The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-26

We received the following letter from farmer
in Elmo, Mich, last week:
Dear Oomrade Editor: There are ia
this community lots of farmers who
would join the United Farmers League
if it were not that they are afraid that
they'll have to give up their religion
Undoubtedly many other comrades have met
farmers who feel similarly. What is the United
Farmers League? The United Farmers league is
the MASS organization of the small and middle
farmers. Thru the United Farmers League the
toiling farm masses are organizing in order to
protect their homes and the very existence of
their families and themselves in this most terrible
crisis. In order to protect themselves the toing
farm masses must organize in solid ranks.
Only their iron ranks stand off the on
slaught of the capitalist class, the exploters, the
Federal Land Banks, the land companies, the tax
collectors, all of whom are attempting to get the
very last penny that the farmer has and will
evict him from the land when they can get no
more out of him. They do not discriminate among
the farmers the basis of their religion. Wheth-
er farmer is Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Jew
or atheist, he be pretty certain of the same
brutal treatment from the exploters, from the
bankers and their state. The toiling farmers can
expect more of this non-discriminatory exploiCa-
ton. They have already had a bitter draught of
it.
The attack by the Federal Land Banks on the
telling farmers which is being pushed at the very
time when the Hoover Hunger government is
spreading the most hypocritical propaganda about
the "relef" that is being given the farmers-is an
attack on them regardless of their religious beliefs
or lack of them. This attack is not against Bap-
fist or Catholic or Lutheran or atheist farmers
this attack is against small and middle farmers,
against the toiling farmers, AGAINST THE Elk
PLOTTED. THIS is THE ATTACK OF THE
! EXPLORERS.
We are Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian,
Evangelical and atheist farmers as far as our re-
ligious beliefs lack of them are concerned But
| AS FARMERS WE ARE SMALL AND MIDDLE
FARMERS, WE ARE OF THE TOILING FARM
MASSES, WE ARE OF THE EXPLOITED
SINCE WE HAVE LIVED AS THE EXPLOITED
SINCE OUR EXISTENCE IS THREATENED
BY THE EXPLORERS, WE MUST ORGANIZE
AS TOILING FARMERS, AS MEMBERS OF
THE CLASS THAT IS EXPLOITED.
The United Farmers League calls on the toll
ing farm masses to take up the struggle fol
their very existence against the present misery
that they now suffer and the still more bruta
misery that the capitalist class is threatening anC
preparing to force on them in order to save it,
billions that have been piled up out of the sweat
the blood, and the misery of the exploited of thu
entire country the exploited of the city and of tn
land
Toiling farmers! The United Farmers Leagu
does not ask you of what religious faith you ar
or if you have any religious beliefs whatever. TIL
United Farmers League does point out to you tina
the only way in which we farmers can protect on
farms and our homes from the hands of the sher
iff and of his masters, can protect our wives an
our children from the intensified misery of tn
capitalist crisis is thru militant mass organization
The United Farmers League calls on you to orga
nize in ten thousand ranks to spread the struggl
around your immediate acknowledgements whic
you shall draw up in accordance with your locs
conditions, struggle which must not only be bui
by you but which must be organized by you
The United Farmers League does not as
whether you are Greek Catholic, Lutheran
Methodist. But it does ask if you will organic
with your fellow toiing farmers. 1t not only ask
but urges and calls you to organize now to n
pei the attacks of Wall Street and of its agent
Mass organization of the toiling farmers in sol
darity with the workers of he cities is the on
bulwark that will stand against the horrible OF
slaught of the capitalist class.
WE ARE OF THE EXPLOITED. AS sue
WE HAVE LIVED, AS SUCH WE MUST ORG
NIZE FOR STRUGGLE. BUILD THE UNITE
FARMERS LEAGUE-OF THE EXPLOTTE
AND AGAINST THE EXPLORERS.