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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19

Sherman Antitrust Act which forbids combin- |
alton and conspiracy in restraint of trade. But
the Coolidge plan for solving the cotton problem
as announced by Senator Smith provides that the
Federal Reserve Banks, in making their loans are
to force the farmers to enter into contracts to
plant less cotton and thus reduce the production
of that important commodity. Law no law,
this is one more example of the fact that CAPT
tasm only Solves its problems by lettering the
possible productivity of our economic system.
This remarkable Coolidge program for solving
the situation, while it will get the support of such
senators as Smith and Underwood, will undoubt-
eddy throw various southern senators and repre-
sentatives into the ant-Coolidge farm relief pro-
gressive group in the Senate and greatly strength
en- the hands of that group disturbing the present
alliance between big business Republicans and big
business Democrats which have been passing all
Coolidge-Mellon measures.
The only hope of immediate relief for these
cotton farmers is increase of purchase of south
ern cotton by the Soviet Union. Already the
average yearly purchase of American cotton by
the Soviet Union totals As million dollars and the
demand for American cotton on the part of Rus
sian industry is increasing. This will no doubt
cause our Southern congressman to look with much
less horror upon "the naturalization of women"
and other atrocity stories published in the south
ern capitalist press and considerable sentiment is
now developing in favor Of recognition of Russia.
The cotton crisis is only part of a general farm
crisis which promises to extend rather than the
contrary. The department of Agriculture admits
in its recent report that the prices for cotton,
fruits and wheat are low that they have brought
the general index of the purchasing power of
farm products down from SO last August to 50 this
August This is the lowest index in &c months
and shows a gradual renewal of the tendency to-
ward crisis in those agricultural industries that
depend to any considerable extent on the export
market This does not show the real extent OF
the farm crisis because the Department of Agri-
culture figures as to the purchasing power OF the
farmers product are calculated as against all
commodities which include the farmers own pro
duct and not as against industrial commodities
only The actual purchasing power of the farm
er in terms of industrial commodities is very
much lower and dropping more rapidly If the
same tendency continues for the next year or SO
the farmer end of a Farmer-Labor alliance for the
1928 elections should be quite healthy and the pos
sibility of the founding of strong Farmer-La
Dor party greatly increased.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19

the world is acking more persistently since the
last attempt on the duce's life -.
Premier MussOlinTs death is an event that
must be envlsaged possible any moment
1t must be remembered that there is no other
form of protest possible in Italy against the
fascist regime since the establishment OF
fascism thousands of socialists liberals and other
dissidents have lost their lives property and
health at the hands of fascist mObs. 1HERE
ARE HUNDREDS, PERHAPS THOUSANDS,
OF YOUNG MEN w H WOULD CONSIDER
IT NOT ONLY PIETY, BUT A PATRIOTIC
DUTY TO KILL PREMIER MUSSOLlNl. (Em-
phasis Ours.)
Typical of the expression in other capitalist
organs, the above shows that it is no longer
possible to conceal the fact that all of Italy is
Mount Aetna likely to burst forth at any mo-
ment.
''The history of dictatOrs of the MussOlmi
type afflicted with a combination of the NapOl-
con and Caesar completes, shows that they have
always resOrted to attempts at foreign conquest
as their power waned in order to make them
selves symbOIical of the nationalist pride of the
country.
"MussOlini will be- exception.
His death or dethrOnement will be sudden or
else the fascist organization will provoke war
which will be quite in line with its imperialist
policy.
cit is quite likely that war would have broken
out before this if it were not for the fact that
the impoverished European nations have not the
financial strength to wage a major struggle with
out putting themselves more completely at the
mercy of American imperialism. But even with
this negative factor given its full Importance no
one reading the news from Europe can avoid the
conclusions that war is nearer than at any time
since the signing of the armstice
"And an armistice it was-a temporary cessa-
ton of hOstilties until new forces could be raj
lied and new alignments made.
"But in the welter of darkness which envelOps
western and southeastern Europe there is at least
one ray of light 1t is the league of GO p S
which seems to be making substantial progress
under the leadership of the Soviet Union n d
which at least tentatively includes Turkey, Per-
sia Afghanistan and the new and pow vert i
China which is rising steadily the ruins of
feudal reaction and imperialist oppression.
"'The spokesman of capitalism would have US
believe that the question must be put as Asia
versus Europe and in the event of an important
offensive started by MussOlini some other
representative of reaction they wall try to raise
! the bugabOO of Asiatic domination.
''But class conscious workers know and the
rest of the working class will learn that the
question must be put i'm the form of strong
struggle of the working class and the colonial
peoples against world Imperialism which is led
now by the workers and peasants government
of the Soviet Union"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
oBREWING A NEW WAR"

