The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1933, Page 3

ees tisoraiaahteaintenimcmNt. | WAR PREPARATIONS SEEN —Onpose Demosratic C, WA. Cuts _.~LY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN SDAY, DEC IN ROOSEVELT PLAN TO. UNITE RADIO-TELEGRAPH Will Also Cu Cut Wages to Permit Higher Profits By G. LANDS the New York in regards to communications. Jnis report has now been laid before the President by the Interdepartment Communications Committee of which Secretary Roper is the chairman. The proposal of this committee is that there be established a system of monopolies in the communication in- dustry under direct “government su- pervision,” that there be created a Federal communication commission to have jurisdiction over all interstate and foreign communications, and that that agency have authority similar to that which is held by the Inter- state Commerce Commission over the railroads, Secretary Roper termed the report “a study of the necessity iar @ more definite national policy as to regulations, supervised by a commis- sion or by Federal department unit.” This attention to the telegraph in- dustry is not momentary. The inter- est that the government has always displayed in this field was shown during the World War when it took over the entire communications in- dustry. It has long been felt by gov- ernment officials that the telegraph industry was of basic importance, especially in “critical times.” That a “oritical time” is near at hand is evidenced by the haste with which this measure is beim put through im preparation for the coming ses- sion of Congress. Towards Monopoly Incorporated in the plan Interdepsrtment Commiscion is Wesiern Union of the the merging of the ment conirol, This has been a moot question for many months, although officials of both companies refused to make any dcfinite statements con- cerning it. The committee states that both these teiegraph companies look with invor upon stich @ move, since it Will retuce their expenses and en-| able them to compete more success- fully with other foreign services such ingiand. Although such a merger ‘Bs soughi some time ago and con- ble because of the . it is MOW recognized present time these mer- will b2 considered “permissive.” ‘Chis is very much in keeping with the Rooseveltian trend towards monc- poly end trust. control. Fer War Purposes ‘The manner in which the telegraph inaustry is to be reorganized is by ® fusion of ail domestic telegraph and radio services into one trust and a separate merger for all foreign’ com- munications either by cable or radio. This form of division between domes- tic amd foreign business would be “helpful in case of hostilities and for nstional defense.” Here it is-obvious that the consideration around which the whole project revolves is the OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS Daily, Worker Detroit Dec. 20th: Film showing of “Cain and Artem” sé Martin Hall, 4959 Martin Ave. Showings at 7 and at 9 p.m. Admis- sion 18c, Dec. 21st: Film showing of “Cain sud Artem” at Finnish Hall, 5969—14th “Street. Ghewings at 7 and 9 p.m. Adm. thc. Wilmington, pa ? Dec. 20th: Film showing of “The War aust the hae hos Saee at Eden Hail, w. Communic ations) nd Postal Telegraph | Companies to facilitate the govern- | PS IRES SEPM eas AE eels Ce Preparation for the next war. The strategic significance of the communications industry is receg- nized to be of primary importance “in case of hostilities and for na- tional defense.” This is not a spon- taneous gesture of the Administra- tion, but part of a carefully study and “stock-taking” of the war resources of the government. It is mot by chance that on this Interdepartmental Communications Committee we find General Irving Carr of the War Department and Captain C. C. Hooper of the Navy Department. it is not by chance that the chairman of this commit- tee, Secretary Roper, is that very same gentleman whose fascist sen- timents are well-known throughout the country and whose deep inter- est and hearty approval of the Hit- Jer regime was expressed in his speech at the Madison Square Fas- cist meeting a few weeks ago. To Cut Wages ‘There is also another important consideration involved in this under- taking. That is the reduction of ex- penses for the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies. Al- though the Western Union has con- tinually made statements to the effect that it is not “in the red” as so many other firms are, and, in a recent ar- ticle stated that a considerable profit running into the millions has been made in the past year, it is never- theless desirous of “reducing ex- penses.” This blow is aimed directly at the employees. A merger of both telegraph com- panies means a drastic paring down of the forces of workers. Where in the past each department needed a section or branch manager there will be a consolidation into one de- partment with one head. Thou- sands of these smaller managers will be released. With