The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1932, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW oe SATU JRDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932 = = eee ee A SHARE CROPPER’S LIFE: SWIN DLED, BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS, FRAMED ON RAPE CHARGE, SHOT DEAD Page Four sign my work in the factory to give} me more time to study. I am well able to get. along on the money the government pays me. I am pleased very much that I have the opportunity to learn the English Janguage, There is no pleasure so great as to get news from American comrades who read your paper. I always admired how you fight Boldly for the interests of the working march from Chicago to Washington | for the bonus I see that the police |in the towns did everything in their power to discourage the Bonus Marchers—picking the marchers off freight trains and walking out of town five and six miles, equipped | with tear gas bombs and machine guns. I see where Jim-Crowism is being used by the police against the colored and discrimination is being used against the foreign-born; how cow with a Sulphur Trust at Hokand, | Central Asia, south of Tashkent. I} found that the workers were not starving in any place I travelled. We| have always had worse conditionss | right here in America than they have | in Russia, and that is right down in| the southern part of the U. S. A. The workers in the Soviet Union | run the shops—not only that but) every worker has his say. Every | week all the workers in a department } HILLSIDE, N: J., Dec. 29.—While the delegation of the 35 needy chil- | dren from the industrial cities of New Jersey were marching on the | State House to present demands for immediate relief to the starving chil- jdren, the sister of one of the child delegates died indirectly from starva- tion, the Hurton Looker School, which this chcild attended to protest this murder and demand that the school shall immediately provide free, hot lunches for all needy children in that school, Mich. Workers Thank | being continually added to from Procos City on until at Dallas there were between three and four hun- dred of us, including women and small children. Outside of the railroad bulls we had no trouble with the train crews, they even several times switched on new empties to carry the poor starved bunch of humanity. We were con- tinually harassed by the cops in the their arms bumming the freight | trains and starving with the men, | homeless and jobless with nothing to go to. It is on everybody’s mind that the | ship of capitalist society has hit the rocks and is fast sinking to the depths. I met one young girl at Picket, Texas, actually too weak to walk from starvation, begging me to help her back to friends in Texas. I ning and asked for a bottle of iodine. His eyes were red and- his face un- usually wan and haggard: However, I raised no questions, promptly wrap- | ped up the bottle and»waited to be paid. The man stared at me half stupefied and humbly~ offered his overcoat in licu of payment because he said, he had no money. T asked what he needed the iodine for and here is his story: “Buddy, I'm Hangty.” | Sapen is pisces tages ta the police marched the Hunger] hold their meetings and discuss how} The girl, Lillian Sonneberg, aged | Ohio Militants for bela Ete eer slag) finally got her on a freight train and| “Buddy, I'm broke, and hunery. abolish. Capitalism, and to estaviish |Marchers through the streets of | they can make conditions better, how|9, was sent home from school a few | Fy Mare [ieee ferarin oe s ‘his ‘rel fed her until she could make it alone | Haven't tasted food for, four days @ government “by the Worker and for | Washington, D. C., like they were a/they can work shorter hours, etc./months ago with an infection in the | UNZer arch Help) perhar freight and ‘killed another {£0 He? dispossessed home at Level-| and I'm just about through. I can’ the Worker,” like our government in| bunch of convicts along with the|There are no bosses to say “Hurry |leg. This infection, due to her weak} z — under a freight and killed, another |jang. 1 could write a book and not | see anything worth while to live for the USSR. | Hunger Marchers, the Capitol police| up.” When the ccpitalist press re-|condition from the lack of proper] YOUNGSTOWN, O.