Under the above editorial head, the Chi o
Daily Worker, the Communist English Daily Of
America, in discussing the precariOus situation ex-
listing in Europe and especially in the Mediterran-
can and Balkans area, and the challenge OF the
Western World in the proposed formation Of the
Eastern League of Nations, which is now intrigu-
ing the attention of the world remarks in the fol-
lowing illuminating terms:
"ItaIy, France, Turkey and JugO-Slavia are
mObilizing, according to dispatches.
Relations between France and Italy are ex-
tremeIy strained. MussOlini's plot to create fric-
ton between France and Spain by organizing
called uprisings in Catalonia and then exposing
them through the medium of fascist secret
vice men has resulted in France Withdrawing its
tentative agreement to surrender the Syrian
mandate in Italy.
unable to display the promised colonial con-
cessiOn before the Italian people as an achieve
ment MussOlini takes up the sword against Tur-
key more.
"JugO-Slava, alarmed at the war-Iike prepa-
ratiOns in neighbOring countries, and having an
AK of her own to grind in the shape of desire
for unrestricted outlet to the sea, puts her war
machinery into motion and Greece also will not
remain inactive in the face of hostile demOnstra-
tiOns.
''The Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean
area are boiling again with fascist Italy as the
center of the disturbance.
! even the capitalist press is specializing now
on how long the MussOlini regime can last. John
Steele, writing for the Chicago Tribune from
Rome says:
" After BenitO MussOlini, what?
" This is the question all Italy and most of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
FARMERS ATTENTION

Editor Producers News.
Brand your cattle as we have cattle
rustlers living among US who labor
under the idea that they can gain
title to your stock providing they get
a chance to stick their branding iron
on them On the night between
April 20 and 81, 1926; being moon
lit windy night, an eight months old
heifer calf was spirited out of my
pasture and no doubt put in seclusiOn
as search and inquiries failed to re-
veal her, but on Nov. 3rd / found
her in some persons herd with their
brand on her and when l approached
them on the subject that it was my
calf was told l could do nothing to
gain possession of my property as
they had their brand on her "Superb"
My idea of a registered brand is an
Identification mark Of your own stock
a protection against such depreda-
lions as the above and when placed
upon someone else's stock to gain
title, a criminal Offense.
Dated November Is, 1926.
FRED. LUNDBERG,
Plentywood, Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
AMERICAN TYRRANY
ABROAD

Jeffersonian Democrats and LincOl-
MAN Republicans, not to mention the
few millions in this country who draw
their political inspiration from more
recent champions of human freedom,
may eventually be shocked and anger
ed bv this policy of complaisance to-
ward dictatorship and oppression IN
the Latin American republics. In
trade unions especially there is re
Elected a sense of moral outrage that
the State Department is so seldom
identified with encouragement to the
fighters for liberty. 1t seems a long
CRY to 1865, when Gen. Grant demand
ed that the Washington government
serve notice on Napolean III. to pull
his puppet Macmillan out of MeM-
CO.
This resentment has been deepened
during the week by disclosures of the
shady work by Leonard Wood, gov
rnor-g eneral of the Philippines.
] Wood has been trying, for four years
past, to force the Filipino govern
ment to sell it's bank, its railroad, its
coal mines and certain other business
enterprises by which it limits the
power of American finance to put the
Filipino people under foreign feudal
control. He has been hampered by a
law passed by the Manila legislature
which created a Board of Control for
these enterprises. The board was
composed of the speaker of the lower
house, the president of the senate, and
the encouragement. Wood was a
minority, as Speaker ROxas and Pres
ident Queszon would not appoint di-
rectors for these corporations who
would betray public ownership, or who
would use the bank to give credit ia
American firms in discrimination
against native business men.
But last winter Wood asked the
War Department for legal ruling
that the law creating the board was
void, because in conflict with the or
ganic law passed by Congress for the
island. Wood claimed that all board:
and other executive bodies must bt
filled by himself. The judge advocate
general of the army, on April 10, up
held him, but sent the issue to At
torney-G General Sargent. On Septem
: Der % "Wild Bill" Donovan, acting
encouragement, upheld them a.
against the Filipinos. All this wa
secret. Wood must have received
: the opinion late in October. He KEEP
: it dark until an hour after final ad
. iournment of the Philippine legisla
ture on November 10, and then issues
an order taking all the powers of tn
board into his own hands. He ha
2 tricked the legislature out of tn
2 chance to create a new board tina
2 would meet the terms of the lega
e decision. The legislature could no
: meet in special session without M
| consent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19

