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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29
TOiIing Farmers of
Montana Led by UFI
Sheridan County Farmers Wife Calls on Farme,,
Write for the Producers News
comertown. Mont, April 25.-

Comertown, Mont, April 25.-
AS you asked for letters telling
of conditions we thought we would
send you one. / am sending an
article about the last P. I. A..
meeting.
Yes we would like to know what
farmers from other parts OF the
country think of conditions and
how they are managing to live so
of course 1 suppose we should tell
something Of our conditions here
in Sheridan county, Montana.
Nearly all Of the northeastern
part Of the county dried out com
pletely last year and partly the
year before. Last year we didn't
even get a garden.
We were surely worried las'
July but then we began to organ
ize in the United Farmers League
1--we demanded Red Cross aid anC
got it and we demanded fedora
seed loans and most of us final!
got them tho some had a lot O.
trouble. We often wonder how full
the grave yards would have bee
now if it had not been for the U
F. L.
Now the Red Cross will be Gu
off next month. What are we 60
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PIONEERS! RALLY FOR THE DEFENSE
OF THE FRAMED SCOTTSBORO BOYS

groes thru Iynchings. They teacA
the White workers and their chill
dren to hate and look down upon
the Negro. This they do so that
the NegSo workers will stay sep
arate from the Whites and then
the bosses will be able to defeat
each more easily.
In the workers land, the Soviet
Union, there is no discrimination
against the Negro, or any race
There is no unemployment there
either. That is why the bosses
are preparing a war against the
Soviet Union.
Let us show the bosses that th'
workers can fight together. lie
us fight to free the Scottsbor'
Boys.
FOR THE CAUSE OF TIKI
| WORKING CLASS - PIONEER:
ARE ALWAYS READY
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Pioneer Corner Youth Section
WHAT ARE THE OLYMPICS?

in 1917 when Germany, according
to the bosses of this country
threatened civilization" and Brit
ish and American Supremacy"
Say, did any of your friends OF
any miners ever get to the Olym-
pics to take part? guess not.
The guys who take part in thr
Olympic games are corrupt PRO
fessionals" like Paavo Nurmi, the
Finnish fascist, who even now is
undergoing a withdrawing on
charges of professionalism. All
these athletes are already picked
out-the Examinations are only d
matter of form, even the capital
list press admits that.
Negro athletes are Jim Crowed
In the Oiympics. The bosses try
TO spread race hatred in this way
and split the unity of Negro anC
white workers in their struggle
against bosses hunger, terror, enc
war For example-during th'
last Olympics the Negro athletes
were completely Jim Crowed an;
segregated even on the shil
bringing them TO Holland, and il
training, etc.
The Soviet Union is the onl,
country not invited to take part il
the Olympics. This Is an exam
pie of the complete alliance of al
the imperialist countries agains
the workers fatherland whic
shows itself in their war prepare
lions against it as well as on tn
sport field.
The National Miners Union an
the Labor Sports Union boycot
the Olympics because 1t is a hur
ger and war Olympics, because II
| bosses try tn fool the workers B
this means, try to attract their a
tention away from the struggle
=. in the mines and shops. I'll
bosses spend millions on Che Olyn
pics. California alone donated
million dollars, but they have not
ing for the unemployed workers.
!. Boycott the OIympics! For Il
y International Workers Athlet
Meet in Chicaga on July 2sth, 29t
3Oth and Aug. LIST. instead of f
= Hunger and War Olympics! .
o gainst the Jim Crow policy of {
bosses! For the unity of Neg
= and white workers! For ma
~ spOrts Tor the workers instead
individual STARS"
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Do you know:

Do you know:
Who runs the Olympics? Who
takes part in them? Why they
make such big howl about these
international games, about "Am-
erican supremacy" and SO on?
Hunger President Hoover" is
the Hon. Chairman of the Oily
pics Committee. Doesn't that
show who mas their finger in the
pie? General Douglas McAurth'
ur, chief of the general staff 81
the U. S. army, Is another leading
figure? He represents the bosses
who want to develope that Gam
erican supremacy" so that thu
youth will go out to fight for it al
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IRISH PEASANTS
REFUSE TO PAY
BRITISH TAXES

