The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1934, Page 4

DAILY WORKER. ‘W YORK, THURSDA OCTOBER 18, 1934 cotton Pickers Defeat KKK Terror and Win Their Demands Guns Fail A gainst Solidarity Landlords F orced to Grant $1,00 Per A.A.A,. Casts Tenants | Into Relief Office | By 2 Worker Correspondent BARNHART, Texas. — Mr. Roosevelt made a statement say- While iting this letter there are 20,- 000,000 on relief and his in action Mr. Bradley, who spoke at the Bible class, stated, “You will not believe it, but you can come to e and see. In Tom Green AAA Texas, 25,000 out of 100 Pounds our city of San RG 8 | Angelo, 000 of them are By a Worker Correspondent | on relief and the unbelievable DADEVILLE, Ala. During the| thing is th The government strike, the southern; rented the land-owners’ land at landlord sent scabs to pick their); $11 per acre in the country cotton at 40 and 32 cents per 100) around San lo with the re- Ibs. The bosses said they would| sult that I at office 450 families of men, women, and crying children, the evicted rent- rather leave the cotton to rot in the field than pay us $1 per 100 pounds. They had been working the white| €Fs. They have no place to go, and negroes as they wanted to, but| nd nothing to eat, Come to my this tii Share led because the | ppers Union ran this strike the help of the Communist I will add, great is the Blue Buzzard Administration of Roosevelt. and fp them on the fiel cotton at 40 cents per 100 pounds and a meal. Some of the comrades went down and told these workers InN ec ° Trial Rips not to pick for less than $1 per 100) | pounds. The iandordsaw teem ant! Clover Off field and watched them, he told the| 4 zy Starvation scabs not to stop, told them the} Nogroes have been free all their) Father of Six Small Children Jailed for born days, and “you have come here, Warring with these Negroes.” The offi lief who were pre! didn't say anything, they knew the workers were hungry. The woman from tt up and got into Fy left. The comrades ganized a| Taking Food large group Saturday and wens bea a back, but the officials didn’t show| By & Worker Correspondent up, and the workers did not get any; LUBBOCK, Texas—E. C. Lamb, food. : 34, who has a wife and six small The ‘caer bd qeer rns children from 5 to 11, and who has some of the workers and sh ; 3 ent ee or three, and jailed three to eight | Deen out of work and on welfare because they found some leaflets. |Telief receiving scant supplies for They are trying to make them say |some time, was arrested for taking they put those leaflets out, but they| aye cans of Uncle Sam’s ham- would not. burger meat from Relief Headquar- They shot at a woman comrade, |ters. Lamb had made several trips tried to make her tell about the| for supplies and been refused. Then Party, but she wouldn't The Party | he took the five cans of hamburger answered by going to Camp Hill|meat and on the way home was and asked for help, and other places | taken in by an officer of the “New as well, but they were refused. Deal,” and placed in the arms of The bosses were forced to give|the blue eagle in the city jail. Friends and workers bailed Lamb $1 per 100 pounds, else their cotton | would have rotted in the flelds.| out, took up a collection, and sent Fellow ‘orkers throughout the | something to eat to his hungry wife whole world, remember the suffer-|and small starving children. After ing of the workers in the south, | these supplies had been received by who had to work for 50 cents a day. | the family, the “welfare relief” sent Suffering from hunger and cold,|a committee to investigate, and re- they fought for their rights and| ported that the Lamb family had demands, and won! | Supplies. | Evidence in the trial developed that meat given out by the “wel- fare” of the New Deal had worms in it. Also, the butter had been on hand so long it was dispensed to | large families only in 30-pound lots to make soup. The prosecution tried desperately |to prove 12% cents per day per member was a generous sum to |feed a family of a working man. The court room was packed during the trials, people getting interested Citrus Union Clique Rules With Terror By a Worker Correspondent AUBERNDALE, Fila.