The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1933, Page 4

(#May, so that ») tole-and trusts, uniting Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1933 Farmers’ and Workers’ Solidarity Grows in Struggle Against Hunger F ARMERS JAILED IN WHITE CLOUD ‘AT FIGHT AGAINST FORECLOS RE Starve in City While Potatoes 200 at Court House Steps Met by Police and Rot on Farm) Tear Gas Bobs mo an in order Comrade e of the mittee to f the three soon the press) Tugwell, Roosevelt Man, Justifies Food Reduction As Masses Starve INTEREST GROWS DAILY YORKER vs Farmers Now Seck Real News By a Worker Correspondent CMAH! d to the ef-| t of the Workers contain-| ‘om farmers , I think arently pproach, n gen-| on what is! ay, over the| been espe- | the Washington | bution of | S$ on iterat! ire in r is a are glad come when| ‘ mers give her nd the Daily Worker carries t comes under the title Reality. Read Less Trash little | and tern and all sh is falling off liveries don’t e very hen postage rates many business insti- i or dying) sent out , ete.,| he used sands of ular su i again, thou-| who used to be reg- rs for some city daily c y—not even So I find that it is a good plan to pass out my extra copies of the Daily Worker which contains the spe- cial Worker Correspondence Section on farmers letters from the whole country, to the farmers about Satur- the farmer will have something to read on Sunday. And farmers read it, you can depend on that! It is doing some good. I shall continue to send for bundles of is- sues containing farm letters from time to time and distribute them as I have been doing. Crisis Smashed Revisionist Claims “As regards the theory of crises and the theory of the collapse of capitalism, the revisionists were faring much worse. Only the most shortsighted people could think for @ moment about changing the forndstion of the teachings of Marx | under the influence of a few years of industrial revival and prosper- ity. The reality of a crisis having , set in after prosperity, proved to the revisionists very quickly that the time of crises had not yet pessed. “The forms, the succession and the picture of these crises have changed, but the crises themselves remained an inevitable component part of the capitalist system. Car- production, increased erchy of production under y eyes; have increased the inseeurity of the proletariat and the oppression of capital, thus sharp- ening class contradictions to a de- gree unheard of heretofore.” —L ave, at the same tim “othe an |tried to justify a drastic cut in the | this system, millions must go hun- lies added on was| , WKBZ, Luding-| ral n more the over mers! It is against these | pol rs that we must fight! | It does no good to sit back and let the other fellow fi so let's all} come out and join our local branch| of the United Farmers League! Calls for Protests to | White Cloud Sheriff | By a Farmer Correspondent) | IA, Mich. — Organizing of| farmers in Michigan i: rm t way. The latest foreclosure sale was at White| Cloud, March 15. A demonstration | given much pub- ads of the local] the United Farmers| , as well as farmers way as 100 miles from as sted and] The lea charged w er e:dicalism.” | At our last meeting he United | Farmers League we sent a letter of | protest to the authorities, William C. Bird, Sheriff of Whitecloud, Mich.| We urge all sympathizers to do the | same, —G. | the night was rainy, 1 soid for 4 foreclosed. es the fi Pp rmer Was told yesterday of one farmer | havir 1,600 bu: of potatoes and ig holding for r than 25c, un- less he has a of mind can |likely haul out his rotten lot before }iong. On the other hand we people here in town who would be glad of a bushel. Last evening we held our meeting of an Unemployed Cou! our popu but 1,600, notice of meeting short, so I call it a grand success with 26) attending. Next Saturday night we | expect 100. I will enclose my check (while I yet have one) for a dollar for extra copies of Daily Worker to give armers. first tion | F. ARMERS’ LETTERS Readers will find additional let- ters from farmers in other parts of | today’s paper. Full and immediate payment of | the war veterans’ adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the disability allowances; no discrimi- nation in hospitalization, Militant Actions of Farmers is Rejection of Program to Further Pauperize Them By HERBERT BARNES FROFESSOR REXFORD GUY TUGWELL, assistant secretary of riculture, in a recent radio speech, production of foodstuffs at the time when millions tramp the streets hun- gry for bread and meat, and when millions of children cry for milk. He says, “We must produce for the market that exists—actually exists... . To get (higher prices) our only hope lies in accommodat- ing our production to the amount that the market will take, the real market—the one in which custom- ers can actually pay for goods.” This is what Tugwell, as assistant agriculture, considers fitting our farming activities to the country’s needs.” As spokesman for the administration he pleads for the passage of the Roosevelt farm bill which aims to reduce the production of foodstuffs by at least 30 per cent, and to pass a sales tax