DUBLIN, April 6.-The Irish
movement for self determination,
which has taken on new and
sharp developments during the
past few weeks, has been intensi-
fled further by a rising mass
movement Of farmers against the
payment of the land annuities to
the British Crown.
Farmers in the counties Of Car
low and Tipperary refused to pay
these taxes. The farmers have
announced that it would be pur'
meaningless lip service to absolv'
allegiance TO the British Empir'
and at the same time continue Il
pay the land annuity. The bash
right Of the impoverished farmer
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FIRST MAY DAY
HELD In u. S.
ORIGINATED IN STRUGGLE
FOR EIGHT HOUR DAY

History of May Day by A.
Trachtenberg, 10 cents.
Soviet China by M. James and
R. Doonping, 10 cents.
Free the Imperial Valley Pris-
Oners, issued by international La
Der Defense, sc.
Did you know that May Day, in
ternational day of solidarity of the
working class, originated in Amer
lea? Did you know it started a
round the struggle for the 8-hour
day? The ten cent pamphlet by
A. Trachtenberg entitled History
, of May Day" gives many more in
teresting facts, and also gives the
historical significance of Nay
} Day.
In connection with May Day, the
day of international working class
solidarity, we must begin to Learn
more about what our heroic com
rades and fellow workers in China
are doing in establishing their pro
s letarian dictatorship. The new
I pamphlet "Soviet China" writer
by two Chinese comrades who ar
familiar with what is going on il
! China, gives extensive information
I for the first time of where tn
: Soviets are in power, the danger
that beset them, the heroic strug
gle against the imperialists bot
within and without China who ar
trying to destroy these Sovieti
e and gives an Illuminating pictur
of what the Soviets are accom-
r plishing in raising the standard {
n living of the Chinese masses
/ the Soviet territory.
I Gree the Imperial Valley Pri
oners," the latest pamphlet issue
h by the LID is a pamphlet vel
as much needed now. The prisone
lg may come up for parole with
. the next few months. But that o
IL ly means that new dangers bes
nv them and some Of them face q
ed portation to fascist countries. o
he campaign must be intensified t
de their unconditional release. I'll
he pamphlet gives the fasts in t
case and will rouse every clal
rs conscious worker TO action in |
helf of these framed up worker
All three of these pamphl'
all can be obtained from the Work.
Library Publishers, Box 14S, S
d, New York City.
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CALLFOR DEFENSE
OF SOVIET UNION
ISSUED BY F.S. U.
SUPPORTS MAY DAY MEETS
OF WORKERS AND FARM
Frs THRUOUT U. s.

New York, April 3d. The ma
tional committee of the Friends Of
the Soviet Union issued the fol-
lowing call to all its members and
sympathizers to join the May Day
demonstrations all over the coun-
try.
The Friends of the Soviet Union
in America join with the fighting
working class section In support Of
May Day celebrations all over the
world. Forty-six years ago the
workers of the United States fot
for an 8-hour day. Mass protests
and demonstrations were held Oh
May first and ever since every
May Day has been an information
al day of working class solidarity.
The economic crisis is affecting
the whole capitalist world and ev-
cry branch of industry. The work
ling class of the capitalist coun-
tries is suffering increased misery
and poverty. Millions and mill
ions unemployed, wage-cut aftel
wage-cut, speed up and longer
! hours, no unemployment insurance
and drastic cuts in the miserable
relief is the order of the day fo'
the workers in America.
The capitalist masters are in ;
desperate scramble for markets il
which to sell their surplus con.
modities which the working elias
is unable 30 buy. This keen riv
! airy among the bosses manifest
itself in the building Of stronge
armies and navies and mad prep
arations for war.
Under capitalism, deepened eco
nomic crisis, acute agriculture
l crisis and intensified credit crisi
, Misery and hunger for the worl
: ers and their families, eviction
and deportations, jailings and a
% saults, and terror and repression
Murdereus war is the capitall
Z answer.
- Under socialism,: CROWN
economy, co1lectivized agricultur
and every cent extended on cred
he to the Soviet Union met promp
ly. Increased standard of liviI
=, for workers, social insurance
- every kind, no evictions, no mer
a. ployment and consistent poll
al of peace.
he The new world is building. S
on cialism is the challenge TO ban
IT. rupt capitalism. The workers
s." sue is clear; stop imperialist WI
e Defense of the Soviet Union. HI
~ the First Workers Republic.
- Words must be transferred
- deeds. The Friends of the Sow
La Union calls TO action all n
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ing to do then? Are we ,o;,
sit down and starve? ="
The grass was almost cate.
of the ground by the hungry o. ~.
last fall and winter, so now ~
cattle are never full and Of CIV -
can't give much milk. Ever !,
they did give a fair amsupt
milk we would be hard mt
make living as butter fat Is "
10 cents a pound.
Some stores give three cents .
dozen for eggs in trade and ann.
wont take them at all but cbar0.
five or six cents a dozen for eOS.
they have on hand. Sometimes ~ :.
have them on hand so long ahor,
all they are good for is TO tbrow
at ex-bankers. The farmers AZ.
feeding eggs to the calves, MICS
horses and cows.
Very few seed loans have come
thru so far and very little field
work has been done.
Wheat for seed is from Tee "a
$1.20 a bushel, making it from 81
to $3.50 a bushel by the time Il I
. hauled to the farms.
Very few have paid taxes 70,
the last two or three years. Near,
every farm is mOrtgaged and Ii,
farmers have been unable to "a,
Interests. At that we have Al
paid more interest money than VI
borrowed money in the first plsc
and still owe far more than "
had the use of. However, we hsv
had no evictions here in Sherids
county that l know of.
:. It seems to me there are not
nuf women members in the U.
L. It seems to me they shOuI
G be as interested in their own an
their children's welfare as Il
men. Think it over mother
Come on and join the U. F. l. az
when you have joined attend u
meetings every time you can.
= A SHERIDAN COUNTY
# FARMERS WIFI
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Labor Sports Group
Recently Organized
At Columbus, Mont

