The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1933, Page 3

OPPRESSION OF NEGROES IS BACK GROUND OF LYNCH FURY ON EASTERN SHORE Fine Estates of Capitalists Contrast With the Workers’ Shacks, Terrible Misery at Scene of Lynch Orgies Ym preparation for the Baltimore Anti-Lynch Conference, Sunday, Baltimore, H : background wil om these conditions of ef Armwood. and statements of investigators will the Commission of Inquiry, which holds ite public hearing Saturday, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Daily | ted a large amount of evidence in the lynching of Armwood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and on the social of the lynch frenzy whipped up by the white especially im that section. be bronght to testify before the Commission of Inquiry the Eastern Shore, as well as on the actual lynching Where it is impossible for witnesses to appear, affidavits be presented. ‘Today the Daily Worker, continuing its series of exposures of the lynch-preparations of the white raling class, and the social and economic ANNAPOLIS. Md., Nov. 16.—Ap- proaching the tip of the Eastern Shore along the single, perfect ce- ment. highway, on which wealthy whites drive swiftly past in motor cars, and Negroes and poor whites trudge ragged and afoot, an occa~ sional pillared gateway points the way. to landscaped estates secluded from the traffic of the countryside. Desirable waterfront proverties, where some_of ‘the “historic old manstons” stand, have been bought up, land- seaped and elerantly reconstructed by men like Walter Chrysler, Cole- | man Duvont and John Raskob, of | Tammany fame. A nephew. of J. P. Morgan recently | purchased three farms in the region, turning out the tenant farmers who have worked the land for many yeors. With their little canital eaten up by debts, it is imnossible for them to find other farms to settle on. A ‘certain Lockhardt has recently made himself an estate of 2,000 acres, throwing avery considerable num- ber of tenant farmers ovt of doors and bringine in deer and a buffslo or two to add colo- to the place. In beautiful landscaved gardens that were. former! someone’s corn or strawberry fields, he has hed thirty or forty thousand tulip bulbs set out. Finance canital-shows its face on the Eastern Shere only in parasitic Pplessure plac ‘The machin: of local domina- tion is in the hands of local cavital- | ists. the men who own the small can- neries and the necking houses. They Jend out seed and contract for crops, besides owning large farms and oys- ter fleets which they rent out on the share be: They control transnor- tation of crops, are directors of the local banks and leading citizens of their communities, so that nothing is said about the low wages and wretched living conditions of their dey-laborers and devendent farmers. Even the indevendent farmer, who has received his seed from a canning company, has to take what the com- DETROIT International Labor Defense Big Bazaar & Dance NOVEMBER 18th and 19th At FINNISH HALL 5969 14th Street at McGraw Good Music — Dancing — Games Entertainment Admission 15 Cents One ticket will admit you both days OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS The Pinnish November 18th: Peay ean at An weleoe Chicago November 19th: White, 100 and Tl at tise eek Linden, N. J. November 19th: | pany gives him. One farmer who owns fifty acres of land and works it all by himself, so that he has no labor costs, fig- ured up that last year he made ex- actly 18 cents a crate on strawberries. This year, on his pea crop, he found ‘hat he was 13 cents in debt to the cannery. “There's no money in any- | thing now,” he said. Skin Tomatoes at 6 Cents a Pail ‘Wives of share-croppers and tenant farmers skin tomatoes at 6 cents a vail—last year the rate was 4 cents. Loaders and firemen in the packing houses get 22% cents an hour this year, under the N.R. A. Repair men | and carpenters, excluded from the “benefits” of N.R.A. in the canner- | ‘es, are wondering whether it will | help them. to send their pay checks to Washinzton. Last week they found that they had been paid at the | rate of 12% cents an hour. | Import Ne-roes and Polish Workers The Phillins Packing Co. at Cam- bridge, which advertises as the larg- est tomato canners in the world, em- nloys 500 veovle the year around and 2.000 to 3,090 in the tomato season, In order to avoid competition for local labor at the heicht