The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1935, Page 4

if Page # rc re Sharecropper’s | Livestock Sold By Constable Creditor Robbed Work- ers Through High Prices By a Worker Correspondent NORFOLK, Va.—A conc’ ample of N Counts a Hila fae : é usiness men of Loup City that Here is a Negro man who. like | had something to do with the millions of workers, has foun riot, are also feeling the wrath things tough going these la. Born and rais in this is known to be hones! bosses seemed to be opinion. Certainly, they had during all these years squeezed enough profit out of his labor to even cancel any indebtedness William Cuffe happened to owe them in his effort ction, he The county under this to feed and cloth his wife and five children Harry Stenith is one of these. He Tuns a country store. His prices are very high. Cheese selling elsewhere at 18 cents brings 25 cents to this Mr. Stenith. For ordinary meat Selling for 15 cents a pound else- where he charges 18 and 20 cents. Under these circumstances, is it any wonder that William Cuffe, un- able to obtain work, soon owed this Stenith $19? Recently Stenith decided to collect. He turned for aid to the high constable. The high tonstable then demanded payment. William Cuffe, of course, couldn't Pay. And then he got a good taste of Roosevelt's New Deal for the Forgotten Man. For this indebted- ness of $19, the county decided to Sell one horse, valued at $100, a 200-pound hog at $20; six prize chickens at $12; six pigs at $15: one cart at $5; two stacks of hay at $16 and one wagon lot of corn at $25 William Cuffe is a member of the ELD. and is preparing to fight against this robbery, and to put an end to out and out robbery of Negro and white workers in this section. NOTE We publish every Thursday let- ters Irom farmers and agric tural, cannery and lumber work- ers. We urge farmers and work- ers in these maustries to write us of their conditions and efforts to organize. Please ge{ these let- ters to us by Monday of each week. You can mere easily win better conditions in-your factory or shop ff the workers there are class- conscious and willing to organize for improvements. Get the Daily Workér, guide your shop-mates. Ask fhe District Daily Worker of- _/ fice to place a Daily Worker seller outside your factory, or write di- rect to the rational office, 50 E. 13th St. Sixty Unemployed Besiege | Relief Offic Farmers’ Boycott Hits Strikebreaking Firm And Petty Merchants By a Farmer Correspondent LOUP CITY, Neb—The Fair- || Creamery, that helped e the riot on June 14, farmers who d their solidarity with icken pickers who ike, has now laid off e girls because the are mad and won't sell s to a damn concern that expects to keep girls working for $1.97 a week After the Farmers’ Coope chicken house and armers 14 riot, the ive built a took all the trade away from Fairmont. of the farmers as all the hog and corn checks as well as the wheat allotment money is not being spent in Loup City as was expected. 22 7Delinquent. Called Model On FarmLoans By a Farmer Correspondent HILLSBORO, Ore—At the an- nual meeting of Washington Na- tional Farm Loan Association held in the Chamber of Commerce! Building, Hillsboro, Ore., Jan. 8, 1935, the secretary announced that the Federal Land Bank of Spokane sent word that the Washington County subsidiary was in the best financial condition of any of its | branch farm loan organizations and that the Federal Land Bank rated it as A-1 in the matter of meeting its obligations, | The secretary also stated that out of 412 farmer borrowers from the Federal Land Bank’ of Spokane, in| Washington County, 93 were de- linquent in their payments of inter- est on moftgages, some very seri- | ously sof One wonders what the percentage ot deliquency is among farmer-bor- Yowers in other | highly rated! | | Answering a question as to why An Object Lesson on Section 7-A pe A savage police attack upon men and women picketing the Seabrook Farms in Bridgeton, Incidentally this is the same State where the highly pub- The “sensitive” morals of the capitalist press weer not quite as shocked by this police brutality as they were by the “most heinous crime of the century.” Bedecian, during the strike there last summer, licized Hauptmann trial is taki Swill Beer As Clients) money “to go out and rob a bank. Wait in Office for Hours By a Worker Correspondent BRIDGETON, N. J.