The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
FREE MEDICAL ATTENTION
FOR The FARM MASSES

At Skanee Michigan, sc farmers recently at
tended the first meeting ever held there by the
United Farmers League. These farmers passed
resolution which contained their demands for I'M
mediate relief from the misery thru which the
bankers and their agents are trying to make the
farmers bear the burden of the crisis.
Points and of this resolution make the fol
lowing demands
&C. Free medical aid for the unemployed
workers and poor farmers at the ex-
pense of the county, and the county
doctor is to come at once to any needy
needy case when notified.
az Free dental and medical attention to
all unemployed workers and poor
farmers children attending school as
prescribed by the county nurse paid by
the county"
These are the demands of the farmers of Ska
nee in answer to one of the most vicious attacks
made by the agents of the capitalist class. These
agents. usually functioning under the name of
some taxpayers league or other, attempt 10 mis-
lead the struggle of the small and middle farm
ers by divertng this struggle into an attack on
the very living standards of the small and middle
farmers and their families
order to cut taxes it is necessary to cut out all of
the unnecessary" items the county budget.
Among these items they point out the county
doctor and and other medical attention.
Sometimes the farmers who are uorganized are
convinced by the arguments of these bankers
agents.
The farmers of Skanee were not convinced. They
realize that these proposals mean two things
first an attack on the living standards of the
toilng farm masses and second they are an at
tempt TO divert the farmers from the struggle to
make the rich pay the taxes. These bankers
agents figure that if they get the farmers t.
cut out of the budget the few benefits they get
from it, then these farmers will not fight to cut
out the real graft in the budget such as the county
agent another agent of the bankers, the nipple
ment trust and the railroads; then these farmers
will not fight to force the railroads. the bankers
and the market monopoes to pay greater pro-
portion of the budget.
These agents of the bankers realize that if they
can get the farmers to cut out the county doctor
and the county nurse then the farmers will not
struggle for tax reduction for the small and mid
die farmers and tax increases for the rich farmers
and for the rest of the capitalist exploiters.
The cutting out of the county doctor and TIT
county nurse is an attack the living Standard
of the toiing farm masses. 1t is attack OF
the very lives of the farmers and their families
The farmers of Slcanee have realized this. The.
demand that the small and middle farmers ant
their families be provided with all of the neces
sary medical attention TO be PAID FOR BY TIL
COUNTY
They have provided in their demands that tn
tax burden for the county should be placed on tn
<'big property owners such as land corporation
lumber and mining companies and other industrie
located in the county" This means making tn
rich, who can afford TO pay additional taxes OF
of their swollen profits, pay them.
In order not to have sick farmer farmer
wife or child go thru lot of red tape in conne
ton with the county paying for the doctor, Il
farmers of Skanee demand that "the county do