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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
(By JOHN MARSH LL)

Leetonia, Ohio, June 27.- am
a long time in answering. you.
You probably have concluded that
l am dead to the movement, but
it's not so.
To begin with, am an actual
farmer. You understand what
that means-work from daylight
to dark. This sort of thing doesn't
leave one in the best of condition
at the end of a days work, for
writing or anything else but
sleep. However, ! have a number
of things 10 do in my spare time.
For instance we are conducting a
signature drive to place the Com
munist candidates on the gallot in
this state and county. 1t falls
upon me 10 keep the thing moving
in this county.
Candidate for Governor
Then too, have been chosen as
the candidate for Governor and
this means that l have certain
duties that require somewhat of
my time to perform. So you sex
have been kept busy. However
if l can get the cooperation of the
comrades in the various section.
1 mean to make this election cam
Ipaign mean something in the way
of at least making number o.
solid contacts among the farmers
in probably half a dozen sections
of the state. After the campaign
is over l hope to be able, with tn
cooperation of the Party to bull,
some real organization and to de
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

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the strike through the United
Front Strike committees elected
by the miners and representing all
the groups and factions among the
strikers. 1t urges the miners to
make their local demands based on
no wage cut, recognition Of mine
committees, right of the miners r
check weighman Of discrimina-
ton or black list of miners for the
strike or union activities, etc. This
united front must be all inclusive,
Negro miners, youth and women
must be given representation on
the strike commission. The united
front must also include the unem-
ployed and adopt demands for an
immediate unemployment relief
from the state and corporations 10
the unemployed. This policy makes
It impossible for any leaders of the
UMWA 10 sell the strike or knife
the strike in the back as Hall, Gin
que, Pacifico attempted to do when
they tried to sign the Rail anC
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

thirds of the total production in
the state of Vermont, 1925
basis. This does not take into
consideration losses in the con-
sumption of cheese and other
dairy products. The writer has
used the conservative estimate
of the above authorities In a
conservative manner.
2. The competition of thOu-
sands of persons who. forced
back to the land by the anarchy
of capitalism, will be squeezed
closer and closer to the stand
ard of living of the prOverbial
Chinese cOOlie. (The Chinese
cOOlie, by the way. is carrying
on a successful revOlt).
8. The burden of an increas-
ing dole to the financial mver-
ests of the nation, the greatest
factor in the weakening of the
farm dollar.
A. Crushing taxes, town, conn
ty, state, federal, with a future
promise of even greater taxes,
both relative Ito incOme) and
absolute.
5. The growing burden of
mortgages.
s. Competition of large scale
farming whose greater effic-
iency is shown IN the table
above. The plentiful supply of
farm help which the future pro-
misses win enable large farmers
to exploit their help in a most
profitable manner, to the dis
advantage of the small farm
owner.
z. Finally, an item which
have not mentioned befOre-im-
prOvements in refri geration
which win intensity inter Sec
tiOnal competition in the dairy
markets. Big buyers will be
able to bring in milk and cream
from an ever wider territory,
as a weapon to force down local
prices.
The Communist Party goes b
fore the people of the Unite
states in the 1882 elections wit
a carefully thought out platforr
This platform has not bee
picked because it will help q,
capitalist class to ride through Il
crisis without. sacrifice. This pls
form was decided upon because
answers the IMMEDIATE nee,
of the workers on the farms al
in the cities of America. FAR
ers who have read the foregoil
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
CONTINUED from last week.
Graft for Platforms

Graft for Platforms
AS for profits and graft, where
does the one leave off and the
other begin? Is it at all likely
that the business interests who
control our governmental rnachin-
cry are going to cut off their
own noses Hardly. AS it be-
comes more and more difficult for
business men to make a legiti-
mate profit, they will increase the
amount of illegitimate profit,
which is graft. The elite of Fifth
avenue turned out to cheer Jimmy
Walker, when he made a jest out
of his crooked dealings before the
Seabury Commission.
For the entire structure of
capitalism is built around the
PROFITS, of one color or another.
Capital is past profits.
As for Federal expenditures, the
cost Of our army and navy is
twice that of 1914. We pay out
for our war machine more than
any other nation in the world.
Paying for Imperialist Vans
Not only must we pay the cost
of our past and present wars, and
for the preparation for future wal
but there is another item. Mr.
Edwin L. James, veteran observer
of the European situation, made
the following remarks in the New
York Times on June 8, 1892.
"The people of the United
States, have now got to realize
that the World war is going t.
cost US the $4,000, 100000 we in
tended to collect from our asso
ciates. When Washington feel
that such a realization has reall,
been achieved, we shall have a re
conference"
In other words, sour" govern
ment, the Morgan, Rockefeller
Mellon, DUPONT gang, is holdin
out on the farmers and workers O
the United States. When thi
group thinks that our spirit ha
been sufficiently crushed, it ha
one more ace 70 pail on US. W
must pay for the wars wagec b
imperialist France, England an
Italy, as well as those waged b
the Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellol
DUPONT gang.
Working Class Faces New War
And, today, as one can read
any reliable report on world col
ditions, we are face to face wit
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

