The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1932, Page 4

+ & A forker. Porty USA deity Publishing Co., Ine., daily axexept Sunday, ot 5 New Yark aw. Telephone ALgonquin 4-706, Cable “DAIWORE.” ep) ks te the Daily Worker, 50 B. 13th St, New York, M. ¥, 18th Bt., Address and mail ehi SUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months, 33 Those Who Betray the Negro People THEN a few months ago, a group of 22 American Negroes W sailed for the Soviet Union to make a film of Negro life in the United States, Wall Street had good cause for alarm. The plunderers of the Negro people realized that the film would throw a vivid searchlight on the monstrous national oppression and persecution of the Negro masses by the American ruling class. The imperialists feared that this | would help to rally the white masses to the fight for Negro Rights. Already, the fear of the imperialists had been aroused by the growing sympathy of the Negro masses for the Soviet Their Negro mist agents were becoming help- arising as a result of the 1e Communist Party for equal he } es in the black belt, against in the cot Union. les: re} rights lynch st legal lynching This sympathy in- creased further with the growing realization among the Negro toilers that the Soviet Union was the only country which has successfully solved the national question, liberating the national minorities in the Soviet Union from the former brutal national oppression of Tzarist imperialist rule * * * s ; | IHESE facts put before the imperialists and their Negro reformist agents e difficull for roy the sympathies of the Negro masses equisite to the mobilization of armed intervention against the Soviet Union. When the film “Black and White” had to be postponed for a year because of technical difficulties the imperialists and the Negro yeformists thought they saw their chance. job of attempting to de Soviet the Union, as a p Jsing the slanderous charges of an insignificant minority of three in the film group, the white and Negro boss press is attempting to “prove” that race prejudice has triumphed in the Soviet Union. This week’s issue of the N. ¥. Amsterdam News—the same issue that piays up Jim-Crow Hoover as the savior of the Negro masses—carries an article by Henry Lee Moon and Theodore Poston, two members of the delegation. The icle makes the baseless and shameful charge that the desire for Amer- ican recognition forced the abandonment of the film * * * JHF AMSTERDAM NEWS dares to print this statement, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the groun have stated piataly | hat they are satisfied that technical reasons alone have led to the tem porarv postponement of t'> film. As to the alleged existence of race prejudice in the Soviet T:ion, let us hear what outstanding members of the delegation have to say CHATWOOD FATE: “All of this (our reception in the Soviet Union) was new, like a pleasar’ aream, like waking from a nightmare, like another planet to the darker Americans. Homeland was never like this. It did not take these colored Americans long to realize that they were in another world, where blind, unspeakable. race prejudice and class distinctions are ruthlessly hunted down and exterminated with- out benefit or quarter or counsél or toleration. Anyone who comes to Russia with an open mind and an objective attitude must agree that it is the only country that is sincerely and earnestly attempting to destroy race and class prejudices and distinctions.” LOREN MILLER: “We have seen with our own eyes how this is the one country where all races and people are free, and where they have achieved real equality and self-government. That this is a cardinal principle of Soviet life. The Soviet Uniom is the best friend of the Negro and of all oppressed peoples.” JUANITA LEWIS: “We've been treated royally.” : ‘The statement of the group as a whole, received here by radiogram some days ago, says in part: “The statement that the picture has been cancelled for political reasons, is without foundation in fact, and unwarranted in the light of the general policy of the Soviet Union. These fake allegations are ridi- culous and have already been repudiated by the majority of this group.” WHAT is the political lesson of this attack against a land which stands out as a beacon light to the oppressed nationalities throughout the world, the land which is lifting millions of oppressed, for the first time in history, from unspeakable degradation, according them the freest opportunity for national development and emancipating them from the age-long thraldom and slavery? | It shows that the Negro bourgeois reformers in the United States are more and more going over to the camp of the enemy, of the white imperialist masters whose lynch law is becoming more and more ter- rifying, and who are stopping short of nothing to keep the Negro masses y. The white master class is exposing itself more and more as ruthless oppressors of the Negro people and are compelled to fall back upon the bourgeois Negro reformists to do the job of “keeping the. Negro | people in their place.” The liberation of the Negro people