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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
MASS MISERY IN
VIRGIN ISLANDS
DESTITUTION FOLLOWS ON
CLOSING OF SUGAR MILLS

Widespread misery among the
masses in the Virgin Islands was
revealed in the testimony given
by Paul M. Pearson, United States
governor of the islands to the
House Committee on Appropria-
tons recently. The United States
acquired the islands, st. Thomas,
st. Croix and st. John, from Den
mark as a naval base for opera
tions against the masses of Latin
America and in order to protect
the Panama Canal from the other
capitalist powers during an imper-
ialist struggle.
The population of the islands is
declining steadily. Practically al
of the sugar mills and plantations
are closed down and thousands o.
workers and peasants are withou
means of subsistence.
Most Of. the land in the thre'
islands is owned by about fit!
persons. On st. Tromas 90 pc
cent of the land is owned by 1
: persons; in st. John, 80 per cen
t is owned by IL persons, and o
e st. Croix, 70 per cent is owne
by ii persons.
! The population Of the island
. decreased from 26,051 in 1917
e 22,012 in 1880, according to I'll
testimony of DR.. Evans, in charp
e of the insular experiment station
o of the Department of Agricultur
IS The inhabitants of the island
e St. Croix in 1917 numbered 14,9t
q but in 1880 their number hi
y dropped to 11,413. During Il
! same period the population of
II Thomas declined from 1871
4 1884.
ot This decline in the population
is a direct result of the misery tn
" has been pressed down on the Pc
eer ulation by the Wall Street ban
10 ers, who are interested in it chic
Sc ly as a naval base. 1t shows,
E the smallest of the possessions
d the United States, the results
It imperialst domination.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
WORKERS, WOMEN,
CHILDREN VICTIMS
OF BRUTALATTAC
Farmers and Workers. Protest the Wall Street War Prep
arations By the Hoover Hunger Government.
Attack on the Chinese Masses Is Attack on Workers and
Farmers of the Entire World

The open on the Chinese masses has been prose
cuted during the past week by the brutal butchery
of defenseless men, and children in the Chapel
district of Shanghai Without warning the Japanese inn
perast soldery last Friday opened the attack on the
workers and their families From bombing planes they
have during the week wrecked such havoc as known
only in the terrible days of the last peraIist
Thousands of workers and their families have been
slaughtered by bombs machine gun fire or
artillery burned death their houses which ignted by the
wanton murderous attack of the japanese.
The japanese have sumnay Chinese
diers who attempted against
bhey Hundreds of them snipng
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
Sl25,OOO,OOO FOR
BANKERS THRU new
LAND BANK LAW.
TOILING FARM MASSES TO
GET NOTHING BUT MORE
MISERY FROM LAW

In the statement issued by
Hoover on the occasion of the
signing of the Federal Land Bank
bill he is forced to admit that the
main purpose of the bill is not to
aid the farmers but to help the
Wall Street bankers.
The Hoover statement issued by
him on January % when the bill
became a law reads in part as fol-
lows:
II am glad to sign the third
of our reconstruction measures
that providing additional cap
ital to the Federal land banks.
1t should (a) reinforce the cred
it Of the Federal land bank sys-
TEN and reassure investors in
land bank bonds; (b) thus en-
able the banks to obtain capital
for farmers at reasonable rates
and (c) above all bring relief
and hope DO many borrowers
from the banks who have done
their honest best but, because of
circumstances beyond their con-
troll, have been unable temper
arily to make the grade"
The first reason given by Hoov
er is that the bill should "rein
force the credit of the Fedora
land bank system AND REAS
SURE INVESTORS IN LAM
BANK BONDS''-that the fedel
al government will stand TO max
$ good all of their losses while
bleeds to the very bone the farm
S ers who have taken land ban
1 loans.
t The second is that the bill wi
"enabls the banks to obtain zap
e tai. fer farmers at reasslsab
y rates. which means that the BAN
II ers will obtain the money at rea
8 enable rates-not the farmers.
1t s25,0OO.OOO IN RELIEF"
n The third and last reason
~ that the bill will "above all bril-
relief and hope to many borro'
IS CONTINUED on Page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
UFL In WARD COUNTY, N. D. IS
ORGANIZING AGAINST MISERY
Dakota Farmers Receive Letters Telling of Progress
the Soviet Union.