visory staff of American engineers in the en-
ploy of Colonel Cooper's firm, which is under
contract with the Soviet Government to super
wise the construction and operation of the
Dnieprestroi hydroelectric power plant.
The picture shows the Dnieper dam. one
of the giants of the Soviet Five ear plan, near
completion The picture is taken from the left
bank of the Dnieper river.
The electric power industry IN the United
States IS characterized at the present time by
the continued drop IN electric output and by the
disintegration of the great systems like the IN
sui group. In the Soviet Union the trend of
electric output is continuously upward with
new electric giants being put into operation
constantly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

is the foundation of the Intema-
tional Labor Defense.
Demand Moore Resignation
After the photographs had been
submitted and the l. L. D. repre-
sentative had told in detail what
the evidence was at the mass pub
lie trial which was held to try Com
missioner Moore, Commissioner
Moore's resignation was demanded
Moore only smiled at the demand
but the smile was wiped off when
the I. l. D. representative tum-
ing 10 the audience demanded tna
those who were in favor Of either
the resignation of Moore or aus
busting raise their hand. A ma
jority of those present did 50. Inc
l. L. d. representative then askeo
those opposed raise their hand, snO
only three of the 400 that were ID
the Council Chambers raised then
hand. The 1. L. D. Representative
pointing to one of the three, cailec
the workers attention to the isc'
that he was a plain clothes man
in the employ of the police depart
ment under Commissioned moore
Exposed, all the copper could !. sS'
was amt gat a right to vote
Workers Behind Labor Defense
Although no fighting took placs
between the st. Lusis county nun
ger marchers and the police, tne
1. L. D., in promptly acting on LEE
matter, calling a mass public TIA
of Commissioner Moore and INV
city council on charges Of in1ma.
ton and terrorization put a degrU
of fear into the city council mem !.
bers. It showed them plainly 'ns'
the workers were behind the !. =
H.. that the workers will not s'I =;
for terrorization, that they VII
fight militantly every inch to Pr y.
vent their rights to the streets 7"
ing taken away from them
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

E. E Robinson, OF Kewanee, general sup
ervisor of the Illinois Power and Light Corpora
ton has been appointed by Hugh L. Cooper of
New York, engineer, to go to the Soviet Union
for work on the new hydro electric project on
the Dnieper river IN the Ukraine. He win be
commissioned for nine months to establish OPP
Grating rules and practices and instruct Rus
slams IN carrying on the work.
Robinson viii be a member of the adj
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Friday, July d, 1882
AGAINST IMIPERIALIST WAR

Eighteen years ago this coming August l the
rival Imperalist powers threw millions on millions
of workers and peasants into bloody struggle for
imperiaIst profits. Tens of millions lost their
lives in the trenches and on the battetields, and
from disease and hunger behind the lines. Less
than three years later the Wall Street Imperial
lists threw millions Of American workers and farm
ers into the struggle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
OHIO FARMER Is COMMUNIST
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR

velop some action on the part Of
the farmers.
VIII Send Article
Now, of course, what you want
to know from me is what / can
do in the way of contributing to
the Producers News. So 1 am en-
closing a little note and promise
to send in frequent articles from
now on.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
RESERVE

Carl Peterson andfamily returned
from their vacation last Saturday
evening.
Several car loads drove out to
Dagmar last Thursday evening to
hear c. E. Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. ]. Evenson re-
turned from a months vacation in
Wisconsin and Minnesota last Sat
urday morning
VIM. Moran, former assistant cash
Ter in the bank here returned to
spend a month or so among friends
here: he arrived Friday evening.
James Randall returned to West
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Against Imperialist War

While that war still in progress there
rose among the masses of every country the de-
termination to put an end to the struggle by put
ting an end to the capitalist system which was
responsible for it. These workers were led by the
sound revolutionary cores of the Socialist parties
who had preserved their working class integrity
during all of the beating the war drums by the
directors of the war machines and their Socialist
henchmen. 4.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

organizers cannot be sent out into
work. Leaflets cannot be issued,
CARELESS how small, and by whom
it is led, to give its program and
policies to help to in the strike.
Any other course win lead the
NMU away from program o
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

Lester Guenther returned frT ~.
Spokane last week where nc
been attending school.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Revolutionary Struggle Crushed

In Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy the revo-
lutionary determination of the masses broke out
into open struggle. In Germany, Hungary and
Italy, the revolutionary struggle was drowned in
sea of blood by the capitalists and their Socialist
agents who did all in their power to prevent the
militancy of the masses from crushing the system
of CAPITALIST exploitation and imperalist wars.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Stand Behind Japanese Invaders

