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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
SOVIET WORKERS SHOW
WAY

The way out of the exploitation
of the class of exploited workers
and farmers by the rich classes, is
shown by the workers and poor
farmer of the Soviet Union. There
over 100000 people belong to
cooperative organizations. All the
workers are organized. The peo-
pie are more highly organized and
in by FAR greater numbers than
in any other country in the world.
This accomplishment was made
lpossible by the overthrow of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23

final act before the curtain rings
down on the last rotten play of
the circus, he government lackeys
are preparing TO bring on new
world war.
But the workers and farmers
will finally rise victorious and
build up government of, by, and
for the people, and the brother
hood of man will be an accom- :
plished fact for all the world un-
der one workers and farmers gov
eminent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
It's Hard Times
In Nebraska
Song by Nebraska Farmers at the Farmers
National Relief Conference

(Tune: Springtime in the Rockies
It's hard times in Nebraska
Our Grips are rotting there
While workers Starve on slop lines
And their families despair
Our taxes and our interest
Cannot be met this year
In this land of wealth and plenty
In this land of Wall Street rule.
Our houses leak and totter, ....
Our children freeze in rags,
Our corn sells for a nickle,
And spudS wnOt pay for bags
For working hard and faithful
Ytull take our farms and tools
In this land of wealth and plenty,
In this land where Wall Street rules
You set the price ON products
Tell US what We must pay
And when we buy our groceries
You also have your way.
You call US sovereign farmers
But really we are fools
In this land of wealth and plenty,
In this land cf Wall Street rule.
The international bankers
Our credit did abusej
Though Dawes got 80 million
Yet US they did refuse m
But we will band in unitn
TO break their money pools
In this land of wealth and plenty,
In this land of Wall Street rule
FINALE
(Tune: Marching Through Georgia)
Unite. Unite* To gain our liberty
Unite Unite! In union we'll be free
So we'll spread this message from Nebraska
to the sea;
The farmers are marching to Freedom.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
OR. FALLS MEET
FAVORS MARCH
Passes Resolution Endors-
ing Demands of
Unemployed
GBy a Worker Correspondent

10y worker correspondent
Great Falls, Mont, Dec. Sat
a meeting of the Unemployed
Council of Great Falls, a reso1a-
ton was passed endorsing the de-
mands of the unemployed, veterans
and farmers placed before Con
gress at its opening, last week.
The resolution also held Senator
B. K. Wheeler and Senator Walsh
and all Montana representatives in
Congress personally responsible to
see that workers, farmers and vet
Grams were given adequate shelter,
food, and care during their stay in
Washington.
The resolution also demanded
an investigation into the killing Of
two ex-soldiers while the Bonus
Army was assembled IN Washing
ton last July.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23

numbers of others of its members
have heavy mortgages and face
bankruptcy. A very considerable
proportion of the flocks around
Petaluma (of oourse not all are
members of the ASSN for instance
are actually owned by feed COM
panies, McNear and Golden Eagle,
through mortgages. In a large
number of cases the value of the
flocks do not equal the value of
the mortgages. These companies
threaten wholesale forced sales In
the coming spring.
The cooperative cannot solve the
basic problems of its members. 1t
can not raise the buying power OF
the great masses of people the
unemployed millions and their fam
lilies and other millions working
with lowered pay. The coopera :
tive can not sell when the masses
have not the means with which to
buy. The association can but in
fluence the prices Of eggs in so
far as it can regulate the supply
| of eggs on the market in confor-
nifty with the law of supply and
demand.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
OWES LUMBER co.
70 CENTS AFTER
WORKING A WEEK

Aberdeen, Wash-After working
five days and two hours at a hum
Der camp, Joe DubrOvick called for
his time.
He had bucked 67,1OO feet of
timber which totaled $7.37 at II
cents a thousand. However, a bill
charged against him totalled $S.15
He was charged $6 board, 81 bed,
81 hospital fee and Is cents fol-
first aid. He therefore owed the
company 78 cents after working
for it all week.
It's a good thing quit wher
l did," said Dubrovick, cor would
have owed them SO much they
would have tried to collect it."
Join the
United Farmers
League
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
PART II