—I'd like to} have the workers all over know just what kind of miserable conditions exist for those needing relief here | in Bridgeton, N. J. Bridgeton as} you know is the town made famous | last summer by the Seabrook Farms | Strike down here. Bridgeton is) controlled by big farm and cannery | counties not so| Owners like Seabrook and the bosses|to be a federal of the Owens-Illinois Glass works. Naturally these are the “compe- ing place. | And while mothers with babies | waited out front of the relief office hour after hour, the “competent” Mrs. Emerson and other ERA of- ficials enjoyed a beer party upstairs. One mother with two children was put off time and again and finally | Mrs. Emerson told her that if she | came back again she would arrested. These are facts known to every- one. Things stink so bad down here in the ERA administration that they can even smell it in Washing- ton and we are told that there is investigation of Cumberland County. Bridgeton is the town where the be |the Federal Land Bank does not|tent” people according to Hearst jail is that Bill O'Donnell was ré- |reduce mortgages placed several | | years ago when land values were | very much higher, to a ratio in ac-| who run things so well. | Here’s how they run the relief racket. One man who had put off | leased from after serving only 23 days of his six months sentence be- cause the working class would not cordance with present land values, | $0iMg to the relief as long as he/ stand for such a frame-up. similar to the procedure now being | followed by other mortgagees, the} secretary explained that the farm| mortgage reduction plan did not apply to such institutions as the | Federal Land Bank, the insurance companies, eic., but did not give! any reason why the big rich com- panies were expected to receive their credit loans and interest in full while the small mortgagee who de- pended on his income for a living | ; was expected to make the sacrifice. e Three Days. By a Worker Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla—I am writing you in regard to conditions in the relief set-up here in Okla- homa City. A committee of more than sixty People has just completed a three- day siege of the relief office, trying to get something to eat; being Promised every day that something would be done. On the first day, after waiting eight hours for Giles to show up, they went to City Manager Mosier, who made the statement that the relief set-up was rotten and prom-| ised that something would be done. Get Run-Around He sent them back to the office of Colonel Giles, Relief Adminis- trator, but they failed to see him after waiting for twelve hours. It went on this way for four days, find all they received were numerous excuses and promises. Colonel Giles, on several occasions, sneaked out of the back door of the building and left the people waiting for hours in y>%:. Finally, on the third day eight the committee received dollar food orders and the rest were told to come back later. They also showed a marked dis- crimination against Negroes. I would cite one case in particular, that of a Negro man on the com-| Mittee who, after waiting for th days, was given a cheese sandwich With relish to last him for two day until they could take his case up. The state relief brought up a _The state relief brought up a/ stock of mules to give to the farm- ers and appropriated eight dollars a’month to feed the mules and yet they gave families of four and more only a dollar grocery order to last @ week, or rather until they could beg them out of another order. Some of these families had been| Out of work or relief for over a month. _ They give half a rick of wood to and sometimes they are forced to| carry it clear across the town. Such is the justice of the Relief Admin- | istration. Yet, the capitalist papers a few days ago made the statement that $14,000 had been appropriated by the State of Oklahoma for the month of January. Only a few days | ago City Manager Mosier made the Statement that over $2,000,000 had been appropriated for a dam at| Fort Reno, and yet the people of Oklahoma are suffering from mass starvation, Where is the money fot relief going? We would like to see some letters | in the Daily Worker telling of the injustice of the Relief Administra- tion. Have people from other parts | | of the country tell about their set- up. We would like to know the con- ditions in other cities as well. Sheriff Prepares for Evictions in Spring By a Farmer Correspondent LOUP CITY, Nebr.—Santa Claus | Possibly could by borrowing money from relatives, selling this and that and working whenever he could and starving it out for a while, when he did apply for relief was told by | Mrs. Emerson, local director, to “go| fought for Bill O’Donnell’s freedom. | Not backward to coal oil lamps but | Flamm saved a few sit with the rest of the bums.” She told another man that if he wanted BECOMING WELL-T Paying More Attention to Cultural and Social Need . By a Soviet Farmer Correspondent Dear brothers, farmers of capital- istic lands, We, members of the collective farm “SELO,” of the village Har- lovo, Krasnopoliansky Rayon, Sver- district of the Free Soviet Land, send you our warmest and heartiest greetings, Every day we read in the papers about your life, We hear it is very hard. Many people are hungry and jobless, in the country as well as in the cities. We also know that, however hard it is for you, still you fight for the overthrow of capitalistic