cannot be achieved without the most ruthless struggle against the imperialists and the most intense ex- posure of these betrayers in the ranks of the Negro people. The Negro toilers will not be deceived by this latest attack against them. They will close their ranks more firmly around the Soviet Union. ‘The Negro masses who have been fighting in the front ranks against the imperialist lynchers will give a firm and decisive answer to these treacherous lies of the enemies in their ranks, W.I.R. Showing “41,” Soviet Film; Proceeds to M.W.1.U. A grim, a tragic, but. a beautifulairplanes and speed boats, Mariuka film is “The Forty-first,” produced | remembers that the officers’ message Mezrapom under the direction of |means more Kolchak death trains, “ig aiebeay | means gallows and torture and death Amazingly clear photography of a |for thousands of Russian -workers— Mereet the Kara.cum, ‘with ite aitt- |and she shoots the officer, and falls ing sand, huge rocks and swirling | convulsed with grief. sand storms. On this desert a little} “Who is this?” snarl the officers band of red guards is trapped, hostile | of the white guard when they land. vossacks and white guard bands all|“This is the Forty-first,” answers around them, They muster up their | fiat ted er ee defiance of Kol- |chak terror and her own misery. remaining strength, and partly be- : s ‘cause the girl revolutionist Mariuka | The weak point of the picture is is a dead shot and picks of her that while the Russian workers real- |ize what the necessity was for such a (aiid a pened aa am |ruthles struggle, the point is not en- ment, the reds burst through. | tirely clear from the picture to Amer- ‘There follows scene after scene of |ican workers, Titles are by M. Olgin, heroic courage, of men falling out | and perhaps he will be able in the exhausted and _ mercifully shot }time remaining to make up in the through the head by their comrades | titles for this lack.. before they are left to the vultures,! ‘The picture is shown through the of an attack on a camel train which | Workers International Relief, and carries a white guard officer with | particularly from Oct. 15 to 23 for fmportant messages from Kolchak to | the benefit of the Marine Workers Denikin, bloody enemies of the Rus- | Industrial Union. sian workers. The officer is taken| Desert fighting is not fancy—it is prisoner and carried along, and the |80ing on now in inner Mongolia, ‘lesperate trek goes on, defying heat, | where the Japanese and be r agents are waging war against rebel- storm and ssi Tees apne ginger lous tribes, and forming a battle erg ia’ cerclaine. among friendly | front for attack on the Soviet Union, tribesmen on the shores of the Aral | War is a desperately serious business, Bea, and feasts of mutton and bowls | and war is on the cards. of cool water. Against imperialist war is only the Phy lot of guard. | Strength of an aroused working class. iaatan ites lommeee on a boat which |And the key position is held by the speeds him, and his stil undisclosed marine workers. Munitions can not inessage, to the Red headquarters, |e shipped to Japan, American and English imperialist armies can not [he scene shifts then to storm at) be sent, if there is a strong Marine Sea, the ship is wrecked the offlcer | workers Industrial Union able to| frags Mariuka ashore, Mariuka hold up transport and shipments. qurses him through an attack of See this picture and help build the tholera, and they fall in love, Marine Workers Industrial Union. Lenin’s First Speech After Revolution The following is the first speech delivered by Comrade Lenin after the Bolshevik Revo- lution, We are publishing it on the occasion of the approaching 15th anniversary of the conquest of power by the Russian work- ers and peasants, under the lead- ership of the Bolshevik Party, Lenin's remarks about the alli- ance of the peasantry with the working class are especially: timely to the masses of the U.S. in view of the militant struggles of the farmers now going on. Toward the triumph of the work- ers and farmers over the bankers and trusts! a, Se. is Comrades! ‘The workers’ and peasants’ revo- lution, of the necessity of which the Bolsheviki have always spoken, is accomplished. What significance has this work- ers’ and peasants’ revolution? The significance of this revolution con- sists above all in the fact that we have a Soviet Government; our own organ of power, without any participation of the bourgeoisie. The suppressed masses themselves will constitute the power. The old State apparatus will be shattered to its foundation and a new admin- istrative apparatus will be created in the shape of the Soviet organ- izations. A NEW EPOCH There now commences a new epoch in the history of Russia. The present third Russian revolu- tion must ultimately lead to the victory of Socialism. One of our next tasks is the immediate liquida- tion of the war. But in order to be able to fight against this war, which is closely bound up with the present capitalist order, it is ob- vious that captial itself must be fought. In this cause the international labor movement, which is already