The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1934, Page 4

¥ i ee i ARN KER : Page 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934 “s ST a ep ne te rn Croppers’ Strike Bosses Guard Seabs CP. To Fight As Young Workers Landlords Fight for Demand . Farmers On Acreage Roosevelt Cotton Program Under Fire As Crop- pers Insist on $1.00 Per Hundred By a Worker Correspondent OPELIKA, Ala—I am a Commu- nist Party member and shall write of the conditions in my county, | among the poor Negro farmers who are working for Mr. W. E. Davis. | He hires the men in the city of Opelika, Ala. These men work on his farm in the country and are | only paid $8 a month, and gives |them for a month’s work, one 24 Ib. sack of flour, 15 Ibs. of buck meat and that is all. He charges By a Worker Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala.—With 300 youth on strike for $1 per hundred pound for cotton picking, the bosses are very sore. Their terror and night rides into the Negro neighbor- hoods and shooting through the croppers’ shacks have not yet forced the young workers in Lee City and ,Tallapoosa to pick cotton for 50 cents per hun-*" dred. There are, however, a few C. G $1 for the sack of flour, which is scabs. It is very difficult to get to| ropper US. -'| ack and. bak Antgoastbis in oat these scabs because the boss Keeps | 10 cents a lb. for fat buck meat. | them guerded. The bosses are| | | He also hires croppers, whom he pays $8 a month, on which th jhave to feed their entire famil because never before | have they seen their cotton hanging | in the fields as it is now. The Bankhead Bill is causing | them quite a bit of trouble. The] yorkers are very active in distribut- | ing, leaflets on the cotton picking | Strike. They can get to the scabs CAMP HILL, Ala.—I want to tell who. are not guarded because the| you how the big bosses treat the landlord does not think he can tell| poor people, the farmers here in these young cotton pickers anything | Camp Hill, Ala. There was a poor Whereas an adult would be ordered | farmer who carried a bale of cotton | Nothing From weigh the cotton but a white man is sent in a wagon to all the fiel to weigh the cotton which they take to the white bosses’ barn and put it in his cotton house. The Ne- By a Sharecropper Correspondent ta. stay away from the field, and in | to Camp Hill gin, to Mr. Pears many cases kicked or even hit over | Smith’s warehouse, and he asked the head. Young workers. the few|Mr. Smith for fertilizer. Mr.| who were on, have been cut entirely | off relief because they refused to} Pick cotton at less than their de- Smith didn’t want the farmer to sell! his bale of cotton to anyone else, | and told him he would beat hell out | |The farmers picking the cotton out Sale of Cotton ©: the fields are not allowed to| Unbroken By Southern Landlords’ Terror Croppers Join| Only Big Farmers Helped | Negroes Find By AAA, Governor Told o Small Missouri Farmers Demand Immediate Relief and Passage of Workers’ Bill By a Farmer Correspondent JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — We small farmers in this part of Mis- souri have sent a delegation to Governor Park's office, presenting our demands for relief, production loans, and the adoption of the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill and Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The list of our demands fol- lows: |“Governor Guy B. Park | State Capitol, Jefferson City, Mo. |“Dear Sir: “We, delegation of farmers, urge immediate relief for the drought- | stricken and poor farmers of Mis- souri, from the state authorities. “Numerous examples of existing deplorable conditions on our farms no crops to sell this year and very |little feed for our cattle. “As a result, our stock is starv- ing and taken away from us, and }our families have little to eat and wear. Mortgage, payments constitute a big burden. In many farm homes there is no | money at all for the smallest neces- | sities. “We are in this condition through no fault of our own. “The A.A.A, does not