The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1934, Page 7

ry i oe BP, — Tag CHANGE | ——THE-— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD OT long after I had taken a leave from this column, I was present one evening at a workers’ theatre per- formance in New York. A friend came up and said: “Aren’t you in Palm Beach?” “No,” I answered, “I believe I am in New York.” “Well, this is surprising,” he said. “At the meeting of the Unemployed Writers Union last night, Leon Samson said that you and other writers loyal to the Communist Party were nothing but’ racketeers. In public you said you were for the workers, but your private lives proved otherwise. With gold that you got from Moscow, you led a merry life. For instance, the reason you yourself laid off the Daily Worker column was to take a trip to Palm Beach.” “Uh-huh,” I answered. “But I see you didn't,” he said. Wrong.” Uh-huh, he was wrong. Whatever it was he said, was nothing strange, however. Leon Samson is one of the intellectual lights of the newly organized Muste-Lovestone-Emma Goldman-Trotzky-N.R.A.- Norman Thomas-J. B. Salutsky-Leon Samson party: that hybrid party with innumerable generals and no army that calls itself the “American Workers’ Party.” “So I guess Leon Samson was HE chief stock in trade of this group, and their only activity is the slander of Communists. Whenever the Communist Party suffers & defeat or makes an error, these scavengers are ready to swoop down for the carrion. What a role to play on the stage of proletarian history! There is, of course, not a thing they sey about the Communists that one may not find sharply set forth in the columns of self- criticism in the Daily Worker. Communists do not hide their own mistakes, but try to learn from them. And Communists take the non- Party workers into their confidence about these errors, and the workers understand, Even though the vultures flock around, as they once did around the pioneers’ emigrant trains and covered wagons in the dangerous Utah desert, this self-criticism will go on. For the pioneers got through, despite the assistance of the buzzards, . . A Little Business Deal— Mr. J. B. Salutsky-Hardman is a very clever gentleman who frankly dropped out of the Communist Party some years ago because its inter- ests conflicted with his own. He was earning something like $150 @ week as one of the brain trust of Sidney Hillman’s Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union. Mr. Hillman had assembled, to ‘provide a liberal front for his machine, a group of, these hired brains, chief among them the class-collaborationist Leo Wolman, who served on an N.R.A. labor board, and who supported the open shop in one of his disgraceful and traitorous decisions. But Salutsky was offered no NR.A. job, and remains at his post. ‘Well, to make a long story short, about a year ago, there was an especially smelly exposure of a little inside deal by the Hillman- Amalgamated machine. It was proved that they paid $50,000 in cold cash of the workers’ money to buy off some gangsters in the union. These gangsters had captured one of the locals, and then had started a drive to capture the whole union. Mr. Hillman paid them off, rather than fight. They had the goods on his machine and were about to spill it. How could he openly fight them? They might have won. So he bought them off. ‘The deal was exposed in several places; one being the Daily Worker, and also, interestingly enough, in the “Labor Age,” a Muste organ, edited by Louis Budenz of the American Workers’ Party, and also in the Italian syndicalist weekly edited by Carlo Tresca. No alibi defense was offered by Mr. Hillman. He remained mum. And Mr. Salutsky-Hardman was as silent as a policeman’s wife caught with the iceman or a Tammany pal with his pants down. Salutsky is @ glib, learned, subtle Jesuit, the author of endless theoretical essays, but he had not a word to say on this occasion. Why should he give up his $150 a week for the sake of truth? And now he is one of the leaders of this new American party. And working with him are the same Muste and Louis Budenz, who once exposed him and his fellow-jobholders. Everything is patched up, evidently. We may expect, from this American Workers’ Party, so-called, no further revelations of this sort. Anything to beat the “reds.” And if these facts are wrong, let them correct me. the $50,000, Messrs. Budenz, Salutsky and party? . * . * A Gargoyle in Action. EON SAMSON is a kind of logical caricature of the sort of intellec- tual who is found in such groups. Drawn some years ago into the orbit of Communism, he soon discovered that the Communist Party was a menace to his ego. It demanded that he think straight with no liberalistic decorations and metaphysics. It asked that anyone pretending to speak for Com- munism work in an organized fashion. It placed a minimum demand on its adherents: honesty, group loyalty, faith and devotion to the working-class. But Leon had other fish to fry. Like Napoleon, he believed in his private star of destiny. As to the working-class, Mr. Samson had many doubts. Chief of these was that it could ever be roused to Communist action. He developed his own personal Samsonian theory, Shat the American worker was so American that only Americanism ‘would appeal to him: viz: as represented by the A. F. of L., Roosevelt bmd Leon Samson. Mr, Samson, naturally, had many quarrels with “official” Commu- nism. Any “genius” would. And little by little, the staggering truth was revealed to Samson, that he had seen more of the truth than Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, the Communist International, and William Z. Foster. So Mr. Samson lectured and wrote books, he became his own party and his own lecture bureau. Around New York, you can still find him at every meeting, where he always is sure to pop up passion- stely and say: “I demand the floor! Surely the best Marxian and sociologist in America has the right to clear up this discussion!” Some of the leading lights of the American Workers’ Party have been known in the past fo violently tell this ingrown egotist: to close his trap. But now he is their fellow-member, this petty shopkeeper in second-hand ideas, this irresponsible camp-follower 4nd scavenger of the revolutionary movement, this Samsonite, and stern foe of the “Stalinists” and other vulgar people who reject his ideas, and prefer Lenin’s. Yes he rightfully belongs to the “American Workers Party.” And they can have him, and he can say I went to Palm Beach. The truth is, whenever I meet this gentleman I am really seized with an inordinate craving to be in Palm Beach or Alaska, anywhere but on the same street. Many workers go to Florida for their health, if they can afford it, and live in $2 to $5 a week rooms, and eat 15 cent meals. It can be done, and I’ve done it myself; it’s better than paying a doctor, as Dr. Luttinger will confirm. And some day the worker will own Palm Beach, and proletarian invalids will winter there, as they do in the Soviet Crimea, among the former palaces. : The reason I left the column is that I’m trying to write a novel. I really took my sun-baths on Dr. Luttinger’s beach, under his violet- Tay machine. Much of this is highly personal and unimportant: and 60 now, to work. How about —— _ “PEACE ON EARTH” TO RE-OPEN NEW YORK.—“Peace On Earth,” Charles R. W: head of Phy oe Five murais by Phi il Bard, revol quarters of the Daily Worker Volunteers on the fifth floor of 35 East 12th St., New York. Panel 1: depicts farmers resisting a foreclosure; panel 2: revolt of industrial workers; panel 3: unemployment and wer danger; 4: capitalist development towards Fascism; 5: building AY, MARCH 26, 1934 Bard’s Revolutionary Murals at ‘Daily Volu = jutionary artist, at the head- of Socialism in the Soviet Union. area of more than 500 square feet. for three months. The sketches for the murals were chosen from a | mural competition held by the John Reed Club of New York. nteers’ Center The paintings by Bard, who is a leading member of the John Reed Club of New York, cover an | The artist worked on the murals Stage and Screen “Stevedore,” Theatre Union’s 2nd Play, Now In Rehearsal ‘The second production of the Theatre| Union, “Stevedore,” «a drama by Paul Peters and George Sklar dealing with the| Negro and white dock workers in New Orleans, is now in rehearsal under the direction of Michael Blankfort. The play is scheduled to open at the Civic Repe tory Theatre on April 7. “Ah, Wilderness!”, the Eugene O'Neill play ‘in which George M. Cohan is featured celebrated its 200th pefformance on Saturday. | John Golden announces that his next | production