The richer members know that
the production of eggs cannot con-
tinue even at the present level if
egg prices are to be maintained.
Because of the continually deepen
ing crisis, the buying power of the
people is continually decreasing so
that the production of eggs must
and will come down some more.
This is accomplished by many sell
ing part or all Of their hens, and
others becoming bankrupt. The
ones to fall out first are the poor
er ones particularly those having
mortgages or. other debts. The
richer ones are in a better posi-
ton to continue in the struggle,
because better credit facilities,
buying in large quantities, by
ing up shares, ETC., are all to the
advantage Of the richer member,
and many of these are at the ex-
pense of the poorer members. Also
the standard and grading Of eggs
can be manipulated to the advan-
tage of the richer members.
POOR MEMBERS SUPPORT
RICH
From a business standpoint, how
ever, the association cannot afford
to have the large numbers OF the
poorer members dnop out of mem
bership to compete On the outside,
and furthermore it must have suf-
ficient numbers of poorer mem
bers from whom to draw the in
terest on certificates, etc. 1t IS
to the interest of the richer ones
that as large percentage as pos
sible of all the producers join the
association and when any drop out
of the association that they drop
out of the poultry business en-
tirely. This reduces production OF
eggs, and helps maintain prices.
The process of eliminating the
poor and middle producers is gong
on in the poultry industry as well
as in other agricultural and other
pursuits.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
ny IlSH PUT DUTY
. IRISH POTATOES

S y irish Free State, Nov. "a
d G'Ss uaim Thursday an
u 1 uutles of about 800 per
N pST'Stoes from Britain and
Ireland. This is the lat
r. "P pr.e n the tariff war
britain and the Free
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
CAN AFFECT PRICES

The association does influence
the market prices of eggs, but 1t
does not exercise complete con-
troll. In the spring season when
production of eggs is high, the as
sociation stores part of the eggs
and thus prevents the supply on
the market from reaching a sat
uration point Though prices often
go below the price of production
of the eggs), and thus prevents
the prices of eggs fnom falling as
| low as they would have were all
the eggs produced at the time put
on the market. Again, when the
production of eggs is low as In the
late fall and the prices of eggs are
higher, the stored eggs must DC
sold, and in doing this these enter
Into competition with the fresh
eggs on the market, preventing
their prices from rising as high as
they would were not the stored
eggs put on the market.
A regularity about the poultry
Industry is that it can adjust Itself
Ito the market demands much mor'
easily than most branches OF agrl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23

culture or industry. A poultryman
can sell a part or all of his hens
in short time, which cuts down
production. Also a great number
of poultrymen have gone cut of
the business. This year the pro-
duction of eggs on the Pacific
coast has been about 80 per cent
less than last year. This fact
mainly accounts for the compare
lively favorable position of the
poultry industry on this coast.
SHOULD PROTECT POOR
FARMER
What then should be the role of
cooperative? Should it give
equal rights to all producers No
1t should defend the interests of
the majority-the poor and middle
producers, and its very basis
should be to protect the poor and
middle producers from exploita-
ton by the rich.
Under the present (capitalist)
system of exploitation, a coopera-
tive cannot entirely prevent its
rank and file (the poor and middle
producers) members from exploit
tation by the banks, corporations,
ETC., but it can prevent one mem
Der from exploiting another and
can reduce the exploitation of the
banks, corporations, etc. The CO.
Operative must be an auxiliary
weapon in the hands of the rank
and file producers in their strug.
lgles against exploitation by the
the rich classes.
In this struggle against their ex.
Iploiters, the poorer producers il
Ian agricultural branches must
unite with each other and with the
wage Notwithstanding the UNI
Iemployed-only then win they BIZ
able to force basic improvements
lof their conditions from theil
common exploiters. The very basii
of the Poultry Producers of Cen
trial California (like all of thos,
mot based on the policy of class
struggle) is that the rich mem
bers benefit at the expense Of TIT
poorer ones.
COOPERATIVE UNITY
awWwA NrCw wHaw~H
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
Small Farmer In Big Poultry Cooperative

