The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933 Page Five Farm Conference Leads Fight Against Roosevelt Farm Robbery! INCOME FOR A YEAR’S FARMING - $20 Texas Farmers Grip Hands Finds Farmers Ready for © | “was a millionaire at the age of | CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—The arrival eroppers was the highlight of this morning session of the second National Farm Conference. As the doors in back of the hall man to greet these brave Negro farmers who had arrived here despite & threats and intimidation. Hats and fists were waved in the| air, Cheers shook the hall, “Give them the platform, give them the platform,” the delegates shouted, as the Negro delegation marched down the aisles, the white farmers grasped their hands and slapped their backs heartily. Later, Vice-chairman John Sump- tion of South Dakota, gray-haired | dirt farmer of old American stock, gave the chair to Charles Taylor, The | conference then divided into subses- sions, according to the following} crops; dairy, grain, cotton, corn and| hogs, crop specialties, including poul- | try, fruit and potatoes. The im- portance of this was explained by Lem Harris. In the case of the dairy farm- ers, such @ subsession can prepare the grounds for a general strike of milk) farmers, During milk strikes farmers | from different sheds want to know whether the other farmers will stand by them. Southern Farmers Cheer On the platform the Negro del- egates were greeted by the white crop- pers from Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. The farm- ers burst out into a thunderous “solid- arity,” then one of the Negro farmers spoke out, greetings the conference in the name of the 5,000 Negro croppers, members of the Alabama Croppers’| Union. | “We haye won considerable vic- tories despite the youth of our or- ganization. We didn’t have a single local two years ago. We pledge our whole-hearted suppcrt to the con- | ference. We shall go back to A‘a- | bama to fight for greater unity | between black and white farmers, against Roosevelt and the New Deal.” | Describes Discrimination } Immediately after his speech, a white farmer from Florida spoke. He described the terror down South, He showed how there is discrimination } against the farmers in the dipping of | cattle. In one county farmers get six| cents for dipping a cow, in another county three cents, and in still an- other nothing. The poorer the farmer the less he gets. If he is Negro, he gets nothing. He described how near Tampa a meeting of more than a thousand white, Negro and Spanish workers and farmers was broken up by dep- uties and police. The Negroes were beaten. He himself was kept in jail for some time. On his release he was asked how long he had been asso- ciating with Negroes, He said, all my/| life.” i Farm Women Fight | Julius Walstead of Toberts County, | South Dakota, has only been organiz- | ing the farmers a year. There is a| membership of 1,000 farmers in his| county, “Militant as hell,” he tells the | farmers. The farmers in his section of South Dakota have not only com~- pelled the county comissioners to give fuel and chicken feed to the poor farmers, but they have had to admit openly, “the farmers here have us buffaloed now.” Even the business men have been compelled to adver- tise in the papers that they will help of Alabama Negro » Croppers Farm Conference Roars Welcome to Brave Negro Delegations Which Defied Terror By BEN’ FIELD In Farm Struggles) of the Alabama delegation of Negro swung open, the farmers rose as ome against his eyes, are making him struggle. This. farmer brought eleven hogs to the market and got only $64 for them, And when he got home, he found that his sow had just given birth to 13 pigs. “And this’ farmer,” said Snyder, “called that a calamity. Just think of it to have to call a calamity fruitfulness and greater produce when millions are starving. Aat’s, wh faz cre~being slammed against. That is why when we get home, we've got to broaden our campaign and engage the enemy on @ longer line. Negro Farmers Hail The “Daily,” Leader | By a Worker Correspondent ‘They.murder us Negroes every day down in Alabama. We share-crop- pers in this place, have to live in fear of our lives all the time. Shoot- ing down a “nigger” is sport for tfie white bosses here. | Now they are getting harder on us. They made us plow up our cot- ton, and we have no other way to live. We have organized ourselves into a strong Share Croppers Union. The landlords trying to smash our union, send deputies and armed mobs to turn our cabins inside out, even tearing up our mattresses. They slap | us in jail, and shoot us down in the} fields and on the highways. i When you are in such a fight for! life or death, you learn who are your reel friends. We are learning about friends