the merging of the companies and the ensuing in- |erease of “efficiency,” will come a | wholesale extermination of older operators and clerks. Most of the ‘orkers who have given many years of devoted service will be replaced | by newer forces at a much lower wage standard. Workers with higher positions will be reduced to lower peld jobs. c Union In the telegraph industry the work- ers have had no real organization to fight for them. The postal work- evs were represented either by an A. F. L. union, or not at all. In ets received as poor a deal as has usually been handed out by A. F. L. junions to the workers. There is but one organization of the Western Union employees, which is called the Association of Western Union Employees. This is a com- |Pany union to the core. The work- | ers Know it as such and haye never brought any of their problems to it or leoked to it for any guidance. | Dues were paid only in order to | protect jobs. The same officials held office year after year. Meetings, held infrequently and poorly attended, were less lively than a morgue. The whole organization had the stench of a stagnant and decaying com- Pany controlied union. And this is the only organization which is sup- posedly representing the telegraph workers. Can these workers turn to the A. W. U. E. in such a crisis as now looms over them? Can they expect thet the A. W. U. E. will struggle with them in the face of this emergency? Not by a long shot! Will Frankin G. Burton, | President of the A. W. U. E., who has recently been appointed as an advisor on the National Labor Board, assist these workers in getting a “fair deal?” By no means! His bread is buttered on the other side and he is well aware of it. Such is the situation which now faces the workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company in par- ticular. There are two alternatives. | Either to wait for the boulder to come crashing down without stepping aside to safety or to begin to take such measures as will insure ade- quate protection and results in the impending struggle. Surely the latter 1s more digestible to American work- ers who have been known to prefer struggles to submissive annihilation! eis Seraney ED NOTE— Workers of the Tele- graph industry are urged to cor- respond with the Daily Worker which will be giad to hear their problems. Communications graph CAMP NITGEDAIGET REACON, N. Y. Sledding! Skiing! Ice Skating! Pancing!, Phone: Beacon 731 Hiking! Heated Gym! Gala Xmas Program! Join the Fun! TASTY WHOLESOME FOOD Make Rservations Now for the Best Quarters Cars Leave ag veak M. Dally trom Coo tive Rests vt ae . pera jacrant SPECIAL cate 8 SCHEDULES FOR Estabrook 8-1400 FOR XMAS WEEKEND SCIENCE and HISTORY FOR GIRLS and BOYS needs: in this revolutionary centry—W.8. $150 book tor 28 cents, five copies for $1.00, stamps or coin; Paper bound, 320 pp., 27 chap. Money refunded if after examination the book is Bet wanted and is returned in good condition. . ‘The Bradford-Brown derettnnel Co., Galion, 0. Election in Chicago ILGWU Dress Local | Union Now Has 5,006 | Members: Opposition -| Fights Wage Cuts | By « Dressmaker CHICAGO, Ill.—With the blessing of the N. R. A. the International | Ladies Garment Workers now has a} union of dressmakers in Chicago num- | bering five thousand. Prior to the! arrival of the Blue Hagle the Interna- | tional consisted of the remnants of the machine left from the brealt-up of |the union in 1928. The leadership of the dress strike jast Fall was in the hands of the “old- timers,” and it was their tactics that were used. No striker was permitted | to ask questions or speak on the con- | duct of the strike. The same tactics | were used in ratifying the agreement | aatived: at between the bosses and| these “old-timers”: it could not | challenged by the strikers. That is why our agreement accepts | the classification of the “sub-skilled,” | which in the plain language of the | dressmakers means that the bosses | have the right to pay less than the} minimum, on the theory thet the/| worker is “sub-skilled” and that he| can fire these workers without objec- | tion from the union. | This agreement also includes a “re- | organization” clause which sacrifices the most elementary union right. It Permits the bosses to fire 10 per cent of the workers each six months. Every union worker knows who will be fired—that element which fights for prices and conditions in the shop. To prevent the dressmakers from enforcing the gains that were granted by the agreement, there is a clause forbidding strikes and stoppages. Immediately after the strike the administration paid its “debts” and business agents were appointed to the tune of $50 a week. Our worse fears of the agreement have been realized. There has been wholesale firing. Prices haye been re- duced far below the minimum. Per- mission to work overtime is regularly granted, while hundreds of jobless dressmakers walk the streets. It was then that our opposition began to grow, Our program, which was for a struggle against wage cuts, firing, reorganization and the classi- fication of sub-skilled, and which stressed the need for democracy in the union, was widely accepted. The opposition put forth a demand for elections which received the backing of the dressmakers to such an extent that the administration was forced to the A. F. L. organization the work- | agree. A number of the leading members of the opposition were nominated for the offices of business agent. All of these nominees were rejected by the one year. This was supposed to be a liberal ruling, inasmuch as the con- stitution calls for two years, but this apparent liberality meant nothing, since the union was actually born in the month of September, 1933. Local 100, for instance, now has around four thousand members, and one year ago it had fifteen members. This ruling means that all these dressmakers who now make up the dress union of the I. L. W. U. in Chi- cago have no right to choose their own officers. The real reason for rejecting the Progressive candidates is their cam- paign for a struggle against firings, reorganizations and wage cuts, and their demand for more democracy in the union. National Events PLAN LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING DETROIT.—Communist Party, Dist. 7, is calling ® conference of representatives of workers’ organizations to make plans for the Lenin Memorial meeting next month. ‘The conference will be held Saturday, Dec. 23, 2 p.m, at John Reed Club, 108 W. Han- cock, ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE CHICAGO. — Communist Party, Sect. 3, will hold an entertainment and dance Sat- urday, Dec. 23, st Styblos Hall, 27th St. and Turner Ave, to raise funds for its hop concentration work. COMMUNIST PARTY BAZAAR ROXBURY, Mass.—Communist Party Night at the annial r will be held by the New t of the Communist Party, December 20, at the New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St, Rexbury, Mass. Di on. Wednesday night, Joint Board. The reason given was| that they had not been members for} Chicago Single Men Wi in 1,100 BER 20, 1925 A demonstration of single men in Chi from the C. W. A. which has ner led the delegation to the C. cago, coiled by been discriminating against the m: Carl Lockner, Secretary of the Unemployed Federation, is shown addressing th W. A. offices. Jobless Convention Unempioyed workers who are get no relief, and that millions are convention against unemployment, Jan. 13. The national conyention national program for the ©. W. A. all the local struggles of the C. W. for the Workers Unemployment I of the C, W. A. workers. to Take Up C.W.A seeking C. W. A. jobs im vain, and those now working on C. W, A. projects, write in to the Daily Worker from all parts of the country. These letters, some of which are quoted in the accompanying article expose the fact that wages are being cut below the promised minimom, discrimination is general, fired workers seeking jobs in vai The protest against the conditions under the Civil Workers Ad- ministration is an important part of the campaign for the national to be held in Washington, D. C., of the unemployed will formulate a workers. The convention will unite A. workers into one national struggle insurance Bill and for the demands Intensify the preparations for the national convention against un- fight of all workers against unem; for all workers. Demand the Wo: (CWA Men Waiting Tron Town Men Fired Till Things Move Better VIRGINIA, Minn.—C. W. A. work- have worked only two to five days since installation of the projects, have been cut off relief on this excuse and | are being kept their wages. two days and then were laid off in- definitely on the excuse the foremen \clear the woods. In Embarrass, a smali farming community, the men worked two to five days on a C. W. A. project, and cials to get things moving better.) After the men were put into the C. W. A. their families were immedi- tely cut off relief. Farmers hi have waited more than two | for the resumption cf their C. W. A. | jobs. Workers in Cook did only five days on the C. W. A. projects, off, asked to re-register and are waiting for their five days’ pay checks. In Chisholm the men did five days on the C, W. A. and were laid off. In Argo Ts Waasa the men to work By N. BUCHWALD pi A Secretary of Agriculture makes i “Giving farm commodities gen-. erally a purchasing power in terms involve higher prices to the con- sumers.” Mr. Wallace justifies this added But this plea to help the poor farmer is actually a plea for the profiteer, Mr, Wallace cannot sup- the contention that the farmer € | Similar profiteering spreads obtain in of commodities the farmers buy rose 17 per cent and are 119 per cent of the pre-war level. He cannot sup-, press the fact that: “Part of the consumers’ dollar goes now to support wasteful and unnecessary competition, duplica- tion of selling expense, a needless multiplicty of so-called services