beginning to rise in Italy, England and Germany, will hasten to our aid. The just and immediate peace which we have proposed to inter- national democracy will everywhere arouse an enthusiastic response among the masses of the interna- tional proletariat, all secret treaties must be immediately published. WORKERS’ CONTROL In Russia a great part of the peasantry has said: “Enough of Playing with the capitalists. We shall go with the workers!” We are winning the confidence of the peasants with a dedree abolishing private property in land. The peasants will understand that they will find well-being in alliance with the working class. We shall introduce a real workers’ control of production. We have now learned to work in firm fellowship to- gether. This is proved by the rev- olution which has been accom- plished. We have at our disposal that force of a mass organization which will vanquish everything and lead the proletariat to world reyo- lution. In Russia we must now engage |' in building up the proletarian So- cialist State. Long live the Socialist World Revolution! Letters from Our Readers A Criticism of Units On Open-Air Meetings September 29, Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: A few words of criticism as to how units fail to hold open-air meetings, and how little attention on this score is paid by the sec- tion, I believe will be in place. In the past, time and again we heard that open-air meetings were not held because the “main” speak- er failed to appear on schedule time or did not come at all. This time as one of the assigned speak- ers by the Section, I want to voice my grievance through the Daily Worker. In the course of three weeks I have been assigned to speak four times at open-air meetings for va- tious units in Section 2. To three of these meetings the speaker was the only one to appear. To none of the meetings was the platform brought nor @ommittees present. The speak- er simply wasted time and energy on all of these occasions, This shows that the units, or at least Unit 8, Unit 11 and Unit 13, (the other units I do not know the numbers) do not appreciate the importance of open-air meetings, especially during the Election Campaign. Speakers on the other hand, became lax because of such occurrences. Undoubtedly these are not iso- lated instances and it is very im- portant that the Section Commit- tees should take cognizance of such occurrences @md help the units to arraggm these open-air meetings, aw@ if necessary disci- pline comredes who are responsible for these things. Now more than ever must our open-air meetings become a real institution for organization pur- poses. Comrade yours, —Anna Hayes. FORCED VOTES MARION, Ohio,—In Marion they won't give you a job on the high. way unless you sign up to vote the Democratic ticket. Mr. Sawyer, of council 7, is doing that. He is es- pecially going out after the Negro But when the whites appear with _ B.S, j a, workers. to Bet them to vote Demo- eral, eA Worker. J DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD. OCTOBER 6, 1932 “WE'LL BREAK THE LOCK, BOYS!” —By Burck iy What Have Socialist Rulers of Milwaukee Done for Workers? Forced Labor, Clubs for Jobless; Employes; “Radical Squad,” Virtues of Capitalist Administration Wage Cuts for City Gangsterism--All By M. C. MERICAN merchants are well known for their fine window disjlays, but there is usually a world of difference between the special sample in the show-case and the article actually sold, The Socialist’ Party during this election campaign is also dressing windows. Mayor, D. W. Hoan, will tour the country as the living specimen representing “socialism” in the United States. ‘He will un- doubtedly urge the workers and farmers to follow in the footsteps of the “miracle city” by electing socialists into office. J. E. Harris, writing in the capi- talist “Milwaukee Journal” a few months ago, stated: “Although Milwaukee has been advertised as a ‘socialist city’ and that Party has been a factor in municipal affairs since 1904, there is less evidence in city af- fairs of the theories of Socialism than in almpst any other Amer- ican city.” THE “ACHIEVEMENTS” Further, in speaking of the issues, that the Socialist Party raised in’ the mayoralty elections last spring, he writes: “Of the issues which can be con- sidered distinctively _ socialistic there are only public ownership of utilities and city marketing, al- though many who are not socialists” favor municipal ownership. Yet Milwaukee owns only its water works and its street lighting dis- tribution system. Almost all cities own their water works and some own street railways, many own electric lighting plants.” Advertising agents are always careful in their approach—a special appeal to special strata of the population. The Socialist Party is the same. When Hoan goes on a tour to appear before the workers, he will speak about “Socialism.” When he appears before the Elks (Hoan is a leading figure in this lodge) or before the Chamber of Commerce, or at some convention of a bosses’ organization, then he brags about the absence of labor disputes in Milwaukee (open shop, ete.), ete, There