The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10

Surh Tastes They Have
Company CO-Operatives
Baled Like Hay
Shifting a Nasty Sniff
The Tariff Funnies
Respect the Aged.
Why your Tommy Halls and your
D,lav Rnrtnesses rushed the Hoover
I'm % relief bill through and put it
nrer 80, :. bv a vote of $50 to 80 is all COM
;u@ ont in the wash. And what a
nssbout! Instead of being an aid to
.ho c,.operatives, as claimed, the CO.
onoratiyes have Just awOke to the
Sact that it puts them under COM
nIete control of the great interests
which run the government. Under
.ho law the Farm Board has more
oower over the farmers than the
Federal Reserve has over the banks.
n can take the Farmers Union and
sbred it to pieces and start a new
one. 1t can kill and create and
make farm" organizations to suit
;ts taste. And you know what tastes
the grain interests and captains of
industry have!
Ever hear of company union?
When a big corporation such as the
textile mills in the South or LOwry's
street transportation monopoly of st.
Paul want to FIGHT the labor Union
organized by their employees they
start a "COmpany's uniOn." 1t is
thoroughly emasculated and impOt-
emf to serve the interest of labor.
The genuine labor union man has
as much chance for his rights in that
as iackrabbit has with a coyote.
Exactly that is what is happening to
the farmers in this Hoover farm re-
lief. The farmers cooperative which
he spent his time and money to
form and which represents his inter
ests will be quietly shelved and the
Hoover Farm Board will hand him
his company cooperative" all ready
to use. If ever farmers necks were
near the nOOse-this is that time.
The only hope for escape is in the
Senate. There is no equalization fee
or debenture plan possible. That hope
is gone. But be thankful if the Sen
ate can trim the claws of the beast
and lift the menace that hangs over
the head of every real farm market
ing organization in the country. That
is why the Farmers UniOns the Far.
mer Bureau Federation and the Ma.
tiOnal Cooperative Milk Producers
are in violent protest against the
depOtic provisions of the bill. I'm
less the measure passed so gleefullS
BY the House is amended by tht
Senate the farmer will find himself
as neatly trussed uD as a bale OF
hay, for this is what could happen.
The Farmers Union operating IL
Minnesota, North Dakota and Mon
tana might apply for its share of th'
500 million dollars to finance it ant
is genuine cooperative in market
ing grain. The Farm Board at Wash
ingtOn would pucker its brow ant
inquire: 'Is this a Real cO-Opera
tive?" Then it would turn to tn
statement of the Farmers Union o
Nebraska which denOunces the North
west Farmers Union, and says it j
NOT "a cooperative because it pay
no patronage dividends. It wOul
look up the articles of a Delawar
corporation called The Farmer
Union Exchange, which has no pa
value stock. has no farmers as IL
cOrpOratOrs and whose articles HAY
no reference TO the principles of C.
operation, This odd concern seer
to control the Farmers Union wit
Its dues-paying members in the thr'
states. 1t seems to be the old prof
grabbing machine masquerading b
hind "a screen Of 26,000 dues-payir
suckers who think they are cO-Ope
ating. So the Farm Board at Was
mgtOn would sniff a nasty sniff al
say: This will never do! We sh,
give you REAL cooperative org
nlzatiOn if we have to draft JUL
Barnes and the whole Grain E
change to do it," Do not mistah
The Farm Board has the power
DO that and more if the bill becOm
law, unchanged.
That is serious but of course the
is comic relief. That comes in
agricultural tariff. The Ways a
Means committee of the House
composed mainly of humOrists-
must be! The draft of the bill
give the farmer the protection of
tariff is so full of jOkers that it
confTdently expected that the O
gressiOnal Record viii come out "
an Illustrated comic supplement TO
The job justice. They are afraid
OFFENDING Canada-sO they have st
ped lightly on dairy and cattle
ports. They are anxious not to
trade with Argentina, so they h
gone easy on flax and hides. I
90 not want to hIrt Cuba or
Fmhppines so the increase of ia
on sugar and vegetable oils is
mere shadow of a thought hig
Inc boys, like Congressman Sc
OF CrOOkstOn, who have been NAL
the grandstand ring with their al
ments for tariff as the remedy
looking particularly foolish Just !
Even Bulgy Burtness would look
Ism, but when he does it doesn't S
on HIM. Selvig says he will vote
no such tariff bill. 1t is a good
Dut when the Republican mac
calls his hand he will know
about poker than he does. He
20 what he's told to do as will a
9'her S66. BOwing the knee to
Is not any modern invention.
ms column feels endorsed.