relieve the situation for us. It is our convic- | tion that the A.A.A, aids mainly the big farmers and the mortgage holders. can be given. We've got practically | tax and interest | | | “Following are our demands, | which we feel must be met, in| order that our condition can, in any | |real sense, be improved: | “1—$7.00 a week, $2.00 a week | for each dependent to all needy farmers. “Z—Forty-tive cents per hour and a 30-hour week for workers | on all P.W.A. projects. No dis- | crimination against Negroes and their living in rural communities. “3—Hay, feed and seed must be shipped into the drought area | and distributed at government ex- | pense. | “4—No evictions, no foreclosures, | | | | no tax sales. | “5—Cancellation of back taxes and secured debts for all small and middle farmers. “6—Adoption of Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill and Workers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill (H.R. 7598). | | “7—Greatly increased taxes on | | the rich. | “8—Production loans without | interest to small and middle farmers. “The situation is desperate and / something must be done. Therefore | we have to insist that this our ap- | peal and these our demands be | taken up for consideration by your office at once and favorable, im-| mediate action taken on same, “Your very truly, ‘MEMBERS OF DELEGATION,” | them. |a street car we must sit in the ¢x- | made up in the proper amounts in| Conditions require operation. | treatment as white passengers. | WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board Jim Crow Rules ‘Red Cross Aid | Barber's Itch Bleeding from the Rectum | D. K., Philadelphia: — Barber's) R. G., Bronx:—Bleeding from the | itch is an infection of the beard| rectum is a symptom which demands part of the face acquired in un-| instant attention. The most com- sanitary barber shops. Special diets} mon cause of rectal bleeding is are of no benefit, Ultra violet rays| hemorrhoids, commonly known as are not effective, although X-rays|“piles.". There are many other sometimes are. The best treatment | causes, however, and some may be today for this disease is the use of| quite serious. For example, tumors a salve made up as follows: of the rectum may cause bleeding, Funds Go to Repair Whites’ Homes As Negroes Starve By a Worker Correspondent | MONTGOMERY, Ala.—I want to congratulate you on your growing * Benzoya peroxide 10.0 grams These may not necessarily be can- ee ane sed vate a ee | Quinolor 0.5 grams |cers, but they frequently are. The | short time, but I still feel I should Oil of thyme 16 grams | severe pain which you get is sug- write of our hardships during and | _, 2ucalyptol 0.2 grams | gestive of an inflammation rather In Mont- | Petrolatum In equal parts to| than a tumor. One of the common after my school days. gomery the colored children have to walk from six to cight miles to school. There are no busses for) But for the white rulin class children there are the best|a mixture of chemicals. equipped busses. When we ride in | case you can get all these medicines | | Lanolin make up to| conditions causing rectel pain and 100.0 grams. | slight bleeding is fissure of the Your druggist may have difficulty | lining of the rectum. This is merely: in getting the “quinolor,” which is| 0 Ulceration. A fistula may also In that|Sive the symptoms you describe. As for treatment, most of these Fis- treme end of the car, and then Squibb’s “Antiseptic ointment.” This|SUres may occasionally be treated we're crowded out. The conductor | is, of course, quite expensive and is| Successfully by local applications, yells at us and curses. If we show | an instance in which the large drug| but the results are not very good. dislike we are threatened. We pay | and chemical houses exploit the| The operation for the various con- our money and should get the same | worker by means of monopoly. ditions mentioned are minor and You will have to apply this salve | Bot gabe ie dele Down here most of the old people | jeast once every day; dition warrant one, you should twice