on to the consumers. His logic is the logic of the profit system. No profits, no production; that is the iron faw of his economics. But his statement is a damning indictment of the yery system which he proposes to protect and preserve. He admits that under gry. Millions must go cold for lack of clothing, unshod for lack of shoes, and shelterless for lack of the price} of a flop. | In the same speech, Professor Tug- well admits that, “Naturally, our stocks of wheat and lard and tobacco and cotton have been piling up here at home. At the beginning of our present | crop year our wheat carryover was 250,000,000 bushels in excess of the normal carryover; of cotton, about 7,000,900 bales in excess of normal; of filue-cured tobacco 150,000 pounds in excess of normal... . “Shall we shut our eyes to these huge surpluses? Shall we continue to produce for a market that doesn’t exist?” asks the professor. ‘he workers and farmers have not it their eyes to these huge “sur- ‘s.” While hunger gnaws at the of the unemployed worker, a fire of resentment burns in his brain that there should be piled high in the warehouses of the capitalists stocks of food and clothing large enough to feed and clothe millions. Farmers See Breadlines Farmers, told to produce for the market they “can see,” “the one in which customers can actually pay for goods,” can see farther and more clearly than the professor thinks. They can see these breadlines. And many of them know that the same system which proposes to chuck them off the land has chucked these fel- lows out of jobs. The conclusion of the workers and farmers, therefore, are based on a logic very different from the ruling class logic of Professor Tugwell. At the Farmers National Relief Conference in Washington farmers |@ crime against farmers and work-| | state guarantee one quart | Scarce, but I have just got to send declared that “while millions of our| population are undernourished| through loss of purchasing power, the acceptance of the surplus theory is| ers.” They raised the demand, since yoiced in many sections by militant farm organizations, for the purchase of food supplies by the state direct- ly from the farmers, at a decent price, and their distribution to un- employed workers. The unemployed workers of Penn- sylvania, marching upon Harrisburg on March 1, demanded that “the of milk per day for each child, and that the| milk be bought directly from the | farmers at 4 cents a quart.” Spurn Tugwell Program The demands of farmers in Wash- ington and of the unemployed in| Pennsylvania is a rejection of Profes- sor Tugwell's program, The interests represented by Tug- well, Roosevelt lieutenant, should tremble because the logic of the} working class is the logic of history. | The realization of this fact, with all the world-qhanging implications which hang upon it, is the prelude to the mighty union of workers and farmers for the complete overthrow of capitalism in America and the es- tablishment of a government in which only workers and farmers rule. | Only Those Joining K.K.K. Given Relief | NIOTA, Tenn.—Postage 1s very some paper clippings and tell you the news. I traded a fat veal for | hay. I couldn't get any price offered to me at all in Athens, Tenn., and there are hundreds of people there would like it (and need it). There are plenty of men here working for 50 cents per day, paid in groceries—no money. I talked to one of the men, and he told me he asked the officials for a little money to buy some medicine and they told him, “No money,” and that he wasn’t supposed to get sick, A man who lives close to Niota had | a friend who told him to come to Chattanooga, as he had a job for him in a lard factory at $2.50 per day. So he went to Chattanooga, but somehow he didn’t get the job. But he has had two or three Jobs, all different, at two or three days a week, since he left Niota about two months ago, and he had to join the Ku Klux Klan in order to get work. As well as exposing that, I think that Chattanooga should try to break that down. I have some money coming here, and as soon as I can get it 1am going to subscribe for the Daily. ‘The men in Athens who are on the relief only get work one, two or three Child Labor on Slave A Negro child of tive chopping cotton on a slave plantation in Alabama, Plantations | WORK ON ROADS (By a Farmer Correspondent) NIOTA, Tenn.—I have a small up- land farm in Tennessee on which I haven't paid the 1932 taxes yet, and don’t know when I can, I have a family of six and I, with other farm- ers and share croppers, are allowed one 24 pound sack of flour every 10 That’s what the town people are allowed, too, and how they get th rest that goes with it to make biscuits, I can’t tell. I was assigned to four days’ work a month on the road, supposed to get $1.25 for 9 hours work, paid by the R.F.C. But I haven't found any- one around here that has had a pay day or knows when pay day is. I ask the boss and he didn’t know. He said they were hunning short of | money. IN TENNESSEE BUT WAIT IN VAIN FOR PAY DAYS, I told a man next to me that I liked the Russian Government, a workers’ and farmers’ government, better than this Wall St. Government. The