The Daily Worker

By a Worker Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ga.-Things get worse here every day. We unemployed workers can't get enough relief to hardly exist. When we ask for more relief, this is what the Relief Agency tell us, "You are getting more than Government allows us to give you."

There are six in my family and we get $5.75 per week and some families get low as $1.50 per week.

I am doing all I can to get working together and fight for more food. We met with about 20 workers last Sunday and we plan to carry out a lot of good work. Workers were pleased with our program, and I read H. R. 7598 to them, and they liked it fine.

We are very weak but it seems that local comrades don't understand that this is our fight, and we local comrades cannot look to New York for our leaders. We must carry on the fight and get this off our minds and not wait for leaders, but study and each worker be a leader, by studying and reading the Daily Worker. We can surely carry on work and read the "Daily" each day, and don't waste a minute, for it flies and we must not waste our time.

Before I found the "Daily," my life was pained. I was worried every minute of my life. I had five children to care for and the burden was all on me, but since I came into the Party, my life is much better. Before I could not see my way out,

but now I can see that there is some hope, and that is when we banish gods from the sky, capitalism from the earth, and set up a Workers and Farmers' Government.

Bosses teach workers that a Negro is a bad fox but we know that is a damn lie. Don't let the bosses kid us any longer. As long as we are not organized and our Negro brothers are branded we won't get anywhere. I am sick of such lies.

Talking about the May Day meeting, it was a real meeting, the first Communist open meeting we ever had in Atlanta. The workers are still talking what a good meeting we had. Comrade Hathaway gave the full program of the Party, and the workers was enthusiastic over his speech, and Comrade Hathaway brought out so plain about how the K. K. K. is used against the workers. Chief Sturdivant tried to interrupt Hathaway but Hathaway then brought out more how the K. K. K. Silver Shirts, Black Shirts, Night Shirts are framing the workers.

We sold the "Daily" at the meeting. There were about 15 or more police and plain clothes dicks, but that didn't stop the meeting. Workers seemed more interested than ever before. We had workers come from 30 miles away, both Negro and white. The South is waking up. We must never stop. All workers unite for we haven't anything to lose but our chains of slavery, but a world to gain.