to the consumers, dubious credit ar - rvangements, and various unethical practices.” What part of the consumers’ dollar is thus diverted to the coffers of the profiteer, the Secretary of Agri- culture does not state, but we have seen in the case of the milk distribut- ing monopolies that 81c of the con- sumers’ dollar goes to the distriputors and only 19 cents to the dairy farmer. the case of cotton, wheat, tobacco, meat and in other basic farm com- modities. The processing tax, infla- tion and various other devices for increasing the cost of living have re- sulted merely in increasing the prof- its of the capitalist gangs that stand between the farmer .and the con- sumer, Mr, Watiace makes a fraudulent statement when he says that “for years now consumers have had farin Products at less than cost.” He knows very well that the consumer has been paying right along exorbitant prices of which the farmer received only a pauper’s share while profitesrs got the rest. And wiea we spesk of consumes we must bear in mind that the farm- ers themselves constitute about one- third of the consuming public. The 49 per cent of the pre-war level to 60 per cent, At the same time the prices farmers’ food bill is increased in ad- dition to the higher cost of manu- for 5 Day Salaries |ers on the Mesaba Iron Range here | waiting weeks for] : In Virginia the C, W. A. worked | firs were laid off in order for the oft were laid | still | employment. Elect delegates from all workers organizations for a united ployment. Demand a job or relict rkers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Hold a meeting of C. W. A. workers and elect jeb committees to make demands on grievances to the C. W. A. authorities. News Briefs Lindbergh Nearing Home 19." NEW | ber chs } over Wiln maton. Del., |this morning. Floyd Bennett bi fogah Dee. port officials her2 said that they hi eived word that tho at the | Shert Circuit ‘Delays Tr: Dee. 1 i of unknowa oxigin in Pen ation todey caused a 1 trains for four hour ut due fo the « | have to go to schoo] to learn how to] Gale Kills Two, Wrecks Four he 12 Die in African Mine 19. | Small Farmers’ Lindherghs Page Three 1 . wen 1,199 jobs le men and women. demonstration. Lock- | NORTHAMPTON, Mass., | SUk Workers of the College Weavers, | ho we tile e last March, | turn their charter to the nationa membership meeting There are about both in the st y have won substantial i t received only a five Vhite, anizer ond latter si and rt September. by their case Joiton Texiile ions 3B UL T. W. was tu Stat ard set up by the N. R. A.} | workers. | meeting to functi y until tacy ¢ constitution Je Workers’ ing on the of the ye ae pur] 5s been inv 3 » Detroit Workers on Friday . is to be caile DETROIT, Mich, 1 ly. who the Scottsboro ve: Phyllis Frank, were police s Income Cut Through Price. Increases in Fertilizer, Manufactured | Goods They duction is the core of the agricultura | program of the New Deal. Most 0 | the farmers’ ills are aitzibuted by Mr. Wallace to the large ‘: "0% various farm commoditis | pluses, he explains. | the reduced agricultural cx | total production in 1920 to about ‘per cent last year. Yet he admit part from production in’ excess consumers’ needs and in part under-consumption.” The pot! ing out the large cazry-overs and in a rise of prices in accordance w the fact that higher decrease the domestic demand thus aggravate the condition under-consumption ; “Prices dd too high tend. to stimulate production while restrict- ing consumpiion and thus defeat the object in view.” Without attempting to reconcile this contradiction he harps on reduced production “ns an emergency relief measure,” though admitting that “the ultimate solution requires an increase in consuinption.” Tt is around this program of reducing production that the policy of the Roosevelt adminis- tration revolves. The processing tax, and factured non-agricultural goods, the various price bonuses on agri- The policy of crop and acreage re- | 1} fell from about 16 per cent of the | that “agricultural difficulties result in crop reduction should resuil in wip- the law of supply and demand. This is the basic tenet of Mr! Wallace's economics. But he is also mindful of prices trend to of} Have to Buy iloffered for re-finencing the farm i {debts are all based on the accep jby the tarmers of the crop redu [pec of the A. A, A. actual de s of planted cotton. With th of & conquering hero returning from e field of battle, Mr. Wallace re- been where the hog production checked and millions of pounds ot pork ti actually at the dumped. Witt Tort of the de: the duction ‘Prog! am ing a similar if not preater Tequila in the years to come, Though described as an “emer- gency measure,” the crop reduction program brought no relief to the farmers despite the hundreds of mil- lions of dollars extorted from the consumers to finance this program, Mr. Wallace admits that “the sicua- tion in the farm belt remains critical,” that “a fair exchange value at this writing is not in sight,” that “farm income from live stock products, Mass. Silk Local of, 400 Votes to Break Away from A. F. L. Dec, 19.