Columbus, Mont, April e. A
Labor Sports Union was organic
ed here April II by two comrades
from Belden, North Dakota.
1t is named "Shane Ridge Coy
otes." Tho we haven't very many
members yet we are certain of
getting more. l am sure we will
have some good athletes here after
some time.
-JALMER MIKKOLA
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MOVE TO GUST
COUNTY AGENT
In SO. DAKOTA
PALMYRA LOCAL OF u. F. L.
DEMANDS RESIGNATION AT
RECENT MEETING

FREDERICK, S. D., April 49,
The Palmyra local of the United
Farmers League met Friday even
ing, April IA. Although the farm
ers are busy on the land, they find
time to attend the UFL meetings.
Arthur Rystrom presided as chair
man and a good discussion was
had on the proposed remedies and
farm relief and the futility of hop
ing to get anywhere by following
the so-called legal methods. II
was made quite clear that only
mass action would bring any re
suits.
A good discussion was had OF
the county officials, especially thu
activities of the County Agent
office and the cost of maintaining
same. The following resolution
was drawn up and passed.
Resolution to the County Commits
siOners of Brown County
Whereas: the economic crisi
and the extremely low prices 70
! all farm products makes the bun
! den of taxation unbearable.
7 Whereas: thousands of farmer
J are facing the loss of their home
and property through tax sale
D and foreclosures, and are bein
forced out on the road throug
: evictions.
Whereas: we fail to see whel
! the services Of a County Agel
> has been of any benefit to Il
! farmers financially or otherwise.
II Whereas: the cost of maintain
e ing said office is a considerab
n and unnecessary expense.
l. Therefore, be it resolved tn
we, the members of the Palmy
IS local of the United Farmers lie
! 4 que, DEMAND the resignation
y the County Agent. We also d.
N MAND that the commissions
" cease all further appropriations
Eff funds for the maintenance
Of County Agent office.
~ Be it further resolved til
copies of this resolution be &c
P to commissioners and TO tie new
'e, papers for publication.
al Ralph Larson
= ]. w. Rystrom
- Peter Smith
!. Resolution Commit
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friends of the workers and peas.
ants of the Workers Fatherland.
1. To organize such strong sup.
port for the Soviets in this cOw-
try so as TO make the capitalist
government afraid Of the esnSs.
quences of war against the Soviet
2. To give firm resistance to the
attacks on wages, unemployment
insurance, curtailment Of relief,
resist repression and fascism, N
order 10 weaken the energy Of the
government for any attack abroad
3. To refuse to make munltsn
for war.
| A. To refuse to handle munitions
or troops.
5. To organize for the defsns
of the Soviet Union.
g.. To demand recognition sna
free trade relations.
Hail the American workers d.
egation TO the Soviet Union!
, Long live the international @l'
idarity Of Map Day!
/ Long i've the First Worker
I Republici
Hail the achievements Of SOcial'
5 list construction!
Build solid organization and
5 fighting front for the millions v
r friends of the Soviet Union!
: Out on the streets on May rus
for the defense of the Soviet w
= i0nt
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is against the payment Of taxes
in any form, even to the DeValera
government.
Although South African and
Australian agents of British inn
perialism have sent notes to De-
Valera urging him not to do any
thing that would affect the en-
pire's unity, the masses Of workers
and farmers are increasing their
demands for complete independ-
ence from Britain.
Along with these demands is the
growing struggle for relief Of the
unemployed farm workers and
ruined farmers.
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'surance fund shall be administered
and controlled by the workers
thru committees elected by the
workers themselves.
5. That social insurance be paid
TO workers TO the amount of full
wages to compensate for loss of
VIZ 0es thru sickness, accident, old
az maternity, etc.
BE IT sURTHER RESOLVED,
That We call upon the membership
Of the affiliated societies of the
c. c. w. to mobilize their ranks
for the support and enactment OF
this bill Immediately.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