—The Unem- | Shot in the arm. tell all of the misery T saw on this| and I'd rather commit suicide tha I am-a student of the second term, |h@ve about 30 Oveterans which rig ps on the shortage of meat in the | food, milk and care, soon developed | Ployed Council and the Communist | At Fort Worth we were arrested |trip and now my heart is steeled for | die like a rat, 4 I still have three years to graduate from the University, evidence that we veterans are classed as bums, vagabonds, hoboes, pan- Soviet Union, especially beef, why don’t they let the public know the The hospital demanded r leg be cut off, but the fam- into cancer. that b have received letters of thanks the workers in Michigan for from and sentenced to the rock pile and allowed to sleep in a lousy jail with anything that might happen. It’s a cinch things cannot go on like this I'm not a bum. I'm a chemist and willing to, work at anything. I've worked as a baker, i handlers and criminals in 1931 and|true facts? Why? Because during| ily was unwilling to do this and the | their co-operation with the National | hundreds of other homeless and job- | much longer. list papers print some iS | ly g = * plumber, dish washer and, wi fete ee ee ditions here, |192—but in 1917 and 1918 we were|the collectivization campaign the| hospital refused to take care of the | Hunger Marchers. less. Many of these pood wretches —SHORTY MERRILL. | All I ask is just ge ate an r instance, “shortage of food,” | heroes. large land owners poisoned their| child and threw her out. To the Unemployed Council of | were travelling they knew not where keep me from starving, “forced labor,” “uprisings.” I am not|_The working-class of the whole | cattle and pigs, which left the land) he father of the child was out | Youngstown: and had with them all that they Bo: P. ra “Believe me, buddy, T-have two surprised that the capitaliste system | United States learned through ex-/almost bare of meat supplies. And/of work for two years and now is Dear Comrades: poe ee ee ee ss Paper Admits | Kids, my wife is dead.» T've triec tells these lies, because after all I|Periences along the lines of march,|why is it that the capitalist press! forced to work for the city of Hill-| We have just heard a report to|Wowld beg with the police at night Soviet Kids Best F | everyéhing--foller ecm talieae Bed now that the Capitalistic system|both the Hunger and the Bonus does not tell the people the truth and/ side for a basket of food for the|our unit on the excellent way for the privilege of getting in out oviet Kids Best Fed | <x! bureat, ete Tam nota (if ves through lies, because when the|Marchers, that the only plan of | let the people know that the Soviet | -| of the cold. The Salvation Army and ares J 2 am not a § workers in America know the truth there will no longer be Capitalism to oppress them, I wish to be a “Worker Correspondent” for the Daily Worker. I remain with best wishes to the American priletariat and its militant paper the Daily Worker. Comradely yours, Hoover and the Wall Street govern- ment is a plan of starvation and misery for the 15 or 16 million unem- ployed workers on the U. S. A. Twenty years ago I worked as fill- ing boss in Mississippi in the lodging camps and while there I saw some of the worst conditions I ever saw in Union is raising some of the best herds of cattle in the world. We do know it takes time to re- supply a land with enough cattle so that a nation can be supplied with plenty of beef, and the same with pigs and poultry. Here in America, we the working- family. After a great deal of pressure give the family coal or even wood to keep the house warm. The windows were stuffed with rags to keep out| the wind. As soon as the Young Pioneers of Hillside and the Unemployed Coun- cil found out about this family, a | la | took care of the com. on the Hunger Ma Washi) ton. The Unit extends their thanks to you in Youngstown and hope you will be successful in the revolution- ary movement as you are located in a strategic Charles Schofield des taken other relief stations always full to | overflowing. I saw little children | snatched away from their parents and herded off to reform schools and their fathers driven from town. Sent to Rock Pile being brought before the noble judge I was asked where I was Upon St. Paul, Minn. Dear Editor: I am a steady reader of the Daily Worker and I work hard every day spreading the