bass spoke up and said no Rus- sian Government, for him, because in Russia people have to work if they eat. And I said, “Well hun- dreds of people here have to work and then they can’t eat.” Right away the boss took me down the road and put me to work alone. A Bushel of Corn for a Day's Work A big farm land owner here offered me & bushel of corn for a day’s work, and corn selling from 25 to 40 cents a bushel and no market at that. Some men working on farms for 30c and 40c per day, or just whatever they can get. I. THE FARMER IS BEGINNING TO FIGHT Way Out Thru Unity With Wor Workers Against Capitalism By MOE BRAGIN Liberal bourgeois journalists are | busy announcing that “the farmer is doomed.” They pile up mountains of evidence to show that the Amer- ican farmer is rotting away between the fences, that he is being crushed to the position of the European pea- ant. That millions of these pea- sants in Russia are showing the way out to the exploited farm masses of the rest of the world seems to bother them less than gnats. (Louis Hacker in the fodern Monthly” and Harry Elmer Barnes in the World-Telegram are recent examples.) Not a peep out of them about the tremendous militancy that has shot up like flam- ing geysers in all farm sections of the U. S. They cry out there is no hope for the farmer under the pre- sent system. They would leave the farmer hogtied ready for the butchers of capitalism. There is hope for the farmer so long as he wakes up to his conditions and marches organized to fight his way out. Slavery and Poverty There are 6,250,000 farmers in the U. S. The total farm population is 30,000,000. About 8,000,000 of the farm population is Negro. Yet twen- ty-five per cent of the people of the country earn only ten per cent The income of the of the income. farmer | shrunk $8,000,000,000 in three ye: His dollar is worth on the average sixteen cents. Industry, at the same time, however, has still been tearing away the lion’s share. This holds true for every state in the Union. It is especially so down South, where the Negroes, who do most of the farm work, are hunted like marsh animals. In a state like North Carolina, with a farm popu- lation of 2,000,000 out of a total of 3,000,000, industry makes $1,200,000,000 to agriculture’s $300,000,000. And mighty little of that gets into the hands of the Negro and white crop- pers. One should think that in Iowa, the corncrib of the nation, one of the wealthiest states, conditions would be much better. Yet here the books of 1700 middle farmers taken at random all showed a loss for last year with the exception of two. Figures on farm prices in many cases are the lowest in the history of the country. Several months ago the bottom of the wheat market fell out; wheat reached its lowest since Queen Elizabeth’s time. At the pre- sent time the farmer is getting forty cents for a bushel wheat that costs him $1.25 to raise and market. A circular of the Department of Agri- culture gives the following: grain prices are 49 per cent below the 1910- 1914 figures; meat animals 31 per cent below; cotton 50 below; dairy products 24 below. So it is the usual g today for a farmer to get $2.50 a fat hog which it took him six months to raise and $5 worth of feed to stuff. Many a farmer has sent a good beef cow to the slaughter house and has found in his mailbox a check for $.15. Who Makes Profits? If the farmer is not making any- For A Real Militant Milk Strike Struggle (By a Farmer Correspondent) DEERBROOK, Wis.—There is talk of another milk strike being con- templated for Wisconsin. ‘The chances for winning a higher price are endangered because the in- stigator of the strike, the “Farmers Holiday Association,” is not a farm organization. It is a middleman bankers’ outfit backed by the local yellow press. If the strike was led by the “United Farmers League,” something could be accomplished. For the farmers to win a higher rate, they should compel Borden or days a week, according to how many | children they have, | J. other dairy capitalists to pay out of their profits and not permit them to pass it on to the consumer, How Farmers Stormed Nebraska Capitol to Demand Immediate Aid thing on his produce, who is? Here are the earnings of the two largest milk trusts: Borden Company Year Net income 1928 $11,354,000 1929 20,404,000 1930 21,681,000 1931 - 16,812,000 1932 (estimate) 8,800,000 National Dairy Products 1928 « .