will be Sidney Howard's adap-| tation of a Hungarian play by Bela Zsolt. | George Jessel, Walter O'Keefe, Gertrude | Neisen, Lucille Page, and the Ritz Broth- ers will play leading roles in the “Casino | Varieties,” a new revue scheduled to open at the Casino Theatre on April 2, “Lucia” Opens Last Week Of Metropolitan Opera “Lucia di Lammi * will open the final week tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House. Lily Pons and Martini head the cast. Other operas of the week:| “Parsifal” on Wednesday evening and Pri-| dey afternoon with Leider, Melchior, and) Schorr; “Linda di Chamounix,” Thursday evening with Pons end Crooks: “Il Trova- | tore,” Friday evening with Rethberg and Martinelli; “Manon,” Saturday afternoon | with Bori and Crooks, and “Merry Mount” | on Saturday night with Halsted and Jagel. | Chicago Opera Company At| Broadway Theatre Saturday) The Chicago Opera Company, under the direction of Alfredo Salamaggi, the group of singers which appeared at the Hippo- drome last season, will open their new season on Saturday night with “Aida” at the Broadway Opera House, formerly known as the Broadway Theatre. The first week's schedule includes “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci” on Sunday and Wednesday evenings; “Carmen,” Mon- day and Thursday evenings; “Aida,” Tues- day evening; “Faust,” Friday evening. and “Tl Trovatore” on Saturday night. Prices of seats will again be 25 to 99 cents, WHAT’S Monday WORKERS SCHOOL Spring Term, third week of registration. Classes are filling up. Register now, 35 #. 12th St. REGISTRATION for courses at the} Brownsville Workers School, now open) at 1855 Pitkin Ave. Brooklyn. | REGISTRATION for Spring term at Harlem Workers School, now open at 200 W. 135th St., Room 212-B. New courses have been added to the curriculum. Classes are filling rapidly. Ask for descriptive booklet. Phone: AUdubon 3-5055. SAM GONSHAK will speak on the “Pre- sent Situation and the Pight for Social Insurance” at the Bath Beach Branch of the Unemployed Council, tonight at 8:30 p.m. at 87 Bay 25th St. Admission free. MASS MEETING Against War and Fas- cism. The Rockaway Comm. of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fascism holds symposium tonight at & p.m. at the Ex-Firemen’s Hall, 211 Beach 86th Street, Rockaway Beach. Speakers: Rose K. Fdel- man of the Women’s International League for Peace; Rev. Dale De Witt of the Hollis Unitarian Church; Pat Toohey for the Communist Party; Rev. ©. C. Halman of the Church of God; and Gannie Kauf- mann for the Wer Resisters League. Ad-| mission free, | many trunks fell out on the street, Mrs. Dillman, with a few dozen Dodge Heiress Plays in Boia While Auto Workers Starve By CARL REEVE The police of Detroit, ‘Michigan, have been having a busy time. Re-| ze 5 - gone. But she had no need to cently, they found an unidentified) toy Detectives from the Detroit | woman in a school yard frozen to| a14q Grosse Points police depart- eath. Hunger and cold had | ment got busy. They soon found brought her wanderings to an end.! tn. trmk, a gray wardrobe type The police, a few weeks ago, put! with Mrs. Dillman’s initials painted Walter Olyniczak safely behind the| on the ends. The trunk was shipped bars with a ninety day sentence.| on the next train. | Walter is a C.W.A. worker with a| In the trunk were: 12 lace night-| family who has long been jobless.| gowns valued at $50 each; 36 pairs| He was told he must work on a| of stockings valued at $10 each; 12/ C.W.A. project out of town, and Pay pieces of French lingerie, valued at) his own transportation. This| $600 each; A Silver Fox neckpiece, | trunks, did not even notice her loss, When the loss of the trunk was discovered Mrs. Dillman was already | brought Walter's C.W.A, pay below | $5,000; a mink trimmed suit, $500;| the hunger rations he was getting} on relief. He refused to transfer from the relief. The dignity of Roosevelt gov- ernment was offended. C.W.A. dic- tates were flaunted. And so Walter was rounded up and put into jail.| He was given the ultimatum by the auto barons’ courts—either serve 90 days in jail, or take the O.W.A. work out of town, at the terms of five pairs of shoes, $50 each; 12 dresses, $500; 12 evening gowns, $100 each. The total value of the contents of Mrs. Dillman’s trunk was over) $20,000, and this was one of many trunks taken on the pleasure jaunt) to Persia. Mrs, Dillman secured) her millions from the profits of the auto factories, where the auto) workers are now fighting for relief.| the C.W.A. administration. Either| The police who promptly came to go to jail and see your family) the aid of the distressed Mrs. Dill- starve or take the starvation wages | man, came out with national guards of the C.W.A. and pay your own| who had drawn bayonets to ter- transportation. He was given a | rorize a recent demonstration of the) suspended sentence on probation, | C.W.A. workers. | providing he took the C.W.A. work.| On the same day that the unfor-| The police of Detroit showed their| tunate Mrs. Dillman, the Dodge) value to the auto magnates when| heiress, lost her trunk, the police Mrs. Hugh Dillman lost a trunk.| t0ok the body of the frozen, starved | Mrs. Dillman did not lose an or-| Unemployed woman to the morgue.| dinary trunk, nor is Mrs. Dillman Re ae RT AE REET an ordinary person. She is Mrs.| National Committee Benefit | Anna Dodge Dillman, heiress of] for Scottsboro Play Tonight the Dodge auto millions, and at| | present married to one of the most|, The National Committee for De-| prominent of society's lounge liz-|fense of Political Prisoners has ar-| ards, | ranged a benefit for John Wexley’s; On Feb. 9, Mrs, Anna Dodge Dill-| Play, “They Shall Not Die,” tonight | man left Detroit for a three-month at the Royale Theatre, 45th St. west | vacation trip to Persia. En route of Broadway. Tickets are available to the station, one of Mrs. Dillman’s| either at the box-office or at the office of the National Committee, 156 Fifth Ave., Room 534, Canadian Gov’t is Book Which Describes Achievements of U.S.S.R. “Dangerous writing” from the Soviet Union is considered by the | Canadian government unfit for the eyes of the masses, whose organiza- tions it seeks to cripple through rigid enforcement of Section 98, the Criminal Syndicalist Law. The government, which was just prevented by popular pressure from railroading A. E. Smith, Secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League, to Kingston penitentiary where eight working class leaders of the Communist Party are already incarcerated for long terms, has banned “From the First to the’ Second Five-Year Plan” from entering | Canada. The book is issued by International Publishers. | The amazing progress in the fight for Socialism in the U.S.S.R., which the book reports, so impressed the Toronto Daily Star that even this liberal bourgeois paper was compelled to note: ‘The book contains a mass of interesting information in clear, concise language.” Both the | Toronto Star and Montreal Star were permitted to receive review copies of the book which is “banned literature’ to the general public, | | 11:30—Lueas Orch. | 11:30—Dance Music | | 11:00—Rich Orch. | 12:00—Belaseo Orch. | 4 TUNING IN} TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke. | 7:00 P. 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Hill 8:230—Bing Crosby, Songs; Mills Brothers, Songs 9:00—Rich Orch. 9:30—Gertrude Niesen, Songs Orch.; Henrietta Schumann, Ernest Truex, Actor 1 10:00—Wayne King Oroh. | 19:30—Connie Gates, Songs; Eton Boys, Songs Grier Oro! Ropee Piano; | 11:15—News; Davis Orch. 11:45—Messner Orch. 12:30 A. Pancho Orch 1:00—L ch. By LEN ZINBERG were all standing around look- | ing at the Martin’s house like we had never seen it before, There was | old man Martin, still slender and tall and powerful, the two Harris boys,| myself, Harry Peares, and a couple of other farmers from around the neighborhood. It was cold and harsh as only a bleak New England morn- ing can be. We stared at Martin’s two-story frame house and talked in low voices. Inside Eve Martin was packing her stuff and getting the the Theatre Union’s first produc- tion, will re-open in a Broadway Theatre on April 2, it was an- nounced. It closed its run under ‘Theatre Union auspices on last Saturday, after a successful run of 16 weeks. Its uptown run will be under the management of A. L. Jones, who has arranged with the ‘Theatre Union to present the same cast in this stirring anti-war drama. ‘The theatre will be announced soon. “The opening of ‘Peace On Earth’ uptown under another management will extenr the influence of this anti-war play even further,” said the “Stevedore,” by Paul Peters an George Sklar, will be presented about the middle of April in the Civic Repertory Theatre. Its cast of 20—20 of them Negroes—is now rehearsing there under the direc- tion of Michael Blankfort, one of the members of the Theatre Union’s Executive Board, and the associate director of “Peace On Earth.” It is an anti-lynching play, which takes the struggles of Negro and white dock workers for its background. Reading of the play for represen- tatives of workers’ organizations will be held soon, d/asked and his voice was clear kids ready. Then somebody said: “Here comes the stranger.” He was short and dark looking) and I guess a foreigner. Nobody knew much about him, except that he had moved in on the old Ham- mond farm a few weeks ago. Char- ley, who ran the general store at the Corners, said that the stranger had come from the city, one of the mill towns, and that he had a good looking but thin wife. You could easily see that he had never been a farmer before and that he was going to have a hard time of it. visited his farm, because we liked| to wait awhile and judge a man and let him speak first. He walked up the driveway with short quick steps, and when he was next to Walter Harris he said: “Hello,” and nodded to us all. Walter said: “Hello.” “What's going on here?” he sounding with just a slight accent. I think he must have been an Italian. “They're taking my farm away, Jeff Martin said in a low voice. “A company in the city, mortgage,” he added briefly. “That's a shame. Lived here long?” “My folks have been living on this land for more than a hun- dred years. Tom Martin settled here right after war of 1812. I'm) Jeff Martin.” old Hammond place. Just came | sheriff, got out and walked over) out here. No work in the city, so to us. “I guess you know why I’m} I'm trying farming.” here, Jeff,” he said. “I don’t like) “You sure picked out a good} to do this, but it’s my duty. I got business,” Walt Harris put in bit-| the papers here; you'll have to terly. “Things is getting so that | leave the farm.” it costs more to raise eggs than you, We just looked at him and didn't get when you sell them. We act- say anything. Jeff cleared his ually lose money! And apples | throat a couple of times, but didn’t | haven't paid in years. High|say anything. It made me mai Jeff didn’t say a word; then he) looked at the stranger and at. Eve | Martin’s white face as she stared out of the window. “I guess Mr, Spinido, here, is right, Ted. I’m staying on my land,” he said in that | slow voice of his. “And we're all right behind you!” | inido shouted turning to us. | Yes!” we shouted and I won- ‘themselves, | International | Field, Gas Well and Refinery Work- | over 2,000 members. |“a radical union” with the result | would prefer | that they are joining Wildcat’s or-|think that many more have been {field area | Period. Right now it is booming | 1918, the oil workers were fairly | well organized and getting “good |Keep them together, the locals be- Page Seven Oil Workers Organize Against Company Unions r By JOHN 1. SPIVAK TULSA, Okla. — Oil and refinery workers are on ganizing themselves throvgth- , Were a little more than 1,000 union men, if that many, owt of the an- field //tire organized field at the height of ofl production and wages in 1929 When the crash and the depres- sion came, the unorganized men out the state in instivctive | Prompily ee eneres with : a es cut, @ speed-up system grad- rebellion against oémpany| ‘ally put into elect aed. whed unions being started by the major |that was not enough, the firing be= oil companies. |gan, especially the older workers: Since many oil workers were} This process continued unabated all originally drawn fy6m other indus-| during the tries during the of] boom days, they |cent months. Many of those who know of union activities and to|were not working drifted away them the Amerigan Federation of |from the oil fields—to the land Labor is synonyynous with unioniza- | cities whence they had tion, so after they organize them-|come, in efforts to get selves they, literally throw them- selves into, the A. F. of L. lap beg- ging to be chartered. _AS didge G. Ed Warren, presi-| When, however, with the recent dent ‘of the State Federation of |pick up in oil production and the Labar expressed it, “The only way jemployment or re-employment of I gn account for this demand of | about 50,000 out of the 100,000 oil the oil field workers to be chart-| workers normally working in the ered is the stupidity of the oil com-| Oklahoma fields, the companies, ‘panies. They brought it on them-| fearful of possible union activi selves by trying to organize com- | started to organize company unio’ pany unions. The companies got | When the men (many of whom, i seared of the collective bargaining |must be remembered had been provision in the NRA and thought | union workers in other crafts be- they'd beat union organizers to it.