now being ruthlessly wasted in the mad capitalist race for profits, Stuart) Chase points out, among many examples of such criminal waste, that by wrong pro- duction methods 16 million barrels of petroleum have been lost; every year five billion feet of lumber are likewise wasted, and although as yet only two per cent of the total coal in this country has been mined, 33 per cent of the best beds have been gutted. Natural gas and the various minerals are being sim- ilarly wasted. A Soviet government will, of course, put a stop to this criminal recklessness, and have as one of its principal aims the care- ful conservation of all the natural resources. Finally, the eventual victory of the workers on a world scale will liquidate the monster, WAR, with all its agonies and social losses. The ghastly bill of the World War comprised, in terms of human life, 12,990,000 dead and a total casualty list of 33,288,000, not counting the thirty millions more who died in various countries from famine and pestilence as a result of the war. The direct property loss and general financial cost of the war is estim- ated at 340 billion dollars. WILL ABOLISH WAR! It is along these broad channels that the American Soviet govern- ment will find the means for the early and far-reaching improve- ment of the workers’ standards. “The abolition of the monumental robbery of the workers,by the capi- talists in all its myriad forms; the liquidation of ‘the capitalist econ- omic crisis, with its mass unem- ployment and general crippling of the productive forces; the develop- ment of an industrial efficiency and a vclume of production now hardly dreamed of; the careful con- servation of natural resources; the abolition of war; these revolution- ary measures will provide the ma- terial bases for a well-being of the toiling masses of field and factory now quite unknown in the world. Letters from Our Readers PITTSBURGH, Kan. Dear Editor: . I sure do like the Daily Worker, and so do all my friends and neigh- bors that I give it to, I have tried awful hard to get some of my friends and neighbors to subscribe for it, but they have no money and no work. I live in the district where they just threw 1,000 miners’ out of work. I am a railroad man and have had no job for two years. A WORKER, The Daily Worker would like to accommodate all workers who want to read the Daily Worker, but it is unable to distribute the paper with- out being paid for them, as we are a working class paper. In this case, as in similar cases, we would propose that this worker get to- gether with some of his friends and raise a little fund for a subscrip- tion to the paper and then organize for the circulation of the paper. If @ group of friends of the Daily worker would be organized, then ways and means would be found for getting and circulating copies of the paper—(Ed. Note), aa me | down Al CAN YOU HEAR THEIR (COURTESY OF INTERNATIONAL PAMPHLETS) VOICES? By WHITTAKER CHAMBERS Yesterday we published the first installment of this prole- arian short story describing the Arkansas farmers’ fight for food, based on actual events in Janu- ary 1931. In it was vividly por- trayed the deadly drought which destroyed the crops and brought hunger to the farmers and their families. It told of a meeting of farmers and of the discussion in which various methods were pro- posed for getting food — and especially miik for the children. Sire Ste Part 2 “This ‘drowt,’ or ‘drooth’ as War- dell calls it, has been a lucky break for you, Wardell. You were running pretty low in your line of knocks when this bad luck came along,” Little gray eyes glared gleefully on either side of his small, fighty wedge of turned-up nose. “The ‘general's got his chip on his shoulder,” one of the Wardell boys whispered to the other. “On his face, you mean, to keep his eyes from running together,” John Wardell said aloud, staring at Purcell’s nose. “Some of us call it ‘drowt’ and some of us call it ‘drooth’,” said Wardell, “but they both mean that the crops are done for, water and forage are dried up, the cattle are dying, and we'll be needing food when our credit gives out at the stores in town. Unless, of course, the banks want to make us long term loans.” a Purcell, the richest farmer in the district, had a finger in the Bank of Paris, of which his son-in-law was cashier. “THE TROUBLE WITH WARDELL” “The trouble with Wardell is,” Purcell said, preserving his good temper, but talking rather to the gathering than to Wardell, “the trouble with him is that he spends too much time nights reading those books he has in the house, and looking up the long words in the dictionary. So he gets sleepy and sore at the world, don’t you, Jim?” The men smiled, being let in on the joke by the big boss. “What was that book, in that package of yours that came undone in the post office that time?” Purcell was also post- master. “Socialism Yewtopian and Scientific'!” He laughed. “Well, every man’s got a right to read what he wants to in his own house, I guess, if he don’t try to force others to think his crazy ways, too. But I went to school with Jim Wardell, didn’t we, Jim, and I know he’s still the same wild Jim, wild ideas, but a heart of gold. So if you get hungry, and he tries to feed you Socialism Yewtopian and Scientific, if you don’t feel full, and I guess you won't, I think the Red Cross will do more for you all. I got to go. So long, Jim. So long boys.” “The Red Cross!” “The Red Cross!” “They did fine work Mississippi