— ized into the United ’ Union following a t voted to withdraw | from the A. F. of L. union and re- | The workers of College Weavers | | have had their own bitter expe! ences with the U. T. W. offic ast March when | ty also in their| In the | for ike they were ordered back | tional jobs a officials and |'The ned over to the| of mar Industrial Re-| handed down a decision | allotment is 'e | giving no concessions at all to the| hundred more families are on local the the National | ye led for which Ann Burlak | | Face Court Thurs. °: Dec, 19.—Three | were arrested eA had used ham- cultural products and the schemes mn, $e | Letters from Jobless S Pay When Sick; Mo: Wages Below Promised Minimum; Refuses Jobs to Negroes, Women, Single Men how Discrimination; No st Workers Can’t Get Jobs; Lies of Roosevelt Exposed By CARL REEVE , cuts ised | s against unemployed, job witho The un spondence to t that the C.W.A been carried on these h Wages Cut By A letter | 1 on by the C. stated by the Federal Civil Works program. that common labor y e forty cents. an hour, worker, with a thirty-h twelve dollars pe Saturday we receive: forty cents an hour. with no rotice whatsoever, ve paid at the rate of thirty cents an how shock to all employes was We were all in debt. “Many creditors were angry and did not believe us when we told them the government had broken ite own agreement. We owed for the necessities of life. Every man received three dollars less, last Sat- urday, then was actually due him, The failure of the government in paying the men all of their pay k, totalling The first great. | has made a lot ef trouble for all of us as well as small merchants who trusted This letter and a is signed by “a hard citizen.” It is howing the hroug Anot! 1 by Roose ther Messy ir Jobs a re Given rts of the coun- ment of Roo- have been false. sevelt that ‘ ) e through the work of] every c to ten times C.W.A. w and very few addi- now being given out. from Lowell ‘The relief letter is typical the r nm laid ted. elief rolls than before the C.W.A. | Still Roosevelt ror we will } hind fore is, what What I want to kn are these 17 million unem. following four or ten years. ne 6destitute, drought farmers of this county h 5, to veeks,” writes an un- er from Bemidji, Min- promis of to work have not were fired. more jobs than 2 Indian- do they All the trial. Rising sae Pri vices Aid Only Profiteers; ‘Farmers, “Workers ‘Hit to be about he same as in 1842" He admits that “some farmers, notably the beef-cattle men, lost purchasing power between March and October.” By his own admissions, Mr. Wallace establishes the,complete failure of the A.A.A, as an “emergency measure.” And since the A.A.A. is closely linked with the N.R.A., the failure of the} Painting a Gloomy Ovtlook Despite all the bailykeo which he| Sinself indulges in on behalf of the ne * Deal, M Wallace cannot help dmitting the unfavorrble outlook, at Here are scme cf his state- mic cond: 1d domestic ¢ for the bet ons and re- nd may not er quickly. and the rush to ies have gone too far. may be entering a prolonged | the cit We | | | forme: | ad of & highly commerical egriculture, facilitate so-called farming.” Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agri- culture has the courage of calilug.. @ spade a spade by des) | monetary polic i as “controlied inflat. or simp “inflation.” We asserts that inflation | “lightens cech farmer's debt and tax burden in proportion to the extent that it raises the prices of the prod- poultry and eggs in 1933 seems likely ucts.” But also here he is forced to!Deal seek to save and perpetuate, as it| Correspondent writes, f the swindling of | . unemployed In from five many have registered | jority of orkers have excuse being the About five and Johnson tell us and even ten e this bad crisis be- ployed people going to do during the Let them stricken 500 putting taken On one project forty workers ‘e employed and a few days later There is an office staff 0! ‘her 40, 000 are going to | answer this question. Deal as a whole is thus estab-| “subsistence | {live?” A Chester, Pa., unemploye:. “The Chester | Times comes out with a statement |that 3,700 are already employed un der C.W.A. Charles A, Ernst, chair- man of the C.A.S., claims 1,680 ‘total at work under the C.A.S. program. the workers themselves can find only 220 men working on this propo- ior The writer then lists where men are working, Similar re- ports come in from all cities, The C.W.A. program is character- ized by this stalling and swindling of the jobless, and by widespread discrimination, Many workers can- | not get jobs at all. A letter from Atlanta, Ga., states that no Negroes have been put on C.W.A. jobs. This condition prevails in the South. But Jim Crow methods of the C. A. are not confined to the South. A | worker writes in