All of the imperialists stand behind Japan in
its savage invasion of Manchuria, except insofar
as they in this, not only the preparations for
an attack on the Soviet Union but the extension of
Japanese imperialism over areas which they also
covet Meanwhile the Japanese pour additional
thousands of troops into Manchuria with guns
pointed toward the Soviet frontier.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
The Dictatorship of the ProIetariat


In the Soviet Union the workers and farmers
under the determined leadership of the Bosheviks,
smashed Czarism and the capitalist government
which had been set up under Kerensky. The over
throw of the capitalist system in Russia and the
establishment of government of workers, farm
ers and soldiers soviets the establishment of the
Dictatorship of the prOletariat, brought into the
world political and economic area system of So
ciety that spelled doom to world capitalism and its
misery and bloody oppression.
The imperialists saw this and all of them
whether in the German American group OF
plunderers threw their troons AGAINST the
workers and farmers government, supported every
bandit and brigand of the old regime with money
and war supplies to crush the first government of
workers and farmers and to reestablish the plum
Ger rule of the capitalist class.
Counter-revolution Smashed
But the workers and farmers of the Soviet
Union under the leadership of the Bnlsheviks, the
Communist party, smashed all open counter revo-
lutionary brigand bands within the country and
threw back the armies of the imperialists.
Two Systems-Two Worlds
Two worlds have lived side by side for over
fourteen years. The path that these two worlds
have taken in those years is shown lightning
clear in the present situation in which the Soviet
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

struggle and isolate the union from
the masses Of the miners.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
PROTEST

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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Mass Struggle Against Imperialist Wan

Only the mass struggle against imperialist
in every town and city, in every county in the
United States can deter the Wall Street bankers
from plunging the tOiing millions of America into
a new bloody slaughter. While determined strug-
gle against the imperialst war can and must
deter the robbers who would "solve' the crisis in
sea of workers and farmers blood, of the toilers
of the Soviet Union as of the imperialst coun-
tries, the masses thruout the world only win
security from imperialist war by smashing for
once and all time this system that brings not only
imperialst slaughter but exploitation, hunger, and
untold misery.
Among the farmers of the country the United
Farmers League must bring this struggle against
the imperialist war. This struggle must be made
an inseparable part of all our Organizational and
agitational work, for imperialist is i'm
mediate danger that threatens all of US.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
Communist Party Leads Struggle

In the United States as in every country it
is the Communist party which leads the struggle
Of all the masses against the war danger. Of all
the political parties, only the Communist party
has declared in unmistakeable terms against the
war preparations of Wall Street. 1t has done this
because it, the Communist party of all parties
alone represents the life interests of the toiling
masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

AGAINST MPERIALIST WAR;
FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE CHI
NESE PEOPLE AND OF THE SOVIET
UNION" reads the sixth point on the
Communist party election program.
Demonstrate August first against
the war makersl Demand the use of all
war funds for unemployment relief and
emergency relief for the impoverished
farmersl Protest the invasion of Man
churia and the setting ND of vassal OPP
pressOr state over the Manehurian mass
es! Demonstrate against the shipment Of
war materials by tire Wall Street capital
lists 30 the Japanese invaders of Man
ehuria.
AGAINST TMPERIALIST WAR;
~FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE CHI
NESE PEOPLE AND OF THE SOVIET
UNION"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
MINERS I'm OHIO

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08

budget figures compare with the Low
Food Allowance" as follows: For a
family of two, $130 week in the
new budget as against $l.95 in the
"Too Low" budget; for family Of
three, $1.95 as against $240; for four,
$3.50 as against $2.85, and so on for
the larger families.
In practice the cuts in many dis
tricts of New York are actually much
greater-a cut in the weekly allow
ance for a family of six cut from
$4.75 to $2.35 is one Of scores of
cases recorded; and in addition relief
is being Staggered" from weekly
distribution to distribution once in
two weeks and sometimes even only
once monthly. In some districts the
city has completely ceased paying
rents, resulting in tremendous in
crease in evictions, and instead has
begun to push the policy of breaking
up the workers homes, Investigators
demanding that parents give over
their children to the City orphan
Asylums.
Gases are already reported where
refusal to give up their children is
met by a court order charging i'm
proper guardianship" and the chill
dren are taken away by force. At
the same time, breadlines are being
cut, concentration they call it, and
police approval demanded before even
the filthy bowl Of soup or moldy
bread is handed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
New City Budget Calls for Starvation Diet for Unemployed Workers

