The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-19
1 600 New Subscribers by March 16, 1882

are finding it increasingly ditE
cult to even pay taxes.
MORE ECONOMYi
We find then, that a substonH
of Ohio farmers ".ial
practically facing extinction a
a prominent farm leader ba. auu
thing to offer but for tboeo nv
are doing without all but the -
solute necessities of existence
practice more ecOnOmyv'
Mr.. Dyer put in his best Tol
for the manufacturers and bns
ness men at the close of his snesoA
when he pointed out that the ACTIN.
al farmers Of the state constit0t.
only 1870 of he population. tbsrs
fore the farmers must co-onorot.
with that class in the cities wbos.
interests are the same-the bnSs
ness men. Then in the ,.r~.
breath, "The farmers of this stats
are citizens therefore they muvt
have the same protection as III
city jewellers. We must have m.
raj police! A few labor leader,
are opposed to It but evervboSv
else wants it."
Mr.. Dyer then proceeded -
warn the assembled audience
gainst the radicals and "commm-
lists" and against the "dole"
HE'LL HOLE WARDEN SPEAKe
After Dyer got thru, Warden
Thomas of the Ohio state penitsn-
tiary made a speech in which he
boasted what a good job he is do
ing in reforming Ohio's ANNA,
crop of 1900 feIons-victims Of.
the capitalist system of robbery.
He closed with warning that the
chief criminals are the "radicalsD
and declaring that the farmers
the Catholic church and the Free
Masons are the great bulwarks a.
gainst radicalism. This fat salar-.
led falir whose criminal neglect
caused the burning to death Of
300 prisoners in the recent fire IN
the penitentiary was roundly an
plauded by the crowd.
Mr.. Dyer was not quite so
loudly applauded as Warden
Thomas. He hadn't sufficiently
, satisfied the crowd that he had
, done his best TO save them tax
, money.
However, the Farmers Institute
in Salem fulfilled its mission well
1t gave the destitute section Of
the farming population cheap en-
tertainment to cause them 10 fol
get their troubles, it gave them :
: PROMISE Of tax relief. And thu
; members of the Better Business
: Bureau and the Manufacturer!
Association laughed with ghOulisE
glee realizing that similar Farm
D ers' Institutes were acting IN shef
i interests thruout the state.
2 SOLIDARITY WITH CITY
q PROLETARIAT
IS The poor farmers of Ohio mus
v rally against this unholy alliance
" They must realize that the elias
in the cities and villages whose IN
terest is similar to theirs is tn
WAGE WORKERS, millions 0
whom are now unemployed.
e The poor farmers must realiz
that unemployment and low wage
ID for the workers of the cities an
Is towns means starvation prices 70
IN farm products. They must realiz
le that the state rural police systel
12 wherever it is in vogue, in Penn
sylvania, for instance, is NOT u
ed to protect the farmers he
house but to break strikes Of Il
coal miners and other worker
fighting against starvation.
= BUILD THE UFL
h. The poor farmers of Ohio mu
It organize in the United Farmel
le League and conduct a joint strui
ne gle with the workers of the tow
C. and cities for unemployed msu
Us ance, against all evictions
lg workers and farmers, for non-pa
a ment of taxes, rents or mortgag
debts, and for abolition Of tax
US ton of all farmers who cam
re make a living on the land. TIT
r. must fight shoulder to should
al with the city and town worke
% against the milk trust, the be
he trust, the neutrality-suspicious.
We and against the capitalist ella
en- government that rules this ecu
lit try in the interests Of the robbie
ne against the workers.
is. The poor farmers of Ohio mu
n also conduct an intelligent, dec
RS i've struggle against the miseduc
We ton of the Grange leaders, t
be. Farm Rureau and the Farme