The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-25

We reprint below an estimate
of the Campbell farm made by a
paper representing the capitalist
class of which Campbell is him
self a member. For the toiling
farmers turnout the United States
the story of the Campbell farm is
of the greatest significance. Not
because Campbell is a fourflusher
and a high grade liar but because
Campbell has been represented
thruout this country and turnout
the world as the living example of
what capitalism could actually ac-
complish thru large scale farming.
Campbell had Wall Street sup
port his gold mine racket. The
pictures and stories of his tractor
fleets relentlessly sweeping across
the country have been broadcast in
every capitalist journal.
On one of the sections of his
farm Campbell had the up-to-the-
minute machinery in decent con-
dition. There were halfway de-
cent buildings. On the other sec
tons the machinery lay uncared
for. The buildings were in rot
ten condition. His huge farm is
and has been a racket.
The fact that it was a racket
and the decay that was evident to
everyone who viewed the entire
farm are characteristic of the de-
cay that is inherent in agriculture
under capitalism, of the fact that
capitalism cannot organize agri-
culture, and that it therefore ex-
PLOTS the toiling farmers, not di-
rectly as the city proletariat is ex-
plotted, but indirectly thru taxes
rail rates, marketing monopolies,
tariffs, etc.
The shining example of large
scale farming under capitalism is
racket, with signs of decay Wis
ible to any one who passes. Large
scale farms in the Soviet Union,
growing in number and in size
year by year are the symbol of
mechanical Socialist agriculture.
In "Red Villages" which we are
publishing serially we can see the
way in which socialist agriculture
is planned, and the gigantic steps
seven league steps forward that
it is taking.
CORPORATION FARMING"
''The Montana Farmer"
Thomas D. Campbell, national
ly known as the Montana Wheat
King through his occasional APP
pearance on the air and his az
ticles in national magazines, de-
clared not long ago that bankers
and rich men must take over the
farms, work them in economical
units, use the best machine equip
ment, pay high wages to skilled
men and employ engineers as
managers
''These outbursts of the voluble
Mr.. Campbell may bring smiles Of
approval back east but out here In
Montana, and particularly in those
parts of Montana where Mr.
Campbell carried on his own we'll
advertised grain growing opera
lions, they bring just plain smiles
"Out here in Montana we know
Mr.. Campbell as a most interest
ing character, a likeable personal
ity, a master salesman-but moi
as a successful farmer. Mr.
Campbell, in his farming opera
tions in Montana, had all of the
necessary factors outlined in hi:
formula. He had the wholeheart
ed backing of bankers to an as
founding degree in the early years
of his operations; he could handle
his gigantic wheat farm in eco
nomical units; his costs of lanC
rental through the extremely ad
vantageous leases he was able t.
make were exceptionally low; h,
paid good wages to skilled mel
and he employed engineers a
managers and in fact used his owl
engineering experience and train
ing in directly supervising all op
erations.
with all these advantages, W,