to maintain their living standards
in spite of one crop failure and
not made wards of charity as it is
today. .ss, ,,,ss.
Mainstreeters Oppose u. FL.
In our organization work for
U. F. L. we find plenty of oppo-
sition here as is the case else
where from "Mainstreeters" and
their kind. In this community we
have quite a large number of
Russians scattered turnout the
territory. Occasionally some of
these people receive letters from
the Soviet Union that are not fav-
orable to conditions there. When
ever such letter is received the
opposition as well as some deceiv-
ed farmers themselves take care
that such letters are advertised.
We know that the struggle
against remnants of capitalism is
still on in the Soviet Union. II
is a we'll known fact that the Rus.
sian peasants were one of the
most backward rural people in the
world, and the Soviet government
has a great task on their hand:
making them the foremost. It il
to be expected that progress
would be the slowest in some o.
the most backward villages anC
that's where the unfavorable let
tiers come from. We know tina
the process of liquidating the ''lru
Ilak," the rich farmers, is on il
the Soviet Union and as would b
expected the "Kulak" himself an
. some of the backward peasant
would find grounds for complaint
Continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
(By a Farmer Correspondents

(By a Farmer Correspondents
Phelps, Wisconsin, Jan. 25.-The
farmers of this community are
awakening to the fact that orga-
nizatiOn is necessary. A commit
tee has been elected to call a
meeting of the farmers in this
territory to organize a United
Farmers League. We will discuss
the following subjects: reducing
the salaries Of the town and coun-
ty officials, abolition of the office
of county agent, and ways and
means of reducing the taxes of
the toiling farm masses.
If we succeed in our community
we will canvass the whole county
For ours is the next largest coun-
ty and the hardest one TO Drga-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
OF CHISACO CITY, MIMI, PAY
MORE TAXES THAN PRODUCTS BRING

limited capacity for punishment.
Working like a slave on the piece
of ground which good many Of the
farmers themselves grLbbed out
from the primeveal forest, getting
no wages for the work of them
selves, wife and children, leading a
mere animal existence, being COM
PEELED to pay about $1.00 an acre
In taxes, which according to the
present prices for their products,
means paying every year more
than what the place Is worth. If
they fail to pay these taxes they
are driven off the place to join
the big crowd of unemployed IN
the cities.
Yes, patience is a great virtue,
but there is a time when patience
ceases to be a virtue.
l am pleased 10 notice the acti-
vities of the u. F. L. in Minneso-
ia, Wisconsin, Montana, Nortf
Dakota and other states.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
Ru I G ZAHAREE

Secretary, Ward County U. F. L.
Max, N. D., Jan. 25th.-The
work in the organization Of the
U. F. L. is now we'll started in
southern Ward county as well as
in the vicinity of Max. We have
quite a few new members and
many more are interested in this
movement for the cause. of the
poor and toiling farmers.
The farmers begin to realize
that the future under the present
conditions holds nothing for them
except foreclosures and tax sales
as they can not make ends meet
at this rate. During 1881 the
first actual crop failure occurred
here and there is enough feed for
stock here compared to the north
western part of the state and
eastern Montana. But the finan-
cial condition of the farmers here
is practically the same as Of those
that had crop failures for two OF
three years. Can they be other
wise if the price of wheat as well
as cattle and hogs is only a frac-
ton of the actual cost Of produc'
ton?
For thirty years we have toileC
away here and we haven't a thing
to show for it except mortgages
tenancy and a generally run dow
condition of the farm improve
ments. In many cases there is &C
tual want of necessities such a
flood and clothing just becaus
there was one crop failure. II tn
common people were not robbie
continuously they should be abb
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

Here is song made up by Aunt
Molly Jackson, wife of a Kentucky
miner. Aunt Molly is touring tn.
country with her songs to raise
money for Miners Relief.
ALI the women in this coal camp
Are sitting with bowed down
heads
Are sitting with bowed dowr
heads
Ragged and barefooted and their
Children a cryin' for bread.
No food, no clothes for our chill
81 dren
I'm sure this amt no lie
If we can't get no more for oul
labor
We will fight before we die.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE.
NOW ON FOR 10000
MEMBERS OF FSU
ELEVEN WORK Err DELE
GATES REPORT WHAT THEY
SAY TO MANY MEETINGS

