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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

possible and if it were not for
members like these it would be
hard for an organizer to do the
work.
WRITE mi
It would be fine if they could be
gotten into the habit of contribut-
ing short stories to the Producers
News, from time to time. In this
particular phase of the work the
Issaquah unit could do a lot of
good and 1 would like to hear
from such members as could write
even a little bit.
We held our conference in Sc
attic on Nov. 10 and I was one
of those elected as delegate to
the Washington Conference.
will keep you posted all along the
route if I can find anything of In
terest to write about.
Ef0lLOI 3 INOtCs AOW oOS<AS -
Hobart and Issaquah7 We would
all like to hear from You. What
are the conditions of the farm
ers and how is the work of the
United Farmers League pro-
gressing7
Just who 10 to blame we don't
know but we think that some
body should have written DO us
about the Seattle conference
| some time ago, and more ex-
tensively.
We think that every DELEGATE
who possibly can, should tell us
all about the trim to Washing
ton. You don't have TO worry
about something to write OF. Do
Won remember Hans Rasmus-
sens letters ON the Hunger
March last year, Hans found
something 20 write about every
day and they were real fine pie
lures Of the March that ne gave
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

A mass revolt of Chinese peas
ants has broken out fifty miles
from Marking, seat of Chang Kai
S h e ks nationalist government.
Thousands of peasants marched
to Yangchow to protest the recent
increase of taxes, which was put
through to pay for the civil wars
now raging in China. The upris-
ing followed the arrest of fifty
peasants for not paying these new
taxes. Local authorities arrested
200 of the marchers, drove the
rest outside the city, and barri-
caded themselves inside the city
walls. The city is now complete
ly surrounded by mobs of angry
peasants, while messengers hurry
through the countryside pounding
gongs and ringing bells, to sum-
mon peasants from more distant
places to join the revolt.
UNBEATABLE CONDITION
For centuries the Chinese peas
ants have lived in great poverty
Yet in the past few years, econo-
mic conditions have been steadily
reducing their standards of living
even further, to unbearably low
levels. In addition to the burdens
of taxes, rents and low prices fol
their crops, they have felt the
worst effects of the civil wars
which have swept China in recent
years. Rival Chinese war lords
are often backed by foreign gov
e1nments or foreign business men
Law waste their fields, put extr'
taxes on their lands and produce
and draft them into unwilling ser
vice in the armies. Even funds
collected for repairing river dixie
are taken for the armies, and tn
terrible floods follow. Mass up
risings of the Chinese peasants
have resulted.
} In central China, it was chietl'
, a peasant revolt against these con
J ditions which led to the settinl
Z up of Soviet governments, whic
/ now include close to one hundre
million people In their area. l
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
Forward to the
FARMERS NATIONAL.
RELIEF CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, DC. DEC. 7-lO
VHATCOM COUNTY, WASH.
ENDORSES DEMANDS
nv HAROLD RROCKWAYl

Try HAROLD BROCKWAY)
Sumas, Wash, Nov. 5.-During
.be mast week farmers in What
rom county, Wash, have been
holding many meetings and dis
mssing the plans for the Farmers
National Relief Confernece.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
BANKS RETREAT
800 Meet at Chill, 1900
Protest at Granton,
Wisconsin
FALSE FILA CLAIMS
Bank Attorney Tries Soft
Soap, But Farmers Call
His Bluff
FALSE FILA CLAIMS

Owen, Wis, Nov. IA mass of
800 farmers stopped a foreclosure
sale Saturday, Nov. 5, on the farm
of John Nobel, at Chill. Wis.
Two days later a mass of 1900
stopped a foreclosure sale on the
farm of Fred jacob, Granton.
A meeting was called by rep
resentative of the United Farmers
League Nov. 2 at the Elmwood
school. At this meeting three ac-
ton committees were formed,
from the townships of Green
Grove, Beaver and Longwood.
GIVE F. II. A. POINTERS
Local F. H. A. leaders came to
this meeting, to find out just what
procedure to go through in the
stopping of foreclosure sales, and
evictiOns. They also informed
those present of the sale that was
to take place on the Nobel farm,
and looked to the U. F. L. to give
them some information.
Walter Harju addressed this U.
F. L. meeting and discussed for
about an hour problems confront
ing the farmers. He also pointed
out to TIE FILA leaders the U. F..
L. attitude towards the strike
movement. Nine farmers joined
the UFL at this meeting.
GO TO STOP SALE
The newly appointed action COM
mittees were drafted into action
Immediately to get a crowd to-
gether to stop the sale of NObels
property, which was to be sold to
satisfy a chattel mortgage held by
the State bank of Chill, now
! closed for liquidation.
: They spread the news that the
farmers were going to stop the
/ sale. A truck was chartered anC
took the militant UFL action com
mittees to the sale two hours be.
fore the sale was scheduled to take
place.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
WASHINGTON STATE DELEGATION
ON WAY TO FREDERICK. SD.