from New York that in many of the 28 C.W.A, of- fices in New York, Negroes are not even alowed to register but are Jim | Crowed to the Harlem office, re- gardless of where they live, and cer- | tainly, in the giving out of jobs, | the Negroes get less jobs. | Single men and women are gen- erally discriminated against in the (giving out of relief. “Tens of thou- |sands of single unemployed men and {women of Detroit are discriminated against,” writes a Detroit unemployed | Worker. “There is no relief from city, state awd federal administration. In Detroit, single workers are placed in |the Fischer Lodge and the county | poor home in Eloise, but only a Jim- ited amount are put there and the | conditions are not gocd in them.” | From Massilon, Ohio, comes an ex- ample of the widespread discrimina+ tion against the foreign-born workers: |“Out of 726 men in Massilon, now on the payroll of the C.W.A., there jare only very few foreign-born, and |these are either citizens, veterans or have extra large families. Many have ,|Tegistered with the C.W.A. board of over three thousand, but ese city, |it seems all to be only a slim hope,” n the letter from a ‘ caper) after Ann se Buen io ‘e ers | ‘his worker concludes. f national secretary of the| digging sev ing Firing of Workers National Textile Workers’ Union, | Mains, etc., for five; After the workers receive C.W-A. spoken on the treacherous ac- | da ork inst the regular | jobs, discrimination does not cease. of the U. T. W. in recent | ages we e getting on the city|The Florida worker, quoted above, e struggles, | relief work.” {says of discrimination, “The foreman told the men, that if they were dis- missed for any reason whatsoever, they would receive no more help ‘o: employment of any kind, from city, state, or federal government.” Another letter from a Chicago © |W. A. worker exposes the deliberate attempt to keep as many off of re- lief as possible, and to pay nothing to sick workers. This worker writes | | that on Noy. 29 he started on C.W.A. work. He and his mother received their last grocery order Nov. 6 for $1292. He did not receive his first pay until two weeks after he started work, and had to borrow to eat. He then became seriously ill with ery- sipelas. He paid a doctor bill of $18 with borrowed money. He wrote, asking for continuation of his salary. He continued, “The office timekeeper payroller called me up at once and quite excitedly and emphatically told |me it was impossible to pay me for any sick time, it was against the rules of the C.W.A.” His mother then went to the relief. In three days she got a $2.94 grocery order. The relief office refused to pay the doct «> and the investigator said he looked “well.* “She had not been to see me and the time she said I was well, I was in bed, unable to get up. I was sick’ two weeks. The doctor cost $27. I lost nine days pay. Between the re- lief and the rules of the C.W.A, I could starve to death very easily, as I am in poor health, after 11 months jon relief.” Many of these letters from work- ers in sections where there is no or- |ganization ask what to do about the {starvation condition. Other letters Letters froni |Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Bemidji, |Decatur, Illinois, and many other other places show that by holding |meetings of the workers, electing a job committee and making demands: on those in charge of the jobs, con- cessions have been won. jconcede the ultimate failure of infia-— |tion as an aid to the farmers: “Ie is well to bear tn mind the Lniesmenir | that the favorable in- luence of our moneary policy: the prices of cotton and wheat ee | not continue if foreign countries reduce the weight of gold behince their currencies as rapidly as we do.” | Farmers Know All About Tt | ¢ admissions of failure contaited | in ah report of the Secretary of Agri- (culture, the facts revecaling the true |beneficiaries of the A.A.A., the |Ures proving that the condition of the Sir | hest—the muddled, uncert ainty of the |fetmers today has not improved and has become worse under the New | Deal,—all this may be shocking news to some innocent souls who have beer duped by the Nev Deal Propegads } For the mass of poor farmers | is nothing new in this report, Of their bitter plight they know from | their own bitter experience, The true meaning of the New Deal has come |fo them in terms of ovictions, fore- | closures, starvation incomes, mount- Ing costs of living. While the New: * | Deal offers them no better hope for ~ {the future than a set of beste sa sec, the farmers are & way of their own, the way id revolutionary ‘ight against the sys- tem which breeds unemployment and iruin. The revolt of the farmers is more than mere opposition to this or y of the present administra~ becoming more and more » revolt against the whole profit sys- jtem. ‘Therein Mes the only hope of the masses of poor farmers, therein lies the mortal danger to the profi: | system which the prophets of the New