Confined from Front ks8l
sham report on the Mooney az
which has been suppressed By "
federal government, is reported
have admitted that Mooney W
framed up. -.
The California state caplt0l W
surrounded by thousands Of snsp
workers as the decision oenyI \.
Mooney a pardon and Vir'u, 4.
sentencing him to death u :.
dungeon at San Quentin was =, :
nounced. Millions Of workers ~ ~,
out the world had focused ~
attention on CalifOrni and I'D
cent Tom Mooney. A dlsp' 4,
from Sacramento earlier % -
day indicated the nature o. :,
decision that ROlph wOuio
when it reported the presen"
armed police and stated:
sThe Gordon of officers va :,
, caution against VIGILANCE |"
DOesible demonstration We :
might follow the Covers"
cisiOn."
Among the workers present ,. !
5 fore the capitol was the age Sss,
Their of Mooney, Mrs. mary 10
e ey. who had just completed a y y
r of the country in cOnnecIl,U To-, 4
: the mass fight for the re- i M
: her son. The tour was nisu s.tis,-
: er the auspices of the in a. Tssse
s al Labor Defense. Mother =. ~ n
e wore an arm band bearing ! - 10
: end, "My Son Is lnnO0en ~. y
MONEYS sister, Anna, we y SCI
/ present. They had gone ) Ess
. mentO by train with B y. 0Wosrs
field representative Of tn'
q Defense Committee. 81. y
Ne This is the fourth time c.iIiss'
at brutal ruling class OF ,.;.s hos Z
ID thru its governor in Of ne, jj
n. fused to reverse the ,S en-
he verdict against Tom MO- y" VIZ
e The workers Of tns ,,orIS p
eff States and of the whole wi, vii ~
.h continue lsp't the struggle E.. l'~ rosr :
H. Mooney is freed! sn' .I,.s ~
Id dignation against 'ais !, ~ CSC
a decision of ROlph and l ~ q
20 MIA bOssesl Raise . dsst
test against this O p. Msy Ds''
Jan out on the strses
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the imposition of such tax would
increase the price of dairy pro-
ducts. The present prices of dairy
products are so ruinous because
millions Of wokers are doomed to
hunger and starvation. His pro-
posal is nothing but a tax on oleo-
margarine in Minnesota and as
such an attack on the living stand
ards of the workers turnout the
state. This is part Of the Farmer
Labor unemployment relief pro-
gram tho they did not dare to Ia
bel it as such. One Of the resolu-
tions passed at the convention was
in keeping with this attack on the
standards of living of the work.
ing class. 1t was decided
ITO send a resolution to Con
gress urging the adoption Of ;
500 tariff on butter"
This is nothing more than tryint
to foster the belief among tn
small and middle farmers tina
their conditions can be remedie
by some kind of tariff Legislation
In this way they hope to keep tn
farmers from supporting the de
mands for unemployment relic
for the jobless workers whic
would mean that millions Of do
lars Of farmers commodities coul
{ be sold instead of hanging over
glutted market while workers g
, hungry.
t ((To be continued next wssk)
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RESOLUTION ON UNEMPLOY
MENT INSURANCE