and enemies in the newspapers, too. We see how the big papers lie about our struggles. But the Daily Worker tells thet ruth. I know this because the Daily Worker told the CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—They rode 2,400 miles by freight, half the time in refrigerator cars in freezing weath- er—so eager were three farm dele- gates from Washington State to get to the Second National Farmers Con- ference in 0. Wearing overalls, heavy boots and sheepskin coats, Matt Pakkala of Ka- lama, Wash.; William Hopkinson, of Spanaway, Wash.; and jack Kings- bury, of Toledo, Wash, walked into SULO NURMI Youth Delegate Upper Wisconsin the Peoples Auditorium here this morning, ready to join more than 700 other farmers in the formulation of a fighting program for immediate re- lief, against foreclosures and evictions and. for cancellation of all secured debts. Left Nov. 5 The three Northwest delegates hopped their first freight in Seattle on Noy. 5 and arrived in Galesburg, Young Delegate to Farm Conference Finds in| ly me ome eh Writings of Marx Way to Solve Farm | gether with his father, the sum | of $20 after cultivating a straw- Problem of Debt Slavery ‘ berry patch in Western Washing- ton. “The Red Flag is the first song I learned to sing,” the young farm- walking toward.a freight in the rail-|coal for the Owl Creek Coal Com- I Sea raised ‘Mose Tie goats, put T road.yards, he related, when “a dick |pany in Gebo, Wyoming. | 5, in an automobile shot his lights on| “After the company deducted an Oe 1 poe bine Som tend in us and demanded to know where we |expenses, my dad had $80 left,” Pak- 1932.” were going. He made us walk in the |kala reported, } Milo « Reno ‘aks con then warmers footpath, while he drove behind us| “How did you and your father dis-|National Holiday Association “is along the road in a great big, fancy, |pose of the $80?” I asked him, nothing but an opportunist, out to nickle-plated limousine. We finally! «yyel1, we paid $32 for a hay bill, |feather his own nest,” declares Pak- ducked him, though, and got into the 's29 for’ seed, and I had to pay the|kala. Of, course, lots of farmers railroad station. |General Hi al in Longview $20 on |don’t know this, because they haven't The farm delegates each invested account of my operation which cost $5.80 in a railroad ticket to Chicago, |me $219——-$150 for the doctor's bills | sO anxious were they to get to the|and $59 for hospital expenses, conference on time, and they arrived| “I was pretty lucky m; if, here flat broke and hungry. the teachers in th “Before the Galesburg train pulled Met with an ac . One of | loverdale school | t and I got a} Pakkala, the Rhodes scholar, | CommunistParty Leadership Application of “Open Letter” Brings Good Results, Organizer Reports | | | | Menak:a, Minn November 6, 1933. To the Dally Worker: The resolution on the farmers’ movement adopted at the Extraordinary Conference of the C. P., U. S. A., has the following to say regarding the =o @attitude of the American farmer to- ea | ward the Communist Party: Only Red Tape for |i ccrines, mit st Farmers in lowa unt, or Who Seek Relief | Communists, or to listen to their (By a Farmer Correspondent) erving revolutions: truth about the Camp Hill battle. ‘The Daily Worker told the truth about the fi; in Reeltown last De- cember, when croppers were shot out,” Pakkala related, “I walked into the washroom to take off my overalls. A harness bull—looked like a city cop —followed me in and asked me where I was headed for. I told him I was on my way to Pittsburgh to hunt work. He looked kind of queer at me to Chicago.” Works With Father Pakkala, the youngest of the three delegates, works with his father on a 40-acre farm near Kalama, Wash. “Mortgaged? Hell, yes About the whole limit—$2,000.” “What was your total income in money from your farm during the past year?” I asked Pakkala. The young farmer laughed. about $20.” Just how much work did you and your father put in to get this $20,” I asked. “Tust have to hoe about ever» two weeks, until June, and then harvesting takes about three weeks. “During the rainy season, from October to March, we clear the stump land so that we can cultivate more strawberries—for which we hardly get anything. What's more, my friend. as soon as you clear the stump land you're expected to pay more taxes, b2- cause the land is supposed to be worth more then.” (“The more you work the more they fine you,” interposed Hopkinson, the delegate from Span- away, Wash.) Taxes, at the rate of $1 an acre, includes county, state, road, district, and school taxes. Father Worked in Mine until I showed him my railroad ticket, | “Well, you cultivate in March, you| temporary job as te her during the th grades, and past five months. I taught the fourth, when I got through I had $225 after | |the bank took five per cent for them- |setves for discounting the county school warrants. Otherwise the bank | {wouldn't cash '‘em.” { Pakkala couldn't afford to buy | any clothes, but he did invest some | money in somé bcoks, and “laid away some for 2 year’s subscription | for the Deity Worker, which I'm able to get in Kalama only now | and then.” The books he bought? words or support their slogans, Al- most four years of severe crisis have brought about in reality a complete NEW YORK.