The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-11-05
City Workmen and Sod.Busters
Reciprocal Markets
to Each Other
ALL MUST COOPERATE
In Modern Society the Producing Ele.
ments Are Inseparably Linked
Together and Cannot Thrive
Otherwise.

The worker on the furms and in the
industries are to each other as great
reciprocal markets. This Is true hc-
cause the farmers who farm the farms
are engaged. not in producing lux
uries for billionaires, but in the pro-
ductiOn of the basic life necessities,
food. clothing, etc.
The natural economic system is di-
vided int" hut two parts. First, that
section through which society gathers
the raw materials, such as the prod
ucts of The farms, fisheries, forests
and mines. necessary to its existence;
and, second. that section which turns
the raw materials INTO finished prod
uciS and iii .lrihUtr> lhrn,. in the form
of communities. TO Users. in which Sec
ton come llr %,'krr> in the factories,
offices. hau>> and on the railroads
and ships.
This being 'rur i, h'r":n"> clear to
all thinking people chat, in modern
society. IT, welfare Of the farmers
and agricultural workers is absolutely
bound up with the wrItnr, Of the in.
dustriul and di>lribulivr workers. AS
one class suffers or proSlrr>. 50 will
the other.
Prices Fall With Wages
As wages and salaries ar. driven
to and below the cost Of existence, ME
prices Of farm products will newt.
ably follow to. the same pnini--lhe
point Of mere subsistence income the
point where the free worker becomes
a peon and the free farmer a tenant.
This is true because you farmers can.
not take out Of Il market more than
is paid into it as wages and salaries.
II this contention IS incorrect then
how can one explain the fact that, nc.
cording to all census figures, the aver.
age annual income of the farmers Of
the United States about equal the
average annual income Of the indus.
trial workers.?
There is no explanation for this fact
other than has been shown. viz: You
cannot take out Of market more Than
is paid into it in wages. Hence 1t
follows as the night the day, that as
the standard Of living falls for the
workers in the great basic industries,
the standard Of living will also fail
on the farms. There is no escape
from this iron law, the ignoring OF
which has strewn and is still Strcwng
the continents with the ruins of en-.
pires.
Far from the real interests of the
farmers being antagOnStic to the
workers in the Industries. and vice
versa, as the Economists" ca of the
plutOcracy contend, the interests Of
these two great natural subdivisions
of society are. in reality. as one. for
they are to each other rpciprocal LAIR.
kets anil, 50. are bound together for
good or i'll, for life and death
Gamblers to Blame.
1t is the gamblers and proii;.rrs
who having insinuated themselves no
classes, and Two take toll first off one
and then the othcr---it is these para.
sites who, by control of the press aud
all other avenues of publicity ana
education. keep the producers apart
and poor Desperately. now as in the
times Of old. the kent classes strive to
"divide and cnnuu"r'. for we'll they
know that once the producing CLASSES
recognize this truth. that. by the iron
law of nature. the great. great ma i"r
ity of men and women must. now and
always labor for their living: then. in
that hour of recognition Of truth The
producing classes will come together
in one. mighty economic organization.
having for its motto the commandment
of the Apostle Paul: IF Il man will
not work. neither shall he eat
This fear. the unity "t the indus.
trial and agricultural productive
classes, is What is haunting the PIN.
tocrucy and its intellectual and i"nii1.
ical hirpling> in these United States
today. for they know that once. 'he
producers awaken to tn" truth hat
you cannot take more on, Of Il market
than is paid inl" it. the end If GEO.
nomic kuiSerisll is at hand.
New Iurk.--A cooperative -;t'
factory which viii sell ;l~ pn''u"'- hy
mail order ~ ut!.nH ru~'"l,:"T> IL. :
Just been opened here umi'r NE r"".
ton OF the Tn "u GEAR Nah,"> -"
operatiV. society ii \'W N"rt ti'
venture has b. ~ 'u"rrIa" -" 1T
S.0.OOo. and vii, hay" II =. r'. T., ~
50 workers. VII" va - -
from among the rm"u''.. eat ~.