of the farm- ing season, which would drive the canninz-house wages up, Phillips im- norts truckloads of Negroes from | South Carolina and Virginia. Other canneries in the tomato season whole families of Pol‘sh peovle from Baltimore and even from New Jer- sey, paying them rates at least a cent ‘ower than in the cities. They are housed in pine barracks, very much like cattle sheds, with sloping tin roofs and walls of raw, warped boards, The stoves are outside un- der a lean-to, one stove to every three rocms. A man who has charge of bringing the workers in told us: “We get just “Ss many as we can into one room. We look for large families, so that we can work them ail, and allow a ~oom to a family.” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933 News Briefs Senators Never Stand in Line NEW YORK.—The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board met here yesterday to examine the explana- tions offered as to why three Demo- cratic State Senators marched into the City Board offices ahead of a long line of waiting applicants and then marched out again with ten application blanks each. oe * Give Up Hunt for Men LONDON, Nov. 16—The search for 27 men who abandoned the| British freighter Saxilby was dis- continued today by the Berengaria. Nothing had been heard from the men for more than 24 hours. The Berengaria continued toward Cher- bourg. . eure LaGuardia Will Return By Air ABOARD THE 8.8, PENNSYLVA- NIA, Nov, 16—Mayor-elect La Guardia will remain in the Canal Zone until Monday when he will start for New York by air. He will fly to Jamaica, staying overnight at Kingston, ry ® . To Build Seadromes WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Propos- als were being pushed to build a floating landing field for airplanes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, with the view of “establishing a commercial airway across the ocean.” Military officials are enthusiastically | backing the plan. . Westchester Faced With Bankruptcy NEW YORK.—While requests by heads of departments in Westches- ter for increases next year totaled 60,000, county officials consider it doubtful whether or not the next payroll can be met. The county is without funds to meet the $3,500,000 obligations, mostly in salaries and interest to bankers, due Dec. 1. So What? NEW YORK.—President Roose- | velt's executive order of Aug. 28 di- recting gold hoarders to turn over their gold to the Federal Reserve Bank was declared inv-lid today by Federal Judge John I°. Woolsey. It was not legal, the judge said, for the president to issue the order because Congress, on March 9, had delegat- ed this power to the Secretary of the Treasury. The biggest hoarders of gold, being closely connected with the administration, had their gold safely away anyhow. Detroit City Council Admits NRA Jumped Food Prices 26 P. C. DETROIT, Mich.—The City Coun- cil here has admitted that the cost of food has increased 25 per cent since the N.R.A. went into effect. With Henry Ford continuing to fire workers, the Council declared it would attempt to get wage increases through Federal officials. Party Enters Salem Election Campaign Left With Just a Few Potatoes This year the tropical storm of Aug. 23, which largely destroyed the crop, and in some plants washed away the machinery, cut the tomate canning season short. One Negro woman, the wife of a share-cropper, he eee Dad, Worked ee ‘an a week in the cannery this year. The cash money; which she had counted on to buy a supply or lard and flour for the winter, amounted to nothing at all, and besides that her own crop and fruit trees were spoiled, like many others, by the storm. After giving the landlord his share, there were only a few pota- toes left to carry the famil¥ through the winter, Now, with debts piled up. the family is forced to leave this farm go to a similar unstocked farm. where landlords’ terms are harder. All that they have to take with them is a horse and a bar of potatoes; that is what is Negroes all over the Faestern Shore. “SPORTS AND JAMES REILLY widely to} SALEM, Mass., Nov. 16—The local unit of the Communist Party is en- tering @ candidate in the city elec- tions here for the first time, having placed James Reilly, organizer of the unit, on the ballot for the office of Councillor-at-large. Reilly is run- ning on s platform of struggle of the workers for better conditions of relief, the adoption of a workers relief ordinance, Sports Columm ef the Daily Werker in Collaboration id. with the Laber Sports Unicon PRESENTS SLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor of the Daily Worker ——im a Takk on—— REVOLUTION” WRESTLING TOURNAMENT at HARLEM LABOR TEMPLE, 15 West 126th Street WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, at 8 P. M. ‘Tickets 4 etn Sky labor sports Unless eP0 So %. 