—Having ma jin October throughout the |Iowa, where I was born in 1878, the farmers. |having spent a few |farmers there in many pla: | was personally known, I found ditions much worse than I eéxr |since four years ago when I made the same trip. This time I travelled by bus to get |a better view of farm conditions. The |country looks bad. lot one set of |farm buildings did I see where there had been any painting done in the jlast three years, and mightly little cattled feed did I notice. Most of | Labor and, | “Well, Marx's ‘Wage ¢the retired farmers in 1929 are back Capital” Al Smith’s ‘Up to Now,’| ee bint cannot make es | |Thayer’s biography of Theodore | xes Wil ie meager prices they are getting for their products. There has been so much ballyhoo about Roosevelt's N.A. plan ‘help- ing them by the Farm Refinance New Deal, but I did not see or hear of any farmer getting aid from this source, There’s cz Tia tes. 2 them. |Roosevelt, ‘Little Minister, by Sir} |James Barrie, ‘Imperialism,’ by Lenin, | |and ten copies of the Labor Defender, | |which T distributed among my neigh- | |bors.” The elder Pakkala struggled hard jto give his son an education. son graduated from the Carbon City Pakkala said: High School in Montana and Jater| “« completed a course in the Montana | ite antes heteee tte Mahia ED, BEAUMANN Minnesota Delegate | got their ideas clear yet.” Th Discussing the farmers conference © to which he was elected a delegate, lies banded together working for their State College in Bozeman, Mont. ries food on the public highways, going " * ot the different states and dif- from one city to another, destitute Is Rhodes Schoiar ferent regions and show the | and ragged. In every small town t that the workers are ‘i maintain a meager Rod Cre~ | station, where a little food can be | had. Towns that had three and four | Getging high honors in physics and| farmers |chemistry, the farm delegate received| Not their enemies. |the degree of Bachelor of Science in | 1929 and then was one of the two} |graduates in Montana to win a/ |Rhodes scholarship for study in Ox- | |ford University, England. The scho!- jarships were established some years | |ago by Cecil Rhodes, leading British |imperialist who accumulated a for- |tune in exploiting the colonial work- Such a con- ference as this is a really educa- And a good many of them have none any more, Farm land with good im- | provement has decreased more than [half its former value, I spoke to a good many farmers The and urged them to organize. We I saw quite frequently whole fami- | |banks in 1929 have only one now. | jers in Africa and in munitions. jold gent died in 1902, after estab- |lishing the scholarship in his name. to “promote British-U. S. amity.” | should have good speakers out in |them come and get a better under- | standing of what our working class, | Iowa to help them organize and let} | to strike us down. The Daily Worker farmers fight against evictions. The farmers had so large a demonstration in the county seat that they locked up every business store. Communist Party Leads A great outburst of cheering} greeted the big-chested, powerful} farmer from Canada. “This is a time,” | he declared, “when t are no| county lines, no state ines, no na- tional lines. We poor farmers must wipe out all lines, We haven't had crops in Saskatchewan for the last five years. Hundreds of farmers had to leave their farms and go up further North into the woods, Our women have had to wind gunny bags around the feet of our children for lack, of shoes. They have lived on potatoes, turnips and an occasiona’ ush rab- bit. Our women are milivant fight- ers. In one town they have torn the hair of the commissioner, and thrown the municipal books into the gutters, The Canadian Royal Mounted Police hound our organizers. The leaders of the Granges and cooperatives help jail our farmers, | “It is only the Communist Party of Canada that is helping us farmers fight for our daily bread, against forced sales, and for cancellation of all secured debts.” Delegate Snyder of Orgeon reports and he shows why farmers ae moving so fast to militant action. A neighbor of his, a religious farmer, was faced with eviction. He was afraid to join the U.F.L. and have it fight the evic- tion. But the fat thumbs the bakers and hog dealers have been Jamming Grants Pass, Ore., Farmers Raise $25 for Delegates (By a Farmer Correspondent) GRANTS PASS, Ore.