The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
PROGRAM AND PLATFORM OF
FARMERLABOR PARTY


the industrial workers and the farmers Several
millions of industrial workers are jobess and the
nrice of farm products is driven below the cost Of
production Starvation confronts millions of the ur
ban population and the ters of the soil and their
families are faced with mass bankruptcy. This
crisis of industry and agriculture is not the result
of undergraduate of the necessities of life; 1t
is a crisis of over-production. The workers and
farmers have produced too much; therefore they
are in want This situation is the logical conse-
Nuence of system of society under which things
are produced primarily for profit instead of
for use.
The machinery of production in industry has
developed to such degree of efficiency that it is
taking away the jobs of millions of workers who
are thrown out of work and forced into per
manent army of the unemployed Competition be-
tween nations for world markets has resulted in
the naturalization of industry in all the principal
industr.alized countries of the world. Today we
find mass unemployment world wide, with the
exception of Soviet Russia where the workers are
building up a socialist system of society under
workers and farmers government
All the capitalist countries are undertaking
each other for foreign markets The inevitable
suit of this competition is and already there
signs that another world is brewing
which promises 10 De q nun0red times more QreaQ-
full than the last The world war which was to
make the world safe for democracy merely
curtain raiser for the next.
The capitalist system is today dominant over
fivesixths of the earths surface 1t is an interna
tOnal economic system. 1t has the producing class
in its deadly grip. The finance-capitalists of
the United States, England, France and Japan
and to lesser degree Germany and Italy, are
eSki toll tho of he
where the people are being robbed of great part
of the product of their toll. They are kept in
state of impoverishment.
The control of the means of production and dis
tribution is passing into fewer and fewer hands
every year Gigantic mergers the order of the
day in every country in the world. This process
proceeds at faster pace in the United States than
III other countries.
The Declaration of independence enunciated the
principle that every human being is endowed with
the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness. These rights are denied the great mass of
the people of this country by a privileged class
which thru its economic and political power DOM
mates tht life of the people of this nation
Thru the organization of trusts, interlccking di-
rectorates and great banking institutions, control
of the economic life of the country is concentrat-
go in the hands of financial oligarchy. 1t uses
pense of.the workers and farmers
This privileged class controls the government
thru its ownership of the republican and demo-
cratic parties and uses the legislative executive
and judicial branches of the government as insru-
nents to protect its loot and suppress the exploit
co. 1t uses bribery and corruption TO steal from
the people the natural resources of the country
1t uses the courts to strike down the industrial
workers by the of injunctions. The prisons
Sawn Tor working class leaders who dare carry
on the struggle for better wages and working
conditions and the gallows and the electric chair
are called into service when the capitalist class
tInds ii necessary to make an example of devoted
leaders of the working class
1t uses the supreme court to protect its proper
tied interests and a great army and navy to pro-
teot It's investments in foreign lands and in CO.
cTcing weaker governm in the interests of the
Wall Street Oligarchy.
1t has not hesitated and will not hesitate n
throw this country into war and sacrifice millions
Of lives IN order to protect its financial interests
and increase its opportunity to make profits.
The dominant financial buccaneers of Wall
Street. thru their executive committee the govern
ment at Washington, have waged war of eco
nomic sabotage AGAINST the Soviet Union since
their failure under the Wilson administration "a
crush the workers republic by force of arms While
the mperialist government of the United States
mas recognized every black shirt dictatorship in
the world it refuses recognition to the Soviet gov
eminent of Russia, the government of the produc-
ing classes. 1t fears that the success attend ne
ne building of a socialist system of society in
Russia will encourage the workers of this countr,
TO take over the function of government and run
the industries of the country in the interests Of
the wealth producers
As long as the capitalist system is permitted I.
exist there viii be unemployment There win b
hunger and want in the midst of plenty The dan
ger Of war; fought in the interests of rival groups
Of capitalists viii hang over the heads of the
people.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties are
the servile tools of American imperialism. What
ever differences originally set them apart hav,
long since vanished until today we find them com
peting Ike harlequins for the smiles and favor.
OF the master class. The Republican and Demo
cratic parties are merely two wings of the can
italist political machine and no worker or explotes
farmer has representation in government whil
those parties divide the privilege of running TIT
governments of state and nation in the interest
OF the employers. Both parties are owned con
troed and subsidized by capitalist interests, some