ton. 1t is expected that it will
go through Helena, Great Falls,
Billings, Miles City, Dickinson,
Bismarck and Frederick. At Fred
2rick it will be met by delega-
ton from South Dakota.
! I will write in few days about
our state conference and plans fol
organizing the farmers in this
state.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
HOW TO PROFIT
With POULTRY
Farmers Given Lessons By
Expert" in Maple Valley
Washington
(BY WILLIAM FERGUSON)


RentOn, Washington, Nov. IL
Inc Maple Valley district is one
VI mixed farming, or rather "was"
until the majority of the farmers
went broke.
The best thing that 1 have
aeard lately is that the school dis
'flct has hired an agricultural ex-
pert to teach the poultry raisers
now TO make large profits on poul-
n.y. This is in line with Hoover's
Oack-to-the-land" movement and
WIN his program of "self help"
Inc farmers in this district are
se'ung about the same relief as
uie city slaves, which is at the
taVe Of about $3.50 a week for a
tSmily Of 4, in other words, 2A
sents a meal. Can you imagine
'yOne needing to go to a doctor
~ get prescription for diet fol-
AZ e purpose of reducing because
ey get fat on the enormous feec
"'St 2A cents will buy.
VI course the farmers must pay
.Of this relief and SO they cut
wood in return.
Inc Unemployed Citizens League
D. Mighty endorsed by Hoover
IOOsevelt, TrOmas, Coin Harvey
rm. 0.S to them It is the rea
hs; snod Of saving the people an,
nglng about such a pre- sperou
iS nultion as could scarcely b
a. ane unemployed army Is takinI
~ place Of the unemployed, in
4 SO Of some getting s4.4O a day
REDUCES rs to conditions wher
r., must accept $3.50 a week /
49,, rations, thus increasing tn
N amy Of unemployed and bringin
~ ~ Of US to the level or lower tina
- Chinese cooHe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

Here in Sumas at a meeting
held at Liberty Hall October 81,
the farmers endorsed the demands
for the Conference. 1t is ex-
pected that delegates will repre-
sent the farmers of the county at
the Conference.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
AIDED new YORK STRIKERS.
WILL SEND DELEGATE

supplied during the over night
stay in Binghampton, N. Y.
The farmers will cooperate with
the Binghampton Unemployed
Council in feeding and caring for
the hunger marchers, in addition
to electing their own delegates to
the Farm Relief Conference and
caring for the fraternal delegates
of the farmers from western New
York.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
IOWA FARMERS TO
FIGHT EVICTIONS
BY MASS ACTION

Spencer, Iowa.-Failing to OBJ
tain official action in their re-
quest for delay in the delinquent
tax sale, 100 Clay county farmers
Wednesday, Nov. 2, met at the
court house here and voted to pre-
vent, by force if necessary, any
bids or attempts to buy tax GER
tificates when offered for sale by
County Treasurer c. c. Bender
December 5. The group is known
as the United Farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

The farmers Of Tioga, Tomp-
Hns and Chemung counties in the
state of New York who were re-
Gently helping the Waverly and
Athens Silk Mill strikers, did not
let their relief organization go to
uieces after the silk strike was
over.
They have collected enough food
10 keep the hunger march well
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
NORTHWESTERN FARMERS
ALREADY ENROUTE

Bull as soon as the delegates ar
rive.
The following day there will be
another meeting in Twin Falls,
where another load of delegates
from the northside will join the
march.
Bull is on one of the six main
highways on which fleets of trucks
conveying farmers-like caravans
Of covered wagons will move on
Washington.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
OF SLASH
In PRODUCTION
Federal Farm Board Tells
Farmers Production Must
Be Decreased