% the IN udH the aptaMt yaem3 Whyd oH
the annodue
plan W. nmgh OulryPr
aiorna-a iGon p fin out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23

class of exploiters and their gov
eminent, and the establishish of a
workers and exploited farmers
government. It supports the toll
ing masses against exploitation by
the rich.
There over 20 per cnet of the
poor end middle peasants have
joined state and collective farms.
They are given every support by
the government in the way of inn
plements, credit etc. There the
poor farmers need not fear pow
erty, starvation, eviction, etc.
Their livelihood is secured. When
the farmer in this country loses
his farm he is forced into the cities
to starve. But there hey join the
collectives and state farms and
their standards of life, labor and
culture improve steadily. There
are no more crisis of overpro :
duction; it is the beginning of the
first really organized society. The
Soviet toilers point us the way.
The workers and poor farmers of
this country must be on their
guard for the capitalist class is
preparing for military interven-
ton Of the Soviet Union in an eff
fort to overthrow hte first worker
and poor farmres' government, be-
cause they fear that its example
causes the workers and poor farm
ers Of this country to overthrow
their exploiting class and establish
their own government.
Before such an organized society
is possible the capitalist class must
be overthrow. We are not vet at
this stage, though we are rapidlv
travelling in that direction and the
time is not Sd far away as many
would have rs believe.
ORGANIZE OPPOSITION
When then are our tasks now i?
In connection with this association
! (PPCC), our task now Is to work
to transform it into a weapon in
the hands of the poor and middle
producers in their struggle against
the class of exploiters. Commit.
tees of opposition must be or
ganized of the poor and middle
members Of the association to con-
duct campaigns and struggles with
In the association meetings anc
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23
COOPERATIVE UNITY
ALLIANCE LEADS

The Cooperative Unity Alliance
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INV
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ScRPrIoN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-23

8. Moratorium on all debts,
MORTGAGES, and interest on them
until the prices the farmer re-
Iceives for his produce equals the
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
WILL ASSIST RESIDENTS
MAKING TAX REPORTS
viii BE In Milford At POstOilice On
February IL, IL And IL

The itinerary of representatives
of the u. S. Internal Revenue De-
partment through down-State towns
to assist in the making out of Fed
eral income tax returns, WAS an
nOuneed this week by Deputy Col
lector w. Morris Black. The scbed-
uled itinerary follows:
Clayton, at Clayton Bank, Febru-
airy !.
Smyrna, at postofTice, February 2
and 8.
Dover, at Farmers Bank, Febru-
airy 4, 5 and 6.
Wyoming, at First National Bank,
February 8.
Harrington, at postoffice, Febru-
airy and 10.
Milford at postofIice, February II,
u and 13.
Bridgeville, at postofice, February
Is and 1G.
Seaford, at postoffice, February II,
IS, 10 and 20.
Laurel, at postoffice, February %,
"a and rs.
Delmar, at postofIice. February 26
and q.
Georgetown, at postofice, Febru-
airy 30 and March l.
Lewes, at postoffice, March q and
3.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
CAESAR RODNEY
PUBLISHES PAPER
Second Quarterly Edition is Well
Edited By Pupils

Y The second quarterly issue of the
Caesar Rodney High School, "The
Crisp, at Wyoming. Delaware, was
issued last week, and of this school
organ the staff responsible for its
creation, is entitled to have express
sion of appreciation by the public,
with which it circulates, as well as
from those especially interested in
education in the schools of Della
ware.
The compilation Of articles and
editing, is pleasing and shows train
ing by the responsible departments,
and by the editorial and business
management. This is especially to
be desired, as it is for this purpose
the publication of the tWenty-fOur
page quarterly is sent forth.
Favorable support from the pub
lie is shown by the cads and general
advertising contained in the edition
of the winter quarterly.
The staff, and assistants who have
made it a success, are entitled to
thanks by the friends of public
school education. 1t is a fine in
vestment by the public to support all
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
BRIDGEVILLE BOY v
CORN JUDGING CHAMP
Arthur Handley Won IIOnOrs At
State Contest This Year