WHEREAS, In the United
States, resulting from the ever
deepening economic crisis Of cap
italism, there are twelve million
unemployed workers who have
misery and starvation facing them
resulting from the present situa-
ton. and
WHEREAS, The capitalist class
with the Hoover Hunger Govern
ment and all of its supporters, at
tempts to starve the workers to
death by making them depend on
insufficient food distributed by
charities and various other relief
schemes which cannot take care Of
the needs of the increasing army
Of unemployed, and
! WHEREAS, AS the crisis deep
ems, the situation becomes worse,
throwing out of work additional
men and women resulting in actu-
al starvation of numberless work
srs and subjecting to diseases OF
starvation thousands and thous-
ands of workers and their families
!. which results from an undernour-
ished condition, therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED, By this an
aual meeting of the Central Coop
erative Wholesale assembled a
: Superior, Wisconsin on April It'll
e and 18th, 1892, that we demand
o the enactment of the Workers
: Unemployment Insurance Bill
e which was presented to Congress
: on December Z, 1881 by the Ma
e tional Hunger March which pro
IS vides immediate unemployment In
le surance at full wages in the fol
/ lowing manner:
is /. That a system of federal GOV
/ eminent unemployment insuranC
4 be Immediately established by a
n Act Of Congress and made immeC
ar ately effective, guaranteeing flu
wages TO all workers wholly {
:. partly unemployed, thru no fau
- of their own, for the entire per
Cd of unemployment.
~ 2. That unemployment insu
y ance be paid to every unemplo,
y ed worker, adult and youth, whet
Az er industrial or agricultural, q
a. flee employees, and all other ca
egories of wage labor, native
TO foreign born, citizen or non-cii
nd zen, white or negro, men and W
IS men, and without discriminate
he against any race, color, age or p
Dr. litical opinion. No worker shall
on deprived of unemployment inst
10 ance because Of refusal to take I
ra- place Of strikers or to work I
he less than uEion rates of pay.
Pc 3. That the full funds for une
ployment insurance shall be "a
INT ed by the government from fur
ep- now set aside for war prepal
'li- tons and by taxation upon
M capital and profits of corporate
asst and trusts and also by sharply l
BUS ward taxation upon all incon
81 over $1,000. In no instance sh
deA there be any contributions lev
ing upon the workers in any 70
er- whatsoever for this insurance.
Of 4. That the unemployment
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Farmer-LabOr Convention, Platform
Continued from Front Page)

(Continued from Front Page)
the capitalist state as a weapon
against the militant workers.
Hoover. Stagger System
While the platform does not go
into any detail about its "unem-
ployment insurance" plank under
point TX, where that is incorpor-
ated, it does so in the last point
of the platform XIX. "The emer-
gency" of the present "protracted
and deplorable unemployment cris-
is" "must be met" This is
the solution"
'sWe believe that In meeting
this emergency a unified and
adequate plan Of reducing
working hours should be under
taken to help alleviate this pres.
ent depIOrable condition"
This unified and adequate plan
of reducing working hours" is
Il NOTHING BUT THE HOOVEF
STAGGER SYSTEM, THE WALL
STREET RELIEF PLAN By
WHICH THE WORKING CLASS
WOULD BE FORCED TO BEAT
THE FULL BURDEN OF THU
CRISIS. THIS, THE ONLY
DETAIL GIVEN IN THE PLAT
FORM, OR IN THE DISCUS
SION, ABOUT THE FARMEI
: LABOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN
: lSURANCE RELIEF PLAN
ISHOWS THE PLAN TO 81
e NOTHING BUT THE MOST VI
CIOUS DEMAGOGY TO COVEl
q THEIR SUPPORT OF TIL
: WALL STREET HOOVER STAG
a GER SYSTEM.
: They have inserted the hypC
critical words about federal an
Il state unemployment insurance
{ order to divert the toiling masst
n from building the Unemploye
n Committees as organs of ma
e struggle for the Worke, Unen
IS ployment Insurance Bill, prepar'
!, by the National Committee Of Il
% Unemployed Councils.
'Tax Reduction"
No The Farmer Labor Party adv
n Gates ga graduated progressive i
If come tax" and demands "that {
in proceeds Of such tax be used
reduce the present tax burden
/ the farmer and the small hor
a owner" Governor Olson gave
- indication of just what these nj
rs words mean to the Farmer Lab
IN machine. In speaking before
~ convention Olson pointed out Il
,ot "there are various plans for m;
40 ing an income tax a replacem'
'ur tax" He also gave tie p
- which he favors and which we I
liz expect to be the one actus
he meant by the Farmer Labor pol
&C. clans in their "nice" words.
81 income tax is to be used to
! place" part of the general prop
:. ty tax. According to Olson's Q
e'S figures the total reduction by
ere plan would amount to only ten
''a cent Of the total property tax,
bulk of which is paid by the sn
and middle farmers and the sr
business men, and workers
owning their homes.
ES Farmers Should Pay Taxes
Olson holds this tax "relief"
rish to the farmers and other 81
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SoCiaI-Fascist Machine
Uses Gag Rule at Big
Cooperative Meeting

Central Cooperative Wholesale Leadership Is Openly
Aligned With Enemies of Soviet Uion