The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
FRIDAY, APRIL is, 1880.
GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP
THEMSELVES

THEMSELVES
Nobody will deny that the farmers of the United
States are confronted with serious crisis. Ne
farmer will deny it. Here in Northeastern Mon
tana the situation is exceptionally critical; thOus
ands of farmers being at their wits end as to
how they can get their spring planting done. The
efforts made by the government to bring relief
thru seed and feed loan is nothing less
than an insult. And even those who could man.
age to secure seed grain by hook or by crook have
not money to purchase fuel for their tractrs-Old
DObbin being very much thing of the past.
The antics of the Farm Board since It was
ganzed with a great ballyhoo has thorOly discred-
tied it in the eyes of the farmers. 1t reduced the
loan value on wheat, thus breaking a solemn
promise to the farmers. 1t is haranguing the
farmers of the Northwest to cut spring planting
even tho it is we'll aware that the hard wheat
grown in this part of the country is all consumed
at home. The Farm Board is supported in this
policy-sucidal for the hard wheat growers-by
millionaire farmers like Schnitzler of Froid and
by that hot-air expert" Thomas D. Campbell 1t
is rather hard to understand why this policy
should also have the support of the Farmers
Union Herald, official organ of the Farmers
Union of the Northwest which has thousands of
members in the hard wheat areas
administration has no serious intention of aiding
the farmers. 1t is merely carrying out the policy
of Big Business in putting the screws on the ag-
ricultural sections of the nation. In industry it
cynically looks on while seven millions of workers
are thrown on the streets to starve But tho it
refuses to grant unemployment relief it is not
stingy with clubs and tear gas for use on the
employed when they protest against their enforced
idieness
To a great extent the unemployed and the
farmers are to blame for their own misfortunes.
They have followed capitalist politicians thru all
the political gyrations that those worthless go thru
when the vote-hunting season is on. They refuse
to organize into militant labor and farm organi-
cations. They should know that anything worth
getting is worth fighting for and that nothing
worthwhile ever by the producing classes
without fight.
Tame tho the program of the best Farmer-La-
Dor or Labor Party can be in comparison 10 a
Communist program, the workers in the cities and
the tillers of the soil have failed to rally to such
organizations. A little bit of prosperity-which
means an opportunity to slave for a master TO the
latters profit-and the city workers climb on the
bandwagons of the capitalist parties, swallowing
the promises of those tools of big business like
hungry gudgeons.
ly wrap themselves around the necks of the work
ing class. They tell the workers that Hoover OF
AL Smith or some other representative of Bis
Business will fill their dinner pals for them ant
to beware of men like William T. Foster Com
munist candidate, who faces long term
Imprisonment for fighting openly for the interest
of the workers. Reactionary leaders of farme
cO-Operatives spend their time praising the Fam
Board Instead of trying to rally the rank an
file of their organizations for a struggle agains
the capitalist system they hull them into a slee
Of false security. They dope them with polite;
morphine.
The Producers News still stands on the theor
that no permanent solution for the economic III
that afflict the farmers and the industrial worl
ers can be had under the capitalist system n
temporary solution, no palliative can be force
from capitalist government except thru the co
lective action of the producing classes. Despi
the severe economic crisis that is reducing Il
farmers and workers to beggary neither class h;
as yet shown any disposition to make seriou
protest. Only those workers VINO follow the lea
ership of the Communist Party are taking action
The farmers seem to be still hoping that son
"angel" viii take pity on them and relieve the
distress without any cost in effort to themselvt
The protest meeting in the Farmer-Labor Tenn
last Sunday was poorly attended. 1t is true tn
the meeting was hastily arranged and that Dc
haps because of that the message did not rea
the great bulk of the farmers until too late. B
instead of one hundred there should have be
several hundred farmers present
There is an old saying that "God helps those W
helps themselves" 1t is about time that the fl
mers should quit praying for political Messia
is the task of the workingclass themselves"
great Karl Marx said. This also applies to
farmers.