$16,010,000 1929 21,576,000 1930 26,254,000 1931 22,548,000 1932 (estimate) 9,460,000 ‘The average price that the farmer gets for his milk is three cents and Jess, and that is half the cost of production. Worried about their de- crease in profits, a company like Bor- den has reduced its price to the farmers, cut its employees about $4,000,000 in wages, and is pulling strings with the Board of Health to crush small milk dealers to increase its market. In the case of the bak- ing trusts the figures show that the three largest are still making a net profit of approximately a million dol- lars a year. The wheat farmer gets forty cents for a bushel of wheat from which the baking trusts can make fifty-seven loaves of bread Bread is still_ten cents a loaf at most stores. The American Tobacco Co, Reynolds, and Myer Ligget, made net profits of $40.000,000, $36,- 000,000, and $23,000,000 last year. But in Wisconsin tobacco farmers received their lowest prices in the history of tobacco growing in that state. In Connecticut farmers re- ceived six cents a pound and many of them couldn’t even sell it for that price. In North Carolina tobacco farmers have been so hard up that they have been forced to steal to- bacco from their own cooperative warehouses. One Virginia farmer put $1.47 worth of gas into his truck to haul his tobacco to the market. He received at the end of his day $1.45 for the whole load. Work Without Pay While the farmer has been getiing nothing for his products, he has been compelled to work harder and harder. He has bought less clothes and gro- ceries. In a desperate effort to beat low prices, many milk farmers have increased their herds. This means calling on the smaller children to help with the chores and longer hours for everybody. But what ac- tually happens is that a bigger herd means a bigger loss since every quart is sold for less than it costs. In Wis- consin the farmer works 66 hours a week during the summer and 61 dur- ing the winter. In Minnesota the dairy and grain farmers are working two hours more daily than they did 28 years ago. Many farmers have had to hire out as hands. Wages of farmhands have fallen below the 1910-1914 average, while the cost of living has jumped up 30 per cent. Down South cotton pickers get as little as twenty-five cents a hundred with two hundred pounds of cotton a day as good picking. Many farm laborers work only for food and lodging and are lucky to get that. The less the farmer has been get- ting for his drudgery, the more he’s had to spend to raise his crop and keep on the farm. The index of prices of industrial commodities stands twelve per cent above the pre-war index. Agricultural imple- ments are just as high: Freight rates have risen 153 per cent since 1914. And most crushing of all the mill- stones on the farmer are taxes. Taxes have shot up 266 per cent within the last twenty years. The tax collector demands twenty per cent of the farmer’s total operating expense. The farmer either can’t or won't pay. As a result tax delin- quencies have been steadily rising until they amount to 30 per cent of taxes levied in many parts of the country. In one county in Kansas the officials will be lucky to collect twelve per cent of the 1932 levy. Taxes are delinquent on more than 150,000,000 acres of land. In Missis- sippi, in one day 40,000 farms went under the auctioneer's hammer. In Arkansas, 80 per cent of farms are mortgaged, 25 per cent with Recon- struction Finance Corporation. 'Te- nancy grew from 38.7 per cent in 1925 to 42.4 in 1930. Jn 1930 half a mil- lion farmers lost their lands. In 1932 we find that only about one- fifth of the farmers actually own the land they work. Government Aids Rich What have the state and federal governments been doing in tne mean- time to help the farmers? The Farm Board has been used to act as a pool for the speculators. Where as in Faribault County, Minnesota, 2,000 farmers scared the commissioners into a 12 per cent tax reduction, the politicians immediately got back by cutting road work for the farmers, by eliminating country schools, country nurses, and general welfare work. ; The Land Banks which were given $125,000,000 (‘to help the farmers,” Congress especially said) have fore- closed on tens of thousands of farm- ers who have paid enough of their loan to reduce their debt below the present market value of their farms. With the money thus obtained the banks have been able to buy at 50 to 75 per cent of their face value debentures they have sold the invest- ing public. The Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation has openly stated that it is not interested in helping out poor farmers. It will help only those farmers who still manage to keep on their legs. All this assist- ance to the farmers is an obvious attempt to control the market and to build an economically sound social base, in the form of a large class of prosperous big farmers, for a_poli- tical bulwark against a revolution of workers and poor farmers. The deepening of the crisis has roused the farmer and is fast making a fighter out of him. The “penny sales” have forced the suspension of mortgage foreclosures. This is only @ first step in the fight. This sus- pension of mortgages is being used to hoodwink the farmer, to stop his | growing revolt. There are many signs and facts which point to a new understanding among the farmers, which show it will be far harder to fool him. The National Conference in Washington has started a move- ment which is spreading like prairie fire out west. State Conventions have been held in Nebraska, North Dakota, and one is being held now in Iowa. The farmers present have made mil- itant demands for cancellation of taxes, moratorium on mortgages, and cash relief. They have expelled mis- leaders and are wise to the tactics of a man like Simpson who has been raised by the Socialists. A canvas of farmers carried out by the Kansas City Chamber of Com- merce (curiously enough) shows that the farmers are putting no faith in that patent medicine concocted by Roosevelt—the allotment plan, Farm.