The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-12
MASS MEET HELD
Organize Twn. Committee
of Action to Garry on
Struggle
PREPARE DEMANDS
Discussion Among Farmers
on Cause of Misery and
Way Out

hu1pcVllIS, Td., aug. H.-LtSS
night the newly organized PEN
nsylvania Farmers Protective AS
ISOLATION held a mass meeting at
Bakers hall here with $50 farm
ers and organized in this township
a Farmers Committee of Action.
This makes the fourth township
committee organized recently by
the new. militant organization of
small and MEDIEVAL farmers.
More, a small farmer, spoke on
Brother Love" Among Farmers"
saying that workers and farmers
must stick together as both are
being squeezed.
Farmers Must Organize for
Struggle
Clinton Fritz, a middle farmer,
told how the farmers are helpless
against the corporations as indi-
viduals and urged organization.
Bobiac, a small farmer, told Of
trying TO get an outlet for milk in
Philadelphia thru the chain stores
but found that they put up such
terms that he could not make a
living.
| BenSby, small farmer, exposed
the role of the leadership of the
Interstate Milk Producers Asso.
He showed that the leaders with
their policy of class collaboration
aided the milk trust to cut the
farmers price to below the cost Of
production. Not only that, but
these misleaders helped the cor
porations increase their profits at
the expense of the farmers and the
workers on the wages and in the
plants.
Farmers are Party of Working
Class
Levin advocated attacking the
politicians where it will hurt them
by not paying taxes and fighting
evictions. Philip Smith told US of
the danger of not concentrating on
the main problem. He said, "don't
forget that we farmers are work
ing people. When we buy a farm
we only buy job, not a business.
sour interests" he said, "are the
interests of the working class"
A milk driver from the city told
of conditions that drivers must
face, wage cuts, paying for break
age, and paying for unpaid bills
A hot discussion arose between
Rothenberger, a former county
agent, WHO is now farming, and
Bensby, small farmer, on what
was the cause Of the ruination Of
the farmers.
Rothenberger blamed it all OF
: surplus milk.
Profit System is Cause of Miser,
Bensby contended that the rea
trouble came from the surplus
in the form of profits to the MILE
TRUST and others like it.
e Finally Rothenberger agreed tn,
' economic system was fundamental
ly wrong.
> Joe Othmany was elected chair
: man of the township Committee o
. Action and Linford Castel, secre
e tary.
The rise of the Pennsylvani,
!. Farmers Protective Asso., is du
q to the low price of milk.
s The farmers around here ar
= very conservative, religious an
q peace loving, coming mainly fror
: the Germans who settled here 80
L years ago. Now for the first tim
n they are actually confronted wit
a the prospect of losing their farm
u on a mass scale.
Platform of Demands Adopted
The platform of demands of tn
IL Pennsylvania Farmers Protectiv
Z, Association are;
z 1. The farmers to receive one
( half the price of milk received b
g, the distributor from the consume
II 2. No gasoline tax on farmers
ir 8. No evictiQns or sheriff sale
10 against farmers who can not pa
4 the taxes and interest on NOR
cages for reasons beyond the
N control.
o a. A cut in interest rate fro
lie 8 to 2 per cent in proportion
O. the cut in the price Of farm DR.,
st ducts.
" 5. A moratorium of one We.
is for those farmers who can not pa