a| who go to the Red Cross for aid Gay would be better if your skin | D@ve no fear. | have not received one cent or pro- | does not become irritant. Even | visions and are starving. White | after cure, this stubborn disease! Contributions received to the workers, who are lucky to get @ may return. Therefore, continue|credit of the Medical Advisory handful of poison food, cannot treatment for some time after the make it last a week, and the Negro workers are denied even the lousy feed. We aren't able even to feed | ourself, in which you cut out all|Helen Luke, in the Daily Worker ourselves and ‘children, but the meats, green vegetables and rav|drive for $60,000, Quota—$1,500. white boss class can Tide in cars | fruits, is a very dangerous one. If| M. J. G. -$1.00 and get aid from the Red Cross. kent up for any length of time,|K. Pelaire . The Red Cross even repairs theit | may cause more trouble than your| Jack Kelos homes, and the Negro worker 15| present skin dsease. Meats, raw| Andrew Morsey |Board in its Socialist competition skin clears up. |with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, The diet upon which you have put | Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and mand. However, they continue to walk miles and miles over the coun- tryside to bring in all news they can..on the strike and what landlords are saying. As many as 35. scabs have been made to lay down their sacks in one part of Tallapoosa and help to win the Strike, because a young worker had made his way to the field and ex- plained to them what the cotton the | of him because he didn't sell it to| | him. The farmer owes for one ton | of fertilizer to Mr. Smith, and when the farmer sold his cotton, he of- fered Mr. Smith his pay, and he | wanted it all. I mean that all the poor man got for his cotton was nothing. That is the way these bosses are acting here, and when some of the Negroes sell their cot- | ton, the bosses take it from the | Picking strike meant dealer. | |groes don’t know what it means Problerive of Feed and Fel Face South Dakota Farmers | By a Farmer Correspondent HECLA, 8, D.—This is a smal jor twelve dollars per ton, This | | Means that at the very most one suffering. The poor share croppers are get- ting an awful break. Most of them are naked and the land owners aren't trying to give them any clothes or food, nor wood, not one red cent to even help the poor sharecroppers, who are toiling and struggling in rainy and weather to get food for his young ones. If he says anything about | being robbed by the landlords he is cold | | present skin disease. Meats, raw |meeded to keep up your general health. Previously received eoee $121.15 Total to date Facing Another Winter of Hunger and Death | | By a Worker Correspondent of farmers as well as workers in the |city are facing another winter of starvation and death. Already a |family of 8, the father a war vet, the mother an ex-school teacher, and six children, are living out WACO, Texas, — Conditions have | under a tree in the heat that has THE $60,000 DRIVE Of the $974.53 recorded on Tuesday’s tabulation, $757.68 came from the Delegated Mass Meeting at the Sunday night. Little more than two hundred dollars, therefore, can be counted as the day’s actual contributions. Of the money ($216.85) received aside from the banquet, $156.56 also| get any of the money. to haul up a bail of his cotton. After the Negro picks the cotton in | the fields he never sees it again, | he doesn’t know where it is going or when it is sold, doesn’t know | anything about it after the white | bosses’ wagons take it away every evening, in his field. He doesn’t When the Central Opera House, in New York, came from New York, which means that only $60.29 was credited to | bosses get ready they call them to the rest of the ccuntry. This means that the districts fashion. Mass organizations, trade And of this sixty dollars, forty-seven déllars ‘OWN and give them all from five and some change came from New Haven and Newark. to six and ten dollars each, When the corn is gathered