Arthur Handley, of Bridgeville, is
the State All Club Corn Judging
Champion, and Jack Lafferty, of
Cheswold, is the State All Club Poul-
try Judging Champion. These cham
pionships were determined at the an
nual All Club Corn and Poultry
Judging Contests held at the Annual
Farm Products and Poultry Show at
Milford, on January 8, results of
which have just been compiled and
released by A. D. Cobb, Assistant
Director of Extension.
Arthur IIandley, the new All Club
Corn judging champion has been a
All Club member since 1927, and has
completed a All Club project each
year since with the exception of
1928. He has also been student
in the Agricultural Class of the
Bridgeville high school, where he
has received valuable training in ag
licultural problems. His score of
9O.5 in the contest will bring him
the bronze All championship
plaque and gold first place medal
awarded by the Delaware Crop I'm
provement Association.
The silver medal for second place
goes to Albert Buckworth, of New
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
STUBBORN FIRE AT
G. P. CAREY'S GARAGE
Carlisle Fire Company Fought Blaze
For Two Hours Wednesday

Fire. which is believed to have
been caused by defective wiring,
broke out on the second floor of the
automobile display department of G..
p. Carey's garage shortly after one
o'clock Wednesday morning. The
Carlisle Fire Company responded to
the alarm and fought the flames for
almost two hours before the blaze
was extinguished. While the fire
was a stubborn one to fight, the
building nor the contents suffered
very serious damage. The blaze was
under a tin roof on the side of the
building adjoining Hills Restaur-
ant Due to it's location it was al
most impossible for the firemen to
gain close access to the fire. Heavy
smoke issued from the loft and the
firemen were driven back several
times before the smouldering fire
could be gotten at. Had the firemen
arrived at the scene a few minutes
later the entire building and the ad-
joining properties would have been
endangered. The damage on the
first floor was confined to water
damage.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
AGRICULTURAL
WORK REVIEWED
Ralph C. Wilson Reports
On Work OF State Board
Of Agriculture

Ralph G. Wilson, secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, has sub
mitted his annual report to Governor
Buck in which he reviews the work
of the department during the year,
The report in part follows:
THE. State Board of Agriculture
has endeavOred during the past year
to render every possible assistance
to the farmers throughout the State
during a very difficult time, The
sum of $12,320.72 was collected dur
ing the fiscal year and turned over
to the state treasurer, from the tom
mage taxes and registration fees on
feeds, fertilizers and lines. This is
an increase of $52O.96 over the
amount collected from these sources
in 1880, and is the largest amount
collected in any one year from this
source. This is evidence not only
that the law is being strictly en-
forced, but that the amount of feeds
and fertilizers, especially feeds, con-
sumed in the State each year is con-
stantly increasing.
"An appropriation of $4,000 was
granted to the State Board of Agri-
culture for the operation of the State
laboratory during the fiscal year. OF
this amount 11,390.62 was expended,
and balance of $609.9S was return
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
HITS MORALITY
OF SHORE FOLK
Prof. Mitchell Says Sec
ton Is Mentally And
Spiritually Backward

Residents Of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, and particularly those of
Salisbury, Md, will recent criticisms
contained in the report of an i'll
quiry made by Prof. BrOadus Nit
Chell, of the Department of Political
Economy, of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, into the lynching at Salisbury
of Matthew Williams, negro, who
shot and killed his employer and,
after trying to kill himself, was
taken from a Salisbury hospital,
hanged and burned.
The inquiry was made on behalf
of the Commission on Race I(ela-
tions of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ. The report sets
forth the needs of an active inter-
racial committee in Salisbury. Prof.
Mitchell is a son of DR.. Samuel G.
Mitchell, former president of the
University of Delaware, a native of
the South, and a former resident of
Richmond, Va. One criticism his re-
port contains that doubtless will
arouse antagonistic feeling on the
part of Salisbury residents reads:
Salisbury, Md, has given proof of
it's lack of civic morality not only in
the lynching and burning of ne
gro on December last, but even
more pointedly in the childish de-
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
ODD FELLOWS TO
HOLD INITIATION
Crystal FOunt Lodge Will
Initiate Class Next
Monday Night