- ers see that Roosevelt's farm relief plan will help only the rich farmers, the millers, the speculators, and will hurt them more by putting a billion dollar tax sale on the consumer. They know that reduction of acreage will not help them because although they produced 5,000,000 bales of cot- ton fewer last year than the year be- fore, the price of cotton is still fall- ing. They are welcoming the work- ers from the city to help them on the picket line. In Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin members of the unemployed councils have picketed with the farmers. In Wis- consin, where these city workers have been arrested by the police, the mil- itancy of the farmers has compelled their release. The farmers went even so far as to pay $180 for the workers. No matter what cleavers capital- ism is using to keep farmers and workers apart, the farmers are begin- ning to realize that their strength lies in united action with the work- ers. In important farm states like Iowa and Illinois only 25 per cent of the banks have opened since the bank holiday. Capitalism will crush the farmer moré brutally with each one of its growing convulsions if the farmer does not stand up and fight. The Tallapoosa battle of Negro crop- pers and the stand against sheriffs and militia in other sections of the country by rank and file farmers shows the way the great fresh wind is blowing. The American farmer is not doomed. On the contrary, there is greater hope and life for him each passing hour. |Farmers Stop Milk FLORIDA SUN FINE FOR CROPS, BUT FARMERS STARVE Ready for Struggle Against Cut in Relief FRUITLAND PARK, Fia.— The workers and farmers have had a fine |specimen of the ruling class shoveled off on them, Dave Sholtz, now gov- ernor of Florida. His latest. takes the cake. Sholtz smirks to the North and West and says to the farmers there to come down. For we need farmers in Florida. There are too many tourists down here, he says. The wonderful opportunities for farming are going to waste, etc. ‘What are the facts in the case? Yes, the soil grows fine crops here. But what can you do with the crops? You can’t ship them into the cities, as the railroad rates eat up more than you |can sell the produce for. And then, | after you get the produce there, who can buy it? The workers in the cities are broke and starving. And we poor farmers with our few acres can't compete with the rich farmers with their large acreage, working their Jand so heap with the labor of im- poverished poor farmers who have to work for the “kulaks” in order to live. They give us relief, so they say. Relief amounts to about a dollar a month. On ‘this dollar we are sup- posed to feed and clothe our families. I asked the relief administrator what are we supposed to do, starve to death? She replied: “Well you'll have to do something for yourselves now, there’s no money for relief.” Do some- thing for ourselves? How the hell can we? Without capital you can’t buy seeds and a plow, and a horse, that's allowing you have the land. There's no jobs now. So doing for ourselves must mean shoot ourselves. ‘Well ‘hell with that. We'll organize! ‘We can read it in the Daily Worker that that works. ‘The ruling class press down here is all optimistic and trying to bring back “prosperity” with words. Yet crops pring lower and lower prices. More and more men are totally broke. All this is not reflected in the least in the bosses‘ press. Only the “Daily” reports the misery and struggles of the farmers. And only we down here can appreciate what need there is for the “Daily” We have a hard fight before us, but there is no evading it. And it is better to fight this slow creeping degeneration than to lay down and die in the hot sun down here. So comrade I wish you would send us some information about the farm organizaton of the farmers’ in Wash- ington. We down here are-ripe to do something. And how can we fight for relief. Wditor’s Note — These farmers sould get in touch with the Na- tional Farmers Relief Conference | Cormittee, 1622 H St., Wachington D.C. “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 he car- tied on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. |Demands of Toili 1) ng Farmers: Emergency relief for the impoverished farmers with- out restriction by the government and banks. 2) Exemption of impoverished farmers from ‘taxes, and no forced collection of rents and debts. 3) No foreclosures—for cancellation of the debts of the small and middle farmers, 4) 5) No seizure of crops, cattle or implements for debts. Reduction in railroad and other transportation rates on farmers’ products and purchases. 6) Higher prices for farmers products from commodity speculators, and marketing monopolies, who rob both the farmers and the worker-consumer. Higher prices to the farmers and lower prices to the consumers must come out of the robber profits of the great marketing trusts. Lower prices from manufacturing monopolies who charge outrageous prices to the farmers for such goods as machinery, fertilizer, and household goods. 