The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-03-20

70 tbe ianitOr of the house of rep
roecntatives. In fine l feared
that congress would do something
tbat have been telling my eli
rnts for years it would never do.
with a sigh of relief ] saw, or
bearA congress adjourn without
day or night sessions. Now hav-
inc nothing to worry about until
The next session % congress |
nurDOse TO enjoy mvse!f letting
me customers III m things that
ovprv little boy and girl should
know, and as a matter of fact
know.
$50
As | predicted six weeks ago,
Alexander Legge has resigned
the Craftsmanship of the Federal
Farm Board and went hack to his
old JOB as head of the Interna-
tional Harvester Trust at his old
salary of S1U0, 0C9 q year. Legge
does not believe in wage cuts.
Neither hoes the editor nf the
Producers News. That is, neither
Legge. Taylor nor yours truly be-
leves in a wage cut fOr himself.
So We retain our salaries come
what may ana the country Is all
the better for it. We also believe
in charging top prices for every
thing we have 70 sell. Legge is
for higher prices 20 rfarming ma
chinery. Tay lOr charges ten cents
a CODY for the P. n. and I am
charging two bits a copy for The
Wasp. There the similarity be-
tween us ends--I hope.
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Had the farmers asked Legge
for bread they could now say that
he gave them a stone. But the
farmers don't cry for bread. And
if they do they tell it to Andrew
Hansen, your enterprising miller
who has made good in the little
town. Andy is one petty bOur-
geOis who does not grind the
farmers. He gTIUd for them. The
farmers, in Sheridan county, have
plenty of bread. But the Bible
says that not on bread alone does
man live. He must have some
thing to wash it down. And that
something costs money. So the
farmers problem is how to get
money for his dough stuff. I.egge
the hero of the leaders Of the
Farmers Union of the northwest
quit cold on them. Mr.. Stone Of
kentucky sounds like hard
proposition.
***&&
Not SO long ago even the raIdi-
Gals busted their brains thinking
out schemes to make the farmers
nch without disturbing the CAPT.
tallst system. The NOnpartisan
League grew like a mushroom in
North Dakota and sister states,
raised the devil with the bankers
and the prune peddlers, then
slowly returned to the dust from
which it was taken for dust it
was and into dust it did return.
Most of the eX-SOcialists who led
the NOnpartisan League uprising
have either lost faith or betOOk
themselves to greener pastures.
The sum total of its accomplish
ment is an object lesson for the
farmers, which if taken to heart
Is worth all the pOst-dated checks
mey paid (and forgot to pay) fol-
the experience. 1t should teach
Them that there is no solution oil
Their economic problem within the
framework of capitalism. They
should study the cOllectivizatiOI
OF farms in the Soviet Union
farms are going to be "cOllectiv
ized' anyhow, whether by thu
farmers themselves or by tn,
Entertainers of the Schnitzle
type.
Inc rugged indivddualism" o
'ne American worker is becOmin
ragged individualism nowadays
FHud and patriotic America
workers are learning their firs
lessons in solidarity as they ru
rags with their fellow patriots o
sne breadlines. We have tw
llOurishing breadlines here j
Cleveland and prospects of NOR,
mere Is also a special one fC
american wOmanhOOd. 1t is trT
mat they are not forced"
stand In the breadline. They ca
StarVe at home if they have an
nut we are told by the papel
mat the majority of them wOu
rather die on the breadline in fir
america than live in "slave" Ru
sla where men and women a
forced to work for a livin
Oohea can you see?
49, 50
| fear that the rugged indivi
uallsm of the American farmer
@1%ut to be badly debated. o
VI Legge's parting shots was til
we are becoming more self-su
ppErung every year. One of
dressings of the late war for I
MMOcracy was the enoOurageme
y gave to wheat production
Seher countries. Wall Street W
me war and most of the wOrI
monetary gold supply. The far
g provided most of the cam
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