he must organize their work in better takes all of the farmers’ corn haul unions, Com s y Communist Party units, tohis ‘bara: | grain community, and yet on ac- count of the drought not one threshing machine operated near | this town as far as I know. So you see the crops were a total failure. Cornfields produced more or less stalks, but extremely few any ears of corn. The only other fodder here this year is Russian thistle, which grows quite luxuriantly during drought. It is poor feed. Baled wheat straw, also a very poor feed, is being donated by farmers in the Red River Valley, where there was a good crép. Bu! the recipients must pay for baling and shipping, which brings it up to five or six out of ten families will be able to | buy their own fuel here. The rest | must depend on relief. How gen-/ erous that’ will be remains to be | seen. | | Lem Harris has set up headquar- | ters or branch headquarters for the | Farmers’ National Committee for | | Action at Mitchell, S. D., in order |to be on hand to organize relief | demands in this and surrounding States. That means if the farmers don’t want to take things lying | down first class organizational help will be at hand. Relief workers are getting rest- less. In this little town they have just forced the dismissal of the man threatened with terror and is forced | grown worse, Families of three are|reached the 110 mark. They can- to sign bills and contracts. He 48 furnished less than $2 per week in| not pay the rent and the relief ad- compelled to stay and work for | groceries. ‘The cows are being killed | ministration refuses to give aid. The If a Negro farmer workers clubs must immediately mobilize their forces. The Daily Worker corn to ‘make somé Grive will succeed with concerted, constant action. Note ieee ted | bread he tells them just how much Received Oct. 9, 1954 $974.53 » — PMR EP are take and no mor Rewyiounly reotived $14,743.92 | Front 5.00 Sol Goldberg 1.00| oe 3 *, of his ‘own or | Pur Workers EK 1.00 : Total to date $15,719.95 | Ind. Union 10.00 M O'Rourke 2.00 There are workers who are work- eau DISTRICT 1 (Boston) NTWHIv_ 30.00 J Simons 1.00| ing for Mr. Luther Johnson, he . MeGoff, Providence, R. I $1.00 lpwio S Michalonsky 1.00 pays them $8 a month out of which ainsi ‘ Mex Fried! 1.00] Fo i: i Total Oct. 9, 1994 S109 | (Creamery Coll. by comrades | they must feed their family. But Total to date : ; $855.71 | ch) 2.00 selling choco. 1.50| instead of vaying them the $8 he DISTRICT (New ree cD ee, ‘¢rs—Marine Mpls 2.00) only Days them $3 or $4 a month Sec 5, Unit 3 2.00 Shop Unit Workers Ind. jonymous | st y 2 Sec 5, Unit 12 1.00 Sec 7, Unit 12 1.30) union ho) keen 200 | and promises iP pay them the rest Sec5(Gaetz) 6.00 Sec 15, Unit 11 1.00| wr roca goz 5.00 Adon Cheskin & | later. When they ask him for the Sec5, Uniti1 1.00 Sec 17, Unit 10 1.00] @" - Edw. Gitlin .30)rest of the money that he owes Sec5,Unit6 5.00 See 17, Unit 11 1.00 hp oo | burle 1.00) them for six or seven months, he Sec$,Unit18 1.00 Sec 2, Unit 328 4.00 wide ima Sympathizer 1.00 raises a big fuss, runs them off, Sec 5, Unit 10 2.00 Sec 1, Unit 5 |Fwio 2.00 B Escover 2.00) 4 of Steinberg _3.25| Grocery, Dairy & | Anonymous —2.00/ Nd _ never pays them anything. 1.00 ECG a * . a eee tase e pene i Another boss, Mr. Allen Cacks, oo 6«LW.0.Br 218 § inion Anonymous 1.00! nip, m i 200 Br 150 2.00| cnemployed Coun- School 17 L-w.0. 200 | ites hundreds on his farm and ee ‘Br 34 5.00 ell No. 7 1.00 J Felshin oo never pays them anything at all. 1.00 . Br Frei- | Brownsville Dist 1.009| He makes them haul two loads of 160 jt No. 49 2.00] —T.W.O. School 3.00 -45| wood to Opelika, each week. He 50 . bd ia Rod pateoe Post 1 5.00 1.09 does his hiring in Auburn, Ala., and 1 2.00 Melvwesda ll lene eae ts meets these workers with the wood 3.00 son Br 2.00/ F.8.U. 1.00 tion 185.00| there. He collects $2.50 for the two 4 LLD., Sacco é& fee roti i Saesee of og loads of wood and takes half of it White & Fish- Vanzetti Br 3.00| Ist Copy hange | to give it to them for their work 