news that this is the only working class paper. It’s hard work but I am winning more people tramp. I have seen service across. I was gassed, wounded and have a Congressional medal for bravery. President Wilson gave me a medal for unusual bravery in action, but what does it get me? “I went to the veterans bureau for medical aid. They told me I had T. - 7 4 . + 4 Fer Sagnaw Sect. C.P.U.S.A. —P. A. BUCHAREV. /my whole life. The colored workers'| cl i Commitee: Wes eet Soot sve ; Party of Y ae i ve|to see that the Communi ty | By advised me to eat plenty of eggs j House No’17;" Station’ Perovo The Chain gangs were terrible. I|everything and yet we are suffering | Child and food, coal, etc., for the sHaGES a clipping from a capitalist news- | Weeks while they investigated my Dear Comrades promptly told us we had reached our noe ae:initke. oF eaciniven Surikce in ; : ve are| family. After a great deal of forcing} oy ; : a) t E case. Where and how am I going : Moscow-Kazan Railway Me is $ ere ss with starvation and misery; we are|/)0" 0) RAMEY went Gone a Russe We herewith extend our pest | destination and sent us to the rock | Paper about Russia. to get eggs and milk?’ f haven't a Moscow, U.S.S.R. al gang in Tennessee for | allowing the capitalist class to run us : a iatio i ‘ : pile for ten days. The second day,| Comradely, FS. riding a freight train. I found con-| back to a system which will be worse |t0 look at the child. This nurse|®ppreciation and gratitude for the ising to leave tow! : PN hs plage, to: eleeb.” et tay ena ditions generally very poor; while the |than Feudalism ever was. We see|Came without materials, looked at|SPlendid service end care you have | Upon promiking to leave town, we ae ing in a cellar, I look drunk and “Army. Racket Annoys| workers in the northern ‘section of | more police terror daily. We see at | the ehild, went away and never came |Tendered to Comrade Alex Zittle, | Were tum’ Ieowe and pene te Neg: the Clipping was an ad-| wild, don't I? Tm nob-drunk or a y f he U8 A: got fale a the [the se tites te fae eisicse ‘and | back. who is a member of this family. | Kansas City. we Rory Sethe Wee mission editorially that the children | maniac, I'm, just weak with hunger. 5 . 8. A. wag sami aera = oa} “This is a test, an example of the | to missing meals and being set out|of the Soviet Union were the best|I can hardly see with my. ey ‘The Salvation Army, that organ!- wages. Now after viewing the conditions in the U. S. A., let's view the condi- we will suffer more than ever before. nies so as to buy some bandages for her daughter. The police continu- lutionary daily s workers to carry “The Hunger Mar thru our Ms | town to another. all kinds We of human mis mingled with ry and While made by Dr. J. Sundway of the Uni- versity of Michigan. The cditorial After listening to this pathetic tale, I gaye him a dollar arid talked him 5 wi ceivi T see that the Communist Party is in prepar Co r “qa ty Se ie zation of pious, frauds which receives e |, 1 see that 1 nunis y is | her de be in preparing ourselves for the |we thought we had it doesn’t want Communism but why a pieor di hae a. juicy slice from the Community | Hons 0 Soviet Russia where I worked |the only Party who fights-for equal | ally threatened her with arrest if she gle in which T hope. com- | Mexico, we found the castern country | not have similar condition for chil- |p" cane Re ee eee Shest, has, as one of its Christian | for 3 months and stayed five months. | rights for thie masses. I am going to, | Would not stop, and, due to this, she | shall soon be able to join| much nearer aciual starving condi-|dren here?” it asks. Tt fails to no-| 9; would give him'‘the address In the plant there were evening was forced to stop. the nearest Unemployéd Council functions, the serenading of sick - upon my return trip to Chicago and tions with hundreds of hameiess peo- | tice that only under a. working class workers, patients in the County Hos- | Classes for young workers to learn tool | Cicero, Tll,, join the “Communist| On Dec. 22 the child died | Signed: Dave Zittle | ple milling about: on all the trains. ‘| government can we have healthy | }17° T was sure they would ‘help vital here. Recently when I visited a| making and the machinist Party,” the Party of my class. The Young Pioneers of Hillside are} Carl and Elizabeth Zittle (parents) | At Kansas City I saw another boy | children, as proven by its own ar- |‘) ™ i comrade at the County Hospital, |The students get paid (125 rubles) —T. HL. calling a meeting of children from Detroit, Mich. trying to catch the same train out to ticle. I gave him also a malted milk \ ‘yneard, through a door at one end of the corridor, the moans of a woman worker, dying of injuries received in an accident. From the other end of the corridor, and blending with the groans, came the mournful, sicken- ing and depressing strains of “Nearer ‘My God to Thee,” sung by the Sal- vation Army chorus. The’ patients, many of them ser- fously ill, fighting against the heavy | odds of undernourishment and worr- | zy to recover from operations and | Birmingham, Ala. underwear and a pair of trousers were always little 10c ones. erty stricken inhabitants of the city | the preachers there have organized Worker Exposes Fake Red Cros ey Xme mas acho» in ils tees under the leadership of the Un- witb an egg and some crackers. He drank the malted but refused to eat the crackers. When I asked him why, he said he wanted to bring them to his children. I-gave him and told him to e back the next day. for the ad- f the Unemployed, Council. of Suicide. No Solution. White collar workers and workers generally, ‘suicide is no solution of the problem. We must organize the unemployed, awaken. them to the ADEL COUNTY, Ga.—Archer Bur-; can work 25 acres, we will do good | owner said: You have strength he pper said: I w eating my din- | Viciously Beaten, j you willing to work a crop. Let me |titions the landlor wife hollered: nett, a Negro share-cropper, lived on | to work that much. What do you| plenty of it. Now the amount ofj}tion. Af The landlc said: You're al He got a hoe handle and said: | know now while the sheriff is here. | Tape. 1 landlord went running a rich land-owner's place here, The|think about it, Archer? He said: I| money you've got to pay is $200, and | stor c mn liar, you ¥ ing to run} gold him, sheriff, while 1 teach him|Zf you don’t, the sheriff will be too|to the house and got gun and first of the=year, the landowner told| think we should work 15 acres in| the best way for you to pay and] weren't you ty talk to a white man. “Til show |8lad to carry you back to town with| said, stop there, nigger, what. the Burnett: Now you start turning cot 10 in corn, that is enough. money is to start working your cr httle no, Ix dinner. | him how to ay in his place. The | him. The sheriff said, yes, let r you doing Archer said, I land that you are going to w | Bills—For What? and by the time you get it gathered | came t | landiord said, so you call me a] sheriff grabbed the share-cropper | know so I won't have to come ng for the partitions. The year. -By the first of April he had| He said all right, suit yourself, I} you can pay me what you owe me.| What was wr you | liar, eh, I'm going to beat hell out| ang tied him and held his gun on| to get you. said, you are a damn black all his land turned that he was go- | tell you what I want you to do. You| The share-cropper said: I don’t owe | couldn't com he of you | him while the landiord beat him. Ha| Archer ‘said, yes sir, I am willing| re trying to rape my wife ing to plant come up to my house and let’s figure | you anything. The landlord said Sa ee as - | pleaded but the lahdiord said, shut | to work it off. | , he winked his eyes at her. | b Qe morning the landowner went | out how much fertilizer you are go-| You goddamn son of a bitch, don't | up Sour damn cnouth, i - told the cropper to| {2° Jandl shot the share-cropper #fown to the sharecropper’s shack and | ing to use this year, I’ve got the | dispute my word. You owe me $200 An “American” Home J ; The landowner told the cropper t0| three times with a shot gun and Kil- 7 told him: I think you should plant | bills down there. The share-crop- | for that fertilizer I am ordering, and The croppers’ wife came out and} come up to his house the nex i | Jed him. You would make more | per asked what the bills are for. The | you are going to pay for it it here } ;Pleaded too. The sheriff said, shut He had already been on this hee - Seliyc@uKes Re 2 d your family. The | landlord said: They are for fertilizer | on my place or I will have you put up that damn hollering. If you don't |Jord’s place for one year and ‘ellow workers, in