The New York jobless have no
met the sharpening offensive with
GU fighting back The number anc
militancy of local struggles, before
Home Relief Bureaus, gyp agencies
at evictions, etc. has been increasing
from day to day in the past weeks
Hundreds Of relief cuts have beer
stopped; hundreds of jobless put bach
on relief lists; hundreds relieved Of
the torture of endless red tape and
questioning by the action of Block
Committees and Unemployed Coun.
ellis. In Harlem, for example, re.
Gently. the City Home Relief Bureau
was forced to grant an additional
$500 day for food by the fight put
up by the Negro and white jobless
and employed workers of the district
But with the sharpening of the at
tack, and its broadening out to 9
General city-wide scale, and with the
menace of winter coming near, local
struggles are not enough. The time
has come when only city-wide
united counter-o offensive of the work.
ers and ex-servicemen of New York
jobless and employed, Negro and
white, native and foreign-born, work.
ers of the revolutionary unions, and
the A. F. of L. and unorganized work.
erS, can smash the hunger plans OF
the city government and the bankers
and bosses who control it, and force
them to give food and shelter fol-
the whole mass of the unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
ART KNITTING
STRIKE IS WON
Led by Needle Trades
Workers Ind. Union

NEW YORK-The Art Knitting
Mill strike is Won 1t lasted a week,
with $50 out. 1t was led by the
Knitters Department of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
All are now in the union. All are
back at work with the following de-
mandS won:
I. Recognition of the shop COM
mittee and the NTWIU.
2. The 44-hour week.
g. No discharge or discrimination.
a. Wage increase for the lower paid
workers, amounting to from ten to
20 per cent.
The Knitgoods Department of the
NTWIU is leading a DRIVE against
wage cuts and bad conditions in the
shops. 1t calls all active members
and members of shop committees to
meeting Monday at 7:30 p. m. in
131 West 18th St., to prepare for a
big mass meeting of knit-goods work
erS soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
Turn Local ~ Meeting
Tonight Into A Rally
for United Struggle!

NEW YORK. - The clique which
runs Local % of the International
Ladies Garment Workers has called
a membership meeting right after
work tonight in Bryant Hall. The
left wing in the union declares this
a maneuver of these officials to aid
the racketeering drive which these
officials are trying to carry through
by use of the Strawberry gang. The
left wing calls all members to come
to the meeting, and turn it into a
mobilization meeting for united
struggle jointly with the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union, a
gainst the growing misery in the
dress trade.
The Industrial Union reminds the
membership of Local % that its let
ter to the Local % members was
never brought before them. The let
ter proposed united organization
drive. The Industrial Union calls on
the membres of Local % to act on
the proposal anyway, and bring about
unity OF action between the members
of the IL.G.W. and the N.TWI.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
By AMY sCHECHTER.

On September 10th a great army
of New York jobless workers and eX-
servicemen, backed up by workers on
the job will march on City Hall to
smash the relief cutting attack the
city is carrying through at the COM
mand Of the bankers. With half of
all the 100000 people of the rich
est city in the world-a million and
quarter jobless and their dependents
already pushed below the hunger
line. and facing a winter of intoler
able hardship New York jobless must
speak to the city government, bank
ers and bosses in the only language
the bosses understanding mobiliz-
ing for the march on City Hall in
tens and scores of thousands to force
through their demands by their
maSsed strength.
SHOWED MASS STRENGTH
will you kindly inform the Case
Supervisor Immediately of the reac-
ton of the clients, that is, if there
are any riots or demonstrations di-
rected to the City Home Relief Buro
in secret circular to its precinct
Buro Supervisors ordering the inten-
sified relief cutting offensive against
New York's jobless last sprng. The
reaction" of the unemployed-in the
form of local struggles eliminating
in the great April 21st mass demon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
STRIKERS FIRM
AT SOUTH RIVER
Reject "Conciliation'
and Arbitration

SOUTH RIVER, N. j., Sept. 7. =
The attempt of the bosses to drive
the 1900, militant strikers of South
River back to the shops has once
more failed. Tuesday morning the
strikers had a very effective picket
line.
In the afternoon a committee from
the Board of Cancellation addressed
the strikers, proposing that they re-
utrn to work under the old condi-
lions and that they elect commit
tee to arbitrate.
Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle
Trades Workers IndustI,>l Union,
addressed the meeting, pointing out
to the workers that this proposal OF
the Cancellation Committee would
mean a sellout of the strike. The
workers unanimously voted against
the proposal of the Cancellation Com
mittee and decided to go on with
the strike.
Relief is urgently needed to help
the strikers. The Workers Inter
national Relief is sending truck
load of food to the strikers today
and all workers are called upon to
support this militant strike.
Minnie Smaller, an active dress
maker send by the Industrial Union
to help the strikers was arrested on
the picket line yesterday and was
arrested and sentenced to 60 days
in Jail. Steps are being taken to take
her out of Jail under habeus corpus