—Recently @ man named Jack Walker was beaten up near here for showing the Labor Research Monthly to some of his friends. The next night he was shot at several times and has been ordered to stay away unless he wanted to be shot. The election of the State offi- jin the “new deal.” After two days, | two able lawyers failed to prove |Lamb even temporarily insane. Lamb had been operated on for | appendicitis and gall stones, yet he cials in the United Citrus Work- ers is in November and the offi- cials want to get rid of Walker before the elections. Walker is | was handling 150-pound boxes at known as a fighter, “Relief Welfare” when he could Gia get a job. On | The city of Lubbock has money We publish every Thursday |in the treasury. The poor visit the letters from farmers, farm and | swill barrels to live. The “super- cannery workers. We urge farm- | visor” lady told the workers to go ers and workers in these indus- |to the fields and pull bolls or go tries to write us of their condi- |hungry. The New Deal is the old tions and their struggles to or- | deal. The workers here plan organ- ganize. Please get these letters to | izing, as the result of the Lamb case us by Tuesday of each week. land the “New Deal” Blue Eagle. S niribuies 95 i. Memory Of Victim of Capitalism “HIS $5.00 contribution is made in the memory of Comrade Sol Taub, who died in October, 1933. He was an active comrade in the L.S.U., and a soldier for the cause, who died as a victim of the capitalist system.” This contribution is accompanied by the signature, “A Friend” . . . Haying already contributed $5.00, earned by washing the cars of employees at the hospital, Frank Zounek, a patient at the Harlem Valley State Hospital (New York) has sent in another $1.50... The Russian National Mutual Aid Society of Steubenville, Ohio, has contributed $6.50—U. Kar- milchik and P. Shikas deserving great credit . .. From Joseph Diciewicy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., $10.30. ———————_—— Today’s list follows: AR ANE N PD o—- DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) $219.53 | See 22 $10.00 es : she Received Oct. 16, 5 q 4 Previously received 18,605.76 | Sec 11 BO meek. 13.19 ———— | Unit 908 8.00 Sec 3 15.75 Total to date $18,825.29 | Sec 9 ‘ish eae a ———~| Gary Sec 10.00 Seo 1 2.00 DISTRICT 2 (New York City) —— Sec 7, Unit 14 $2.59 Anonymous 1.00| Total oct, 16, 1934 $98.89 Br. 799 1.W.0. Polish Chamber of | Total to date $1,325.50 Party At) tatbos ie, 26 +00 DISTRICT 9 (Minnesota) ‘Tom Mooney B: John Reed Club — | joseph Kolar 41.60 ILD. 10.00 Student 30 | ee Wkrs of Brass AP 5.00| rota) ‘Oct. 18 1994 ue Bail Restr't 10.00 Eugene V. Debs. | total to date quae 0, a ao | DISTRICT 14 (Newark) A Friend 5.00 John Dzenit 70) a a ea LW.O. Br. 154 5.00 G Philocalos Feod aeons an Donation, Party G OC Marcley _.80| Kaeck 100 sue meta in Brooklyn 1.00 Louls Fink = 1.14] witson ae eee Burk 125 J Burdett 110] m8 Jerry Janson 25 AF or Nick Kyreakon 1.00 Jerry Lewis 1.00 veal og ra 1934 fits S&P. Member 100 Anonymous 5.00 Total Oct. 16, 1934 $79.74 DISTRICT 19 (Denver) ‘Total to date $9,045.14 Gus Daubenuch, Casper, Wyo. $4.00 DISTRICT 3 (Philadelphia) English Br 1W.O Br 1587 5.00| Total Oct. 16, 1984 34.00 No, 553 $8.00 Government Em- | Total to date $260.32 Lean Lune 1.00 _ployees, Balto 2.25 LW.O. Ukrainian Harry Side ‘ *® Total Oct. 18, 1984 sig25| Get Subs for the “Daily” During Total to date $2,525.17| the Finance Drive! Here Is My Bit Toward the $60,000! ADDRESS AMOUNT Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER AST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. Cro pper’s Onion Striker Thrown Landlord Nothing Left to Tenant, Not Even Chanee of Getting Relief By a Worker Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala.—We Negroes down here in the Black Belt are having a hard time with the bosses. They have cut my son off the re-| lief and he hasn’t got any job nor| clothes fit to wear out. He has| | been walking to Dadevilie since last | December trying to get a job but |couldn’t get one. He asked them | |to put him back on the relief, but | they asked him if he didn’t have a} farm. He told them no, his father | |only had a one horse farm. They asked him if he wasn’t staying on Mr. —’s place, he told them yes, ubt | Mr. — was not furnishing him with | janything. They said, “Well, he will} ! |furnish your father. You furnished |your father during the winter; now |let your father furnish you.” The | |landlord only furnishes his father | |$5.00 a month and doesn’t furnish |that every month, and there are ive of us in the family. Some that have farms with those ig bosses, are still on the relief, jand they haven’t cut them. Now if |they won’t give us jobs, and then | cut us off the relief because we are | living on some landlord’s place, I |don’t know what we will do, for | most of us are living on some land- |lord’s place. Now if we had a home | of our own and not have to make ja living for these bosses we could make a living and wouldn’t have to beg for a job, nor for relief, but | we can’t make a living for our- |selves and them, too, so that is why they try to stop our union, | fi } | bi \Detense Plans In Barre, Vt. | Are Analyzed | aoa By a Worker Correspondent | BARRE, Vt.