The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15

Federal Land Banl, loans in your territory. What
is the land bank doing 30 collect its loans from
the destitute farmers Have there been any at
tempts to organize he farmers for militant action
in defense of their farms and homes.
These are Just few. The answers to these and
similar questions reveal the conditions of the far
mers turnout the country.
Why is this farmers correspondence of the
greatest importance to the development OF the or
ganized struggle of the farm masses? 1t will
show the farmers turnout the country that the
conditions UNDER which they are suffering are
not confined to their little neighbOrhoOd but are
countrywide 1t will show them this in the Ian
guage of their fellow farmers, with such specific
details that will impress itself indelibly on their
minds and will convince them that united action
is the only solution for the farm masses. These
farmers will see in the Producers News that other
farmers living under the same miserable condi-
tions as themselves organizing to repel the
attacks of the capitalist class thru mass action.
''More farmers letters in it would make it more
interesting to the farmer 10 read" This is what
the capitalist press, the farm press in particular
hides from the farm masses-news of the wretch
ed conditions of their fellow farmres turnout the
country. They hide this news because they know
that if it is spread it will Orgnized resist
ance of the farm masses to the miserable condi-
tons the crisis has intensified and the class that
is responsible for it. 1t is this news that we must
spread, to rouse the small and middle farmers for
struggle. We can get this news ONLY thru far
mers' correspondence
We call OF. all of our readers to send this
about their local conditions. It doesn't have
to be long-E you don't want, and as for gram
mar, punctuation and such like Details why that's
what an editorial office is for anyway. Lots of
our readers h; We worked hard for subs and the
Doings of the Advance Guard show the good re-
suits. We suggest TO these comrades who have
been first in the subscription drive that they send
us in the news of their neighborhoods. They have
shown what can be done for subs and they can
show what can be done for farmers correspond
ence.
The main basis of the farmers correspondence
should be the United Farmers League locals. Many
locals have already appointed secretaries who tell
us what is going on in their communities. That
must be spread to- every local. In addition to this
tho, each United Farmers League local has the
task of building up around it group of farmers
who will write regularly for the Producers News
| They need not be members of the United Farmer!
League in fact we must try to get as many non
members as possible actively engaged in th
! farmers correspondence. They will see by thi
that the United Farmers League is the only orga
nization that is interested in their every day con
ditions. The reporting of this news in the Produc
ers News will also show the farmers in the par
tcular community and in many other communi
ties that the United Farmers League will lea
them in the struggle against the intensified explo
tation that the capitalist crisis has brought wit
it for the small and middle farmers.