VUST across an imaginary line that marks
the northern boundary of the United
States may be found one OF the most
conclusive of arguments in favor of
the cooperative marketing of grain.
Canadian farmers are doing what the
farmers of the United States have been
talking about. They are handling the mar
keting of their wheat comparatively and it
is paying them well. Over the destiny of
their crops they are exerting a measure of
control that is reflected by the better prices
they are receiving.
One often gets valuable tips from a neigh
Dor. Our farmers well could pattern their
efforts along cooperative lines after those
adopted and followed in Canada.
The Canadian Wheat Pool is going con-
Germ. 1t is the biggest factor in the wheat
trade there. 1t owns hundreds of elevators;
its membership exceeds 125,0O0 farmers and
it controlled 12,23O,OOO Of the 100000
acres sown to wheat last year in the prairie
provinces. 1t controls the sale of more
than half of the wheat production of the
Dominion. 1t has direct connections with
all the nations that import wheat and its
selling agency operates throughout the
world. This favorable position has enabled
the Pool to prevent large quantities of grain
being rushed on the market to form a glut
and smash prices. The strength of the
Pool lies in its stabilizing power and its
facilities for selling IL great quantities and
in all countries.
The activities of the pool are centered in
the three prairie provinces, Manitoba, Al
berta and Saskatchewan, where the bulk
of the Canadian WI eat is produced.
Throughout this region it owns elevators
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19

the people eight years ago, when the
party was launched, are still IN
solved.
"Our program is economic. 1t pro-
vides a solution of the problems of
the farmer, wage Garner and small
business man. The existence of the
farmer-labor party can be justified
only on the ground that it is fund
amentally different from the old
parties.
Common Phenomena
"a defeat at the polls such as we
just suffered is common to liberal po-
itical organizations. We expect it
and are prepared for it. Will not
lie down; we will carry on. We are
in the movement to educate, build and
ultimately win. o ur purpose is to re-
deem Minnesota for the people.
1--WE deny we are a third party. We
have been the second party in Mime
sofa from the beginning. We are mo-
rally certain the great mass of the
voters will come into our fold when
they understand better the principles
Of our party and what we are trying
to do for the people. Between now
and the next election we shall carry
! our message to them. We shall be-
gin at once to organize in every coun-
ty in the state. We shall aim to es-
tablish public confidence in the things
we stand for.
Sees Need for Party.
'There will be need for a farmer
labor party so long as the farmers
wage earners and small business men
have economic-political questions to
solve. Experience has shown that
they can get no relief from either Of
the old parties.
''The bankers and merchants in the
smaller cities and villages of the
state, who are suffering great bust
ness losses from the unfortunate con
dition Of the farmers, must sooner OF
later learn that hope for their future
success and prosperity is in the farm
er-labor party. Time will remove the
prejudices that have been built VI
] around our movement and when thai
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19

