The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-03-19

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eHouncement Of the launching Sc ne
tee: - -ess''o"aa conmlt-
= farmer-labor congressional co,o-
mlttee has been formed Ia ass;sf =
siecting congress responsible - the
people, which will make fhe trans
portatlon trust, the food trust and the
money trust the servants sc tke ne a..
pie, instead of the masters of the
people, and restore the constitution
g rights Of freedom Of discussion = I
ms is not a rival to the national
nonpartlsan political Campaign com
mlttee of the American Federation If
Labor, which has begun precinct or-
ganization throughout the. country
but is an auxiliary to it. with more
definite and advanced program. A
large majority Of the labor organi-
zatlons taking part in the new con-
gresslonal committee are also contri-
putting to the funds Of the Gompers-
Morrison O. Connell political commit
tee. The new organization does what
Mr.. Gompers has been unable or UNI
Wiling to dot forms a sympathetic
alliance with the progressive farmer
organizations of the United States.
George P. Hampton of the Farm.
ers' National council is chairman. and
Warren s. Stone of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers is vice chair
man of the farmer labor COMPRESSION
al committee. Others who have ac-
cepted membership include, from the
farmers:
G. Il. Gustafson, president Nebras-
ka state Farmers union, president
All-American farmer-labor co-opera-
tive commission; H. L. Bissonnette
president Iowa state union, American
Society of Equity; R. W. H. Stone
president North Carolina Farmers
union; William Bouck, master Wash
ington state Grange; Grant H. Slo.
cum, president National Cleaner Fed.
GRAFTON; G. D. Reisler, president Ma
tional Farmers association; J. c.
Lambron, president Illinois State
Farmers union; j. Weller Long, sec
retary-treasurer organization commit.
tee of the United Farmers of Amer.
lea; w. M. Burlingame, president
Montana state union, American So
ciety of Equity; H. A. Fuller, member
of executive committee, Minnesota
state union, American Society Of
Equity; John Morris, master Colora
do state Grange; H. F. Samuels, Ida
no; Ed. C. Lasater, Texas; r. L. Cum
mings, Maine.
/ ACID TESTS CHOSEN
Benjamin C. Marsh of the Farmers
National council is secretary of tn,
NEW committee. 1t was Marsh VIII,
went into the West and got the farm
organizations to send committees her
to demand that their congressme1
oppose the railroad bill, with its ex
travagant gifts to the railroad cor
porations.
| This committee resulted from con
ferences which followed the Farmer
Labor Cooperative congress at Chi
cago, when it was discovered that tn
railroad workers on the one hand an
the farmers on the other were plan
ming separately to open the same sor
of campaign. They pooled thei
forces.
Their test of congressional candi
dates in every district in the countr
will be: "Where do you stand on tn
Plumb plan for railroad ownershi
and operation? Where do you stan
on the federal trade commissions pro
gram for dealing with the food trust
Where do you stand on the issue 9
making the banks a public utility IL
stead Of private weapon of graft an
private power over the community