7) The right of the share their own products. 8) croppers and tenants to sell Free food, clothing, books and equal school opportunity for the children of the pauperized farmers and share- croppers, 9) Committees of Action! Farmers: Join the United Farmers League—Build Truck in Wisconsin | |many forms of starvation, MILITANCY IS RISING HIGHER IN NEW MEXICQ) Farmers’ ‘Leagues and Unemployed Councils Springing Up (By a Farmer Correspondent) ROSWELL, N. M.— Unemployed Councils and Farmers United Leagues are springing up all over Eastern New Mexico. Well-attended mass meetings, with over 1,000 members, have marked a great period of strug- gle the past month. In the city of Roswell the daily Dewees haye seen fit to give col- mms describing the militancy of the tnt and unemployed against the ‘oreclosure and. tax burdens which ‘are being protested to the limit. At a gather- ing of 1,000 distressed “Workers and farmers here today the local author- ities deputized 100. new députies and had the local militia .¢ofipany and military cadet school in readiness to_ activity of these defenséless worker: W. F. Richardson described thei conditions and called on, them to pour into our organizations for uni- ted protest and resistance.. He said: “Cattle and hogs are hardly worth the freight of shipping to market and are not worth the loan value that the banks are carrying upon our ranches. Grain is worth two dollars a ton and people too poor to buy it to keep off starvation. Is this not sufficient indictment of the pre- sent system and do we. wish to per- petuate its misery and woe. “We are here today to protest its continuation. We are here today to add our mass strength and protest with all of our might, “Eight billions of mortgages and foreclosures have already been set back upon the calendar from our mass strength, all over the nation Sears Roebuck sales and_ morato- riums are being forced from the master pirates of finance. Evictions by the thousands are being stopped tex s, water, light and gas shut offs prevented until the people car] pay for the services: Cars and trucks and farm machinery are being pro- tected against greedy and unjust re- possession and the people being fed by forcing food and housing from the kulak classes. In this mass pro- test and struggle the workers and farmers unemployed councils and United Farmers Leagues are being established in every state and now the great plains have been. until the movement is .showing on both sides of the Rockies. In our immediate locality we are falling in by the hundreds. We are ready to form leagues all through the country districts from now on. We owe it to our homes and families.” WORKERS HELP FARMERS FIGHT FO BECLOSURE, | (By a Farmer Co LINCOLN, Neb.— Eleven. of in coln's unemployed and six far..ers were arrested on March 14 in the at- tempt to stop a farm foreclosure sale at Wilber, Nebraska. It was played up through the Saline County au- thorities and the Lincoln=press as a riot case. But the only violent ac- tion came from the deputies ap- pointed by Judge Kohout of Saline County. The unemployed workers were not even arrested in Wilber, but at Crete on their way back to Lin- coln. Out of thirty-five Lincoln workers they arrested only eleven who had been most active in Unemployed Council work—as might be expected. The unemployed were invited to the Sale as an expression of Solidarity between the farmers and ¢lty work- ers following a resolution ‘passed to that effect at the Nebraska Farmers’ Relfef Conference. The case against the artésted men is so weak that they haye changed the charges three times, and seem still unable to discover anything they can pin on their victims, The De- fense Committee of the Unemployed Council and its sympathizers. will fight the case with all their power:| Protests should be sent to Governor) Charles W. Bryan, at Lincoln, De-, mand the immediate release of Har- ry Lux, farm organizer, ‘and the farmers and unemployed workers who are now in the Saline County jail. LOR, 8, Towards a, Classless Society “When in the course of develop- ment class distinctions ,bave. disap- peared, and ali productiox ‘is con- centrated in the hands of associated individuals, the public. pew®ér will lose its political character.’ Political power, properly speaking, is the or- ganized power of one class for the purpose of oppressing another, If the proletariat, forced in its strug- gle against the bourgeoisie to orga- nize as a class, makes ‘itsélf by a revolution the ruling class, and as the ruling class destroys by force the cld conditions of production, it destroys, along with these cone ditions of production, thé” condie tions of existence of class antagoe nism, classes in general, and, theres with, ifs own domination as a class, “In the place of the old bourge- ois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, an association appears in which the free develop- ment of each is the condition for the free development of all.” (Communist Manifesto, end ef Part IL) - NO FORECLOSURES --- FIGHT FOR CANCELLATION OF DEBTS OF SMALL AND MIDDLE FARMERS! resist and annoy the working | h f