—In the Daily Worker ; jaf Sept. 26th an article appeared | | telling of the formation of the Barre | |Defense Committee. Thel.L.D. head- quarters criticized this plan sharply, jas hiding the face of the LL.D. We | |had no such intention, espectally as | the I. L. D. in Barre is very popular among the workers. Originally the Defense Committee was an elected committee of I. L. D. members. We planned to enlarge | this committee so as to include union and other workers, also small | business men, who for one reason or another are not yet ready to join the I. L. D. Also we wanted to en- large the scope of the newly: origi- nated committee so that it might be- come a bulwark in mass picketing and flying squadrons, something needed in the last big strike. This, we felt, would be a function outside |the I. L, D.'s jurisdiction. Rather than have two separate | strike committees, one I, L. D. de- tense, the other a rank and file| | strike committee, we hoped to con- | |Solidate the two into an enlarged |8roup which would handle all func- tions in a militant strike leadership | When another granite strike takes | Place. The proposed commitiee was |to act only in the event of a strike |next spring or summer, and to pre- pare for such strike action, byt in |no way was it intended to supplant our I. L. D. branch with such a com- mittee. However we gladly accept the criticism of the I. L. D., and we will seek to organize two entirely sep- arate groups, one a rank and file strike committee, the other a com- mittee of active I. L. D. members to keep up constant preparations for handling defense in the event of another strike. | The Barre strike of last year, | which was actually civil war, be- came a united front of workers, legion men, storekeepers, and house- wives in which even the Chief of Police was forced to refuse to make an arrest of picketers. When another strike comes, after | the expiration of the sell-out agree- |ments, we are determined to muster |rank and file leadership so we won't | |be sold out again by Sam Squibb | }and his henchmen of the union | Jeadership. EDITORIAL NOTE: The Barre | comrades seem to have swung from one extreme to the other. | The I. L, D. branch should work toward setting up a defense com- | mittee with participation both of I. L. D. members, and members of the strike committee. In strike preparations, the I. L. D, | should also seek to have a lead- ing member participate on the strike committee itself. In this way defense activities can be thoroughly coordinated. Two “en- tirely separate” groups could not effect this coordination. The criticism by the national office of the I. L. D, of the Barre plan, a copy of which was sent to the Daily Worker, was directed against giving the “defense com- mittee” all the functions of an I. L. D, branch, and in this way actualiy making it take the place of an I. L. D, branch. | | The Barre comrades in their letter do not touch upon another very important point raised by the | national I. L. D. Their plan | called for the setting up by the T. | L. D. of physicai defense corps, | with separate headquarters, tele- phone, and flying squadrons. It was pointed out that this is not at any time the task of the I. L. D., nor of I. L. D.-union defense | committees such as are planned in Barre, jfor the Party | foreign-born and: less literate native | Stephenson F By a Worker Correspondent MANSFIELD, Ohio, — The en- closed picture shows the family and furniture of Edgar Stephenson af- ter they had been evicted from their home by the Scioto Land Co.| of McGuffy, Hardin County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson are na- tive Americans and until recently have farmed their own land. About two years ago they lost their farm and started to work for the Scioto Land Co. in the onion swamps. Ste- Phenson struck this summer when the onion strike call was issued, and after a few weeks the family was evicted from the company owned house where 21 other fami- lies were thrown out. The Stephenson family stayed outside four days and actually slept with snakes under their bed. Finally the union members moved the fur- niture into the town hall. The eviction took place on Aug. 3. Just yesterday I was informed that the | relief