The Federal Farm Board has
discovered that selling no longer
can be considered the sole func-
ton of agricultural cooperative
marketing associations" In
bulletin which the Farm Board
issued on November 8, it at
tempts to keep the farmers of the
country looking to "co-operation"
as a way out of the crisis-even
tho it no longer dares to promise
them higher prices as a result of
these marketing activities.
CURTAILMENT OF
PRODUCTION
The main aim of the Farm
Board is now "curtailment of pro-
duction." The program which the
Farm Board offers the toilers of
the country is not relief for the
unemployed and for the farmers
so that they can buy the agricul-
tural products of the country, but
reduction of production while mil
lions starve and go ragged.
The bulletin of the Federal Farm
Board reads in part as follows:
cit should be emphasized that
selling no longer can be consid-
cred the sole function of a CO.
operative association. A coop
erative should also enable farm
ers to improve and standardize
production and quality of its
products and encourage the most
profitable adjustment of prOduc-
: ton In relation OF other farm
enterprises. 1t is not economic
: ally sound to encourage, either
5 directly or indirectly the prOduc-
: ton of dairy products beyond
the point of maximum returns.
E Rather, 1t Is the function of Co
: operative associations to en-
courage curtailment of prOduc-
ton, if there is OverprOductiOn,
to assist their members to re-
d dlce costs of production, to i'm
prove the quality Of the pro-
: ducts, and to offer economically
} and efficient marketing srevice
3 Cooperative associations are of
: the greatest value to their men,
= bers when they are able to per
( form these services success
n fully"
e For years the Farm Board h;
: been telling the farmers that c.
! operative marketing was the We
5 tout because by this means the
d could get better prices for the
q products. Now that the farmel
It are learning from their own e,
/ perience that Cooperation" h;
: been part of the robbery syste
! Of the capitalist class, the Far
i Board brings to the fore again Il
It horrible program of blowing u
!, vs der every third row that the Ho
} yer administration advised at t
= beginning of the crisis.
r; HOOVER CAMOUFLAGE
= Improvement and standardiz
sr ton of production and "econ
!, u mical and efficient marketing sc
ID vice" are included by the Far
st Board in its bulletin only in ord
ID to cannouflage the decay of t
y. capitalist system which has as
: only solution for the crisis ]
re creased misery for the. toiih
= masses. rf ne s4a.. +.
8. Against such program t
xt workers and farmers must uni
for relief from the capitalist cls
and its government. Only unit
tie worker and farmer struggle 1
to such demands offers any pos
or bility Of life to millions and m
Hons If koilera
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
(BY WILLIS HIBNER)

Bull, Idaho, Nov. 14.-Delega-
tons Of farmers are expected here
tomorrow, coming over the Old
Oregon Trail from Oregon, Wash
hgtOn and western Idaho. Many
farmers have offered to be hosts
to the truckloads of farmers on
their way to Washington. There
will be a farmers meeting in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
(BY CHAs. E. TAYLOR)

The Economy League fusion can
didates on the republican ticket in
Sheridan county were all elected
tuesday by a substantial pluralities
and majorities. The victory of the
fusion ticket, so complete, was ac-
complished by the liberty party In
splitting the vote in opposition to
the fusion ticket as was designed
by those responsible for the filing
of that ticket.
ROOSEVELT
CARRIES COUNTY
Nationally Roosevelt swept the
county, receiving a rer'arl,ah' q
plurality. The Roosevelt democrat
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
No Improvement for
Farm Masses Admits
Dept. Of Agriculture

son may show some improve
ment over present conditions"
Ire reasons for improvement in
1933-34 are: more confidence"
now than previously, there is a
greater need" for goods and more
relief may help somewhat. These
are no more than so much hypo-
crisy by a hunger administration
that has tried its best to put the
full burden of the crisis on the
toiling masses.
FOREIGN MARKET CUT
Not only has the domestic mar
ket been curtailed but the foreign
markets which usually take a
large proportion of the domestic
cash crop are also becoming more
restricted. The Department. of Ag>
riculture admits this also.
TRADE barriers and restriction
affecting American exports have
been intensified, however, and
no substantial improvement in
the foreign demand for most
/ American agricultural products
appear likely during the remain
der of the 1928 year"
The prospect seen by the Hoover
Department that Improvement
during the last half of 1888 may
be of only moderate Proportion
means that the farmers face ir
l1933, despite changes in admin
Itration, a future which is moi
going to be one whit better thar
the present, and may be as much
worse than the present than 1885,
has been worse than 1881.
ON TO WASHINGTON
This is the future that faces tn
farm masses of the country. Il
order to get relief for themselve
and their families in the face o
these conditions the delegates o
the impoverished farmers thruou
the country will meet in Washing
ton, D. c., Dec. ITO to formulat
their demands to be presented t
ICongress and also to organize tn
struggle for these demands thru
out the country.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
Chinese Peasants In
Fight or High Taxes