The IL worker delegates who
returned from the 14th anniver-
sary have reported what they saw
to many enthusiastic meetings.
They have started making good
the pledge given to the Soviet
workers-to organize 10000 new
members into the FSU by May L.
I Reports have been given to the
miners in the Anthracite; to the
steels workers of Ohio and Indi-
ana; to the marine workers of
New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more.
Already 700 new members have
been organized in three weeks and
meetings are being held every
night where the delegates report
and help mobilize the American
. workers into the FSU for the de,
| tense of the Soviet Union.
These IL worker delegates were
made international Shock Brigad
ers and in accepting the "Udar
niki" cards, they made the pledgt
. to work untiringly to build TIL
: FSU into a mass organization o
!, militant defenders of the Sovie
: Union.
: The various delegates who ar
n now in different districts are i
Socialist Competition" for tn
: securing of the highest numbe
!. of new workers in the FSU. A
the end of February meeting O
: all the delegates will be held q
: which a full report of all thei
(, meetings will be given, the nun
e Der of members secured, and TIL
+ report will be sent to the Russia
C Trade Unions, into the Republ
S of Daghestan where the Shoe
d Brigaders' cards were presents
Q to them.
This work of the delegates
l. part of the national campaign (
l. the FSU for 10000 new membe
st by May 1st. Together with Il
d campaign for an increase in men
D bership goes the campaign to S
'e cure $4,000 circulation for the ne
n Soviet illustrated magazine, "S(
WET RUSSIA TODAY"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
German Workers Must
Pay for Reparations
Out of Low Wages

NEW YORK-Real wages IN
Germany dropped more than rs
per cent between 1927 and the
end of 1881, according to figures
compiled by DIR. R. Kuczynsh's
Finanzpolitische Korrespondenz. In
1881 wage earners were losing 40
per cent of their money income
through unemployment and $40
more through short time. The av-
erage weekly income per wage
Garner, after adjustments for
taxes, social insurance, premiums
unemployment, short time and un-
employment insurance benefits, is
given as $6.75. 1t is on the wage
earners that the chief burden OF
reparations payments falls.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
(By a Farmer Correspondent


Chisago City, Mimi, Jan. 81
In looking over a Fergus Falls
Daily Journal I found "News
From Soviet Russia" It was such
a juicy lie l thought would send
it to you.
Fergus Falls is located close to
New York Mills, where the U. f.
u. used to have it's headquarters.
The League must have done good
work up there as the Journal feels
incumbent on itself to publish such
lying propaganda. AS they are
preparing the farmers mind for
the war on Soviet Russia next
spring decreed by the Wall Street
government.
read the article by Farmers
Daughter in the January 10Th Is.
sue Of the Producers News.
heartily agree with the writer
The farmers seem to have an IN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
Murder Defenseless China Masses
Farmers Telephones
Are Being Removed

(By a Farmer Correspondent
Gasport, New York, Jan. 21.-.
On account of the deepening of
the crisis all farmers in this Sec
ton are having their telephones
taken out. About $3.50 of the far
mers can pay their taxes. They
are forced to sell 100 pounds of
milk to the dairy trust for SOC,
Eggs are from Is to 20 cents a
dozen. Laying cash costs 1920
and potatoes are 25c a bushel
The farmers nilitancy is rising.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
WISCONSIN, Is ORGANIZING
A TOWNSHIP LOCAL OF THE U.F.L.

nize. We will take our first step
in the work on February z.
These comrades can succeed.
There Is nothing to stop them.
And we look for their next report
and then the reports as to what
they are doing to Organize whole
county and what success they are
having in organizing local organi-
zations of the United Farmers
League and how they are spread
ing the Producers News. Let's go
comrades, we and all of the read
ers of the Producers News are
waiting for your repOrts.-EditOr
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
UFL ESTABLISHED
IN OMA, Wise. FOR
RELIEF STRUGGLE
FARMERS DEMAND COUNTY
AGENTS OFFICE BE
ABOLISHED.