13h St.; Herlem Leber i Ww. ‘Broadway. Bingulde Toes eherat Adee Admission 5éc. PROCEEDS TO THE DAILY WORKER DRIVE Made It “Too Hot” for Dickstein Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, testifying on Nazi-U. 8. links, before the House Committee in Washington. Communist Vote Shows Gains in 3 More Cities SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.—Poiling a top vote of 10,468 for Neil Hickey, for City Treasurer, the Communist Party in the Nov. 7 elections for Super- visors and Treasurer, considerably increased its voting strength over the elections of two years ago. The vote for the Commun'st candidates for Supervisors follows: Jchn Diaz, 5,004; James Tracy, 4935; Jack Bishop, 10.— The mass defense fight for Wilbur Hardiman, Negro youth, convicted of manslaughter in a self-defense case, | won a partial victory yesterday when | Judge Horace D. Dickinson forced to grant a new trial to Hardi- man, | ms/“They Can’t Stop LLD. Wins Fisht Flaming Banners ‘ for New Trial of | Minneanolis Negro |_ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. | Hang at Page Three Chicago Farm Conference Us Now,” Jailed Farm Leader Declares Grimly As Hundreds | | Hardiman, with James Johnson, an- | other Negro youth, were arrested fol- | lowing the killing of the leader of a} mob which, on June 23, 1933, tried to| lynch the two youths and several| bs A pt | been tried. other Negroes. tional Labor Defense, which is de-| more strongly than heretofore, first, | that Hardiman was not the one that did the shooting, and, second, that! whoever did the shooting was jus- tified in acting in self-defense, The ILLD., in making an issue of | the case, has succeeded in rallying | wide masses of Negroes and whites | to the defense of the two youths and | the right of the Negro masses to} defend themselves when threatened | by lynch mobs. David J. Bentall, of | Chicago; L, S. Taylor of Minneapolis | and Henry Paull of Duluth are the ILD. attorneys in the mase. | National Events DETROIT.—C. A. Hathaway, of the Daily Worker, will speak here on “The Collapse of the N.R.A.” on Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m., at Fin- | nish Hall, 5969 14th St., near McGraw. | Hathaway will also give first-hand | impressions of the Second National Conference of the Farmers’ Commit- | tee for Action, which he will attend in Chicago, Nov. 18 and 19, Roxbury Bazaar Conference ROXBURY, Mass.—A special meet~ ing of the Bazaar conference will be he'd Sunday, Nov. 19, at 1 P. M.,| at Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudley | Oca aR | Detroit Events 5,735; Edward Harris, 6,204 and@ Louise Todd, 5,047. The lone Socialist Party candidate polled slightly over 4,000 votes, despite the efforts to confuse the workers by appearing to stand for the same de~ mands as the Communists. Compared with the top vote of 11,000 two years ago, the top vote this year shows a slight regression, but a close analysis of this vote gives the following picture: Two years ago the straight Communist vote was only 1,400. This was for Sam Darcy for Mayor. This year the lowest Com~- munist vote is 4935, showing an in- crease of over 200 per cent. Two years ago the Communist ticket was the only slate opposed to the regular boss candidates. This year there were no less than 16 independent candidates. The millionatre candidate, Adolph Uhl, who was elected by a vote of | 73,245, carried on a campaign of un- precedented demagogy, posing as a Teal opposition to the incumbent boss candidates who were up for re-elec- | tion. This unquestionably con‘used | large numbers of workers and small tradesmen who were disgusted with the policies of the Rossi machine. On the night of the election, Reg- istrar of Voters, Major Collins, flatly refused to relezse any figures for the Communist vote, and even caused the ejection of two Communist candid- ates from his office. Mass protests, however, forced him to change his mind and finally admit a committee of Communist candidates to his of- “foe. ae BE Terror At