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‘. sometimes given, when workers are Page Four AUGUST 9, 1934 FARMERS HIT BY DROUGHT AND PROCESSING TAX Federal Levy Put on Hogs That Are Sold Farmers Also Forced to Take Cut In Funds Paid Under Curtailment Program By a Farmer Correspondent BOYD Co., Neb. — We: p@ ary, no rain. Crops are a Ine, late corn is the on the last week we suffered temperature of 100 grees. Farmers are moving ou cattle to other pastures, some going to mar- kets, hardly paying expenses. around here are worthless, get buyers to take them away; corn,! wheat, hay, etc. going high. Corn 70 cents to $1 a bi 1, wheat 88 cents to $1, hay, they are bidding} 15 to $20 a ton, and then can get| Pigs cannot mone. Farmers are selling their| whole flocks of poultry, as grain} even at the above prices cannot be purchased. price 10 to 12 cents a doz k are from four to seven a pound Spring chickens to 12 cents a po The corn and hog program was Signed up T! y 26. over the county Farmers are almost forced to sign, as there is nothing else in sight, and no feed is ship- ped in even if thousands of head of} stock are starving to death. | Most farmers have also had to} take a cut in corn and hog program| from $25 up to $200 on contract.} Wallace and Co. are cutting out| hogs raised, making goats out of} Signers, but whenever hogs are shipped onio the market, the pro-| cessing tax is always the same, $2.25} for every 100 pounds of live weight, which the farmer pays before he} fets any returns. (A nice jack pot} for some capitalist). Farmers are} beginning to think the New Deal) and Roosevelt are not so hot. They ‘Sty that in the campaign the New Deal promised that no one should suffer or want in this land of nty, but it promise Next week the government is sup- posed to start and buy cattle in Boyd Co. Do not as yet know what stand farmezs are going to take; thing is sure, they must sell and another that cattle fit are not going to be buried as has hap- pened in some places. They must be used for food purposes, whether it be for the unemployed in the city, or poor farmers. If no rain comes within another day or so, 90 per cent of the farmers will need relief at once. P. W. A. and C. W. A. work has about run its course. Workers in small towns just lie around seeking a job, so as to be able to feed their families, but no jobs are offered Election coming scon; some think it will help to obtain work for a time, but others*know better. Farmers and workers are organ- izing the United Front Independent ticket and they expect to have a full ticket in the field for the Nov- ember election, fighting for unem- ployment insurance, and also for the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill. was just another DISSATISFIED WITH NEW DEAL By a Worker Correspondent QUINCY, Ill.— The disappoint- ment with the New Deal is painted in every person’s face. Only the of feigned optimism of the condi- tions, despairing. People don’t dare to express their dissatisfaction because of the spy system here. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE A Woman Speaks Up From Philadelphia, Pa. comes a note declaring a woman's attitude toward birth control in no uncer- tain terms: “I read the letter from Comrade Joe X. in your column today pro- testing the Communist sanction of birth control. I, as a woman, wish to protest against Comrade Joe's point of view. I believe it is un- worthy of a Communist. How can he help but realize that opposition to birth control is an effective means for the capitalist class to still further enslave the workers! “There are times when hungry mouths at home compel a worker to join in such anti-working class activities as scabbing and strike- breaking. If a worker has many children depending upon him ior food and shelter he is forced to accept any pittance or crumb his employer may wish to dole out. “Comrade Joe speaks of birth control as a barbarous act; I would disagree with him to the point of saying that those who forbid birth control aim to reduce the worker to mediaeval serfdom. “AS @ woman worker and a Com- Mmunist sympathizer I am glad to see that greater masses of the workers, both Negro and white, are daily availing themselves of the benefits of knowledge on how to control the size of their family. There are still, however, countless obstacles and difficulties attached to the mass dissemination of birth control information. Certainly the practice of this would be the privi- lege of every man. or woman, if he or she so desired, under a Soviet state. Comradely yours, “lise K." While we subscribe heartily to Comrade Elise’s views, we just wish to qualify the statements in her second paragraph, which claim that he who has many mouths to feed is compelled to participate in anti- working class activity. Although the dependence of a large family upon a worker does exert a more considerable pressure upon him toward accepting “any pittance or crumb,” such a large family must Not be rezarded as a compulsion to Scab, or otherwise aid in sirike- breaking or anti-working class ac- . tivity. On the contrary, it is one More reason to keep up a militant fight. To limit the size of the family, of course, lightens such pressure, We might add that the preference _ hired, to those with dependents, arises not so much out of the ben- evolence of the boss as out of his @esire to secure docile workers. (More and more, however, they are getting fooled in this kind of ex- pectation when they hire fellows with seven or eight kids at home!) Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1939 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 36 takes 334 yards 39-inch fabric. CENTS (lie) in coins or stamps (coins preftrred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St.. New York City. | Best Seller--- “How to First practically sold Worker. collect). edition To Districts, Sections, 1 cent To individuals, 2 cents, new Red Builders and route carriers), Sell the Daily Worker” of this 32-page booklet out! Contains 30 photos of Red Builders in action, and is packed with suggestions on how best to increase the sale of the Daily Indispensable to all D. W. sellers. (Parcel Post (Free to all Order from DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION DEPT,, 50 East 13th Street, New York City but small business men are| F arm Worleers Organizing in Tr By a Worker Correspondent TRENTON, N. J.—For a few ionths each year 2,000 unemployed orkers, mostly Negro, get a chance |to work on farms, picking beans, | potatoes, etc. They only make about $4 to $5 for three days’ work each week. Most of these workers live in houses which have not had gas or electricity since the depres-/| sion began. Now that they have a chance to buy a few things that they need, the state has cut them off the relief roll and stopped pay- ing their rent. Now they are worse off than if they didn’t stop work. | Some of the workers are organ- | izing committees to send down to {tan relief authorities. A group of farm workers have started to form |@ local of the Agricultural and | Cannery Workers’ Industrial Union, Mexican Workers In Camp Are Terrorized By Armed Rangers’ | By An Unemloyed Mexican Worker | LOS ANGELES.—Forty-two of us| who are foreign born have been! sent back from Cold Creek Camp| No. 50, nine miles from Calabasas. We have been put back in flop houses. | Two armed rangers came into the camps and demanded citizenship proof of all workers in the forced} labor camp. I guess they were} | trying to stop an organization the | | workers formed in the camp called the Sunshine Club, but they won’t | succeed, because nearly every one |fathers of the city are looking full|of the more than 200 workers in |the camp belonged to it. This Sunshine Club is really a large grievance committee that or- ganized protests against the rotten food in the camp and the lack of towels or hot water. We had al- |ready made them give us better lunches. | The rangers want the other workers to believe that such agita- tion only comes from “foreigners.” But the workers in the camp don't believe this and wouldn’t care any- way, because they have grievances |and want to organize to protect | themselves. \$1 a Week Is Forced Labor Wage for Job on Missouri River | By a Worker Correspondent SO. SIOUX CITY, Neb.—I have been in close touch with the condi- tions since 1916. Before that I was a farmer and whey peddler or milk- man, and I ran a milk ranch myself at Yankton, 8. D. | In May, 1917, I joined the I. Ww. W., which was a good fighting organ- | ization at the time. I was black-balled a few times. My brother told me I had better !look out for myself and leave the rest of the workers do the same. I made the mistake of taking his ad- vice. I started to save every copper I could get a hold of, and every hour I worked I saved up a little |money. and thought that I could buy a house and start exploiting too. I have accumulated five pieces of property which will be taken away from me in a short time because I can't pay the taxes. The county renting the property |from me tells me they will pay the {rent in a short time and sell the | property out for taxes. I have been getting relief from the state. $1.50 a week for gro- ceries, and they tell me what I can eat and what I cannot. That $1.50 was for two persons. Finally they didn’t want to do that either, so they put me to work on the Missouri River giving me a job whereby I get to work two days a month for 40c }an hour for 5 hours a day or 10 hours for a month, making $4 for @ month, or $1 a week for two persons. They go to the extent of downing the system in Russia where every- | body really is free and equal. We sure have to do the same as the bees do. When they get tired of feeding the drones then they kill them. CHAIN GANG TERROR By a Worker Correspondent | COLUMBIA, S. C.