authorities are ready to give them a house. For a while the relief authorities, who for weeks gave relief to the scabs in the onion swamps and re- | the Toil Feeds | Out of Company House amily Sleeps Four Days in Field, fused relief to the strikers, tried to deport the Stephensons to another county, although Mr. and Mrs. Ste- phenson had lived in Hardin Coun- ty 50 years, They refused to leave. After two months they have won at least @ house to live in. The strike, as far the big com- panies are concerned, is lost, al- though a union exists, with 11 of small and medium growers signed up. Not much farm work re- | mains for this season. However, the Scioto Land Co. has about 2,000 acres of corn to husk, There is sentiment for a strike here among the former scabs, with the fellow who led the mob that beat up Okey Odell, leading the forces. However, this fellow is evi- dently not trustworthy, as he not only led this mob, but now talks about using violence against the deputies in case there is a strike, This seems to be a ruse to get the 11 strikers, including Odell, now on bond, framed up on some sort of violence charge. Through it all the strikers are learning the necessity of mass ac- tion, in picketing, in protecting themselves against deputies. COMMUNIST PARTY FARM PROGRAM By a Worker Correspondent CHARLESTON, Mo.—I was proud of your paper, it is all right. I want to ask you a few questions: You don’t believe in putting a tax on cotton, hogs, grain, corn or wheat, do you? I don’t believe in these taxes. The farmers are taxed on their cotton $5.67 a hundred pounds, the hog tax is $250 a hundred pounds. The farmers can’t pay these taxes and the government can expect war with the farmers and laborers on this issue. ‘They want to put a big tax on everything they raise or grow to keep them down in order to be able to handle them if trouble comes up. I believe the farmer ought to have his say, to run his farm the way he wants, and to grow the rops he wants, as much or as little as he wants, the government not to take our freedom away from us. All the land they had left out was planted with corn this year, enough to feed many hungry horses, cows and mules. On account of the drought we had this year, the land was made hard for the people to cultivate and yet they are living on it and starving. It won't be hard to starve the people to death, RE NOTE:—The Communist Party fights for the interests of the small, impoverished farmers as against the interests of the rich landlords who own the biggest ferms and exploit farm labor. The Roosevelt tax program is aimed at subsidizing the richest farmers by making the city workers pay for these subsidies in higher prices collected through the A. A. A. processing tax. In its Congres- sional Election Platform, the Com- munist Party puts forward the following demands for the smaH, mortgage-ridden, tax-ridden farm- ers: “For the repeal of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers without restriction by the govern- ment or banks; exemption of im- poverished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emer- gency Relief Bill.” Foundry Town Workers Aided in Organizing By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Tenn.—They have not come out on strike at this place as yet, as they are just organizing here since the strike started, and haven't fully organized yet. Some good workers have come here from Chattanooga and are doing their best to get a good organization started here. The foundries are beginning to organize here and we have some live wires from Rome, Ga, This is a hostile town for organized labor, and we are keeping quiet on our work until we get stronger. I think there are not very many Daily Workers coming to this town, but every copy I get is taken into the foundry and woolen mill, and I find they meet with approval. The bosses here have whipped out every labor organization that has started up in this town and that is why we are trying to get stronger before anything is started. Letters from Our Readers ‘olume of letters re- tment, we can print that are of general interest Worker readers. However, all received are carefully read by the Saggestions and criticisms are welcome and whenever possible are used for the improvement of the Daily Worker. editors. “THE MESSAGE OF STALIN” New York City. Dear Comrade Editor: Heartiest congratulations on your editorial on “The Message of Sta- lin” on Oct. 10. It was a master- piece of simple language, yet con- vincing approach. When the “Daily” can succeed in spreading that type of writing to others parts of the paper (particu- Jarly the leading article on the front page), the problem of build- ing circulation will be made easier. R. A. B. ON GUARD FOR THE ELECTIONS Little Falls, N. J. Dear Comrade Editor: This is a suggestion for getting out a larger Communist vote in the coming general election. There are many potential voters ticket amon the groups who are baffled by the lan- |guage difficulty in reading a long ballot and marking it correctly. The result is either a totally spoiled ballot or only one or two Party can- didates successfully yoted for. This is a very general state of affairs. In most, if not all, parts of the country (except where machines are used) a sample ballot is mailed by the authorities to each voter shortly before the election. It has long been my personal practice to mark Such a sample ballot in the way I wish to vote and to take it into the Polling booth so as to save time and avoid error in voting. To urge others to do likewise is not enough. A more concrete aid is generally re- quired. Therefore the suggestion that in each district a group of volunteers call on potential voters and mark their sample ballots with them, ad- vising them to take the marked ballots into the polling booth as a guide. It might speed up the job of the visiting volunteers if they made @ stencil of their own sample ballot So that by placing it over that of the prospect, a few pencil strokes would do the work in a jiffy. After voting correctly, however, there is still the problem of getting Communist ballots counted and credited in the official returns, Here we must see that forces are assigned to cover the polling booths all day, and especially during the counting, until it is completed, J. F. McM. Yo Cover Against Rain for Croppers By a Worker Correspondent DADEVILLE, Ala—We have to live outdoors. We have been living here on this place 16 years, and have made enough to pay double for it, yet we have to live out- doors, go naked and barefooted, and sometimes hungry. The house top is rotten, and when it rains it rains on the inside and leaks on the outside, though the land- lord doesn’t seem to think we are human enough to fix a house for us fit to live in. He will say he is going to fix it, but he hasn’t brought one board to fix it with. It is mighty hard on us poor Negroes down here, we have to work so hard and then have to live outdoors. We haven’t got a decent place to sleep, and any- thing decent to sleep on. But we are still struggling for our rights and better living conditions. Jobless Win Relief ree Turning On of} Water and Stop to Eviction By a Worker Correspondent MILTON, Pa—Friday, Oct. 12, was Columbus Day. The Unem- ployment Council of Milton cele- brated this holiday by winning many improvements in the condi- tions of the workers here. A large committee went down early in the morning and forced the water company to turn on the water for Comrade Hotenstein. Then we went to “Whitey’s” house on Locust St. and helped stop an eviction, We forced Mr, Shires, the landlord, to agree not to try to evict Whitey as long as Whitey was unemployed and could not pay rent. In the afternoon a committee of about 25 men and women went to see Miss Smart, the relief super- visor, She did not want to see the whole committee but the workers just went in anyhow and forced her to see us all. The workers told Miss Smart that | they could not live on promises and explanations and that they wanted more action in the form of relief, clothes, and coal. The meeting lasted three hours. The workers all stuck together and showed Miss Smart they meant business. This is why we were able to win better conditions in every single case. In the case of Mrs. Edgemeyer, we forced the supervisor to call Reverend Lehman, the county ad- ministrator, on the long distance phone in Sunbury and demand an emergency order. When the work- ers were not satisfied with the an- swer of Rev. Lehman, we demanded that she call again and let Com- rade Dean, the leader of our dele- gation, talk to him, Comrade Dean said we would hold Lehman responsible for anything that happened to Mrs, Edermeyer’s children if they did not get some- thing to eat. Then the Reverend promised to provide for the family immediately, and also to take up the matter of giving the family a food order and placing them on relief. The delegation demanded that rent and water rent be paid for unemployed workers. This would stop evictions and insure every worker having water in his house. Miss Smart was instructed to pre- sent these demands to her superiors. Miss Smart said that any com- Plaints that came in through the Unemployment Council would re- ceive immediate attention. The Unemployment Council is the first organization of its kind ip the history of Milton that is really winning better conditions for the workers. The workers are learning to stick together and fight together for more relief and clothes. We are growing bigger every day and are planning to send a big delegation to the con- ference for the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill which will be held in Harrisburg on Oct. 27 and 28. Parade Starts Couneil Off In Mentor, O. By a Worker Correspondent MENTOR, Ohio.