the same way id: Who is going to that I ordered for you to use this|on the chain gang.. The share-crop- | we will get you. The landlord beat | Months. pper was Killed, there bel me. wor year. Why I haven't told you to or- | per said: I am willing to go to the that cropper for 30 minutes and then | The Murder of A Cropper. is of farmers doing the “js nobody bi | der and fertilizer for me. The land- | chain gang if that will pay the debt he told the sheriff to leave him alone. The next morning at 6 a. m The only way this can | We can’t work | lord said: You don’t have to tell me | that you claim I owe. The landlord He was beaten unconscious. He lay| went up to the house. The landlc opped is by organizing both Ne- will pls 25 acres what not to do. I ordered it and| said: Yes it will pay the debt that | on the ground, with the blood com-| aid: Archer, you know them fence|gro and white organized. together, The said to the crop- | and now you are going to pay for it.| you owe me. Now what would you | ing out of his nose and side. partitions what me and you made | joining the Sharecroppers! Union and pers’ wife: “Lucy, me and your hus-| The share-cropper sald: I didn’t or-| rather do. The sharecropper said: | After he gained strength, the land- | the other day. You know where they | the Communist Party and.the Young band was talking about planting 40| der it and I will not pay for it. I} I would rather go on the road. | lord said to him, now Archer, are| are. Go and fet them. So when} Communist League in your neighbor- acres this year. She said, no, we! haven’t got the money. The land- ‘The landlord called up the sher- you willing to go to the road or are | the Negro started to go for te par- | hood SOVIET WORKER Vet, Back from U.S.S.R., \Hunger Marcher Tells of UNEMPLOYED. VET, PAD BY GOVT 10 Shows C With U.S | dine Freights STARVING, TRIES - ie Shows Contrast With U.S. Women Ri ding: reights ey ENGUIS GS oe eer bas Tua ob TO KILL HIMSELF Til Join the Communist Party, the Party o \Babies With Them Too; Is Jailed Twice, Sees : ee Ts in “Daily Worker My Class Cops Shoot at Jobless on Trains |Father of 2. Children aiereanisbsts : —$——-__—— tefused Relief = cae AS). es the Maen ee veterans | while gearing tel trate Ce Ct | one RICAN STANDARD | little better than slaves of the | Victor Hugo in his graphic descrip- St. Louis shot by the railroad bulls | ed R Soe pee onl hinayion and workers of the richest Copan oF | eatin tie talaga canal ahaper| OE '—Home of a Negro | white plantation owners. (Copy- | tion of scenes preceding the French|and I was again picked up and I} marabine 6 SO Bet the world are now in the fourth training do be the and shaper) share-cropper in southern Georgia. | right by John L. Spivak, author of | Revolution has nothing whatever on|slaved it out for ten days under a : so AE I am a member of your own brigade, | winter of starvation and mise! as| work than the average apace Thousands): ob hurian beings ahh “Georgia Nigger.”) \ che iectual sonuliianl LOW wiroond- | SO dap sentence udel + ran ew id perience I had this week in “Daily Worker Brigade” of the Lepse| this winter will be the worst ever|with three years training. 1 have) i, these Ieaky clapboard hovels, |ing the working class in America, On| and hit it back for New Mexico, rid- | & & on Westchester Avenue, a . Works. I was ~-nt by | before, I have as one of the veterans |.a life-time experience as a machinist | _ 3 pete the 15th of November, as. a delegate | ing in cattle cars. | the Bronx, where I work, is an ex- Recto Niotor Works as_2* PY | joined the Bonus Army in Chicago to|and am really surprised how fast the | ap Jet a November, es Ore einiple of! Bow capitauinn senaeie its ne factory committee to stuc. Eng-| demand the full payment of my| workers learn trades in the Soviet -Y ] d 1 Di ae ceight aie a Washington Mothers on Freights | very choicest war veterans. lish in the Moscow Institute of Lang-) bonus along with the other veterans | Union. : : ear ir 1es, ungry ane een linger Marit ’we| ‘The awful conditions can hardly| A young man, who appeared to be luees) for this Tam paid $50 a month) of te world wer. 5 fF | eo worked, ala: days; tnitis, Ball; had fairly good going through New | be realized until a trip of this kind |i” the early 30's, staggered-into the by the government, and I had to re-| From my experience in