—I am again writing on the white terror in South ;Carolina, about the chain gang. The ruling class say that they must jalways keep the “damn niggers” |to themselves on the gang, and also lin the state prison, and in the county jail all over S. C. “In this | Way we can always manage the |whites and the ‘damn _niggers,’” they say. |The other day in Lexington County a Negro prisoner and a white prisoner were talking, The |captain on the gang asked them, |what in the hell are you fellows talking about. “Nothing,” they \said, only our freedom. “That will never happen,” he answered. “You damn poor white jbastard, I believe you was teaching \that damn black son of a bitch to jTun away. I mean to beat hell out of you tonight.” | CLASS JUSTICE By a Farmer Correspondent | BEMIDJI, Minn—A farmer was | fined $40 or 40 days in jail for using license plates, belonging to one car, on another automobile, although both cars had belonged to the fam- \ily and this farmer had no way [of getting a license for the other car. | I was told that the Mayor's son |had been before court for being | drunk while driving and that the | judge said he would impose sentence at some later date. “But so far no- body heard whether this sentence was imposed. | { Unemployed? | Builders! Join the Red enton, N. J.' for the stricken farmers except to Death Comes To The Prairies This Oklahoma picture shows how cattle are dropping dead from thirst in the drought. The Roosevelt government has no program raise the price of feed and water and to shoot the cattle that are dying. Judge Blocks Loan to Foreclose on Farmer Member of Dairymen’s League Ruined By Milk Trust and Federal Government By a Farmer Correspondent ARCADE, N. Y—In 1924 I bought a farm of 275 acres at Ar- cade, N. Y. This is in Wyoming County. I paid $6,750 for the farm. I paid out $2,750 cash, and this left a mortgage of $4,000. On this mortgage I paid $800. The interest was 6 per cent, and I kept up the payments until 1932. I could’ not keep the payments, and was to be foreclosed. The mortgage was held by John Knight, of Arcade, who is the Federal judge for western New York. When I found I was to be foreclosed, my little 11-year old daughter wrote to President Roosevelt. I got an an- swer from the Farm Credit Admin- istration who said my application would be given preferred attention. It was around the end of March that I got this letter. On May 7th my daughter wrote again, and we got a letter saying that no loan could be given on the farm. The Farm Credit Admin- istration wrote that they had gone over the papers of the appraiser. They said: “Our review of the papers in his case leads us to the conclusion that the action taken by the Federal Land Bank was justified.” No apraiser had come to the farm. The farm had been ap- praised in 1932 when I had made application for another loan. In 1932 the appraiser said that I could not get more than $2.000 on all my tools and livestock. I had 35 head of cattle, of which 18 were being milked, besides all my tools and a team of horses. John Knight blocked this loan. He did not want the money; he wanted the farm, Knight told me the farm had been sold and that the new owner had a tenant ready to move on it. Today this farm is still standing idle. On July 8th the sheriff came to Letters from COMMUNISM?” Brooklyn, N. Y. To the Editor, Daily Worker: Although I am the owner of a small delicatessen and lunchroom I have long ago realized that my interest lies with the working class. I am a member of the Interna- tional Workers Order and a steady reader of the Daily Worker. My store is located in a workers’ dis- trict, and many times during the dey when the workers come in they find interesting reading ma- terial in the extra copies of the Daily which I have lying around. Although they find it is for the workers, they are against Commu- nism, and through my experience I should say that it is mainly because they know nothing about it. Therefore I suggest that the Daily should print a brief outline of what Communism is, in every edition. I believe that this will increase the circulation of the Daily Worker because it will do away with the false notions which a great many workers have about it. IK, CAPITALIST SYSTEM RESPON- SIBLE FOR MURDER West Brighton, N. Y. Tuesday evening an unemployed worker, Vincenzo Spada, 56, beat his wife, Angelina, 50 to death. He had worked for 25 years in Barrett Nephews and Co., but two years ago this company went broke and threw about 100 workers out of work, When Spada was examined he claimed that his wife nagged him for over a month and that Tuesday night she had said to him that if he didn’t get a job she would quit her job in the dress factory and join with some man who could properly support her, That was the climax. Immediately he shut the doors and windows, took hold of a stove poker and beat her to a pulp. This was the quietest family in the neighborhood, the neighbors said, and I will personally vouch for that, since I know both for over 30 years. The only thing I could do was to point out to them, meaning the Italian people, that the cause for such acts is the lousy corrupt system of capitalism, which denies its workers the fruit of our labor, as a consequence, no honest SUGGESTS COLUMN, “WHAT IS | evict us. There are two children— a girl, 11 years old, and a boy, 6. They have no mother. The children were taken in by a worker and his wife who live in Arcade. These people also moved the furniture into their barn, after it had been at the side of the road for two days. I was a dairy farmer and a mem- ber of the Dairymen’s League, and sold to Borden's, the rich dairy trust. I shipped from 300 to 500 pounds a day, depending on the Season. In 1932 I got only 28c per cwt. for the milk. I was supposed to get 68c; out of this 20c was taken for hauling and shipping