The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-07-25

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he jobless problem. We are IL /;
Ible to have another war in a
'elatively short time. There's a
yleam of hope for the unemplOy-
d.
Alexander Legge and Arthur
Hyde are doing a Paul Revere
,hru the middle western states.
They are urging the farmers to
;urtail wheat planting. They
handed out the same advice last
spring to the farmers of the
northwest but climatic conditions
rendered the advice superfluOus.
The Montana farmers planted as
much wheat as they did the pre-
viOus year-excepting those that
did not have seed or the price Of
it - the crop is several million
bushels below last years yield.
Many farmers are cutting their
wheat for hay and wish they had
more of it. With wheat selling
as low as 81 cents a bushel. or
below the cost of production, the
farmer is in a helluva fix. He is
helping DO paw the salaries of
Legge and Hyde but they can
only offer him advice that would
be laughed at as a joke if it came
out of madhouse,
49,
The Producers News denounced
this policy when it was first pro-
claimed by the Farm Board and
parrOted by leaders of the Farm
ers Union. the Wheat Pool and
other cO-Operatives, real OF spuri-
Gus. 1t is passing strange that
an old Socialist like A. w. Rick
er, editor of the Farmers Union
Herald and publicity expert of the
Farmers Union should support
this crazy policy which makes for
the impOverishment of the poor
farmer. If the poor farmer has a
bOuntiful crop he can do some
thing with it. He can have it
ground up for flour. That's
rather tough on the millers and
the railroad companies but the
farmer should have a few rights.
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The idea behind the Farm
Board policy is to have the Am
erican farmer grow only enough
wheat 10 supply the domestic
market. But the yield does not
always depend on the area cult
waited. And when the u. S. farm
er curtails his wheat planting
what is there to stop the farmers
of Argentine, Australia, Canada
and other wheat growing cOun-
tries from increasing theirs? Our
capitalist experts are up against
a problem which is becoming
more difficult of solution daily.
What an indictment of a system
Is the fact that we have seven
million of unemployed and six
millions of farmers almost as
badly off, while the granaries are
bursting with wheat and the
warehouses with food and cloth
ing?
/ Yet, We have a congressional
committee sitting sOlemnIy IN
New York investigating the "Red
Menace" This herring has beer
drawn deliberately across the
track to avert the eyes of the
people from the desperate cOndi
ton in which a considerable sec
ton of the population finds itsell
IN The wise heads of capitalism
know that strikes and memplOy
, ment demonstrations are bOunC
, to Increase as want and destitu
ton grows. Therefore they arr
trying to make it appear tina
|, the Communists and Soviet Rus
, STA are to blame for the discOu
, tent that is seething in the rank
of the workers thruOut the cOun
! try. This sham investigation vii
not fool anybody. The COmmu
, nists are the only section of tn
American workingclass to call at
tentiOn in an organized name
to the unemployment situation
They also point the road tina
|. leads to prosperity for tn
masses. It is a hard road T.
: travel but it must be Travelled
!, For this reason the stoOlpigeOn
: of capitalism are persecutin
them, just as they prosecute
Mooney and Billings, the /. w. "
!. boys now in WaIla WaIla prison
; just as they murdered Sacco an
U Vanzetti.
A vice-president of the Amer
can Federation of Labor is one G
the chief inquisitors at the 'Red
investigation and one of the fore
most enemies of the SOvit
Union. AT least one member Q
the Socialist Party cOIOre
skate by the name of RandOlp
has already played his role a
stoolpigeOn by testifying again:
the Communists. There is nOtl
ing surprising in this. The n
dictionary leaders of union labO
IN Europe as well as in the Uni
ed States are the most bitter en'
NTH of the workers and the of
! clal socialists all over the worl
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