Ambridze Polls AMERIDGE, Pa. Nov. 16—A watcher and another worker were ar- rested at the polis here as the steel trust and their political lackeys tried every scheme to defeat Arthur Wim- ber, a strike leader, and the workers’ | candidate for the office of Burgess. Wimber was supported by the work~- ers’ organizations. By bribery, terror, wholesale theft of votes and the debauchery of voters by free distribution of booze, the steel was an active member of the British Labor Party for 12 years. In the United States he was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Station Employees and for 16 years was on was for 12 years the president of the Hawthorne division of the BRS.E. He is now president of the Salem Workers’ Club and active in the struggles of the workers, labor movement for many years. He’ the General Adjustment Board. He| trust put over its candidate, P. J. Caul, one of the leaders of the dep- A in the murderous attack on striking workers on Oct. 5. The final “count” showed Arthur Wimber, 368 pied Caul, 2,729, and Chas. J. Weber, 21, At each polling place there were dozens of Caul’s honchmen intimi- Gating the workers and provoking trouble. The steel bosses ordsred their employees to voie for Caul or lese their jobs. Company spies were in evidence at every polling place. Active supporters the workers’ candidates were d on various fake charges several days before the election and held until after the votes had been “counted.” se HAMILTON, Ohio Nov. 16—Alma Smith, Negro candidate on the Com- munist ticket for the Schoo] Board in the city elections here reccived 1,275 votes, the top vote for the Commu- nist slate. Charles Smith and Alta Campbell, other Communist candi- dates for the School Board, received 1,213 and 810, respectively, This city, which in 1914 and 1915 had a Socialist administration, gave the Socialist School Board candidate only 750 votes, and the Socialist can- didate for the City Council 225. One of the four Communist candidates tor the Council received 613 votes. Last year Foster and Ford received only 83 votes in the ent’re county, as against 1,300 votes for Norman Thomas, Workers Ticket In Bellingham, Wash.| BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 16.— The following workers have been enones for the city elections here, ec. 2: For mayor: Charlie Watson,, ex- | serviceman, member of the Workers Ex-Servicemsn’s League, and leader | of many delegations to the County Commissioner's office, for relief. For Councilman at large: Horace Couples, active young worker and a Daily Worker agent. For Councilman of the First Ward: A. A, Johnson, organizer of the In- | ternational Labor Defense. | For Third Ward Councilman, Al- fred Engstrom, and for Fifth Ward Councilman, Victor Bidwell. Brockway and Ady, was elected, raise funds to file Kept Away from NRA An election committee of Ludington, | to provide DETROIT.—A conference to launch | | the struggle against N.R.A., sales and | head taxes, and for unemployment in- Sunday, in Finnish Hall, 5169 14th St. Conference opens Saturday at 1 PM. A. B. Magil, editor of the Auto Workers News, will speak on “Ten Months of Hitler Rule—What Next?” | Sunday, 2 P.M,, at Yemans Hail, 3014 | Yemans Ave. Hamtramck. Dr. Ward to Lecture On Soviet Union PHILADELPHIA.—Dr. Harry F. Ward, just returned from the Soviet Union and author of the book “In eed |Place of Profit,” will speak on his Negro Candidate Leads in Hamilton | trip through the Soviet Union, to- jnight, 8 p.m. at Labor Institute, 810 Locust St., under the auspices of the | Friends of the Soviet Union. Lawrence Workers Name Pizer for Mayor BUBIN A, PIZER LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. 16.— Rubin A. Pizer, coction organizer of the Communist Party here and well- known to the textile workers of Law- rence for his loyal and courageous leadership in the October 1981 strike against the 10 per cent wage cut, has been nominated for Mayor of Law- rence. Supported by a number of workers’ organizations, including the | National Textile Workers Union, Pizer is running on a platform de- signed to increase the purchasing power of the Lawrence public and brushed aside or ruled out of order. The four workers who had also been Nash Auto Strikers Leary of A. F. L. Leadership committee, for drawing up demands for all departments and for mass Johnson has not yet! Farm Conference | | lante committees and | leagues. | farmers” like Milo Reno, who, as | of the National Farmers’ Holiday | sociation, betrayed three farm strikes Hathaway to Speak in Detroit | in succession; Walter Singler, who | equalled Reno’s treachery by knifing editor | of the Wisconsin milk strikers, and | John Simpson, high-salaried presi- CHICAGO (At People’s Auditorium), Nov. | gan on the ceiling, “Workers of the World Unite, The partial victory of the Interna-| swarming from the nation’s fields to their second historic conference, The conference hall is packed to the doors. fending the two youths, establishes! present already. Placards and signs with the names of the states are thick Cheers Demand for | Debt Cancellation (Continued from Page 1) | The hidden ene | said, are the so-called “friends of the ad dent of the Farmers’ Union and the darling of the Socialist officialdom and their press. Cheer Harris Harris was chsered as he named the friends and foes of the farmers, and graphically summed up the heroic struggles of the farmers in| | Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, | Michigan, Iowa, California and eise- where. Concluding, the national secretary declared: | “Every delegate here must become | an active organizer. We've got a job to do that America needs most.” Bloor Speaks John Marshall of Ohio, chairman | surance, will be held Saturday and | of the Executive Committe2, acted as | temporary chairman until the elec-| tion, later, of Charles Taylor, of Mon- | tana, national chairman of the United | | Farihers’ League. }_ Mother Bloor, farm organizer in} | Iowa, paid a moving tribute to young) Arnold Meyer of South Dakota and | Fred B. Chase of New Hampshire, both of whom died since the last | National Conference. Meyer died as | a result of exhaustion and exposure | from activities in organizing farmers | in South Dakota. | Chase, who died October 19 at the age of 52, was a member of the Exec- | utive Committee of the lest | Committee for Action and a militant fighter in the ranks of both the farm- | ers and workers for years. He was| candidate for Governor of New| Hampshire on the Communist ticket | in the last election. Chase's 21-year-old son, Joe, is 3/ delegate to the present conference | and is taking an active part in the| mapping of the program of action. | Sond Greetings Greetings to the delegates were ex-| tended on behalf of the Chicago} Workers by Herbert Newton, Negro | worker, representing the Trade |Union Unity League, and Alice Yo- | nick of the Chicago Workers Inter- national Relief, whith is taking care | of the housing and feeding of the} farm delegates. | Greetings of solidarity to the delegates were extended by J. E. MacDonald of the Railroad Brother- hood Unity League, and D. Hender-| son, representing the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial | Union. | Lem Harris was unanimously | elected secretary of the conference. | Fifteen delegates were elected to serve on the Program and Resolu- tions Committee, and an equal num- ber on the Finance and Organiza- |tors of “The Farmers National) Weekly,” “Producers News,” and the Co-operative Bulletin of the North- western Co-operatives. | After delegates from South Da- kota called attention to the impris- onment of Niles Con Cochran in connection with the shooting of / Markel, a bootlegger hired by Rob- | erts, South Dakota milk dealer, to| break through picket lines, the con-/ ference dispatched a telegram of} greeting and solidarity to Cochran, | as well as a wire to Governor Tom | Berry at Pierre, South Dakota, de- manding the farmer’s unconditional release. Mass Picketing Is} tion Committee, including the edi- |S “Mediators” by Leaders | elected to the committee were not at \all in the evidence any more. It 1s | clear that the entire management has Discouraged to Break Strikes “That's |the sharo knife on the fat.” KENOSHA, Wis—At a big mass meeting of the Nash auto strikers} in the Italian-American Hail, Satur- day Nov. 11, the American Federation of Labor officials who got themselves elected into the leadership reported on their activities. The main result of their efforts was the arrival of the NRA mediator, Mullenbeck, from Chicago, who im- mediately went into session with the A. F. of L, officials. This man Mu'len- has for fifteen years acted as mediator for the clothing industries of Chicago and his presence in Kenosha does not augar well for the workers of the Nash factory who ex- Pect to win higher wages. ‘Toward the end of the meeting Ohl, President of the Wisconsin Federa~ tion of Labor told the men about the session with the mediator but failed to mention the demands and griev- ances of the strikers and locked out workers, There was much voting on various recommendations of the “chosen” committee, most of it on matters of no great importance. Gag Workers When the men made motions from the floor for mass picketing, for a mass demonstration, for signs and fallen into the hands of the A. F. of L, officials who make militant speeches but carefully avoid mention of making demands for higher wages for the men in the other departments. The picketing has been arranged in such a manner as to be ineffective and is allowed to take care of itself more or less, The men are ready for mass picketing and expected better leadership. On Monday the men expected to be called to another mass meeting on account of the presence of the me- diator. But even by Tuesday nitht no such call had been issued. On the picket lines much disatisfaction is expressed with the conduct of the strike. The local paper Tuesday after- noon carried only a short article stating that the mediator was ,in session with the company offictals and the “chosen” representatives of the workers. This article mentioned only the demands of the strikers in the three departments where the wage dispute started. It is feared that the low wages and the high speed -up in all the other departments are being ignored altogether. ‘The Auto Workers Union, which was instrumental in calling a splendid mass meeting at the German-Ameri- can Hall within two hours after the banners on the picket line with the demands on them, all these were annovrcement of the lock-ont and fluence of Kuenhl, the lawyer, other well-known A, F, who led the workers to place their faith in @ conciliator. ‘oll’ 35 per cent increase in wages Nash workers, 2. Abolition the gang system. 3, Turn the lock-out into a mass strike, 4, Elect a broad strike committee with all departments represented. 5. No settlement by de- partments but by shop as a whole. 6, No return to the shop on promises of arbitration, 7. Mass picketing. 8. No settlement by the committee without a vote of all the men. 9. No discrimination against any worker for his activity in the strike or lock-out. Olkives, the A. F of L. supervisor or leader of workers and other mem~- bers of the committee have permitted many openings in the picket line whereby the company has been able to receive and make shipments of cars and supplies and there is much re- sentment among the picketers on ac- count of this and also becayse for three days there has been ‘no call for @ general mass meeting and little information about the activity of the committee has been given out. From the attitude of the picteters who whose proposals for a. broad strike stand shivering around bonfires it | | | is clear that the committee could arouse the most tremendous mass compromising for all the departments. The men are unable to state what they -— fight- ing for; they only know that some- thing is being “mediated” for them; nevertheless they are out on the picket ‘ine, puzzled and wandering from gate to gate, sifting all the rumors and waiting. Many of them had worked only a few weeks after long months and in some cases years of unemploy- ment, and no mention hws been mad* of organ‘zing relief for them except by members of the Auto Workers Union and by individual workers on the picket line, A few weeks before the strike and | lock-out Nash organized a system of employees representat‘on, but this has been emphatically rejected in two} meetings which have been held since the lock-out of Nov 9. The board of| this company union was called to-/ gether, but no information is at hand except that one worker who was se- lected to it in the shop resigned from | it. The men must be on guard agains* | any effort of Nash, who is himself present, to break their ranks by meant of this company union. Gather from the Farm Lands FIELD 16.—Under the flaming sle- the militant farmers are Farmers from 41 states are ts as birch trees. Bach evpied. The farmers flaunt their te’s badze like flags, with red words burned on them, Last night more than 500 farmers ecist! Early this morning about the t 700. They have come in trucks, bat- tered cars, and have hitchhtked and ridden by “side door Pullman” to fling down the challenge under the very noses of the greatest grain and meat robbers in Chicago. Nothing has stooped them. Here John Rose of Michigan, owner of ve farm in Brooks township. med up for carrying a “hidden with intent to do bodily John, who is busily making out his credentials, says: “I’ve also been a po'iceman in this town of Chicago for more than a quarter of & cen- tury. I know thines that will jar them loose from their moeorines. Thev kept me 4 dys in jail in Michivan. Still a little weak on my vins. Thev tried to lock us all un for lesding the fight agatnst evictions apd foreclosures. The farmers mote them release me. Drove down here in cast-iron hurry and “rove the car In the snow over 250-font embankment, They can’t stop us.” ‘The conference hall hums like a hive full of bees, with the dust of a thousand fields. In overalls. sheep- skin coots, stocking cavs, their faces elovr'ng from snow and sun like coals of fire. .Here is Snrinzer, Vinceland, New Jersev, one of the lenses of his snectacles is broken. “Can’t buy me losses so long as the government is ridiny on ovr backs. We farmers from South Jersey are here so tht we won't have to pav peonle for eat- ing our vroducts. I know of one fav~er who was found with his wife and seven children at their breakfast with a bucket of weter on4 9 loaf ot hresd, Fe horrowed &499 from the %. F.C. He sent out 400 bushels of beens, at 50 conts a hrehal, and won't vet a cent until the R. F. C. gets its naw in. Thev tevk awav his Jast cow and there are three children under ‘0 yeers of ave. And this nicture is ‘re of eve-v farmer who js market gardening in South Jersey.” Nebraska Sends 166 Nebracka is here with flaes fying ‘There are already 160 Nebraske farmers herve. Already, before the conference has ovened offictally, sub- | committees of Nebraska, Pennsylva- nia, Michivan and other states are meeting. Harry Lux of Nebraska who was jailed with ten other farm- ers. says: “Rov, we won't waste an} time here. We didn’t in jail. Judee *chout (h's name means rooster ir Behemien) thontht he’d put a ‘pad- ‘ock and rock chain our tongues anc muscles, He's cot another sess Com. ing. Why, they’ve torn up the trans. serint of onr triels end went to d-or the chenvas pooinst us. We won't le them, They bed me in the women’ ward for more than a week. Wher I came down with the otter farm. ers. we had sehen] every day, We turned the fafl inte a scbhoolherns and 29 new we've got more than 16( two-fiste1 Neb->skans here.” Negro Croppers Talk There ate Nevro crovpers from the rth, talking about conditions w'tl farmers. A member of. the Farmers’ Protective Association i elad to tak for “the vaper.” Hi sharec~ops 14 acres. The croppen have been compelled to plow unde: cotton, but the checks have eom only to the landlords. “They don't want us to raise corn so that we have to go to their stores for food. They don’t want charitable organizations from out- side to help us, so that weTl de- vend on them, the landlords. Then theyTl feed us a little cornbread, biscnit and salt meat. The land- lords say yeu got to keep the etep- vers poor. It's like with the hound dog, keeo him stnrved and heB hunt better for you.” Groups of farmers are discuseiry how they got their delegations dow: to Chivago, Many farmers have no come down because thev hadn't th money. One farmer with an old ha and a great paw like a buck’s horm tells how he ot $24.25 from the loca Chamber of Commerce. using ‘Th Minnesota farmers stopped off tr St. Paul and forced the Governor’ office to chin in $10, The Stat cuditor swore he would not give th: Communists an Indian penny, Hi came across with $5 hefore the farm: ers were throuth with him. At the openine of the conferenc: vou can see the farm youth and th: militent fam women nrevared to dc *heir work. Here ‘s Mrs. Murtland farm woman of Minnesota, whos shildren were taken awav fron’ he hecause of her militancy in the farn fight. In ancther rart of the hal ‘sa vonne Michizan boy who t work in the woods for 80 1 cord. “And yon’re lucky to @et 8 certs a dav bv working damnec herd.” Another farm youth. Fishe of Wisconsin, is readv for his work |“e was the lad who got up at i meeting in Waukesha a week ag ond before 3.599 farmers expose Sineler, head of the Wisconsin mill rool, as the handtool of Wall Street SAM & FRANK Trucking and Moving ‘36 East 13th Street New York Special Low Rates for Daily Worker Renders