charges and 20c by the Dairymen’s League. Out of the 28¢ I had to feed the cows, run the farm, and feed and clothe my family. Our county was not in the milk strikes last year. When the milk code went into effect, we were sup- posed to get not less than $1.50 per ewt. for our milk. But shipping and hauling charges and all this came out of it, and we got only around 60c per cwt. I started to ship to a cheese factory, and got around 80c-90c, In Wyoming County the farmers feel the need of organizing. There is no farm organization except the Dairymen’s League, and this meets only twice a year.. No foreclosures have been stopped heve, and there are many farmers being foreclosed. If the farmers got the right lead- ership, they would organize. I have taken the Daily Worker around and the farmers like it. They seldom get to see a paper and don’t know what is going on. My life savings and 10 years work are gone. Now I must live on the welfare. I want to say that Knight. wrote me letters on federal sta- tionery telling me I had to get off. And Knight has had this farm go- ing from one farmer to another for years, and has got money from each one and then foreclosed. Our Readers worker can make ends meet. And the cure for such rotten conditions would be first to organize and fight for the Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, against war and fascism, and for a Soviet America. 8.0. HAD NO FEAR OF SAN FRAN- CISCO STRIKERS White Plains, N. Y, May I write a few words of ap- preciation of the San Francisco strike. I know that it was be- trayed in the end into the hands of the employers, but I do think that while it lasted it was a strike in which the working people should take great pride. Although of short duration it proved how well the working people can run things when they do have things in their own hands. To me it was a foretaste of the dictatorship of the prole- tariat. It was really amusing to think of the prosperous bankers and their class having to wait in line for their lunches. I wonder if for a minute they thought of the mil- lions whom they have forced into breadlines—not just for one meal, but over a period of years. It seemed to ma, from what I read in the capitalist press, that the general public were put to very little inconvenience by the strikers themselves, I write with special feeling, as it happens that my very dear father, 86 years old, was in a private hos- Pital in San Francisco for an op- eration at the time of the strike. And yet = was not worried for him for one moment because I know that where working people are in control no one need fear. Yours for a new and better world, Lane, WORKERS SHOULD DEMAND BETTER CONDITIONS The capitalist press carried screaming headlines telling us about the returning prosperity to Amer- ica. They tell about the big ap- propriations that the Roosevelt government is making for the drought-stricken farmers. Then we turn the pages of the Deily Worker and sce letters such as Claud Rey- nold’s, stating that he has mur- dered his children to keep them from starving. My advice to parents who are thinking of taking the same way out as Reynolds did, is—join the United Front Wins Relief in Roswell, N. M. By a Worker Correspondent ROSWELL, N. Mex—We are fighting here at fearful odds in ac- tual starvation, killing all the cat- tle on account of the drought, and the only thing that is keeping things up at all is some govern- ment relief. If this stops this win- ter it will be too bad. We have a united front now with Farm Holiday, Socialists and Com- munists fighting for relief side by side. Our leaders are arrested weekly in all the big towns, but so far we have forced their release each time. Yesterday a huge mass meeting at Clovis was raided and leaders ar- rested, and here they are under 25 days sentence in jail. Feeds Children With Wild Weeds to Keep Them From Starving By a Worker Correspondent LA JUNTA, Col—There is a Mex- ican family here with children and they were cut off the work relief rolls. The woman told me that she has to feed her children with wild weeds in order to keep them from starving. These people are sure down and out and starving, without food or clothing or a house to live in. Also the poor woman said she is about to poison herself before seeing her children die of hunger. They were to the relief office and they were put out by the clerk sev- eral times. She can’t cook her meals because she hasn’t got the money to pay for the water, And she has to buy everything, from salt. to water. I asked her for a glass of water, and she said, “T haven't got any water, not even to cook my food.” Negro Worker Faints From Hunger But Is Denied Help in South By a Worker Correspondent COLUMBIA, S. C. — A Negro worker had collapsed from the heat and I went and got an officer, so that he could send the sick man to the hospital. The policeman re- fused to send this Negro anywhere. I know this Negro well. We had worked together for three months at Camp Jackson on the C. W. A. project, but he has not had any work since February, and no food to eat. He went from door to door and asked the people to let him cut their grass in the yard so that he could get bread to eat. But they refused him. This man was laid off in February and they did not give him food or work. This Negro worker was just about starved out, but he was on the state rolls and he was cut off because he and his wife are not to- gether. A single man doesn’t have to live. They are starving by the hundreds in the South, I myself am a worker here, and I have been cut off. The inspector was. at my home, and I was not there when she came, so for that reason they cut me off, and I am fighting like hell to get back be- cause I have no other way out. We are living in hell and choking in the South. If you utter a word, they put you behind bars, That is how things are with the poor Negro in the South, but I hope the day will soon come when workers will come to the top and get their rights. I am hungry now. I had but one day’s work in July, and no food, and on the 12th of July my case was closed, so you know just how it is with me, but I am will- ing to struggle for what we work- ers want—unemployment insurance and the right to live, and organize for better conditions. The League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights forced me back on the relief roll again, on July 27. There are many workers here that have been cut off the relief for no reason, whether black or white, but I hope the day will soon come when they will see as I have seen, We must struggle. Millions of Sheep: and Cattle To Be Destroyed By a Worker Correspondent BARNHART, Texas. — This guy called Uncle Sam is just now buy- ing outright 5,000,000 sheep and the agent of the Blue Buzzard Gang- sters tells me they will kill, destroy outright, 75 per cent of sheep and 35 per cen! of 5,000,000 cattle. I am making the trips to the wholesale killings. There is no doubt that the banks get the money and the ranchman keeps most of the sheep. NOTE: We publish letters from farm- ere, agricultural workers, lumber and forestry workers, and cannery workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us let- ters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organ- ize. Please get these letters to us by Monday of each week. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step tow2rd the dictatorship of the proletariat! Communist Party and fight for the rights of your children and your- celf instead of taking the easiest Way out. Comrades, to do that we are only showing we are fur- ther ready to submit to the op- pression of the yellow-livered capi- talists, A READER, || PARTY LIFE Our movement is making head- way in Providence, true in a some- what disorganized manner, but still the last six months have left an unmistakable mark of growth. It is particularly impressing because of the complete absence of the guidance that a Communist unit should give if one was functioning effectively. There is a Communist Party in Providence consisting of a few de- voted comrades, but there is no leadership at all. Yet the last few months have witnessed the organ- izing of an English speaking branch of the IW.O., a 25 per cent in- crease in membership of the Jew- ish branch of the I.W.O., the even- tual establishment of a youth branch of the I.W.O., the decision to establish a branch of the Frei- heit Gesangs Verein, independent of other cities, and what is really important, the organizing of what promises to be a really live Cam- paign Committee for the Commu- nist Election Campaign, the estab- lishment of a large and influential branch of the League to Help the Victims of German Fascism and a very promising branch of the I.L.D. It is about the last two organiza- tions that I want to take space, for they are important as examples of what determination and devoted work can accomplish. For months our branch of the IL.W.O. has discussed the Fascist question. We made attempt after attempt to establish a united front organization against Fascism. We were failing, when we thought we were succeeding — the Socialist Party sabotaged and asked that we include in the Fascist countries also the Soviet Union; the liberal pro- fessors talked, but were afraid of action and association with Com- munists, yet persistent effort has won to the extent that the Kurt Rosenfeld meeting that was ar- ranged by the newly established branch, despite adverse weather conditions, brought out what is con- sidered a large attendance here, and the cash collection for the victims of German Fascism netted $113. The chairman of the meeting was a Presbyterian minister, upon whose recommendation from the platform, 35 copies of the New Masses were sold. The committee consists of college graduates, a professor in one of the colleges here, a Y.M.C.A. secretary and a number of influ- ential people. In short we are mak- Diligent Effort Built Anti- Despite Little Organization Movement in Providence Is Forging Ahead Fast lazi, 1.L.D.Branches ing roads in the ranks of the ine tellectuals. Our ILD. branch consists at present of nine Negroes and eight whites. The Negroes are workers, the whites are unemployed or partly employed professional men and college graduates, who are dis- playing such interest and activity that will surely result in one of the best ILD. branches in the country. All of these results have come from the activity of our unit. E. S., Providence. One of