flood!” “The Red* Cross!” They began to drift away from town or home, in the Wardell’s to “So it’s the Red Cross next,” thought Warrdell. “I know you dirt farmers! You've got to find out for yourselves. So it’s the Red Cross you'll find out about now! And when you have, and I guess you'll get your chance this time, you'll be ready to show them a few “Say, Frances,” he said, when they were the last two left, “we can spare“some of our milk for a beby, I guess. While the cow's still giving any. Drop in after milking. Throw that snake off the path, boys,” he called from the porch, not to hear the young man’s thanks. eee Two days later the snake was a length of shrivelled skin and spinal bones, The sun had dried it up. It dried up the’ last “pot-hole” in that stretch of prairie, too, and the alkali sparkled thick on the’ bared bottom, with a likeness to snow strange under the red hot sun. The “yellow-heads” from the “pot-hole” gathered in great flocks, and the farm peoplpe would stop to watch them escaping through the skky, deserting the country, as in the fall when they feel the cold coming, _ * 8 6 “Say, Lil,” said Purcell to his daughter at supper one night, “I thought Frances’ cow died. I thought he’d be buying milk from us now. He's got a baby, ain't he?” Purcell had been one of the first farmers to turn to dairying when the borers gnawed away the margin of profit the banks and railroads left. on corn in that section. He had a fine herd of Holsteins and, as he could afford to ship in en- silage and water by the tank, had preserved them th =o the drought, leaving it to the dry spell to carry off the few heads owned by his small competitors. “See, you don’t know everything the bank,” said his daugh- The Evolutionof the American Peasant ter, a fair, fat girl with big breasts, glasses and a gold incisor. “I hape pen to know that Jim Wardell is giving Frances milk.’ “Giving it to him? I wonder if Frances has ever seen the way Wardell keeps his cow? I wouldn’t give any baby of mine that milk, I guess Jim’s got to give it away. He couldn’t sell it. Well, it’s only a few cents anyway.” AT WARDELL’S PLACE Framees used to come a little early and sit in the kitchen a few minutes in the evening while Wardell was milking the cow. “And how's the baby and how is Hilda today? Mrs. Wardell would ask, mr “It's very bad up there. Since she lost her milk, it’s terrible. And then the cow dying. Yours is the only cow left around here, except Purcell’s.” “Take this home to them,” she would say when he went, his milk- can full. Wardell never asked her what was in the nameless parcels, But even the boys were going oftener to bed hungry, after eating everything there was. Sometimes there was no milk on the Wardell’s table. “The cow won’t last much longer at this rate,” said Wardell to his wife one night. Such a ridiculous sentence to make her heart almost stop beating! One evening Ann Wardell thought Frances looked as if he hhadn’t eaten for two days, so she set some boiled dried beans, part of supper’s only dish, before him. Wardell came in without the dribble of milk, and sat down. “Don’t you think the time is coming, Frank,” he said, “when the poor farmers, people like you and me and the Davises and Wiggens and Drdla, will have to go and take the food out of the store-windows in Paris? There’s alwayg plenty of it there.” “You're a Socialist aint’ you?” Frank asked, ever so slyly, over his spoonful of beans. “(The branding reproach Communism!”) “Tm a Communist, Frank.” “What does that mean??—the beans suspended midway to the mouth. “In this case, it means that I’m for unlimited free groceries and meat to all poor farmers. No rent for two years. Free seed. Free milk for babies.” “I guess you Reds want every- thing free,” said Frank. “I guess you will, too, before the baby’s dead.” Hard and biter to hammer it home. » “dim!” “I know what I'm telling him, Ann. We're both dirt farmers, poor men, both come from the same class, so there’s no reproach in your taking something from me when you need it, Frances. And there’s no reproach meant, in my telling you that your kid would be dead but for your getting the milk from my cow You couldn’t buy it. Not from me, I wouldn't sell it to you. And you couldn't: buy it from of Purcell because he would sell it to By Robert Minor, 1924 you, and you haven’t got the money to buy it. Well, my cow's dying, Now what do you think about having milk fre2?” “Dying? Your cow’s dying? Fran- ces was the color of milk himselif, “She'll be dead by morning. Now T'm going out to see what I can do for her. There won't be any milk tonight or from now on. But don’t forget that it was the dirty Communist, the Red, the Bolshevik who wants everything free for every poor farmer, who kept the kid alive till now.” Frances stumbled, with the empty milk-can, out the door Wardell had left czen, past the barn where he saw a light, and the cow lying on her side, and Wardell bending over her. “Jim's cruel, but Jim’s right,” said Mrs. Wardell. Her husband did not come back into the house, and ‘she waited half an hour before she slipped out and across the field paths, with another milk-can, (To Be Continued) ; The present farmers’ strike in| the Middle West, which is HEAR THEIR VOICES? has just| appeared in the International Pamphlet series (No. 26), and can be bought at all workers’ book- shops for ten cents, “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late, The struggle against war must be care ” wee SS