Manchuria, the so-called rebels
and bandits who have been fight
ing the Japanese, are in reality
mostly peasants who are carrying
on a heroic fight against foreign
oppression.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
(BY ARCHIE YOUNG)

Mount Vernon, Wash, Nov. 10.
The Washington state delegation
70 the Farmers National ReIiet
Conference started today. 1t will
get into Montana about the 18th
ana plans to reach Frederick, S.
D., about November 20.
Keep a look out for our delega-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
Renegade Larson Diverted Bitterness of Hundreds of
Farmers Against Present Regime Into Support of
Liberty Party, to Put Polk Back In Courthouse

vote was 1850 against 739 for Hoo
yer republican, against SIT for Fos-
ter, Communist, and against S72 for
the liberty candidate, whoever he is
which is not certain-howeVer most
of the voters thought they were vot-
ing for w. H. (Coin) Harvey, the
"a year old sage of Monte Ne, Ark,
as, socialist.
The vote for the old capitalist
party candidates combined was ,2197
as against 1858. the combined anti
old capitalist party candidates. How
ever, many Of the voters that went
| for Roosevelt cannot actually be
classified as democratic or capital
list votes; they We're rather anti
Hoover votes. For there were an
average OF $50 more votes cast for
Rodney Salisbury for governor and
/ the rest Of the Communist state
candidates than there were for FoS-
ter. The vote cast for Erickson,
democratic candidate for governor.
was 500 less than the vote cast for
Roosevelt, and Roy Ayres,- democrat
candidate for congress and the rest
of the democratic state ticket, was
just as much less than that cast for
the New York governor. Looking
over the Liberty returns for presl-
dent il appears that over 120 more
votes were cast on the average for
the state ticket than for the liberty
national electery. The $50 Commun-
list votes and the 126 liberty votes
totaling $40 went to Roosevelt.
These votes were not so much for
Roosevelt as they were against Hoo
ver-indicating that these voters
were afraid that Hoover might win
and they did not want to take a
chance on it. Turning to the re-
publican raj it seems that about
$50 Republican capitalist voters
italist Hoover for. capitalist derO-
crat Roosevelt and then voted the
rest of the republican straight
These votes were capitalist votes in
dicating a choice between capitalist
candidates.
HALP OF VOTERS
AGAINST CAPITALISM
Taking all things together it would
seem that about half Of the voters
of Sheridan county are prepared tc
vote against the old capitalist bi
party machine now. There were
loss votes against the old capitals
party candidates. Add to these thu
$40 who voted for Roosevelt to b
sure of beating Hoover who reall.
expect nothing of Roosevelt but ar
Just sore at Hoover ana want MIN
out of the presidents chair, ant
there are 1923 anti old capitalist
party votes to 1919 old capitalist
party votes, or 1918 to 1923 who
still believe in capitalism and tina
lcapitalism can find a way out o
the present crisis. There were 1928
cast for president in the county.
The 1858 votes cast for the mi
nority candidates, broadly speaking
Indicate that there are that man,
voters in Sheridan county who ar
thru with both old capitalist par
no differences between a democrat
and republican candidates; tina
whether Hoover or Roosevelt was
elected meant nothing TO them o
to the working class. or anythin
either to the capitalist class. Ffv
A..~S.~A ~ss>~- -s~4--- ~--v-~~@es~es'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

The farmers of the UniteO
States are promised that there is
a "fair prospect" that in another
year, during the 1933-1934 season,
the market conditions for their
crops may be better. This "pros-
pect" that the Department of Ag-
riculture sees, means not that here
will be any improvement, but that
the Department of Agriculture adj
mits that there will be mo inn
prOvement during the next year at
least.
INCOMES GO DOWN
According to the estimate of the
Department of Agriculture itself,
which is not noted for accuracy,
when advising the farmers, gross
income from farm production dur
ing 1892 will be less than $5,OO0,-
100000 as compared with $11, 900,-
900, 900 in 1929, $9,30O,000,O0O in
1880 and $6,9OO,OO0,OOo in 1881.
How much less than $4,000, OOO,-
600 the department failed to state.
The basis of hope for even a
year from now is that there has
already been an improvement
from July to October, in the basic
conditions of the country, accord
ing to the Hoover agriculture de-
partment. This is nothing but
continuation of the lies circulated
by Hoover during the campaign t.
win the election.
| NO CHANGE IN DEMAND
The real "unfavorable factors
which are mentioned in the repOr
of the Department of Agricultur,
will more than offset the imagi
nary Favorable factors" whicl
were invented by Hoover.
The ROOver Government is
forced to admit that 'the dOmes-
tic demand for farm products in
general has increased ONLY
SLIGHTLY from the low level
reached so far IN this depres-
ison, and while NO MARKET
CHANGES FROM THIS LEVEL
ARE LIKELY DURING THE
NEXT FEW MONTHS, there is
fair prospect that domestic de-
mand during the 1933-1934 sea-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
FRAMED NEGRO
BOYS WILL GET
ANOTHER TRIAL
Supreme Court Ruling on
Scottsboro Case Result
of Mass Pressure
STILL IN DANGER
Boys Can Only Be Saved
by Intensified Mass J.,
! Struggle
STILL IN DANGER

Washington, D. c., Nov. 7.-On
the eve of the Presidential cleo
lions, the U. S. Supreme Court,
in a decision handed down today,
granted a new trial for the Scots
boro boys. The decision reverses
the death verdict of the Alabama
lynch courts against the nine in
nocent Negro boys who were
framed up on a Grape" charge in
Scottsboro, Ala, and originally
sentenced to die in the electric
chair on July 10, 1881.
This partial victory is a direct
result of the international cam
paign of protest organized and led
by the Communist party of the
u. S. and the International Labor
Defense. In practically every coun-
try of the world mighty demon
strations of protest were held, anC
millions of workers-Negro ant
white modified behind the cam
paign to force the freedom of the
Scottsboro defendants.
DOES NOT MEAN BOYS
ARE FREE
The decision of the u. S. Su
preme court means the Scottsbor'
boys get new trial-it does no
mean that they go free!
While the decision postpones tn,
execution in the face of over
whelming evidence of their limo
cence, the U. S. Supreme Cour
turns the Scottsboro boys back t
the hands of the court which en-
gineered the original frameup.
Meanwhile in Fort Wayne, Ala
Judge A. E. Hawkins, who i'm
posed the death penalty on thu
Scottsboro boys, said that the me-
trial will be set for the Marc
!. term of the Circuit Court &
/, Scottsboro. He said that the tri'
: date would be set within the ne1
: few weeks, and that he would as
for troops at the second trial, owe
t which he probably will presid
r "The presence of militia will !
S more imperative than ever"
said.
ASK IMMEDIATE LYNCHINC
A dissenting opinion was re
dered by Judge ]. C. McReynol
: and Pierce Butler, two judges WI
It upheld the contention of the Al
e bama authorities that the judici
y fCoutinuod IN page TWOl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
'1iberty" Leaders Aided Fusion
Economy Ticket to Win Offices

Straight Communist Vote of SIS Is Core of Development
of Further Struggles In Sheridan County, Others
Thru With Old Capitalist Parties
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
DANIELS COUNTY, MONTANA

Oey, Mont-At the meeting discussed and commit
e FARMERS Holiday Associa appointed get
Sn held here November the
Farmers National Relief Confer routes plans and dates of journey
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18
GO TO COURTHOUSE

Monday morning found hun
dreds of farmers on their way TO
the county seat. Three trucks
from the. vicinity Of Owen and
Loyal with UFL and FILA signs
were loaded to capacity with q
human cargo; that had set out TO
voice their disapproval of sheriff
sales and evictions to the county
officials.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

Many Of the voters d'd not vote
for president at all. This IS due TO
the fact that the voters do not un.
derstand how to vote-they look for
fCanti~sz@A IN pa~a Th~a~l