Members of Crystal Fount Lodge,
No. 10, l.. o. o. r., are backing their
degree team with spirit of loyalty
that is giving the boys the proper
jest and pep.
Most every meeting night the MEM
bership fills all the chairs in the
lodge room, in addition many visitors
from surrounding lodges are lending
their presence TO the scene.
Next Monday evening Il class OF
candidates will be started in the first
stages of Odd Fellowship, receiving
the initiatOry degree. This degree
will be conferred in full ceremonial
form by Crystal Fount Degree Team,
under the direction of George A.
Swain, with Prof. Arthur Hudson
in charge of the music.
The entire evening will be devoted
to this degree and the drill that fol-
lows. This will allow plenty of time
for the proper performance of the
work, and the discussion of the forth
coming visit of Fairfax Lodge, of
Wilmington, to Milford, in the near
future. Tull details of this visit will
be published next week. District
Deputy Grand Master Clarence Jes-
ter, has selected his staff from the
of Crystal Fount Lodge.
Announcement of his selection will
be made next week.
KirkwoOd Encampment, branch
of the Milford Odd Fellows, are ar
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
POTATO SHIPMENTS
LARGE AT LAUREL
40 Per Cent OF Sweet Variety Sent
To Midwest Markets

VAbout 40 per cent of the sweet po-
tato crop in the vicinity of Laurel
and SeaGord has been shipped, ac-
Cording to the estimate of Minos E.
Culver, the largest grower of sweets
in the eastern section. Despite the
low prices, growers have been ship
ping steadily instead of waiting for
a higher market.
The acreage for 1881 was the larg-
est ever known, the yield was very
high, and prices have been the low
est since 1921. The stock in storage
is one of the finest and the keep is
considered of the best. There is
practically no rot, and the potatoes
are smooth and regular in size. The
shipments are averaging about so
per cent of those i'm storage, which
is considered very good. The fact
that some of the growers are report
ing a large amount of sprouts is in
dicative of a good keep, the result of
plenty of heat in drying out the po-
tatOes.
Mr.. Culver, as well as all the other
growers are making large shipments
daily, and he does not expect to hold
back for higher prices. According
to past shipments, he expects the
supply to be exhausted early this
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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
KENT COUNTY DAIRY
FARMER is HONORED
Michael Il. MOffett Receives Master
Farmer Award For State

Michael e. Moffett, who owns and
operates a 214-acre dairy and grain
farm near Smyrna, was one of the
fifteen farmers of Delaware, Penn
sylvania and Maryland who receiv-
ed the 1882 Master Farmer Award
for outstanding achievement in ag-
riculture and rural citizenship, ac-
cOrding to an announcement which
was made by the Pennsylvania Far
mer at the Master Farmers banquet
which was held in Harrisburg, Pa,
on the evening of January 21.
These awards are given each year
by the Pennsylvania Farmer to q
few farmers in these three states
who best measure up to the Master
Farmer score card, which includes
the operation of the farm, business
methods and ability, farm appear
ance and general upkeep, home life,
and community life and citizenship.
Within the past five years there
have bSen five farmers in Delaware
to receive this honor, and three of
these farmers reside in Kent coun-
tV.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-29
MAY REDUCE STATE
DEBT TO $1,OOO,OOO
Large Bonded Indebtedness Been
Paid During Past Few Years

Present indications point to the
amazing achievement of reducing
the States bonded Indebtedness on
highway bonds from $12,S51 900 less
than four years ago, to $1,000,OOO or
less by next July 1. When Governor
Buck took office the indebtedness
was at the higher figure above; but
it had been reduced by $9,OO0,OOO up
to January 1, 1882.
Though another million dollar
bond issue has just been authorized
by the State Highway Department,
out of which the cost of the many
highways, sidewalks and other con-
struction jobs to aid unemployment
will be met it is probable that this
bond issue will be purchased by the
State Sinking Fund Commission,
provided the premium on the bonds
does not run too high. On July L,
of the present year, it is proposed to
pay off another million of the States
bonded Indebtedness which will
leave the bonds outstanding after
that date $2,OOO,OOO, and by January
1, 1888, the end of Governor Bucks
term, it is proposed to reduce 1t to
less than million dollars, probably
closer to half a million.
Governor Buck has been enabled
to make this wonderful record be-
cause of wise revenue producing
legislation which was passed several
years before he took office.