sist any organization in getting on its feet.
1t should be of great value to farmers who
are willing to act in concert, rather than
as individuals, in the disposal of their pro-
duction.
Cooperative marketing has made great
progress in the United States. There are
thousands of associations of this type that
are meeting with success and through which
farmers are receiving for their crops more
money than they got under the old methods.
But unfortunately one Of the biggest crops
if the Middle West-wheat-sti is being
marketed through middlemen, except in
few instances.
l feel that every farmer should study
cooperative marketing because it is of Vi
tai Importance to him and to the industry
of agriculture. 1t no longer can be passed
by as an INFESTED theory because it is be-
ing practiced with success. Some attempts
to put the marketing of wheat on a coop
erative basis have met with failure but that
is no bar to further effort If Canada can
do it so can the United States.
It is up to the individual farmers Of this
country to show their mettle, to get tOgeth-
er and to demonstrate their ability to man.
age their own business rather than to let
someone else do it. Such control over the
disposition Of their production, it seems, can
come only through cooperative organiza-
ton.
Cooperation probably will not solve all
the difficulties of the farming business, be-
cause they are too involved and complex,
but it is my opinion that it win be a decid-
ed help and viii make easier the solution
of the problems that are left.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
Take a Tip From a Neighbor
By SENATOR CAPPER OF KANSAS

in which its members may deposit grain and
where it does not have actual ownership
it leases elevators. 1t is represented on
the grain markets and exerts a large in
fluence there.
The growth of this organization in the
three years since the first pool was formed
in Alberta in October, 1928, is the best
evidence of its success.
Part of the troubles of the farmers of the
United States have come about because of
the lack of control by producers over the
marketing of their crops. The actual sell
ing of farm products has been and still is
largely in the hands of the so-called mid
dlemen, whose interests are not those of
the farmer. The producer, has sold at
the price offered. Tn e other fellow has
the grain and often has made made pro-
# larger than that made by the man who
grew the wheat,
l am convinced that the development of
cooperative marketing on a big scale will
be highly advantageous to American farm
ers. 1t is reasonable to think so, after
viewing the success of the Canadian wheat
growers and recalling the accomplishments
of cooperative marketing in Europe, nota-
bly, in Denmark.
The Federal Government looks kindly on
the promotion of cooperative marketing
At the last session of Congress the forma-
ton of a bureau of the Department of Agri-
culture to study this question and to work
with farmer organizations in the promotion
of cooperative associations, was authorized
This bureau will investigate co-operatives,
study their methods, select the best and the
most certain ways of procedure and will as
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Nicaragua. That is as the American
bankers, Seligman & Co. and Brown
Brothers, would have it. The liberal
party is in rebellion, holding the At
iantic coast and marching toward the
Chamorrist strongholds in the interi-
or. They are trying to restore the
constitutionally elected regime which
was upset by Chamorro's military
coup of a year ago. They have
delivered to the State Department a
protest against the Diaz trick, saying
that all liberals were thrown out OF
the congress before the vote on Diaz
was taken. But Kellogg denies that
he has seen their protest; besides, he
is assured that the liberals were re
admitted to the congress - although
their supporters are in armed revolt
against ChamOrrO.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
MACNUS JOHNSON
SAYS THE FIGHT
M UST CONTINUE
PROBLEMS BEFORE PARTY
STILL UNSOLVED.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi Capitalist
politicians are circulating rumors that
Senator Shipstead, farmer-laborite
may return to the republican fold in
view of the defeat of Magnus John
son and the majority Of the farmer
labor candidates in the recent cleo
tons.
Staunch members of the Farmer
Labor Association, those who believe
in the class struggle, do not think
that the recent defeat was anything
but a temporary setback which can
be remedied by a return to the mill
fancy Of the early days of the farm
er-labor movement and the defeat
within the movement of reactionaries
like McEwen Of Duluth who have done
everything possible to destroy the
movement while pretending to sup
port it.
Magnus Not Disheartened
Magnus johnson, defeated senatori-
al candidate on the farmer-labOr tick
ct, is disappointed but not dishearten-
/ ed he says and declares that he will
continue in the fight for the workers
and farmers. If Magnus depended
more on the support Of the workers
and poor farmers and less on the
bankers and merchants" his chances
of making Washington again woulC
be roster. This is what Johnson haC
to say after the votes were counted
Causes Still With Us
'The result of the election, Will,
disappointing, is not disheartneing.
The causes which led to the forma
ton of the farmer-labor party arr
still with US. The problems befOrl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
MAYOR WAGNER, THE CRUSADER