is hardly a large muni- cipality in this country that dur- ing this crisis did not find itself in bankruptcy. Regardless of polit- ical combinations in different cities, whether it be New York, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, ete. the gang- sters play a prominent role in sup- port of these machines. Last win- ter when Chicago ‘had proven its complete bankruptey, when it was clear that Al Capone was one of the chief mainstays in the political machine, the American capitalist class had to find something a little , “different” to ‘aesiin to the of the United States. They picked Milwaukee as a place that is “dif- ferent,” and every capitalist news- paper and magazine showered col- umns of praise upon the “miracle city.” “ECONOMY” BY CUTTING RELIEF In dealing with Milwaukee we shall not only deal with the city of Mil- waukee, but we will deal with Mil~ waukee County which includes the city. We have to do it because all relief is handled through the county and the socialists occupy office in the county as well as in the city. The latest figures show that 25,383 families plus 3,590 individuals re- ceive relief from the county. This is only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands that are unemployed in Milwaukee County. Yet, we must note that in spite of the in- crease of unemployed—July showed the highest number—the relief list is continuously declining. The Milwaukee County Outdoor Relief Department continues to slash and to pinch. The cost of Outdoor Re- lief in April was but $646,048.04, compared with $619,701.52 in March. The capitalist class, the big bankers, manufacturers and real estate dealers of Milwuakee are de- manding “economy.” And they are very frank in stating that this must be taken out of the relief funds. For example, the Milwau- kee Journal, in urging forced labor, says: “The county needs such labor. It has parks that ought to be de- veloped. Why not develop them now with this available labor? Why wait a year or two, or five, and then employ other labor at greater cost?” 8. P. INITIATES FORCED LABOR And the bosses’ press complains bitterly. about paying’ relief bills, and claims that it cannot “under- stand why men should be kept in idleness when there is so much work to do.” The socialist members of the board of supervisors obliged “the bosses, They heeded the cry of “economy,” and Mr. Metcalfe, can- didate for governor on the Social- ist Party ticket, was the one to introduce this proposal for forced labor in the County Board. But, the bosses were not satisfied with even this. And they cry for more “economy.” They demand com- plete exemption from taxes, and the socialists once more decided that the bosses must not be dis- appointed. Why not shift the taxes on the shoulders of small home owners, on the workers? And so, peed tes Alderman Dietz, Siedel and others had a proposi tion which they were going to in. troducewto: payers to work off their delinquent taxes, and to work for future taxes no cash was to be paid. These small home owners, even if they are workers unemployed for years, do not receive any relief, but they were to be compelled ta work now | to fill the city treasury and to ex- | empt the rich. This proposal was voted for, but later repealed, un- der the miass pressure and demon- strations of the unemployed, ‘This is the way in which the problems of unemployment and lief are handled in the “Socialist miracle city,” WORKERS FIGHT BACK The workers are not always ready to accept these miserable condi- tions: They begin to see through the Socialist Party and understand that the Hoans, Metcalfes and others are only carrying through the policies of the bosses. At all relief stations, Mayor Hoan sees to it that enough police are there to “keep order.” The unemployed are bulldozed, are shoved around, and when they protest, are viciously clubbed. The attacks against the unemployed workers at the 14th and Fond du Lac relief station and at the 10th and Lincoln station or in West Allis, are still fresh in the minds of the workers. The sen- tences meted out by the “liberal judge” to these workers will not be forgotten by the masses of Mil- waukee, Nor, can the - workers close their eyes to the fact that the socialist mayor, Baxter, of West Allis and the socialist: sheriff, “Ben- son, turned foreign-born workers who fought for bread at a relief station to the federal authoritiés and now these workers face de- portation. In attempting to shift the bur- den of this crisis upon the shoul- ders’ of the masses, the bosses have instituted a campaign of wage- cuts. This affects not only work- ers in factories, but also employees and workers in Ynunicipal and county governments. When former Mayor Walker of New York City asked the city employees to take a “voluntary” 10 per cent wage- cut, the “New Leader”’—speaking for the Socialist Party of New York—conducted a verbal opposi- tion to this “unjustifiable attack against the workers’ living stand- ards.” The same week this was published in the “New Leader,” Mayor Hoan, put over his “volun- tary” 10 per cent wage-cut in the city of Milwaukee. Socialist