2.00 LL.D. Henri Bar- Daily 1.00 Col by J H Cooper | = : gee 3, Unit 128 busse Br 10.00| M_Powner, House on train to Anti- ieee that is done every week. When Geklender 1,00 ~LLD., Bronx Party 3.30 War Congress 8,29 the crops are gathered it all goes Bec 2, Unit 418 Sec 2.00| Paul D Crosby 10.00 A group of Cyp- | to the boss and the workers don't John 1.50 Women’s Council Amtovich—Red rian Wkrs 1.50/ get a dime for an ear of corn for fec 2, Unit 5 No so PPR dogs 6 Sunon * '09| their work. They have to hir Fox 2.00 No. 30 100] on sale first C Burton 1.00] . ry 0 hire Bec 2, Unit 358 No. 12 1,00 | edition Daily Samuel Feit 1.70 lemselves out during the winter Gweinberg, 8.00. «NO. 26 1.00] Worker, N ¥ 3.00 Vondas Bros. 4 Sec 2, Unit 7 See S06 | 8 RS ey vagy are not allowed to say anything to Lindsey 1.50 Imperial Valley I 7 yodape a thich 1 Bee 2, Unit 1281.00 Br, TLD. 2.00| Ben Rubin 1.00 Group of Bus pas about the crop which he made. Sec 4, UnitSG4 17.09 Women’s Counch J J Grusasky 5.00 Drivers 3.50| Now a Communist Party Club is See ig, Unit 6.200 No. 2 1.00 — asking for Negro rights in our Se 18, Unit 2 2.00 No, 49 2.00} Total Oct. 9, 1934 $914.24 | county. 4; Unit 428 1.00 5 100! Fetal to date ON ere eatin ip ; 6, Unit 7 1.00 15 2.00 DISTRICT 4 (Buffalo) I are uilding the Party Club. ee 7, Unit 98 2.00 7 2.00 e the laboring Negro farm- : | Nature Friends, Syracuse Sec sent enone: 180) » a + No. 23 3.09| Nature Friends, Syracus 00 | i Pat ah a ato. Ne.30 2.00| 15th Anniversary Celeb. Syracuse, CAG dad Tights and our 4, Unit 413 2.90 No. 8 1.00 ‘FZ a é 1, Unit 2 25.00 11 5.00) Total oa . 1984 °| We have a contract to rent the 2, Day Unit 2.00 24 1.00} Se aa ae government so much land, for $445 meray, ait 208 3.00 dat Workers. Peter Miravalle eres $1.00 | DEX acre and they only paid us $311 Sec 2; Unit 158 3.00 Club 2.00 es : _______| Per acre and we have to pay the Bec. 20 2.09 Roumania Workers | qotal Oct. 9, 1934 $1.00 | landlerd from five to six hundred 17, Unit 3 1.06 Fi iinet coke Total to date $247.81| pounds of cotton for the rent of Unit 7B 2.00 oumanian Workers if a} Tait 3. 160 Club rer DISTRICT 8% (Chicago) ‘a one’ horse farm. Sec 2, Unit 1 20.00 Roumenian Workers |Lebert & Leo Rosen $2.00 | see 12 83.78 Club 2.00 — } Sa 12 35 RNMAS Total Oct. 9, 1984 $2.00 | Seoul, Unit 21.00 _ Br 62 1.00] Total to date #138110 Board Is Only Pay Bra 32 100 PIN Workers DISTRICT 9 (Minneapolis) B Sec #, Unit 4 5.00 ub i v BEF ais 2) ciGrand ctub €00|D Harsu, Day's wages sio for Lumber Workers Sec &, Unit 7 17.20 Allerton Workers | Total Oct. 9, 1934 $1.00 | PSEA a Sec 2, Unit 4B 2.00 Club 2.00 Teamaraet By a Wor! Sec-15, Unit 8 -2.00 Preiheit Gesangs | Total to date $261.75, a ker Correspondent sage ie peas thee Se SRE PORTLAND, Me—I would like to Eckstein 1,00 Finnish Wking Picintah Werkeek. Clup, have told in the Daily Worker the Bet oan aks 2k unitate workers, |W. Orante, . J: $5.5 horrible conditions which the pulp foes onit 3. Club 10.00/4 Biscay, Freehold 2.00| wood workers have to endure in} sued 1.80 Bronx Workers ‘Unit ‘ Mener 5.00 the woods of Maine. First they Ses 17, Unit 2 2.00 Club vac ape nren tic aterl tl ton| ship them from Boston and Port- See 17, Unit 5 1.00 Progressive Com- WG + 25 land, from the employment shops, See 2; Unit 408 2.50 munity Center .35 when they break tt hi fee $, Unit 215.00 Yugo Slay Tat ‘y brea! he camp there, Sec 2, Unit 6B 1.00 Workers Club 2.00) Total Oct. 9, 1084 ipa and are about $15 in debt to the See 2, Unit 108 1.09 German Working | Tetal to date "employment agency. They go io Seo6, Unit 14 1.00 Club 5.00 DISTRICT 15 (New Haven) work for the landlerd, but they See 1S, Unit 131.99 Middle Bronx Banquet $28.74 r oT hs 3 a Sec. 20, Unit 202 1.00 Workers Club 1.00 a "| only earn enough to pay the em- See 15, Unit 10 2.09 Workers Colony Total Oct. 9, 1984 $28, 14 | Ployment agency. These are dirty Bee 11, Unit 3 1.00 Corp. ne to | Total to date $210.99| conditions under which they are Bec uf Dait 14 2.00 Yon. Fie | DISTRICT 21 (St. Lonis) | working: two