the Causes for Fluctuation In reading the Party Organizer for May-June, I found under “Growth of Party.” page 12, that the Party lost 33,000 members from 1930-1934. One of the reasons for this is the slowness in issuing mem- bership books. I think this is the worst thing that can happen in the Communist Party. This way, instead of gaining we will lose members. Those who are responsible for this stage of affairs ought to be removed from the office and be replaced by workers who are dis- ciplined enough to live up to their duties. To give you an example of how this particular work is done, I can prove that in my unit, with 21 members, four members had to wait for their membership book from two to five months. Right now we have a comrade who has been wait- ing for his book for four months. Don’t you think that there should be some way to correct this situation? I am Gere man and I am used to discipline. That's why I can’t understand that mistakes like this happen. This has been going on since the Party exists, and like the Party Organizer proves in the worst manner. L. L., West Forest Hills, L, 1. Join the Communist Party 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. 35 EL Name Street . City Rise in Meat Prices Predicted Next Year BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 7 The price of meat will rise next year, according to a statement made here today by John A. Kotal, executive secretary of the National Associ- ation of Retail Meat Dealers. Speaking before the annual con- vention of the association, Kotal, whose own firm is in Chicago, de- clared that such a price rise would ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Radish! Health Farm, Olinville, N. Y.— We have had your “health” farm investigated and found that your claims are false. You have neither farm nor the most elementary sani- tary facilities, except a five-room shack. Your eggs, butter and cheese are bought at the A & P stores and the “doctor” on your premises is a young man of 18 who hopes to be able to study medicine, some day. Under the circumstances, your offer to give readers of the Daily Worker a 50 percent dis- count is a gross imposition and a severe strain on our gullibility. In other words, you are what Lenin called a “radish”; red outside and white inside! How the Circulation Drive Affects This Column and Vice-Versa The other night we took a. walk to get some fresh air, after a day of gruelling work. It was 11:30 and we could not go very far, so we strolled in the neighborhood, in what is known as Greenwich Vil- lage. We had intended to return to the office in about half an hour and stop at 14th St. on our way back to get a copy of the next day's Daily Worker. We knew from ex- know you will stick by me. . International Labor Detense Room 430, 80 Hast 11th St. New York City I contribute $............. and Defense. NAME . for ADDRESS 18 (o 29 years, the bosses and finement. My only hepes of is in your strength.” Dr. LUTTINGER ADVISES inevitably follow the wide-spread government slaughtering of cattle this year and the effects of the | present drought throughout the | middle west. SOAP WORKERS STRIKE (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—More than 100 workers in Lever Brothers soap plant in Hammond, Ind, struck | Monday for a 10 per cent increase in wages. Police were on hand in an attempt to prevent militant mass picketing. perience that there was no other place in the entire Village where we could get an advance copy of our paper, ‘You may well imagine our sure prise when we saw a Red Builder selling the Daily Worker, within two blocks from our office. We watched him for a few minutes and noticed that he had a brisk trade, mainly from a nearby cafeteria. Home-Cooked Vegetables Tanya: Home-cooked vegetables are not necessarily superior to the canned product. If you overcook them or discard the water in which they are boiled, a large per- centage of their vitamin-content and of the precious minerals is lost. The canning companies are in a position to make use of the most scientific methods of cooking (under vacuum) and straining. Our “fresh” vegetables are often sev- eral days old; while some of the large canneries pack their products on the spot, within a few hours after they are harvested. Further- more, many of the fruits and vege- tables are picked before they are fully ripe; otherwise they are liable Free Herndon and Scottsboro Boys! “It pleased me greatly to have received your letter today if I did receive unpleasant news a few minutes before. It didn't weaken my courage and faith whatever so long as I Letter from Haywood Patterson, Kilby Prison, June 29, 1934, $15,000 =SCOTTSBORO-HEKNDON EMERGENCY FUND 815,009 “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of 1 to rot before they reach the con- sumer. Canned tomatoes and pine- apple, for instance, are liable to be riper than those we get on the pushcart or vegetable store. the Scottsboro-Herndon Appeals taeir jail tocls have increased the pressure on me. I am deathly tick as a result of the mur- derous treatment accorded me during my two years of con- ever being in the ranks again Letter from Angelo Herndon, Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934.