Van Buskirk, Wis, Jan. 49,
The Get-together of the farmers
in the town of Oma, held Jan. II,
in every way proved to be a sue
cessful meet. Farmers openly
and militantly discussed their
struggles. 1t was plain to them
that the U. F. L. program is the
only program the farmers should
follow. and we now have laid a
basis for the real organization of
farmers in the town of Oma.
Convincing stories of farmers
struggles thruout Iron and Goge-
bic counties, with their county
boards were discussed. The dis
cussion in which practically all fell
low farmers took part was ex-
tremely interesting.
The main discussion was on the
resolution which already had been
adopted turnout the county by U
F. L. functionaries, and presented
by the delegates appointed at sale
meetings to the County Board al
4 Hurley, Wis. After discussing the
resolution point by point, motions
were made to the effect that /.
every way the demands for imme
date relief for the farmers thru
out Iron county were correct.
The abolition of the offices O
county agent and nurse impresse,
the farmers immensely. Man,
farmers proved that the count,
i agent was only. a parasite to u
: farmers and a tremendous unne
cessary appendage to the taxpay
Il ers. But as it was understood tina
n the county agent was hired by til
o County Board on contract an
n could not be abolished until hi
contract expires, it was resolve
IS that when that time is up II
county agents office should l
>, abolished.
The farmers thought that Il
= County Nurse was of no use
u them. If the farmer had financ
n he would in no way disregard Il
Mt health of his children and need
p no nurse to inform him that tht
e. needed dentist service, or tn
O. that their tonsils were infecte
e. also that fruit should be the
main diet when the farmer is fl
ancially situated so that he cam
: in any possible way secure tt
: daily diet. In place of the coun
q nurse they were one hundred p
a cent agreed on free medical q
= provided by the county for tho
" families in distress.
: The motion that the county {
n .ficials salaries should be reduc
= $3.50 received a large support.
e was decided to demand that t
J. whole $3.50 be taken into; considt
alton instead of the ten per CT
II cut which was already taken pla
4 After a lengthy discussion
= the unemployment question
= Iron County a molten was ms
le to have Committee of Act
5, appointed for the town of On
t. The molten was carried, and
committee of five was appointe
It was decided by the farm
that this committee get into
:" mediate contact with the comm
tees in nearby townships to p
ent pare relief demands.
hat Fellow farmers, we must or
90 nize and struggle for the relief
~, the misery caused by the pres
'"y crisis. Only organized class RAJ
On will free us farmers from the y
TO of exploitation. Mobilize la
on masses of farmers to the meeti
called by the U. F. L. Commit
nce of Action.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

'oeeh executed. Inc cap1CauSC
press reports ''truckloaGss of
bodies of Chinese workers beng
hauled away for disposal.
Defenseless workers, women and
children have been bayonetted aid
shot in the street for not moving
as fast as the japanese soldiery
commanded. The policy Of the
Japanese imperiaists is to crush
the, mass rebellion Of the Chinese
workers and peasants by the use
of all the bloody terror at hand,
by the murder of thousands like
cattle.
! The capitalist press reports that
the Chapel district has been prac-
tically wiped out by fire. The
Japanese imperialist butchers
were not satisfied with murder
thru bombing and machine gun
9. fire but dropped incendiary bombs
in the quarters of the workers.
The attack of the Japanese is
part of the attempt to crush the
millions of Chinese workers and
peasants under the heel Of the inn
perialist exploiters. The imperi-
alists murderers are determined
= to crush the revolt of the Chinese
y masses which is turnout central
China winning millions of workers
Il and peasants for the struggle
against the imperialists under the
banner of the workers and peas
{ ants Soviets.
While the Japanese are carry
ing thru the wanton slaughter Of
: tens of thousands OF Chinese
e e workers in Shanghai they are
u pushing their forces for the at
7' tack on the Soviet Union. They
have attempted all manner of
.e provocation in Manchuria and on
N the Chinese Eastern Railway in
&c order to draw the Soviet Union
}. into the struggle. The Soviet
~ Union has stood adamant against
u ali of these provocations. The
az Soviet Union has warned the i'm
~ perialist robbers, however, that il
n the Soviet Union is attacked the
10 workers and farmers of the Soviet
Z. Union will repel them with all Of
~ the proletarian resoluteness in de.
cX tense of their father land, thG
Gu Union of Socialist Soviet Repub
lies, the fatherland of the toilin1
Is masses thruout the world. Th'
% bombing of Shanghai is part o;
rs the attack on the Chinese masses
ne the Chinese Soviets and the Sovie
III Union.
&c While this wholesale butcher,
9~ has been going on the other i'm
~ lperialists, the United States, Eng
land, France, Italy have not mad
- one motion of protest. They ar
participants in this slaughter. Tn
United States is moving troop
= and battleships from the Philip
pines, France from Indo-Chins
lie The other imperialists are draw
ing all the forces they possess i
the Far East toward Shanghai
1ep These butchers are not movin
these forces to Shanghai to pr
Cd tect the Chinese masses from bt
I'm. ing slaughtered but in order I
OFT protect their own interests frol
nat the Japanese imperialists and I
ole participate in the attack on II
arc Chinese workers and peasant
MI While the attack and the invasiO
ers of Shanghai by the japanese in
ad- perialists has sharpened Il
on struggle between the capitali
. robbers of all the powers they a
~ agreed to unite their fore,
are against the Chinese workers ar
Dor. peasants, if possible, for the di
meniberment of China and its pa
tition among themselves II
RS sharpening of the antagoniS
Continued on Page Twel
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The Washington times., 1932-12-03
Virginians Ask Extra
Assembly Session
For Repeal