oppression, ‘or your rights and a Workers Gov- rnment, | We should like to get into touch with you, our class-brothers. In |this letter we are telling you in a few words about our life and work. We are free in our land, there are no rich spiders to prey upon us, nobody for whom we should have to work, and who would command us. For five years already we live in collective association. We only obey our own Board, chosen by, us from our own ranks. We have read in the papers, that in the United States there is a great drought and that the harves: gave Sheriff Thrilkill as a Christ-| has been ruined this year. Thanks mas present a lawsuit for abusing | to the bosses, living prices get high- and neglecting a prisoner that had /er and higher, so that the workers been arrested for unlawful assembly. | and farmers get poorer and poorer. The prisoner asked for a doctor|We in our land have gathered a to have his foot dressed. The sheriff | very good harvest, and our life is told him that he did not give a/ getting better, richer and happier, damn if the prisoner rotted in jail.|and more cultural. Then the sheriff pulled out his Collective Farm Progresses pocker knife and said, “I'll dress) Our collective farm unites 180 your god damn foot.” He finally had | families, and we have sown 1430 to take him to a doctor. |hectares. We have gathered 1388.5 This shows what the tools of the metric tons grain. After the thresh- capitalist class will do to a worker|ing was done, we have sent 138.5 or a farmer that refuses to submit | tons to the State elevators, and the | to the rotten conditions we are liy- | Test, 1250 tons in all, we have kept ing under. for ourselves. _ There are rumors that the new), In our collective farm we are go- sheriff of Sherman County has said | ing to receive this year 12 kilograms that he will have to get more men |8tain per workday, not counting together as there will be a great vegetables, money and other pro- y evi | duce. Here is an example what a Bee Ih un ec Rae collective farmer can earn: One of ‘ our shock workers, Gregory Sosnov- ae Md ets Neos — sky, with his family of five have each family to last them indefinitely | Join These Shock Brigaders in the Dail; BOSTON: Cacciola, Wm. NEW YORK: Gausner, Dora DETROIT: Sepeld, Jack Green, Ben Worker Subscription Contest! worked already 808 workdays, and \to the end of the year they will easily work some 400 days more. For 1208 days they will receive 14.5 | tons grain, not counting money and vegetables and other farm produce, jtons in all. Enough to feed the CHICAGO: Larson, A. A. Hammersmark, Sam NEBRASKA: Lux, Harry M. Kibbe, Calvin Shock Brigader Larson holds first place among the contestants for the free trip to the Soviet Union and nine other prizes. already been turned in by him, though the drive has been in prosréss less than two weeks. Diligence, system, energy will win a py the Daily Worker! Spend every minnte available seeking Twenty-one subseriptions have Ten of these are yearly subs. rize for any worker! Publicize, popularize subseriptions! kiddies, eh? Our farm also does some catile | raising. We have a dairy with 150} cows. We have 936 pigs, 102 sheep, 58 goats, 62 stud horses and 153 work horses. Except that, each family has for their own individual use a cow and a calf, from four to seven sheep, some pigs and poultry. | We get butter, eggs, milk and meat! in plenty from our farm, and all) the rest we are quite able to buy | and get everything directly from the factories through our co-op. Cultural and Social Life | farm | have a Now the job is for the relief workers and those receiving relief to get together and fight for better conditions just the same way we fought the Seabrook Strike and This way of unity of all workers will win the demands of the work- 0-DO, WRITE J, J., Relief Officials Deny Jobless Workers Relief | Buy Mayor Advises Unemployed ers no matter what they are. The yellow-livered bosses curl up and crawl in a hole when the work- ers come out all together demand- ing and fighting for those demands. And the only way we can defeat the boss class in Cumberland County is for all of the workers down here to get together. Over in Vineland the relief better because they are organized. | But I heard that the Mayor told | them to go back to kerosene lamps when the workers demanded that the city-owned electric —_ plant should furnish them electricity. That is the answer of the “com- petent” capitalists! Back to kero- sene lamps! I am glad that we have. the Daily Worker and the Communist Party which says, NO! |NOT BACKWARD, BUT FOR- | WARD! to the workers of America. | forward to an electrified Workers and Farmers Government! Kerosene Lamps, | is a little | 3 Hogs Net Farmer $3.25 As Pork Chops Sell at 18c a Pound By a Farmer Correspondent JOPLIN, Mo.