men in a filthy ver- Seo15, Unit 5 2.00 head Unit 1.00| Anonymous, K. C., Mo. $1.00; mined hed, a dirty smell about the Sec.15, Unit 5 2.00 Y.C.L., Pull Time ——— | bunkhouse, dirty clothes hung in . S36 2; Unit 168 2.00 School 1.00} Total Oct. 9, 1934 $1.00 the bunkhous¢, men with diseases Unit 288, D. R. Millinery United | Total to date 360.90 sleeping with healthy men. and the | healthy men get the disease. A camp that is terrible is Dumas’ camp. The first jobber works the new Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT || hired men co hard that he gets tired of it, and he wants to change $ his place of work. Then the time- Gollars pet 168, an, outrageous \in charge of relief. But instead of price. | getting the man they wanted—a The other great problem here | Strong Communist Party supporter this winter will be fuel. As this is |—they got in his place a Demo- a practically treeless region all fuel | cratic “leg” man or chore boy who must be shipped in from distant is far worse than the man dis- East or West. Decent coal costs ten | missed. Texas Farmers Denied Relief As AAA Program Destroys Their Herds By a Farmer Correspondent Farmer-Labor State | Uses Relief Cut Threat to Check Militancy By a Worker Correspondent BEMIDJI, Minn. — The Farmer- Labor State, the State of Minne- sota, has a way of suppressing those who are on relief. Every time the workers and farmers get too mili- tant, the Board of Control takes the local Relief Agent off and re- places him with some other agent who tightens the rope a little tighter than the one previous. The present agent put in an entirely new rule just to keep the workers and farmers as far apart as pos- sible. And while prices are rising sky high, many of the workers’ and farmers’ orders were decreased. NOTE: We print every Thursday let- ters from farmers, agricultural and cannery workers. We urge farmers and workers in these in- dustries to write us of their con- ditions and their struggles to or- ganize. Please get these letters to us by Tuesday of each week. (Because of the volume of letters re- ceived by the Department, we can print only those that are of general interest to Daily Worker readers, all letters received are carefully r editors. Suggestions and eri | welcome and whenever possible are used | for the improvement of the Daily Worker. IN INITIATIVE. Camden, N. J. Dear Comrade Editor: This letter is to suggest how com- rades can help to spread our prop- aganda. Each week I look into the situa- tions wanted columns of the daily papers and farm journals, also news items, and get names and addresses, mostly of unemployed workers, war veterans and farmers. To these per- sons I send copies of the Daily Worker, New Masses, leaflets, etc. I send literature three times to each name and if this doesn’t stim- ulate an interests, I find new names. |. The rural workers are usually hungry fot reading matter. They can be reached and won in this way. A SYMPATHIZER. A LESSON WELCOMES THE NATIONAL EDITION Hecla, 8. D. Dear Comrade Editor: Letters from Our Readers MINEOLA, Texas. — Just a few lines to tell you how We exist out here. I have been cut off the re- | lief again, but am going down to demand my part of the food. There seems to be no prepara- tions being made by the U. S. gov- ernment or state to care for the needy this winter. There will be | twice as many needing help this | year than last. | The drought has partly ended here and all the farmers are in bad shape. There is plenty of hell being raised about the Bankhead Bill; all farmers except about 2 per cent are against it. People of our county have wit- nessed the scientific butchers do nothing at all. We must fight until the victory is won. If we all work co-operatively | we'll win, for the greatest thing | | needed is organization and struggle. | fight for | | higher wages and shorter hours, | Fight for our rights, Let's end Jim-Crowism. Many Hungry | As AAA Slays Choice Cattle By a Worker Correspondent CLINTON, Okla.