—A week ago a few of us here were working hard to get up some meetings for the Ore- gon delegation to Chicago, and were able to get $25 together and some subscriptions to the Farmers Na- tional Weekly. We hope to get a regular organization started when our ., delegate comes back. Now I hope my little mite will help you some. I have not paid my taxes for two and a half years, and will Jose two-thirds of my farm next spring. This year I sold 1,800 boxes of pears and received $150 for them. ‘That is for one year’s work for my boy and myself. Lots of fruit grow- vrs received less, Fi ‘red down for defending their rights to live on their land. The big papers lie about us then. They-don’t only lie. They try to get us lynched. But the Daily Worker has called to us in a loud voice, to stand up like men, to demand equal treatment, and fight for the right to live. The big papers do their best to fool us with sweet-talk or reaches out a hand to us like a brother. I am a member of the Share Crop- | pers Union, and there are thousands | of other peopie here who have also become members. We know the Daily Worker is a fighter for our side. It is not easy for us to get the Daily Worker, but we sneak it in our cabins, One copy goes from one man to his neighbor. We hide it, any- where we think safe. It is hard to pay for it. We crop- pers are always in “debt,” because the landlords cheat us on our ac- |counts. We live in awful old cabins, | Sometimes 14 people in one or two | rooms, and all we got to eat is bread | and greens and fatback. Sometimes not even that. We have no winter | clothes, and lots of our children have | no shoes to, go to school. | So you see what the Daily Worker means to us. It is a good comrade in our fight for life It is our best fighter against the lynchers. We read about the big need of Last eroue | cove city wee, CARL WIKLUNO Loup City, Nebraska Delegate Til, on Monday night about 11 o'clock. “We weren't bothered by railroad dicks or harness bulls,” Pakkala, 26- year-old smiling, brown-haired farm- er explained, “until we got to Gales- burg.” He and his two companions, with blankets rolled up on their backs, were the Daily Worker, and we are real Sorry about this and only wish we could have more to help. I hope you comrades up there will understand that we could send more if we only could. And please do not let our Daily Worker stop at all. Yours comradely, AL, Member of the Executive Commit- tee of the Share Croppers Union. JAMES GENTRY Negro Cropper Delegate from Ark. day of the trip.” In addition to the $20 realized from the sale of the strawberries, the Pak- kala income was suvp!emented by ;Some money earned by the young |farm delegate’s father, now past 60, }who, for the past five months, dug High scholarships, ch eminence in athletics the requisites for winning Rhodes scholarships. The. British “Who's Who” re- cords the fact that Cecil Rhodes the Communist Party, stands for. —C. R. SNYDER. (Signature Authorized.) ‘Sugar Beet Mills Attack Homes of Militant Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) OXNARD, Calif—The bosses of Oxnard are attempting to force on the workers a miserable winter of starvation and suffering, The work- ers live in clusters of mud houses called adobes. These houses are owned by the bosses of the sugar beet mills, and the ranchers in the bean and |fruit fields, Before the workers, who are mostly Mexican, are permitted to move into these houses, they are forced to contracts in which it is stated that they will not partici- WHERE THE WORKERS AND FARMERS RULE | (The following letter was received | "som a worker in the Soviet Union.) | IN MOSCOW’S LABOR EXCHANGE We crossed the Baltic Station Square and after different turnings on cobbles‘one streets entered a one- storied house. Inside we found the hall swarming with people. In the,most conspicuous place we saw the following: WANTED For the Metropclitan Subway 2m a JAMES HaTcH! PES Mowmes, 1A, JAMES HATCH a Moines, Iowa, Delegate r Workers were also wanted to go to| Archaneelsk, to Donbass (Donetz| tonal place for farmers to discuss | Coal District), to Leningrad’s ship-| things together. | yards, and even to Kamchatka, | “The farmers will be exploited | “Wanted drivers. Who is a driver | to the furthest extreme until they —come here,” cried an agent, “150 | themcs"vcs put forward a revolu- rubles 2 month.” | tionary front.” We come to “Window No. 1.” | Well dressed man 4. Loaders . en the &tr-ets clearing And the clerk marked a | stamp on the man’s @pcuments. We met the following man at ithe “Far East” window. “I don’t know what country I want to attach myself. to, I like traveling.” .227 men “There are barracks, bunks, mat- resses, blankets, etc. Wages accord- | ing to piecework. 