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 3.
Prohibition modification figured
in discussions here as to the
urgent appeal presented Cover
nor Pollard to call an extra
session of the legislature to
deal with the relief situation in
the State.
There are those Democrats
who insist that the platform
adopted in Chicago calls for
immediate repeal of the Eight
eenth Amendment and they
feel it their duty to insist that
the Virginia solons meet at
once to join with State Senator
w. Worth Smith in his appeal
in behalf of a special session of
the general assembly to take
such action as may be neces-
Sary to alleviate conditions.
Governor Pollard said:
81 am ready to listen to
plans, but not to cIamOr."
The Washington times., 1932-12-03
K|WAN|S' CHIEFS
MEET HERE

Officers of the Capital District
of Kiwanis Clubs, embracing 48
clubs in the District of Columbia,
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware,
are in Washington today to out
line plans for wider extension next
year of Kiwanis ideals and
achievements.
Edwin F. Hill, Capital District
governor-elect, is presiding at the
sessions at the Raleigh Hotel.
Others astending include:
DR.. Henry A. Converse, of Har-
risonburg, Va. present governor;
Asa w. Howard, Roanoke, Va;
present secretary-treasurer: Lieu
tenant Governors Park w. T. 10y,
Hagerstown; C. Walter Cole, Tow
son; E. I. Carruthere, CharlotteS-
Vile; James T. Catlin, Danville;
Broaddus E. Chewing, Roanoke;
DR.. Lon R. Roper, Portsmouth;
also Presidents-elect Irwin Diener.
of the Alexandria club; John F.
Webster, of Arlington county, and
Richard C. Hayden, of Manassas;
also Robert c. Hutchinson, of
Manassas, former lieutenant gov
ernOr.
The Washington times., 1932-12-03
Synthetic Hurricanes Rake
e Empire State Building"

holes have been bored to register
varying presSures and vacuumS.
The whole group is mounted on
a revolving platform.
When the 14-foot propeller at
the end of the tunnel is set in
motion, conditions similar to a
gale across downtown New York
can be created. BY connecting air
vents in the model with glass
tubes partially filled with kero-
sene it may prove possible, Prof.
Harris believes, to discover what
pressure changes occur on the
surface of a skyscraper during a
windStorm.
The models are rotated to
simulate varying wind direction,
while engineers can adjust the
air stream velocity far greater
than any gale that will ever hit
New York.
1t is quite possible, Prof. Harris
admits, that his work will reveal
an advantage in altering present
building designs. 1t also will
serve to standardie building and
zoning ordinances now at wide
variance in difference part of
the country.
The Washington times., 1932-12-03
DRIVING. TUTOR.
IN ACCIDENT
Times staff Photo

Margaret Clark, 9, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Clark. of the
Colesville Pike. was cut on the for.
head and suffered possible inter.
nal injuries, when she was run
down this morning in front of the
Silver Spring substation by driv.
ing instructor who gave his name
as Raymond B. Roberts, Of the
1900 block Connecticut Ave.
Roberts, employed by the Trew
Motor Company. was driving the
car of Miss Catherine Schroeder,
of the 770O block Morningside
Drive. The girl was running
across the intersection to catch q
bus that was to take her home.
She was taken Immediately to DR..
w. B. Hayes, and the driver was
held, while Policeman Charles
Barnes. of the Montgomery county
force, investigates the accident.
The Washington times., 1932-12-03
CHURCHES PLAN
|N|RACLEP[AY

"The Nativity" an old French
miracle play of the fifteenth cen
tury, will be presented at three
local churches during the week
beginning December 18 by the
religious drama committee of
the Washington Federation of
Churches.
The first production will be
given at the Church of the Holy
City, Sixteenth and Q Streets
Northwest, on the afternoon of
December 18, and the second
will be. held the same day at
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church, Chevy Chase Circle, at
pm.
The last showing will take
place on the evening of Decem-
ber 20 at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.