—A farmer took three hogs to the local market each weighing ninety pounds. He received $3.25. He was charged a commission of eighty cents. Yet, in the butcher shops pork chops cost eighteen cents a pound and ham sells for seven- teen and a half cents a pound and up. Another farmer brought a cow weighing 815 pounds and got $11.09, paying one dollar for |] hauling. Beef sells for fifteen || to twenty-five cents a pound at |} local meat markets. j| Certainly the farmer is skinned, A poor farmer at Arcadia, Kans., had to give two teams of horses and two cows to a bank as security for a loan of only fifteen dollars at ten per cent |] interest. MusiciansHead Okays Firing Without Notice By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK—An agency agree- |} ment between the Federal Broad- | casting Corporation and the Knick- erbocker Broadcasting Company was terminated last week. This, in |plain English, meant that all the | people employed by the Federal were discharged. It involved the jobs of about one hundred people. All of us were given. notice on Thursday, Jan. 10 that by Saturday, Jan. 12, our jobs were to be ter- | minated. However, there is a ruling in the | musicians’ by-laws which states every union man must get his four- week notice. The contractor insisted | upon that. The case was taken up | to the Governing Board of Musi- cians’ Local 802. The men got their | four weeks, But, entirely dissatisfied with this decision, Weissman, personal rep- | Tesentative and lawyer for Donald | | Flamm, owner of the Knickerbocker, ; took the case to Joseph N, Weber, | | President of the American Federa- | tion of Musicians, What did Weber do? In true spirit | with his reactionary cohorts, Green, | LaGuardia, et al, Weber rescinded | the decision of the local board P. S.—The boys got out last Sat- | urday. The big bosses won over the | working class, The dollars, assisted very neatly by a representative of ' the union. “SOVIET FARMERS A Russian Peasant He looks thoughful, crease next year’s crop, Here Hearst deems “competent” to tractors, and apply their “com Perhaps he is thinking of how to in- in the U, S. A. those whom Mr, govern sit on swivel chairs, not ipetert” minds to devising ways and means for crop destruction. Every family gets in one or two dailies, many get magazines as well. | We have organized a lending li- | brary and in our spare hours we | get together and read aloud the works of our great Soviet writers. | Many take books home to read. We | have organized a lot of circles to | study together this winter. We are very keen on learning, for life on a | collective farm requires a lot of | learning and keen wits, if we want to improve our methods of work- ing the land. All our children from the age of eight and up to sixteen go to school, We have an eight class school in our village, and from there they can go to any col- lege or university they please, and become doctors, engineers or scien- tists, if such is their wish. We have no jobless, nobody is obliged to go around looking for work, on the contrary, everywhere | hands are wanted. In our collective we build all anew and we standing agreement with We are now occupied in organiz- the Khabakovsk Metallurgical of our farmers work in winter at the works and come home in the summer to the farm. , We could write a lot more about the good life we are leading now, but this time we won't write any more. We beg you to answer our | letter and write Ws about your life. | Let us get into steady, fraternal | correspondence. Tell about our let- | ter to your friends, let them also | write us. We are sure that the day is not far when you will also get the bet- | ter of capitalist oppression and will be the masters of all the riches of the land, of all that the bosses have robbed from you. We send your our best greetings jand await your answer. | In the name of 200 collective |farmers from the collective farm | “SELC.” K. STININ, President of the farm board. | Our address is: USSR, Sverdlovs- kaya Oblast, Krasnopoliansky ray- ing our cultural and social life,' Works to send them workers, Many jon, selo Harlovo, kolhoz “Selo.” | Increase Productivity) | Through Improved | Methods | By a Soviet Farmer Correspondent | USS.R—I have come to know through our Peasants’ Paper, that | farmers and’ workers all over the| ; World are interested in the life of | our collective farmers. So I decided to write you and describe in a few! words how I lived before and now. | My family consists of five peo- |ple. Before the revolution I was not well-to-do. I had very little land, only two horses, two cows and | | 'a@ few sheep. Now I am a member jof the collective farm “Vpered” | (Forward). Four of the members of my family are able to work and together we have got 900 workdays. In our collective farm we are go- ing to recc’ e this year 35 kilo- grams wheat per workday and 25} kilograms other cereals, 6 kilograms grain in all, not counting money, vegetables and other farm produce. I haye already received in advance 1 kilogram wheat per workday, al- most a ton grain. That is quite enough to last me the year round and when I get the rest, I will sell it to the co-ops or to the govern- ; ment. With the money I will buy ; clothes, shoes and all the rest that my family needs. We are already entering on the well-to-do life our Comrade Stalin spoke about. Land Yields More The best thing is, that we have forced our land to yield more. In former years we usually got about 150-200 kilograms per hectare land, and this year we got 750—1000 kilo- grams per hectare, all because of the improved methods of working the land, We receive a lot of help gather our harvest much earlier than we used to. We are a little behind with our sowing, because we began only on Sept. 6, but we had finished by Sept. 20. We have a school for our chil- dren and special classes for grown- ups in winter, for nobody is allowed to remain illiterate in our land. Many of our young people attend college in the evenings. We have |a club and a picture house attached |to our MTS (machine and tractor | station). We have a summer camp jabout seven kilometers from our | Village, where we live when work- jing in the far fields. In the eve- nings games and dancing are organ- ized for the younger folk and lec- tures and talks for everybody. There also is a Red Corner, where you can get papers and books to read. | We have a communal kitchen and | altogether we live much better than we used to. I would like to get an answer from you. My address is: USSR, Asovo-Tchernomorsky Kray, Belor- eichensky Rayon, selo Velikoe, Kol- hoz Vpered, | With fraternal grectings, IVAN SAVERTOUNOFF. millionaire | from the Government. For instance, | government tractors helped us to} WORKERS’ HEALTH or Nineteen-Dollar Indebtedness Conducted by the Daily Worker Med Sleeping Sickness I. L., Bklyn., N. ¥.—In your let- | ter you ask for a “good nerve tonic,” and state that your nerves }meed “strengthening.” These terms are not good ones, and should be | avoided entirely because they have no real meaning. The term “weak | nerves” may be used for something | trivial or, on the contrary, for a | variety of really serious conditions. |It would be advisable for you to write us a description of the exact | symptoms as nearly as you can do | so. “Nerve tonics” constitute one of the worst forms of patent medicine | quackery and you should, therefore, |use the utmost caution in taking such medicines. % You ask for information concern- ing the disease known as Parkin- | Sonian type of Enchephalitis. This disease is more commonly known as | Sleeping Sickness. During 1919-1921, there was an epidemic of this’ dis- jease. It affects people of all ages, | but mainly young adults from the | ages of eighteen to thirty-five and | causes stiffness of the muscles of the body, weakness, difficulty in performing various movements which require skill (sewing, type- writing, etc.), greasiness and scal- ing of the face and a hunched up | Position. In addition there are tre- mors of the hands and sometimes of the head and various other symp- toms such as excessive formation | of saliva, easy fatiguability, etc. The j mind itself is not affected. The pa- | tient is fully able to realize his condition. There are various forms of treat- ment, none of which is very sat- |isfactory. In general, it may be |said that warmth tends to relax | the stiffness of the muscles. There jare drugs, such as, Atropin, Stra- |monium and Hyoscine, which also jTelax the stiff muscles and lessen | the secretion of grease on the face | and diminish the saliva. The tremors are not affected by this treatment. Eventually many of these patients require chronic | hospitalization. Unfortunately there are few hospitals equipped to give Jong treatment and care for such patients so that many of them ter- minate their illness in State hos- pitals. j | | | | | By ANN | “Dear Comrade: “INASMUCH AS I BELIEVE YOU AND YOUR READERS TO BE INTERESTED IN ALL THE SO- CIAL PROBLEMS OF THE WORKERS, I am coming to you for advice. This is my problem. * . . “My husband, who is a Party member, and I, a sympathizer, have two children—boys, one nine years old, the younger only seventeen months. My auestion is this: If capitalism and everything such as bourgeois education and culture is doomed, as the Communists say (and I, myself believe to be true) what can we do about our nine- year-old son who is really a very this country, what then? It will be too much to ask of him—to so com- pletely revolutionize his whole men- tality, that he can understand a new order. “T’m asking you, is there a way whereby we might take the children to Russia so that their education would be based on truth at least?” MRS. LORA P. cee, ante THIS MOTHER ASKS THE QUESTION—How can she educate | her child in the ways of “truth”— | which means the ways of the work- ing class? Shall she attempt to | take her child to the Soviet Union? In my mind, this would be no solution to her problem at all. Would this be any solution to this same question in the minds of hun- dreds of thousands of class conscious working-class mothers whose chil- | dren go to the public schools? alge It is true the public school teacher is so speeded-up that she cannot take time to probe the problems of the individual child. The public schocl system is for the purpose of maintaining the existing social order. Therefore it teaches patriot- ism. It teaches that strikes, dem- onstrations are “riots.” But there the proletarian mother’s task be- comes very clear. Many mothers think “My child must have his fun, Let him worry about the struggle when he is older. In later years he will be forced to enter into the fight. But now. (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) bright student in the public school? Mo gee | “If he continues his schooling in| ieal Advisory Board When the system of society hag been so changed that $50,000,000 are no longer spent on a single battle ship, we will devote that money to medical research and will avert such tragedies. | Gall-Stones and Chiropractors | H, J., Larson, N. D.:—Chiroprace |tors could not possibly relieve. you jot your gall-stones and there is no | sense in spending your hard-earned Money on them. Gall-stones, if they are of a considerable size, will not pass out of the gall-bladder themselves and they have to be re« moved by operation. Some of the smaller ones may work their way out by themselves. | We would suggest that you go | to a reliable clinic or hospital where | your condition could be determined | by means of X-ray and where they | Will also advise you whether you are a suitable subject for operation. If you are less than six feet tall, you are at least twenty-five pounds overweight. We would, therefore, suggest that you try to bring down |your weight; avoiding fats and fatty foods particularly. Effervescent sodium phosphate is very helpful for sluggish bowels. Be Ree Rheumatism c. D. P., Greenwich, Conn.:— | “Rheumatism’—or more correctly, an infection in and about the vari ous joints of the body, is a difficult problem, particularly for the poor, Such benefits as warm, dry cli- mates, spas, expert massage and |electric treatment, are impossible for the mass of people in our ceun- try. The most important consideration jin arthritis is the search for the possible cause, which is usally | some infection. This may be from | teeth, tonsils, sinuses, intestines, }and many other sources. We have written about this before. If any of these are found to be a possible infecting factor, a vaccine made from pus, isolated here, may be given by injections. For relief, five grains of Sodium Salicylate or Aspirin may be taken |four times a day. Baking, massage, hot baths and various electric treat- ments are also capable of giving some measure of relief. IN THE HOME BARTON Class Struggle and the Classroom to train him to examine what he is taught from a working class point of view. Then when he is old enough, get him to join a Pioneer | troop. He will learn working class | truths there, among children of his | own age. His mind will become clear. He will develop fast. He will be trained for taking his part in the world he must face, a few years hence. That is my idea what course this working-class mother should take, I think the readers of this column should write in to give their point of view to this mother. Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 2107 is available in sizes | 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46, Size 36 takes 3% yards 36 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step sewing instructions in- | cluded. leave him alone!” This theory is false, A child's development does not begin all of a sudden when he is 16, 17, 18. He is receiving impressions, almost from the time he can see, Almost from that time he must be prepared for the world in which he lives. . The Pioneers are‘not sad faced little boys and girls. They are more peppy and alive, have more fun than any other children I have seen. And yet, they participate in the class struggle as it affects the class- room, | BF oe bee | A PROLETARIAN MOTHER with the interests of the future of her child at heart, must train and teach her child to be a working-class fighter here, in this country. Work- e:s cannot migrate in hundreds of thousands to the Soviet Union. They must make their own workers’ gov- ernment in this country. Send your son to the public school. But do not leave his entire teaching to the public schools, Your job must be G 2107 TTL Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for each Anne Adams pattern (New York City residents should add one cent tax for each pattern order), Write | plainly, your name, eddress and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE WANTED. Address orders to (Daily Worker) Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City, 1)