|fore they came to Oklahoma) saw These men hadn't been talking|the sort of unions the oil com- union until this happened. They | pa tried to put over, they re- were too glad to get a job and a|belled and started to organize their little work. But when they saw|own without solicitations from any- what the companies were doing | one they just got to talking among| Today, including the clerical, organized groups and | about half of the workers are em- asked us to charter them.” | Ployed in the industry. This leaves The American Federation of | 2bout 50,000 still out of jobs in the Labor is accepting them, but out- | state. side of opening the door when the| Out of the 50,000 who are work- workers threaten to batter it down | ing, 65 per cent of those employed with their local, they are doing lit- jin the refineries have been organ- tle or nothing to foster the organi- | ized and about 15 per cent of those zational spirit. Wildcat Williamsjin oil fields. There are 22 locals (of whose activities more later), the | which threw themselves at the A. international representative of the |F. of L., each local’s membership Association of Oil |Tanging from 150 to in one case years until within back into their old industries, and failing in that were thrown upon the charity dung heap ers of America, goes to address the| The refinery employes are much locals’ meetings whenever called|fewer than the field wor upon but there is no organizational | 2lso more concentrated, which ac- activity directed by him. He is too| counts for the larger percentage busy “keeping down the unem-/| Which have organized themsely Ployed so they won't go radical”;In the fields the A. F. of L. is as he explained to me. simply waiting for them to come Many oil workers, however, hav- | and beg for a charter ing been members of an A. F. of | The exact figures of the number L. union before they drifted into | organized is not being given by the the oil territories, object to the|A. F. of L. Wildcat Williams, the spirit and policies yet are in the | blustering gun-man in charge of main fearful of forming or joining | union activities in 22 counties, the oil workers to ganization, though protesting bit- | Organized so as to use that as a terly against its ineffectiveness. | bait for them to come in and also There is considerable dissatisfac-|@5 an excuse why A. F. of L. or. tion among the various locals at the | Sanizers are not in their territory. union’s failure to enforce even the | “They are busy all over the state,” code requirements and to insisting | the word is passed around that the workers get at least a liv- (To Be Continued) ing wage scale, which most of them are not getting now. The whole feeling about the oil is much like a boom | W.L.T. Inaugurates Marionette Grouv union activity but not directed nor controlled. Directly and indirectly there are about 100,000 persons normally em- Ployed in the Oklahoma oil fields. Out of this 100,000 some 40,000 are in the clerical, sales and other branches of the industry. In 1917- NEW YORK. faxine who has worked for six y Remo Bufano and Meyer n, forming a marionette group in co: | nection with the Workers Litbora2> tory Theatre. These will be | first marionettes to perform re lutionary skits for workers’ audi- jences. All interested in worki with this group may communi with Maxine Picard, 250 W. lith St. Picard ith the wages” in the main and in a num- ber of cases as high as $15 to $18 a day. Unskilled labor averaged | s ra $125 a month. But these were dur-| | PLAN FOLK-FESTIVAL ing the war boom days when high} GALENA, Mo—The first national wages were common throughout the | folk-festival will be held here in the country. jheart of the Ozark mountains in But shortly after