alder- man, Dietz. acting like a little Napoleon—threatened all the city \French Intellectuals Join Fight for Scottsboro Boys (ise story of the Seottsboro case, case, carried to Europe by Ada- Wright, mother of’ two of the ‘ton- demned boys, and J. Louis En- gdahl of the International Labor Defense “ created a sensation all over the European Continent. With- in the last few weeks,’as a result of the ‘Wright-Engdahl” tour and appeals sent qut by thé European sister organizations “of the I. L. D., the National office of thé I. L. D. has recéived from Mrs, Wright a number of interesting communica- tions on the Scottsboro question, sent her by European writers. The latest to join the Internatione’ protest- are the intellectuals of France. Following the lead of the Group of the French Proletarian writers, some of ‘the outstanding figures inthe Frenclr world of ‘let- ters have joined the swelling chorus of protest against the attempted Jegal lynching of the Scottsboro boys by the white ruling class of Alabama, LEADING WRITERS The thirty-eight members of the Group of French Proletarian writ- ers were led’ in their protest by Tristan’ Remy, Henry Poulaille, Joseph Voisin and Magdeleine Paz, Henri Barbussee, author of Le Feu and other books of international repute and editor ofMonde, has is- sued the following challenge to his fellow intellectuals: “if we do not do everything in our power to pre- vent this crime, the shame will be on our heads.” George Duhaniel, one of the best known of French Novelists and winner of the Prix Concourt, who recently published @ volume of impression of the Un- ited States was one of the first to respond to the call of the Interna- tional Red. Aid, of which the I.L.D. is the American section. Lue Durtain, novelist and critic: Leon Worth, one of the editors of Monde; J. Guehenno, an editor of Europe; Victor Margueritte, nov- elist. of world reputation; Andre Breton, S. M. Monnerot, Roger Cail- lois, P. Elnard, Reno Char, Salvator Dali, Rene Crevel, Yves Tanguy, B. Peret, Andre Thirion, Guy Rosey, Tristan’ Tsara, ‘Charles Vildrac, E. Chauvelon, Han Ryner, Jean Mare- ston, Armand Charpentier, have all issued statements of protest against the Scottsboro ‘verdicts, igs Sia ss NE French intellectual, A. Harak of Gennevilliers (Seine),. who was formerly Counsellor of Lega- tion in the French diplomatic serv- ice, has addressed the following letter to the American Ambassador to France: “I consider your goy- ernment as responsible “for the Scottsboro sentences. The execu- tion of the eight Negroes would be a criminal act of assassination on the part’ of your government and would ‘call down upon it uitiversal digapproval and condemination. T protest most energetically against this crime.” MANY LETTERS AS a Yesult of the appéal of the French section of the I. R. A., Mrs. Wright has received letters from several organizations in which im- portant French ‘intellectuals play leading roles. “Beranrd Lecache has written her in his capacity of chair- man of the International League against Anti-Semitism, expressing sympathy and solidarity. “The Jewish and non-Jewish members of the League,” he writes, “feel that in taking the part of the persecuted Negroes, they pursue their task, which is to struggle in all countries against pogroms which dishonor humanity, for the solid- arity of peoples and peace among men. We will exert all our ener- gies to obtain justice for your boys and their comrades.” G. Duchene, General Secretary of the International. Women’s. Peace and Freedom League, has written: “The French Seetion of the League instructs me to inform you that. it joins in indignant protest with you. I hope the lively demonstra- tions being. organized throughout. the world will result in winning the acquital and rélease of fhese vict- ims of an injustice revolting to the human conscience.” Seon (Special Correspondence) A FEW months: -ago, : Mississippi jumped into metropolitan head- lines because 40,000° farm’ homes were sold for taxes in one day. It is not considered “news” when the sheriffs move more slowly. Yet the same ruthless ‘tide of tax sales is drowhing township “after ‘township throughout ‘the country. Mississippi contributed only 27 million acres of tax delinquencies, which is a con- servative estimate of this vicious sympton of depression, ‘Traveling in thé South, “we find every county newspaper filled with lists of tax sales. We have visited the homes of some of these farmers and find a typical history of hard work, low | prices, Cebfs and: desperation. A NORTH CAROLINA FARMER ~~ One case will illustrate: A farmer in Stanley County, North Carolina, of long experience, works 40 acres of land. His cash crop is cotton and his average production is four bales. Last year he got $26 a bale, a cash income of $105. His tax bill on that small farm is $53 and the fertilizer agent has a lien of $40. For fertilizer must be put under the roots of cotton in this rolling, red-soil countryside every single year. Fertilizer and taxes together cost $90 out-of-pocket, cash ex- penses! He can’t pay taxes and live on the balance of $14. He has a few chickens, a cow, and the usual beans and corn. According to the universal advice, he is. “living-at- home.” But he asks: how would these county. agents, Rotarians, and other like to try and buy paper, and school their kids on the $14 cash for a whole year \NE evening, sitting in the cabin of a neighbor of that farmer, we got more of an insight into the desperate tax question of North Carolina. He told us that the $53 taxes mentioned above is assessed gn 1926 valuation. He said: “It ain’t fair-and square. There is a state law calling for reassessments every four years. As long as‘prices were rising, the county politicians and business men approved of the law because it meant that the farmers kept paying higher taxes. In 1930, when the tide turned and land values dropped, the politicians put a bill through the legislature, and the Governor. signed it, postponing Teassessment for four years. So we go on paying taxes on the high value and getting sold because we can’t make the grade.” THE GOVERNOR'S “ADVICE” - If you will look in the files of the Greensbro ‘Daily News you will see that last March that O, Marx Gard- ner, the Governor, got in front of a radio mike ang said: “It is not dif- ficult, of course, to prove now that places the problems as follows: “Here's an ice Where the ‘hooey’ comes in, A week ago the ward laborers and ward_ teamsters were put on for a four- day The ward laborers re- cent wage-cut!” ;_ So, it is not merely a 10 per cent: cut, but actually a 20 per cent cut! How does the socialist adminis- who will dare to resist this wage-out. PUT THROUGH WAGE CUTS_ iy twation caryy through these wage-. culs, relief cuts and general attacks against the standard of living of Tre in Milwaukee ‘Through terror! If a worker de- . Slings -40..2a-0n -%. foreéd -lahor job Chamber of Commerce prophets kerosene, pay the doctor, buy a4 North Carolina Sales Tax Increase Misery of Farmers Jand and*real estate in 1926 and 1928 was too high. Four years ago North Carolina, farmland sold on the basis of 25-cent tobacco; and 18-cent cotton. Today that same Jand can be bought on the ‘basis ‘of eight cent tobacco and six cent cotton. I am suggesting to’listen- ing-in North Carolina that-you go out and buy a little while it is cheap.” i We would like to ask the gov- ernor: “If what you and our friend, the farmers, tell us is true, why aia you sigh that bill. If farm values have dropped below a third of 1926 values, why do you allow the politicians to keep taxes up while prices drop? Why do you broadeast to “‘listening-in North Carolina’ to come out and get’bar- gains in the farms that these poor farmers cannot hold?” We feel cer- tain that when the Governor was addressing ‘listening-in North Car- olina,’ he was not referring his remarks to the unemployed workers and poor farmers who make up the great majority of North Carolina people. He must be reminding the politicians, bankers and business- men that this is the time to reap the harvest, to buy in land offered at tax.sales, which is resulting from the tax assessment extension passed in 1930, UT our friend, the farmer, told us: “I ain’t a-goin to leave this place,” and we presume that the farmers are about to enact an unwritten law of tax exemption for poor farmers that will be enforced by sheer numbers of struggli: farmers. Rea tom i The Communist Psrty writes into its national election plat- form the demands for: “Emer- gency relief for the poor farmers without restriction by the govern- ment, and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts.” The Communist Party calls on farmers to form united front committees to lead struggles, and to send delegates to the National Farm Relief Conference meeting~ in Washington Dec. 7-10, to pre- sent demands to Congress, The Communist Party calls for united hunger marches and demonstra- tions for relief to both farmers. and unemployed workers carried out by the united forces of the jobless in the tities and the marching farmers, It urges farm- ers on strike to turn part of their produce over to the jobless in the cities, and for the jobless to help picket the roads. It urges farm- ers to strike only for higher prices to the farmer, but lower. prices to the consumer, and for no taxes and no mortgage pay- ments, It calls for mass to tax sales ‘and to seizure of land and crops for debt. — for 10 cents an hour, he is given 90 days in jail. This was the case of Godfrey Balva of Socialist Mil-, -waukes, There are cases eee pi received a yeat years in jail in the city of Me waukee becatisé the snoopers found a few extra pounds of sugar in their house, and the worker was charged with “detranding the county.” While unemployment relief is being cut and the cry of “economy” is shouted from the housetops, the’ Socialist Party leaders in the— County Board voted to add 60 new investigators (snoopers) to go from” house to house to spy on the work- bh and cut them from the relief, Thousands of dollars will be© spent for spys (snoopers get from $150 to $200 a month). while fam- illes starve. To mak> the spy sys- tem anore PP si the baer da a then investigators ii (TO, BE siicinga 1 } 3 aN on RV RIE