—Lake County Unemployment Council, when it first started to organize, had only five members. Now we have around 60. At a recent meeting we decided to distribute handiills and have a parade. Mr. Van Luven of Wil- loughby gave us use of his Dodge, a ton-and-a-half truck, which car- ried about 25 children holding ban- ners stating what they needed most, clothing, food, milk and school lunches, A banner on each side of the truck stated the time, place of meeting, and by whom it was calied, The meeting was held Aug. 23 and attended by about 100. A speaker came from Cleveland and spoke about two and a half hours to an attentive crowd. The resuy, was about 50 members. We now have temporary use of the Fisher- man’s Hall at Richmond, where we hold our weekly meetings. Frank Lette reported he was re- fused clothing for his six children for school and also for tops and rubbers for canning. A committee visited the relief administrator. The result, the children have some of their clothing, and will get the rest for school How Do You Feel About It, Comrades? Comrade J. D., of Philadelphia, writes us as follows: “I should like to make the fol- lowing suggestion. Many times I read in the column of some treat- ment for an ailment. Not being afflicted with this particular ail- ment, at that time, I merely read out of curiosity and for general in- formation. It frequently happens, however, that some time later I am |troubled by the same thing that was discussed in the column a few weeks back. Then I am unable to find the issue of the ‘Daily,’ and if I need the advice badly, I am forced to write to the Board for it. This means a useless repetition of effort in most cases, “Would it not be possible to col- lect all the letters and answers to letters in a little booklet, issued quarterly or semi-annually, in- dexed for reference, which would sell at a very small pri¢e within the reach of every reader of the Daily? These booklets could be sold at the bookstores. _ Also, when a worker writes in concerning some matter which has been fully covered in a previous article, merely mail him that particular issue of the book- Jet, indicating the article which is the answer to his question. This would enable every line of the valu- | able space in the ‘Daily’ to be filled with new material every day, and would also save time and energy for the Board, as well as provide many workers with handy refer- ences for treatment of various ill- nesses. Write a line in the column about this suggestion and see what the workers think about it.” Question Comrade R. J., of Los Angeles, writes: “My son has Bronchial Asthma, My physician advised skin tests. Are such tests painful? Are they of any value?” Skin Tests fer Asthma in Childhood We advise examination of your child by a competent physician and certain necessafy studies to deter- mine more precisely the nature of his illness, An X-ray of the Sinuses and of the Lungs should be taken to rule out the possible presence of WORKERS’ HEALTH Conducted by the | Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board examinations fail to reveal anything, then we advise your boy to see an allergist (asthma and hay-fever specialist or clinic), to have the nec- essary “skin tests” in order to des termine the exact cause of his asthma. “Skin tests” have their limitations in that they reveal the cause only if the condition is due to inhalants, such as, pollen, dust, feather, etc, and sometimes is due to food. Often, infection (or bacteria) is the cause, and in such instances the tests are of little value. “Skin testing” for sensitivity is a long and drawn out affair, but it is the only method known that medical science has at its disposal for deter- mining the various causes of asthma, There is no reason why one should not avail oneself of such an investi- gation. Should the “skin tests” re- veal such sensitivity, the child can be desensitized by injections with the offending