—The government lagents worked swiftly to kill herds. |Near this town a farmer who has applied for government buyers for his cattle because he needed money, stood amazed as his herd was slain in a corral at the edge of which he had good feed growing. Secrecy was employed effectively in the campaign. Newspapers failed so ut- terly to mention the slaughtering | going on in the surrounding region that it is apparent their silence was their work in solving the problem of overproduction. Some 12,000) sheep are to be killed, but only part of this number has been done away with so far. I sure do enicy reading the good news the Daily Worker brings me. I read it and pass it on to do the} good work. | crease my bundles again soon. Sev- eral here want to subscribe to the Daily Worker but it is hard for them to scratch up the price. How- ever, I am hanging on their trails, and hope to get them. FE. M. F. WORKER QUOTES MAYOR MAHONEY Worcester, Mass. Dear Comrade Editor: Last Friday morning I was walk- ing through the Common when I saw a crowd of people gathered to- gether and I wanted to know what it was all about. When I came to the crowd, I saw a man lying on a bench in the park, half dead. I asked a cop what was the matter. He said that man had fainted from starvation. Mayor Mahoney said that nobody is starving in Worcester, Mass. J. 8. THE ANSWER TO FASCIST ATTACKS New York City. Dear Editor: , On Friday evening, Aug. 18, I at- tended the dance given by the Taxi Drivers Union. Along about mid- night, at the height of the activity, i: L keeper sends him to another job, | end the timekeeper sends for his | 50 EAST 13th St. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER L check, and they forge his name and get. the money themselves. These iobbers work to get pulp wood for | the Continental Paper and Bag Cc.. | 220 East 42nd St.. New York Cit; New York, N. Y¥. || The jchbers get the work done by | | only boarding the men. | three husky “bulls” with sour faces walked in, trying to get something on_the Union. | Finding themselves unable to do) so, they issued a summons to the! owner and one of the members for selling tickets to a dance. One| I think the Daily Worker has been magnificent lately. Your exposure of the Morro Castle disaster was great stuff. I think, too, that hav- ing a special New York edition will make the national edition more in- requested. They spoke vaguely of a “relief” buying program, and of cattle shipped to eastern places to be canned for the poor. While hundreds of families in towns went hungry, good beef rotted a few miles away. The writer saw poor people, whom a rumor had reached, hurry out to farm to beg beef only to find six choice beeves dead in a corral too far gone for human consumption. Many times the person—a good Democrat party man—chosen to mark the cattle “unfit” to ship, sim- ply went through the herd making his chalk stripe on the stuff nearest his hand as he walked along. Good cattle were shot, and dying animals shipped. At Herrington, Kansas, a railroad division point, hundreds of dead beeves were thrown from the trains, and burying crews could not. keep up with the mute testimony charging the incompetence of the Aka There is no animal more dear to a farmer than a milk cow. It is the cream check that buys the groceries while the crops grow to fatten the purses of machinery corporations and bankers. Nothing has so quickly brought the farmer to a point of destitution as the loss of his milk cows, which the wanton slaughtering and shipping away program of the A. A. A. — though carried on by the F. E. R. A. the program belonged to the agricul- tural reduction drive since farmers from whom stock was bought were forced to sign reduction contracts for next year—nas so thoroughly accomplished. A few tons of hay |and a few wells drilled would have pulled any farmer through the drought period. fact that I am going to join the teresting to us out in the “sticks.” Don’t be surprised if I have to in- remarkable thing that they have ac- complished by their action is the Union and help fight these fascist attacks, J. M. |by the hundreds. Some are canned, | city has ordered them to leave, in others are burned or buried. There | spite of the fact that they are on are no crops. The drouth has al-| private property with the owner's ready burned them up. Thousands | permission. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE A Candidate from the Councils Clara Bodian, who is New York candidate for Assemblyman from the Fifth Assembly District (Bronx), has a_ strong pro-workingclass record. At the age of fourteen she went | to work in a factory making arti- ficial. flowers and feathers, being so employed about twelve Ip riod she was ac- tive in organizing workers in this trade, taking a & change in wholesale fruit market this morning is the advancing price of bananas. Supplies are being cur- tailed because of labor troubles among the growers. Florida grape- fruit is in the market at moderately _ high prices for the first of the sea- son’s offerings.” Contributions received to tha credit of Helen Luke in her Social- ist competition with David Ramsey, Jacob Burck, Del, Harry Gannes, Mike Gold and the Medical Advis- ory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Andrew Morsey $1.00 hepa ete a Previously received. 3.40 1917 and 1925, During. word Total to date ............$4.40 | War was active in Flower and Feather Workers’ Union.) Can You Make °Em As she became blacklisted due to 9 these activities she turned to other Yourself? trades for a living and in 1927 be- came an office worker. She received a six-month scholar- ship from the National Women’s Trade Union League: also attended Bryn Mawr summer school. In 1928 came to the United Councils of Working Class Women as a tech- nical worker. After a while was drawn into leadership, later be- coming secretary. At the beginning of August, this year, she was a delegate to the great International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism at Paris. Clara is a charter member of the Communist Party, and belongs to the Office Workers’ Union. Is now on duty constantly, as secretary in headquarters of Women’s Councils, using the benefit of her years of experience in class struggle in ef- fort to weld unity of working-class housewives so they can win a better standard of living for themselves and femilies, If we are at all in- terested in halting that skyward flight of the market basket, here is the candidate for us. Vote for Clara Bodian, Vote Communist fer the inaugu- ration of a vast slum clearance program: for the erection of san- itary, fireproof workers’ apartment houses to be rented at cost: and rent free to all unemployed with- out discrimination: for the building of parks and recreation centers in werkers’ sections: and for the strict enforcement of prevailing trade union wage rates, and for the un- limited right to organize on all state, county. city, and local work relief projects. on bf = Apropos of Comrade Sara's letter about the food show, we have a re- mark to make about the much- heralded “Midtown Municipal Mar- ket” (under the Queensboro Bridge) where the band plays and fish are sold to the tune of “Flying Down to Rio” and there are free cooking demonstrations twice weekly. Well, we dashed in one recent day, glanced around, and picked up one of the free leaflets telling what's cheap today and why. (“From the City Consumers’ Food Guide, Con- ducted under the auspices of Will- Pattern 1986 is available in sizet 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 takes 2% yards 36 inch fabric and 1% yards contrasting Illustrated step-by-step sewing in structions included. jam Morgan Jr. Commissioner of Public Markets, and Major F. EB. LaGuardia.”) “Pork loins, rib chops, and end chops are listed as relative meat bargains today .. .” it begins. But. ah, that cute little last paragraph tells an eloquent story of grocery philanthropics: “The principal Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lic) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) 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 West 17th Street, New York City, Sar: