The Milk Shed of New York
Uio, Pierre de
By Pierre de l|io The Milk Shed of New York JpOK generations the farmers living within this natural dairy country have enjoyed a sense of economic well-being. A large proportion of them...
...They were quite thrilling and highly entertaining...
...or 241st St...
...The army of non-voters came into action and harnessed themselves to Hitler's triumphal chsriot All the reactionary Instincts were aroused, and the poor were mobilized by promises of help which will never be fulfilled...
...and 8rd Ave...
...The fervor of the defense made for him and the weakness of the attack upon him are indications of the temper of the American people snd their attitude toward banks and bankers these days...
...The entertainment will begin at 8:30 sharp...
...The lawa favor the Borden Company and the other companies, and the farmers support the Jaws that oppress them...
...But to the Socialist and Labor movement he la known for three magnificent busts of Eugene V. Debs, Jbraham Cahan and .Samuel Gompers...
...Under conditions such as were never before experienced by a people going to the polls they have made their profession of faith in Socialism...
...At 8, Lawrence Dennis will speak in the Community Forum, 650 West 110th St., on "The Future of Civilization...
...By Charles 8. Bernstein LAST week the Baltimore Communists staged their usual 'monthly parade...
...During the period of low prices In 1016 the farmers of the New York milk shed began work of organization...
...their newspapers, leaflets and posters were absolutely forbidden, the wireless was monopolized by the Government, there was no possibility of holding meetings and carrying on propaganda, violent terrorism was a menace in the streets, the Nazis organized brutal attacks on, private dwellings, an extravagant flood of unrestrained slander poured over Germany, yet in spite of all this the German workers voted for the parties of the working class in practically the same strength as they* did three months ago...
...I.R.T...
...Congressman after Congress man defended the Minnesotan for his defiance of the bankers, and without a roll call the Congressman was seated by a rising vote of about 325 to 75...
...Shoemaker's campaign resulted in the recall of the worthless securities and the repayment of the widow in cash, but in the course of the controversy the editor addressed a letter to the banker, ". . ., Robber of Widows and Orphans...
...In organizations like the Dairymen's League the producers assume all the risk a,nd all the costs of preparation and the.i turn their commodity over to a mammoth holding company to reap all the benefits...
...Now, however, I am inclined to believe that most of the paraders I saw in line yesterday were hired as well...
...One county se;it | attorney told the writer that I., put one farmer a week through bankrupt* y. The Milk Shed For generations the farmers living within this natural dairy country have enjoyed a sense of economic well-being...
...What a "grand army of the revolution...
...and the Bellamy Club at 904 Prospect Ave...
...L may be reached by subway by taking the East 180th St...
...and "Down with Karl Marx...
...There is therefore no reason to be discouraged by the elections of March 5th...
...the Borden Company has kept its word...
...SHOEMAKER SEATED BY BIG CONGRESS VOTE pONGRKSSMAN F. II...
...However, duting the past five years this state of affairs has been rapidly giving way to one of extreme financial loss...
...but other than that tbey were "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...To one who has spent all his years among them and knows their history the present condition is more than tragic...
...at the present time is for vigilance, coolness and determination...
...About a year ago protest meetings were held by the angry dairymen...
...The hall is one block west from the station...
...L to Tremont Ave...
...train Friday morning...
...The 3rd Ave...
...These self-help organizations have not been able to meet the demands of modern times, and for three years social and economic conditions in the dairy industry and dependent activities have been rapidly sinking into financial ruin and much suffering...
...will be open all day Saturday for the sale of tickets...
...Of course the Lnmpenprolttariat could not be expected to know what ! they were shouting, one could not | blame them, they only blindly followed the instructions of their leaders...
...Fasmhomes are being sold for taxes, and mortgage foreclosures are common...
...so they talk glibly about cooperation with all teeth removed...
...about two score of men and ten children "marched" to the City Hall plaza...
...The fire in the Reichstag has served its purpose...
...What a travesty of International Socialism and Marxism...
...After viewing this parade, 1 len't wonder that people last December said that the Communists hired the "hunger marchers...
...The politically ignorant, the indifferent voters, were scared by the glow of fire, which gave the pretext for the systematic campaign of terrorism snd slander carried on by Hitler, Goering, Gobbels and others...
...However, during the past live years this stale of affairs lias been rapidly giving way to one of extreme financial loss...
...Shoe^ maker, Farmer-Labor, elected by an overwhelming majority in Minnesota last November, was seated by the House of Representatives after his eligibility was questioned because he had just completed a term of a year and a day in Leavenworth...
...The dairymen are still fighting with every weapon they know...
...A great artist, eight of whose works are in the National Gallery in Washington, he was unable to secure work In the years of depres* sion, and in a fit of despondency threw himself under the wheels ol a Lexington Ave...
...In front of the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, where Socialist Party headquarters are located, hangs a sign announcing a Karl Marx Com niemoratiun meeting...
...Dr...
...As they passed the headquarters of the Socialist Party the leaders of the Communists, in the style of football cheer leaders gave orders to "boo", and in accordance with the orders the paraders shouted, "Down with the Socialists...
...The working-class parties had not been able to reach the people at all in the greater part of Germany during the last week before the election...
...He promptly elected to go to jail...
...That this election was decided by a spring tide of voters who do not usually go to the polls gives rise to the hope that the flood will be followed just as quickly by an ebb...
...This profession of faith by the German workers, made in great difficulty and danger, will never be forgotten by their comrades In other countries...
...During the time of organization and the strike of 1918 the Borden Company said: "If the farmers want organisation, we will give them all tbey want...
...The Bronx Winter Garden may be reached by taking the 3rd Ave...
...It was good, clean fun and did no one any harm...
...A day or two later Congressman William Lemke, of North Dakota, radical and former Socialist party member, moved to seat Shoemaker, and started a whirlwind debate on the issue...
...Farm homes are being sold for faxes, and mortgage foreclosure are common...
...Large sections of Ihis mountain and valley land denote a high degree of cultivation and prosixrity...
...A large proportion of them have been secure economically and have developed fine farms and homes...
...it is sn sssurance that the picked troops of Socialism are unshaken...
...During the boom years eonimls* sions sought him out, from individuals arid governments, requests for his work coming from as far as Tonga-Tonga in the Friendly Islands in the South Pacific...
...Bronx Ball Saturday THE 20th Annual Dance and En* tertainment of the Socialist Party of Bronx County will be held this Saturday night, March 18, at the Bronx Winter Garden,Tremont and Washington Aves...
...For, when I| heard them "boo Karl Marx," I remembered their song: "A dollar a day is hell of a pay" last December in Washington...
...The farm journals are the worst offenders...
...When the ' leaders of the parade ordered the buoing, the poor misled colored people in the parade, seeing the large letters "Karl Marx" on the sign and not knowing what their leaders were saying to them, shouted, "Boo Karl Marx...
...One farmer known to the writer who has a dairy of thirty thoroughbred cows, all tested and approved, received a check of fifty dollars for his product for one month...
...Yet at the present moment, when all eyes must be turned to the tasks which the workers will have to fulfill in the future, we do not wish to conceal the fact that the rousing of the indifferent has created a revolutionary situation and that the supreme need of the worker...
...They depend upon the advertising that comes from the big corporations that trade in farm merchandise, aud for them to tell the farmers that they should own and manage their own distributive machinery, operated over socially owned transportation systems, would naturally be bad business for them...
...Otto Maul tier's Flying Dutchmen will supply the dance music Bronx County headquarters at 9 W. 170 St...
...Large sections of this mountain and valley land denote a high degree of cultivation and prosperity...
...Shoemaker, who is said to be a member of the Socialist party, was elected by 317,109 votes in an election in which all candidate for Congress ran at large throughout the state...
...As editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing he fought a local banker of great influence, attacking him specifically for paying a widow the estate of her late husband in securitise that promptly collapsed to nothing in value, instead of currency...
...Protest Meetings The situation throughout the milk shed is illustrated by conditions found in any county...
...Tickets may also be obtained in the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., in the bookstore or in Room 601, and in the Forward Building, 175 East Broadway...
...Politicians are by their calling unfit, both by profession and by economic urge, to deal with the conditions that face the American farmer...
...Boo Karl Marx...
...it is pitiful adn it is criminal...
...snd White Plains Rd...
...No word of contradiction, or even of reflection, could reach them...
...trains on the east side line or the 180th St...
...Angry Farmers The farmers are angry and terribly discouraged...
...They have been misled and misinformed until they have lost faith in everything...
...For many years since the farmers have relied upon the Dairymen's League and the Sheffield's Producers' Association to care for their business problems...
...The program this year includes William Bowers, the sensational Negro baritone, Carroll Hollister, concert pianist and accompanist for Mlscha Elman, and Marian Lawrence, oriental dancer...
...The Administrative Committes of the Labor and Socialist International...
...International Pays Tribute to Heroic German Workers THIE German workers have given a magnificent proof of their fidelity to their convictions...
...A large proportion of them have been secure economically and have developed line farms and borne...
...Milk is now bringing but 80 cents a hundredweight to the producer delivered at the creamery, less than two cents a quart...
...MOSES DYKAAR, SCULPTOR OF DEBS RUST, DIES MOSES WIENER DYKAAR,one *" of America's greatest and most distinguished sculptors, is desd, victim of the capitalist system...
...As a result they conducted what, at that time, looked like a successful strike for better milk prices...
...Holmes on Marx " John Haynes Holmes will speak on "Karl Marx After Fifty Years" in Town Hall, 123 West 43rd St., Sunday at 11...
...and Bronx Park train on the west side Una and getting off at 149th St...
...A death in his family, and bad legal advice, caused Shoemaker to plead guilty, and he was given the choice of a year and a day in jail, or five years on probation with monthly reports of "good" conduct to the hostile District Attorney...
...They bave been and still are a prey to self-seeking leaders who have kept them in ignorance for the express purpose of exploiting them...
...Dykaar, a native of Vilna, who studied in Paris, is best known to the world for his busts of Presidents Harding and Coolldge, <>t Speaker Lungwort h and of General Pershing...
...Bowers is scheduled to sing, among other numbers, "Old Man River" and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime...
...The, banker turned the letter over to the District Attorney for action, and Shoemaker was indicted for sending threatening and scurrilous matter through the mails...
...But when the crash cam* thars were no mora commissions, end the sensitive sou/ of the artist was unable longer td •mdyre the terrible strain «? leaves a wife and two small ebftV area...
...Hitler's victory is baaed entirely upon the mobilization of the ndn-polltfcal dregs of society which Is heading for ruin...
...On the contrary...
...One cflunty seat attorney told the writer that he put one farmer a week through bankruptcy...
...Shoemaker was elected shortly thereafter, and when members of the 73rd Congress were sworn in he was asked to stand aside...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