100 rubles monthly are guaranteed. Inquire any particu- lars at the second window “But why don't you want to work | Building Trust |pate in ‘any strikes. Most of the _ | adobes aze managed by fa 1. Tunnel diggers .. | not walked on the 19tt jena 2. Carpenters | was at my sister’s marriage.” eee Two workers have already been | 3. Watchmen attende: is. frets 5 evicted for participating s | ended the forefather's | g the clerk. ‘ The bosses are planning to evict three more families soon. Leaflets have been issued to the worke:s of Oxnard calling upon them to mobilize at the houses and nreyent the evictions from st oes ‘The idea of the bosses is to evict will starve all winter, and so that the bosses will be able to hire them the workers one by one, so that they | (ee ee FOR. FAR EAST Wanted “Sailors, fishers, coal and pe- troleum workers. Tickets free. Detach—moneys: 5 rubles every in the city. here.” | “Tiresome—I want to wander—.” | ‘We went out of the building. The town was noisy. We touched its heart and found it healthy, There's plenty of jobs back at their own wages when the | season begins, A committee is being organized to storm the local county office for food for those workers who are on the verge of starvation now, MAS, C1. MALLQUIT IUESBURG, con, MRS. C, I. HALLQUIST | Julesberg, Colorado, Delegate Farm Strike Pickets Teach Wisconsin. Deputies a Few Lessons Farm Leader’s Dramatic Sketches Give Vivid | "One hour lace’ ‘the ‘sherit ap- Picture of Struggles in Strike Area By JOHN HETTS (Delegate from Clark County, Wisconsin, who came to Farmers’ Conference direct from picket line.) ABBOTSFORD, . Wis.—Seven men utes. Watch in hand he up and down the lines. The pickets de~ mand 20 minutes for a meeting, and aseree i + 3 23 LE MERRILL, the strike x fighting United Farmers’ members block the main highways. County officials are alarmed. A pro- Vocateur is sent to start trouble. He drives through the picket lines at 40 i i miles per hour. He drives through | gards again. The third time, his wind: shield runs into the standard of a flag. He leaps out with an ax picket lines. Messages come h from 8 Picket lines. A big truck ot pl sch jot f Spencer ines ani a picket. Stop him! Pickets get ready at Abbotsford. Fleg the truck when it appears. The truck disre- warning, and steps on the gas. It runs over a spiked tooth harrow, It stops. He carries a load of corn, The corn is unloaded, and the truck pears and orders pickets off the road. Picket spokesman: “Have you had breakfast, sheriff?” -6 Picket spoasnen: “ou beter go Scab Trucks On the Highways Blocked By and eat.” Unbroken Farm Picket Lines Sheriff: “All right” and_ proceeds | to a restaurant-to eat, and then hangs e A group of farm delegates gathered before the People’s Au- ditorium at Chicago, where the Second National Farm Confer- Almost ence is now being held. delegates from over 40 states 7 “We'll Fight Against Foreclosure” atiille before, renee Se | fined $1 (one dollar) and allowed six months’ time to find the dollar. watch the pickets for around — County snow SHAWANO, Wis. plow, manned by depviles and three truck-loads of deputies acting as a convoy for a milk truck plowed timbers and spiked planks from the road so that a milk truck could get throuch the picket lines. The pict waited until the snow plow and cosy through the lines, end then threw a spiked plank in front of the milk truck. The truck stopped, and. was THEE, Wis—Nine trucks lined up | in a row. All loaded with meat. | They have been stopped by pickets, {seven in number. Truck drivers be- ‘gin to argue. Pickets call for help. Soon there were about 400 or 500 farmers there. More trucks arrive. The sheriff comes. Deputies come, Pickets continue to arrive, until near- ly a thousand were massed on the scene. $70,000 worth of meat finally decided not to go through. The trucis received a picket escort back to where they came from. ze prised deputies could get off their trucks and interfere. Truck was ERRILL, Wis.—Seven pickets on/ righted, and then escorted home the side road. Milk dealer tries|empiy by the snow plow and the to come through. On seeing the | deputies. pickets he dodges into a farm house. et, Sate hones for help. Sheriff is on the | (REENWOOD, Wis.—A cheese maker dpb. He arrives promptly on the | and a farmer were talking. Said scene with about 40 deputies piled in-| the farmer, “If I bring you 800 to a big truck and a couple cars.| pounds of milk tomorrow, will you Milk dealers with his three cans of | make it into cheese to give to the milk is proudly escctted through the | farmers around here? | rode, hiked, hitched, and hit the vicket lines, He arrives safely at) Said the cheese maker, “I'll tell | freight in order to be at the Co his destination you what I do. I'll s Aho fee- | * | tory, and you can su! ¢ about ERRILL, Wis.