Mayor Wagner now has the enforcement of the
liquor laws all in his own pure and gentle hands
there is still left city ordinance prohibiting regu-
lating and furnishing the sale of Intoxicating
beverages"
There is a city magistrate and policeman with
not much else to do but to stool around and see
to things, and city attorney, too.
Mayor Wagner has been outraged for long
time over the moral conditions of this city.
He is the Virgin Mayor of our fair hamlet
There is now nothing to stop him from doing
something about things, but his own incinatons
He has the attorney, the law and the courts-and
our permission to start to improving the environ
ments" as soon he can muster sufficient intes-
tines.
Just watch him crusadel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
Friday, Nov. 10, 1925

IS done and truth prevails, we ezDa,.
to triumph over all our enemies sApect
Can Abide Time
I'VE can afford to abide our H.,
We appeal to all men and women ', rl
have common cause with us n ~. VINO
firm in their devotion to the f .vlllaln
labor party and its principIee -''l ~
urge them to begin now to N.Y.. We
for the next election. We al, tgafe
to join with US in building up . s+ Slen
and militant organization ever, IriIoilg
throughout the state. "''efe
Speaking for myself, let me CO...
have no political ambitions "a!
grateful to the voters of Minnesoataa
for what they have done for me a'a ~,
to show my appreciation I shall 'i L
content to work with the ranI- oC Oe
file to aid in completing the o. ana
work we have begun under such t I'd
ing auspices" "
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
COUNTY SCHOOL
IN DANIELS To
BE CONSIDERED

SCOBEY. y A campaign has bo..
started in Daniels county for fbo Oeen
Establishment of a county high 90, sobo eS-
in order to relieve the condition o 9-I99i'
cOnfrOnts the county for the a J,,lCn
ton of pupils after they leave au u.
grades. 'le
At present the high schools ..
Whitehall and Flaxville after only .
two-year course, and both are crow
ed. The Scobey high, with its fonr
year course course, is much over
crowded. The initiative amendmert
for the five-mill tax levy having faii
ed, the question of a county biob
school is again being agitated. and
will undoubtedly be presented to fbs
voters of the county in the near fn-
ture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
BROOKHART AND
FRAZIER NOW LAUGH

FRAZIER NOW LAUGH
WASHINGTON (FP)-Sen. Lynn
Frazier of North Dakota and Sen.
Brookhart of Iowa seem to have the
last laugh on the tory republicans in
the senate. Frazier, expelled from all
Republican committee assignments
two years ago with Brookhart, the
late Sen. Laid of North Dakota and
the late Sen. LaFollette, holds the
balance of power between republi-
cans and democrats in the struggle
for election of chairman of all COM
mittees in the upper branch of con-
gress. And Brookhart, unseated by
the votes of Democrats and regular
republicans, comes back triumphant
as a republican whose credentials the
farmers of Iowa, have renewed by a
big majority.
Expulsion of LaFollette the elder,
Brookhart, Frazier and Ladd from
the G. o. P. organization in the SEN
ate was accomplished at the demand
of three men who have gone down in
the recent debacle of the Coolidge
administration. Ernst of Kentucky
Wadsworth of New York and Butler
of Massachusetts, who spoke as ma
tional chairman, forced the decision.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
OFFICIAL DISHONESTY
MARK COLONIAL DEALINGS

Progressive senators who are sent
to Washington by the votes of wage
workers and organized farmers are
familiar with the dishonesty that has
marked American official dealings
with the Latin-Americans and the
Filipinos in recent years especially.
They see in it a consequence of the
growth of the spirit of resistance to
oppression in America; the imperial
ist bosses of big industry are looking
abroad to develop fields where the
laborers will be more docile and the
resources less carefully protected from
the public standpoint.
Cuba, Nicaragua, the Philippines
they are a bit less rebellious than
Mexico. Big business in politics hopes
they will not follow her example.