the war, partly|May. The natives in this section, due to the high wages the workers | speak a dialect of English nearly were getting and partly to the in-| identical with that of Shakespear difference of the union officials to day and have preserved their fol Ways unchanged for over a centur Singers, dancers, craftsmen and fiddlers are expected to attend from all over this region. gan to disintegrate. Gradually the only ones left in the organization were virtually the machini There AMUSEMENTS AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD THEATRE MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN THEATRE 224.8: Wet of Broadway. Evenings Mat, Thursday, Saturday & April 2 at JOHN WEXLEY'S NEW PLAY THEY SHALL NOT DIE 52nd St. West of Broadway. Evenings 8:20" Mat. Thursday, Saturday & April 2 at 2:20 ne rates—that’s what licked “Yeah I know, but at least you eat and breath fresh air and that’s more than a lot of folks in the city do,” “You can’t eat if they take your farm away,” Jeff said. “Are you going to let them take it?” the stranger asked. “What do you mean am I going to let them—what else can I do? The sheriff will be here any minute now. This around this section that’s been taken.” “Well, I suppose you fellows aren't organized much. But in the city all the workers in the mills were in unions, If they treated one Nobody had spoken to him yet or/ of us wrong, we all went on strike. | y Now I saw in the papers that the farmers out West organ- ized and refused to let the banks forclose the farms. Why couldn't} we organize and stop Jeff Martin from losing his farm? There’s about ten of us here and I bet we could easily stop the sheriff from taking the farm.” I was kind of surprised and shocked. It was bad to fight the sheriff and the law. “It’s all done Jawfully and it would be breaking the Jaw to stop the sheriff,” Jeff said evenly. “If it was my farm, feeding my wife and kids would be my first law. I think that it is more important to feed my family than some fat banker! Now we could...” stranger stopped talking and we all turned as a car swung “Tm Nick Spinido; I live at the into the driveway, Ted West, the isn’t the first farm) |to think of Jeff being chased off dered what the sheriff was going | |his land. Suddenly the stranger|to do. Ted West was a pretty | said: “Martin's not getting off!| tough man. ‘ You'll have to put the whole ten of} But the sheriff didn’t seem to | us off before you put Martin out.) know what to do. He just stood And if you do, we'll come back| around for a few minutes, then he tomorrow and put him in again!” | The sheriff turned to look at him | for a second, then he said: “You're “Thanks Mr. Spinido,” Jeff said, holding out his hand. la newcomer around here, ain’t) “Spinido is the name, Nick Spi- | you?” nido. Mister isn’t a part of it.” |" “Yeah.” | And they shook hands. Jeff went into the house to tell his wife what had happened and “Well, remember that in this part of the country we obey the law.” “Is a man breaking the law if he tries to make an honest living and feed his family? It isn’t Martin’s| would come back with deputies or | fault that the price of feed has| something, but I didn’t say any- gone up, or that the freighting thing about it. | | charges on apples is so high that) After awhile the sheriff came) he loses money, is it?” back. He was alone. Jeff walked The sheriff was still for a mo-) down to his car and we followed | ment, as if he was thinking, then} him, | he said: “He borrowed two thou~) “The company agent was wait-| sand dollars didn’t he? He took| ing down the road a way. Jeff. He) their money and now he has to pay! got pretty excited when I told him! it back. That's only fair?” | what had happened. He said that! “How is it fair? If some of the| he didn’t want anything to happen | like they had out West, so he gave you a six-month extension. You can stay here for awhile.” Spinido smiled and no one said a word, so the sheriff backed his car out and went away. Jeff Martin shook hands with Spinido again, and then we all shook hands with him. Then Jeff said: “If you could like to come a little scared that the sheriff directors of that mortgage company | hadn't raised the price of feed at the Grain Pit, he could have made some money on his eggs. 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