—Picket flags down | risking letting the me out of this factory chimney.” “I don’t think I care to riskeit,” the farmer replies. Sheriff Getchell of Lincoln county with a red lantern. The insulted of- ficial promptly arrests him. Picket overturned by picksts before the sur- | will be ab'e to win over on its side the s of millions of farmers .°. » to ensure the hegemony of the pro- letariat and thus its victory in the forthcoming revolution.” ‘om our first experience in boldly stepping out as Communists, in ex- plaining to the farmers the Commu- nist pt ion on each question frankly and fearlessly, in acting in the name of the Communist Party and Young Communist League, we have proven to ourselves that the above position the Conference is correct. Formeriy it had been the policy of our unit to put forth our program so meek!y in fara ruggles, we were not ad- mired for our stand on Communism. We made our first attempt at a forceful stand for the Party at our 1 Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Local comrades spoke vel plainly and decisively on the is and the revolutionary way out. Our mein speaker was introduced as section organizer of the Communist Party. In selling our literature, we went into the right wing coop. steres and gas stations and sold three- ¥ | fourths of our entire allottment to the farmers Who bought from those stores. One year ago we could not have sold a single pamphlet there. On top of the radicalization they were exper- 4 ve came out strongly for the Party and put out a clear-cut policy. Hardly any opposition, only @ murmur of favor of the N.R.A., and a thought- ful, very thoughtful (and believing) look on their faces when we explained the N.R.A. They spoke their convic- tions and let us assure you they were radica!, even the reactionaries, the conservatives and the right wingers | under renegade leadership. We Communists corrected their half baked ideas on refusing to fight in war or join the army, we tried to clarify classes to them. They listened | as if we were apostles from God. Four | years of this devastating crisis has | made the farmers more like a box | of dynamite than anything else. | You will see that our first step in | following the above resolution is | small; it took only a few hours. It | was an experiment. But the résults | astounded us. Now we must move | forward swiftly and with sharp and | precise blows, hammer out # revolu- tionary line. We Communists need no longer hide our faces, We must | now conduct our struggles on 4 truly | Communist fashion, and in our speeches and actions bring forth our policy forcefully. We must show the | American farmer through our actions for his economic needs that we are the Party. One thing is certain, that, unless | we immediately accept the stand of the resolution and change our ac- | tivities to suit it, we will be left be- hind and misleaders will take our places, Wa'ter Lehtinen, Dist. No, 9, Crosby Sec. A Kentucky Captain Blurts Out Truth About ‘Forced Labor Camps (By a Worker Correspondent) | MIDDLESBORO, Ky.—At last they are coming out with the truth about what the Civilian Conservation Camps are really for, At Clear Creek Springs, which is about seven miles from here, there is being built another camp to take care of several hundred C.C.C, boys, |The job was started last week, and the work is under the personal su- | pervision of two brass hats of the Kentucky National Guards, Capts. Kelly and Perkins, who are both from | Harlan. County. | Last Saturday evening, Oct. 28th, accompanied by a friend who is also | an ex-soldier, we went out there seek- |ing work, and this is an account of the conversation I had with Capt, Kelly. e you Capt, Kelly?” | Sa. | “What is the chance for us two t | get work on this job on Monday?” | “We are going to complete it with the same men we already have hired.” (There were about 25 hired.) ‘But President Roosevelt uider the NLR, A. has asked that employment be stacgered, and as we have had no | work for years we wou'd lige to at | least have one day’s work.” “There is too much red tape on but it would be hard to 12 names cn the payroll, and cary confusion keeping (The C. ©. C. boys do this | books. work.) “This docs not answer my question, which was, what about Roosevelt's prom'ses under the Iv. R. A, “But you don’t understand: this js | not R. F.C. worl, this is army work.” ‘We Will Ho'd Our Ground, Mesage From Lowa | (By an Towa School “eacher) CORRECTIONVILLE, Ia.—We will 2 good us? of the Daily Worker. e 11 80 busy since the strike. At Anthon they Rave quit the N, F. A. You will see by the papers things are growing hot all through our States, snd we are going te hoki ‘our round, m: