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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

millions and are increasing every
day2
What causes all this? Every
Party member, every worker, ev-
cry member of a collective farm,
every peasant, will rightly raise
the question. Isn't, perhaps, the
tractor to blame? Aren't we MAX
ing a mistake by letting these
tractors and combines into our
fields? Why, instead of progress,
instead of an increase in the we'll
being of the masses, has the wide
spread introduction of modern
technique into agricultural produc-
ton in the United States of Amer
lea led to the deterioration of ag-
riculture and the accentuation of
the agricultural crisis?
There can be only one answer.
The cause is inherent in the CAPT.
talist system, in the private own
ership of land. The fact is that
under capitalism the tractor and
the combine are unattainable fOl
the great mass of the farmers
while the small minority of rich
farmers who are able to re-equiE
their farms do SO at the cost OF
the ever-greater. oppression. and
ruin of the greatness of the farm
population. With a million trac.
tors, fOur-fifths of all the farm,
ers in the United. States. have
none. Moreover, of those farms
which have tractors, the over,
whelming majority are unable Il
use them to fun capacity. 1t is an
indisputable fact that those larg,
farms which, during the past cen
tury, were the pioneers of techni
cal progress (if one may call then
that are now too small for tn,
tractor.
The Americans themselves usu
ally consider that tractors ant
combines can be used to advant
age only on farms of more thar
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
A SURVEY By William Ferguson.

A Survey By william Ferguson.
have been busy during the last
several months distributing liter
AZURE, the greater part of my time
among the farmers. / have been
a farmer myself most of my life
and I understand the farmers
problems pretty thoroughly.
find that the farmers are more
anxious to read and to study, more
anxious to organize than the city
slaves. This condition is more
prevalent among the foreign-born
men and women on the farms than
it is among the American-born.
Conditions are simply rotten;
the farmers, as a rule. are abso-
lutely without money. Eggs and
butter are down in price to such
an extent that the farmers cannot
pay interest or taxes on their
farms. While the farmers in the
grain belt eastern Washington
had the grain in their own posses
sion it was real cheap. But as
soon as they sold it in order to
pay their debts (taxes. mortgages
etc. then the price of grain start
ed to increase; and the chicken
farmers and dairymen had to pay
a lot more for necessary feed
grain and hay.
The farmers on the coast canno'
even make a living cutting wood
but those east of the mountains
eastern Washington must pa.
$40 a cord or more for an inferio
grade of wood. Post cutters her
T get 2 or 8 cents a post for cut
v ting, the owner gets or cents
e while the farmer in Eastern Wash
Le ington must pay 20 to 80 cents 70
n small posts.
: Bread Fed to Hogs While Childre
l. Starve.
The Dexter Horton Bank of Sc
= attic owns a hog ranch near Rich
/ mond, Wash, about five mile
u from Seattle. They keep 5-to
So trucks hauling bread from Seattl
Z to the hog ranch to feed the hog
re while great numbers of the farm
T. ers cannot even buy bread fc
IL their children. Farmers have pal
IN excessively high prices for III
ne cleared land, and now that the
le have all the stumps cleared of
Us good buildings up, they cam,
al borrow half the original price tn;
u, the land cost them and in mar
co instances have been evicted fro
ne their homes for non-payment
en- taxes, in this way increasing Il
army of starving and unemploye
nc Many of the small farmers t
- to exist by getting work in Il
= small country saw mills, viii
II, !, are, however, owned by big m
= and timber companies. In tv
- such cases, namely, the Prest,
" Mill, is running ON an average
about three days a week with
partial crew and pays So a da
ND The Preston Mill, however, has n
paid its employees since August
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
by Y. A. YakovIev
Translated by Anna Louise StrOn,

plan compiled the data, and We
are therefore able to establish tn'
chief factors in the growth Of Ouf
large-scale farming on the bass
OF data analogous to that we hsVs
just used in considering the STU
alton in the United States OF ann
erica.
l. Rapid Growth of Large-ScaE
Farming in the U.S.S.R.
The basic fact in the U.SSE
fields of which we have been
speaking. In America there a'
is that large-scale farm prOd1c
tion-built not by running tls
small farmers but by uniting ting
them, not by means Of state gns;
to the upper capitalist strata y. Y
farmers but by the organizanOu.
of large state farms-is CROWNS
at a speed unprecedented IN I'
history of mankind, at rate Sa !.
attainable under capitalism. lnn
| fact is of considerable mpOi'
ance. In 1929, for the first tlni
since the war, the number
peasant farms ceased 30 incr ss."s
thereby refuting the assumpalv w..
of one of the learned conlrnl1'I,s ..
of the State Planning COnusl
sion which drafted the gens ,r,.
plan, to the effect that the nu u.r
Der of peasant farms would l sh
with each year and would req =
by 1911 30,984,888. In 1851 4
already have a decrease o. .lsr
least four million in the nun 4
of peasant farms, as a result iou
the uniting of several .;,s
peasants into $4,000 colle'4 :.
farms. early in MAY, 1851, .. !
number of peasant farms d Soa M,
ed further by more than O'UVs S d
as a result of the great GiO
collectivization.-Ed)
Continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
Prague Unemployed
In Demonstration Are
Killed By P Ollie e

Prague, Czechslovakia, Nov. %
Nine persons were killed and ii
others, six of them women, were
seriously wounded when police
fired on a crowd of unemployed
gathering for a march from Ober-
lindewies to the city hall at Fret
waldau.
The incident was brought up for
discussion in parliament and when
Minister of the Interiorn Star
bryny arose to defend the action
of the police, communists rushed
the platform and pulled him down.
The session was suspended.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
MISERABLE CONDITIONS OF
FARMERS IN WASHINGTON

this year, and the Monahan MN
is working half day shifts at o.
cents a shift. Many of the fam.
.ers have to come a good manv
miles to get this lousy 80 cert.
and have to catch fish in tSs
creeks and get Illicit deer to helm.
out on their living.
In one district east Of the NOM.
tains $50 grain farmers have beon
compelled to leave their farm,
and machinery is still left in ths
fields and their horses are rOam.
ing the range.
In spite of all these rotten con.
ditions the farmers are anxious b
organize, to read and study, and
they want organizers to go among
them to speak to them and esue
cially TO sell and distribute liters-
ture.
There is a great need of SINCERE
and patient work among the farm.
ers and in the small towns IN
which most of the farmers do their
buying.
Then, too, a large number Of
small storekeepers, barber shOpc,
| gas stations and small garages arc
fruitful places to do a lot Of good
work. The greatest sacrifice lit.
erature agents have to put up with
, is a lot of walking during tn.
day, but most of the farmers arI
willing to feed a Literature agenl
and give him a bed and help hin
I with useful information and AM
, other means in their power.
To sum up the whole thing,
. think that we must show NOR
: spirit Of willingness to sacrific
r for the good of the revOlutiOnar
movement. It is absolutely neceS
n sary that we help the farmers
organize.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
Tobacco Growers Refuse
Wretched Prices Offered
By Buyers of Trust

Greensboro, KY, Dec. 2.-Sales
were stopped at warehouses Tues
day when farmers shouted, jeered,
threatened to wreck the ware
houses, and refused to sell their
leaf at the prices bid.
The prices which have been of
fered by the tobacco trust buyers
in the Owensboro auction floors
are so low that the farmers will
be unable to live thru the coming
winter on the returns of their en-
tire crop.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
BANKERS PUSH
LEGION DRIVE
WANT AMERICAN LEGION AS
WEAPON AGAINST MASSES

The Scobey, Montana Unit of
the American Legion Auxiliary
has started a membership drive.
This membership drive is a def
mite attempt on the part of the
bankers of the country and the
big corporations 10 form a group
which will protect their interests
In the American Legion the bank
ers and the other exploiters are
trying TO mobilize elements which
they can use for the attack on the
militant toiling farmers and work
ers.
The Daniels County Leader
writes that "it should be consider
ed an honor to belong to this larg
est patriotic organization" Tn
reasons are as follows:
ct is purely a service Drgani-
cation service to others not
self.
"America today stands in
great need of the type of patri-
otto service which the Auxiliary
is organized to render. Enroll
ing in the Auxiliary for 1882
means enIisting for active SER
vice in a struggle for the main
tainenance of American ideals
and institutions"
Service for the Exploiters
1t is Service organization" fl
the bankers. America toda
stands in great need of the tyI
of patriotic service which tt
Auxiliary is organized to rend'
for active service in a strui
gle for the maintenance of Amer
can ideals and institutions"
What are these institutions
These institutions which the cap
talist class wants supported TIL
its American Legion are capital
! hunger and misery for the exploi
ed masses. These institution a
! war and mass unemploymeI
E These institutions are lynchil
| anu LGIIOI dS d1llSO WOIhCAS
strike. These institutions are t
dungeons where Tom Mooney, t
!. Harlan miners, the Scottsboro DO
and hundreds of other polite
! prisoners are held. These instit
= tons include the miserable R
(Double) Cross which treats t
farmers of the drouth strick
: areas as tho they were dogs.
"This patriotic service which
American Legion is organized
,. render" is the oppression and pt
: secution of the masses of the ia
= ers in the interests of the bankt
) and the bosses and for the CT
= tinuation of their system of h
|. ror and misery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

Continued from last week.
The decrease in the purchasing
power of the farmer and the sta
Obligation of his income go hand
in hand with a tremendous growth
in taxes on farm property. From
the data of the Department of Ag-
riculture during the period, 1914
1928, we find that farm taxes in
creased two and a half times
(262 per cent?. This tax rise con-
tinues without break. The Year
book records that in recent years
taxes have consumed from one to
two-thirds of the farmers income,
in some cases, as in that of Ger
tain Michigan counties, reaching
as high as 80 per cent. The exact
quotation follows:
Figures recently compiled for a
number Of rented farms in sew
eral Michigan counties show that
for the last seven years taxes
have taken about 80 per cent of
what otherwise would have been
the net returp to the owners of
these farms. It is believed that
this is an exceptionally bad con-
Ndition, but other studies in vari-
Gus sections indicate that In re-
cent years a tax burden which
takes from one-third to two
thirds Of the return is by no
means unusual.
This has resulted in a tremen-
dous growth of farm debts. The
total mortgage indebtedness OF
American farmers in 1928 reach
ed almost ten billion dollars. This
means that the farmer pay an
nually $800,000,000 in interest or
their mortgage debts alone. This
exceeds by many times the tota'
receipts from farm taxation In thu
u.S.S.R.
According to data of the Hoov
er Commission, IT'S per cent o.
the total farm income in 1927
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

Alfred Smith and John Ward
flew to Plentywood Thursday Of
this week in the plane which was
made in Plentywood last winter
bv the former, assisted by his
Uncle Louis Smith of this city.
The trip was made in one hour and
25 minutes from Flaxton. Many
Plentywood citizens have been out
to look at the locally CONSTRUCTED
plane which is a fine ship and a
credit to the genius of its makerG
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
Auto Workers Starving

Thousands of unemployed work
ers who used to work at FOrds and
Briggs are now facing starvation,
those few workers still holding
part-time jobs at Briggs receive
extremely low wages. A number
of workers have reported where
they have received 81 or 50 fOr
two weeks work, yet these same
workers were forced to contribute
to the Community Fund. The
Briggs Motor Co. made prom
Use that they would give SIS weeI
to every one of their unemployed
but very few got it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

TOILERS OF THE CITY AND
FARM, UNITE.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

CONTINUED from last week)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

According to data of the Hoov-
er Commission, IT'S per cent Of
the total farm income in 1927
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

The Americans themselves usu-
ally consider that tractors and
combines can be used to advant-
age only on farms Of more than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
Bruins Drop Ninth in
Row to Trail Robins
Twin Loss to Cards Sets Cubs Back in Fourth as Dodgers
Trip Braves Twice; Pirates Take Pair
From CnCy RedlegS
BY L. S. CAMERON
limited Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK Sept sWith the collapse of the Chicago
BROOKLYN and Pittsburgh
Chagoans third and fourth place. respectively
National
Cubs extended their losing streak to nine
losing to in the
seventh inning game pitching victory
over Bob Smith inning
holding
blows
third one-haf
defeating to and to ThompSons tenth
winning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
World Series Action to Open
Oct. | in Senior Loop City

! drawn up by Commissioner K. M.
Lands and league officials.
The season ends Sept. q, but the
first game of the world series will
not be played until Thursday, Oct.
l, in the city winning the National
League pennant The second game
also will be played in the National
League city and then the scene will
shift to American League grounds
for the next three games.
If the st. Louis Cardinals and
Philadelphia Athletics win their re-
spective remnants, the schedule an
nounced Monday by Commissioner
K. M. Lands follows:
Oct. I and AT st. Louis.
Oct. 8 and 4-TraveI and idle day be-
cause Sunday baseball is banned in PhiIa-
deIphia.
Oct. 5, 6 and AT Philadelphia.
Oct. S--Travel.
Oct. Q and 10 (if the sixth and seventh
games are necesSaryl-At st. Louis.
All games will begin at 1870
standard time. If game is post
poned by rain or any other cause
before it becomes a regulation game,
it will be played the next day in
the city where it originally was
scheduled. In the event of a tie
game, the schedule will not be
altered, but it will be played off, if
necessary, after the seventh game
in the city where it was first
scheduled.
The usual prices will prevail, $3.50
for box seats, $3.50 for reserved
seats, SO for general admission and
81 for bleacherS. The two league
presidents, William Harridge, Amer
lean, and John Heydler, National;
Robert Schroeder, secretary of the
Athletics, and Samuel Breadon and
William o. De Witt, president and
treasurer, respectively, of the Car
dinals, attended the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
Flyweights Clash Tonight

rain last week, and Captain j. r.
Kennedy, army post matchmaker,
believes the fistic fans will turn out
in big numbers for the feature ten
round attraction between Midget
Wolgast, worlds fyweight title
claimant, and Happy Atherton, the
local 112-pounder who is rated king
of his class in the Hoosier state.
1t will be a non-title battle to-
night, but both lads have trained
diligently for the clash and the
Harrison boxing commissioners pre-
dict a swift contest. It will be the
third time Anterior has faced a
title claimant and he is eager to
show at his best before local adj
mirers. Happy is 81 and Wolgast,
the Philadelphia italian, is %.
Both fancy boxers have met nearly
all leaders in the hyweight divi-
sion.
Five other scraps will be offered
on tonight's program, the first at
$780, Cooley and Grammell will
referee and ringside decisions will
be given in all bouts.
The complete card follows:
Ten Rounds-Midget WoIgast. Phila-
delphia, VS.. Happy Anterior. Indianapolis;
| fiyweights.
Six ROunds-BiIIy Long and Jimmy Fox,
local hyweights.
Six Rounds-ROy Pierson. Indianapolis,
and Onie Gahimer. Shelbyville; light
weights.
Six Rounds-GIen Nidy. Terre Haute. VS..
frankie Sansone. Indianapolis: junior
lightweights.
Six Rounds-Tuffy Mitchell and Billy
Cox. indianapolis. bantamweights.
Four ROunds-PackY Gardner. Indian
apolis, VS.. K o. Brown, Fl. Harrison
heavyweights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
Hygro Leads
2-Year-Olds

By United Prose
CHICAGO, Sept. 8-Hygro, owned
by the Nevada stock farm of George
Wingf1eld, was recognized today as
the leading 2-year-old in the west
after his victory in the $4,000 added
Joliet stakes at Lincoln Fields race
track Labor day.
Hygro ran the six furlongs in
Ill, defeating Burning Blaze by a
length. Hygro now has won the
Hawthorne Juvenile stakes in addi-
ton to Joliet stakes, and twice
beaten Burning Blaze, winner of the
Post and Paddock stakes at Ar
lington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08

The White-haired Wood, known
as the Fox of Grayhaven," sue
ceeded in his desperate effort to
keep the trophy from going back
with Don to England. But it was
q hollow victory. The opinion pre-
vailed that the gallant Englishman
and his Inflated boat we're made
the victims of bit of applied psy-
chology and lured across the start
ing line to be disqualified. The
rules of the race disqualify any
boat crossing the line more than
five seconds before the starting gun.
Won First Heat
Don's disqualification Snatched
the trophy from his grasp when it
seemed almost certain he would
carry it back to England. In the
first heat Sunday he had driven the
4,000-horse power hydroplane around
the 30-mile course in fastest time
ever seen in a trophy race. He
led Miss American TX by a mile,
beating Wood for the first time
since he won the trophy in 1920.
AS the five-minute gun was fired
Monday and five colored balls ap-
peared above the judges stand, the
Miss England lay in the river, her
propeller slowly churning. The Miss
America TX and VIII, piloted by
Woods brother George, came slow
ly down the course. The balls fell
, one after another to mark the min
utes. One ball remained and all
three boats we're getting slowly un-
der way when suddenly Wood gave
his TX the gun.
Whether Wood intended to draw
Don with him and disqualify both.
boats, or not, the maneuver had it's
effect. The white hydroplane lifted
It's nose out Of the water and roared
after the America boat.
Both Are Disqualified
Together they Numbered over the
line, near ten seconds ahead of the
gun. Both were automatically dis
qualified.
Then it was that the crowd,
estimated at half million, no.
ticed the careful behavior of the
~FA~Do AAAANAANeb WILL, WlllCII llcQ
,loafing along behind. Many safe
seconds after the gun doomed, the
VIII crossed the line and forthwith
became the only boat in an I'M
contested race.
Meanwhile the two disqualified
boats rushed down the courSey in a
futile display of speed. Wood took
the first turn beautifully. But Don,
apparently attempting to cut the
curve and passing the flying TX,
plunged into its wash Spectators
saw the white boat leap high in
the air. 1t crashed back and sank,
its sharp giistening prov remaining
thrust above the waves.
The VIII loafed around the sourse
at little more than sixty miles an
hour to win.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
REYNOLDS MAT VICTOR

Jack Reynolds, welter title claim
ant, took two straight falls from
Tetsura Hygami in the feature mat
event of the opening indoor card
at Tomlinson hall Monday night.
Bobby Sampson, young coast pas
timer, tossed veteran Bobby Roscoe
in the semi-windup, and Al Mckee
wrestled fifteen minutes to no fall
with Buck LipScomb in the opener.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
Quincy Faces
Springfield in
Title Series

b. United Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. g.
Springfield and Quincy, winners of
the first and second half season
pennants, respectively, will begin
their battle for Three-I League
championship honors here Wednes-
day night in the first of a four
out of-seven-game series,
Decision to play the series was
reached late Monday after L. j.
Wylie, Decatur, president of the
league, had ironed out salary diff
ferences raised by several members
of the local club.
Under the series arrangement the
first and second games will be
played in Springfield. All of the
games will be played at night, be-
ginning at 8 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
ROLLING RIDGE BOWS

Rolling Ridge polo team suffered
its second setback at the hands of
the Iroouois Hunt and Polo Club of
Lexington, KY, at the local field
Monday, 4 to 2.
Edward Madden and Ellerbe Car
ter Jr. were outstanding for the in
vaders. while Sam Sutphin ST.. and
Sam Sutphin Jr. were the best for
the local riders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
WIN DOUBLES CROWN

Emmett Lowery and Tommy Will
son won the Riverside doubles ten
mis- championship Monday, defeated
Horst and Dale, 6-3, IA, 2-6, Us,
in the final contest.
Horst and Dale thumped Stubs
and Bittner in the semi finals Mon
day, while Wilson and Lowery
easily eliminated Love and Bourke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
10000 Watch
Dempsey Step
United Press

By United Press
RENO, New, Sept. SACK Demp-
sey prepared to fly to Salt Lake City
today for the burial of his brother,
Barney Dempsey, after a Labor day
exhibition in which the former
champion f1attened three western
heavyweights.
More than 10000 fans jammed
the race track arena Monday to see
Dempsey toy with his.opponents, car
rying two of them for two rounds
and knocking out the third. The
five-round workout was reported to
have earned the ex-champion
$4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
OUIMET GIVEN CAR

Fellow Club Members Honor ANA
teur Golf Champion.
By United Press
BOSTON, Sept. 3.-Francis Oui-
met, United States amateur golf
champion for the second time in
seventeen years, returned to work
at Boston brokerage house today
in new eight-cylinder roadster.
Fellow members of Ouimet's home
club, Woodland, gave Francis the
car Monday when he brought the
coveted Havemeyer cup to the club
for safe keeping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
VET DE PALMA is THIRD

BIZ Times Special
SALEM, N. H., Sept. ga crowd
estimated at $4,000 saw Archie How
ell of Des Moines, Ia, pilot his His
pano Suiza racing car into first
place in the 25-mile sweepstakes at
Rockingham speedway here. Burt
Karnatz of Detroit was second, fol-
lowed by Ralph De Palma, veteran
italian driver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-08
Kaye Don's Boat Sinks
After Being Ruled Out
Gar Wood Also Disqualified for Beating Starting Gun;
George Wood Runs Slowly Around Course to Win
Second Heat, Giving u. S. Hollow Victory.
~ United Prcas


DETROIT through friendly
strategy, America today trophy
world speed supremacy water for another year.
Inc bnterest history the speedboat
match' Monday
on and the American defender
beating the gun' at the start of the
Don white hydropane
OF WOODS Miss America TX flung
e out Of water broke
were rescued. suffering only minor bruises