substance and either be cured or greatly relieved by such treatment. The injections are not necessarily painful and therefore you should have no fear about let- ting your son receive them, Lecture on Birth Control Are only women affected by birth control? What methods are in use in the U. S. A.? The answers to these and other questions will be given on Friday, Oct. 19 at 9 p. m. at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place. Dr. Cheri Appel, the well-known authority on this subject, will lec- ture for the Medical Advisory Board's $1,500 quota. Films illustrate ing methods of contraception will be shown. Admission is 25 cents. Contributions received to the credit of the Medical Advisory Board in its Socialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, Jacob Burck, David Ramsey and Helen Luke, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$1,500. Previously received the disease in either region. If such A budget list of groceries, made out for “Case No, So-and-so” by the “Nutrition Service” of the Home Re- lief Bureau, has come to our desk. It itemizes kind and amount of food for two weeks (cost, $11.25) for a family of four: father, mother, two children under ten. It consists of: 17 quarts milk (grade B), 18 (tall) cans evaporated milk, 144 Ibs. cheese, 2 doz. eggs, 4 lbs. meat, 4 lbs. fish, 24 lbs. potatoes, 13 lbs. green vegetables, 8 lbs. other vegetables, 1 lb. dried peas, beans, or lentils, 4 cans tomatoes, 8 lbs. fresh fruit, 1% Ibs. dried fruit, 12 Ibs. bread, 11 Ibs. cereals, 242 lbs. but- ter, 1% Ibs. peanut butter, crisco, lard, suet, or oil, 3 Ibs. sugar, 1 cap molasses, 1 lb, cocoa, 1 Ib, coffee, Dividing these amounts by two gives one, of course, the amounts for one week, And the resulting budget for one week doesn’t compare very favorably with the starvation . (“low-cost”) diets worked out by the “Food Economists” and “Nutritionists” of the Department of Agriculture, which allow for a family of only three (parents and child of three years)—weekly: 10 0 13 lbs. bread, 3 to 4 lbs. cereal, 1 to 2 Ibs. flour, 9 to 14 quarts milk, 8 to 10 Ibs. pota- toes, 1 to 2 lbs. dried peas, etc. 4 lbs. tomatoes, 12 to 14 Ibs. other vegetables and dried fruit, 2 lbs. fat, 2% lbs. sugar, 3 to 5 Ibs. meat, etc. Looking again at our two-week’s budget for the family of four. If we allow the daily quart of milk per child and pint per adult which the great national advertising cam- paigns assure us are minimum re- quirement for health we get 35 quarts, just the amount allowed, not a drop to spare. With the pound and a half of cheese you could possibly prepare three dishes to serve on the meat- less days, such as macaroni au- gratin. As for the eggs—a dozen a week for a family of four! (My grandparents would turn over in their graves.) Four pounds of meat: cheap cuts too according to the directives in the budget, full of wasteful bone and gristle—for a family of four for two weeks! (They would turn over again.) Four pounds of fish: half a pound weekly per person. (Really the unemployed shouldn't be allowed to gorge themselves like that. There ought to be a law.) ‘Twenty-four pounds potatoes. “In- clude these in the diet at least once a day,” says the budget, Eight tiny, or two to three medium sized pota- toes weigh a pound. “At least once a day—” well, it sounds swell on paper, anyway. Any housewife knows that when you get all the dirt scrubbed off, bad spots cut out, and rotten ones dis- carded, there’s about 20 lbs, left of the 24. (To shop constantly for spuds and never bring home a bad one takes real genius, buying talent of a high order.) We also think the budget doesn’t allow enough fresh fruit and toma- toes. We also devote an unhappy thought to the rising cost of grocer- jes. This isn’t the first such budget to reach our desk. We have tried more than once, without success, to work out satisfactory menus from Total to date.. IN THE HOME By HELEN LUKE Five Years After, or What the Chicken in Every, Pot Has Come To them. We submit that changing the entire social and economic order so that an abundance of good things of all sorts would be produced and distributed freely will actually be easier. And more sensible! Contributions received to the 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—s500. John and Beatrice Mc- Mahon $1.00 Previously receive » 5.40 Total to date... $6.40 Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2050 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 38 takes 434 yards 39 inch fabric. 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