the line of | pearing plant I shipped out of Mos- an d With out M e di e al i are Mexico and west Texas, our number | is experienced, women with babies in | drug store about eleven: in the eve- other difficulties, fretted and pro-| The local Birmingham press is|for the man; 1 dress and pair of Food and Forced Labor. who otherwi would be buried in| a self-help organization, which is| employed Councils. In order to try | class struggle and fig . eee fullely ae eet ee rajsing a lot of ballyhoo about the | stockings for the woman. ‘The food given for Christmas did Potter's field.” Tt te a fect that’ the | called “Self-Help Employment Lea-| to stop this they are slandering the | ployed pga farther eit ' peninat this infliction of the capi ‘joy” given to the poor families by This is supposed to last until sum-| not vary very much from the every | relief is so miserable in Birmingham | gue”. This organization is applauded | working class organizations and are | (hrow 5 corrupt cold-blooded | ist class. the Red Cross this Christmas. They|mer. The father of the family has|day ration. For these baskets of | that the Red Cross hasn't much faith | by the preachers and other mislead-| also using every method and means | and em. Let's fight for |} Patients are not admitted to beds | rave about the “foodstuffs and toys” | not worked a lick for two years. And} groceries the head of the family has | that the workers will be able to en-/ ers. The Birmingham Post has the | of organizing the self-help ond other | a wort and: farmé pes eel | \ in the County Hospitals unless they | that were given out. But here are | no one in the family had any clothes.|to work 2 and 3 days for an order| dure the misery much longer. B following to say on it: “It is a re-|charity organizations. But the} where useful workers will be appreci- | suffer from serious illness. And pa-| the actual facts what workers get: | By giving only two pairs of shoes for | of $2.50 which must last a family of | the workers of Birmingham don’t] flection on society's ability to adapt | workers are heginning to sec through | ated! ee ae | tients so suffering should not be dis-| A white family of five children, | four boys—this means that two must | 5 or 6 two weeks. want “beautiful graves” after they | itself to new conditions for any group| all of these schemes and are com- | turbed by the noise created by these four boys and one girl, and the par- | elther go barefooted or go to school] In the same paper on another page| die they want plenty of food now. | to have to revert to primitive barter, | ing closer to the: Unemployed Coun- Greet your fighting paper, the | weligious fakers, adding to the at-jents got the following: a half oft the week while the others go | the following is to be found: “Thirty |'That is why 5,000 went out on the| but it is infinitely better to live as|cils. The above illustration is by no Dail Worker; in tr so Nt a 1! mosphere of depression and gloom} 3 pairs of underwear ‘for boys; 1| the other half. graves in one of Birmingham's most | streets on November 7th to demand | Pioneers than Paupers!” means an isolated case—there are i in Se spemiat NUD f to which workers, under capitalism, | gingham dress for girl; 2 pairs of} Raving about the toys—e family} beautiful cemeteries have been do-| more relief. The fakers and misleaders are very | hundreds like it—and the condition | AmMiversary-Lenin Memorial edi- , are subjected in institutions for the socks for boys; 1 pair socks for gitl; | got one or two toys, no matter how | nated to the Community Chest. They| At the same time in Fairview,| aware of the fact that the workers|of the Negro workers are much| tion Jan, 14. All greetings must be "indigent. —DL. 2 pairs of shoes for the boys; 1 sult | many children there were, and these | will hold remains of the first 30 pov-| which is a suburb of Birmingham, | are organizing into Block Commit- | worse. —A. B, in by Jan, 8. Cc. A. HATHAWAY MAX BEDACHT TONIGHT! P Chairman Will read a message from William Z. Foster Speaker Hors semen oem y GRAND CONCERT and BALL , aos ware || \ ay Les NEW YEAR’S EVE | BRONX COLISEUM || _ DOUBLE BRASS BAND ae NEW DANCE GROUP Saturday, December 31, 1932 East 177th Street sean : INTERNATIONAL CHORUSES TICKETS IN ADVANCE 40 CENTS TICKETS IN ADVANCE 40 CENTS ; OF THE WORKERS MUSIC LEAGUE Dancing Till Morning: