The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-01
Friday, April |, 1882
THE COMMON GROUND OF
CLASS STRUGGLE

OkthOO O1NUOULL
The speech of James C. Stone, chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, before the annual meeting
Of the Land OIakes Creameries Inc, on March
10, showed the place of the Farm Board in the
Wall Street government apparatus. Among a
whole mess of figures showing the benefits"
which the farmers had received thru the opera
tons of the Farm Board and the "cooperatives"
supported by it, Stone stated the following:
cit is in the common interest of all to
check the financial crisis and the unwar-
ranted price deflatiOn. Agriculture has
no quarrel with business. Farmers
businessmen. Furthermore, since business
started to decline sharply two and one
half years ago, business men have been
in a position to appreciate more fully the
farmers Situation the past 10 years.
Business and agriculture stand on COM
mon ground today"
Stated without the hypocrisy common to such
agents of Wall Street as Stone, this part of his
speech The present crisis hits all classes
equally hard. The interests of the toiling farm
masses ("agriculture) and of the capitalist class
(''business') are the same. The capitalist class,
since it understands the misery being forced on
the farm masses, is doing all in its power to aid
them. The small and middle farmers must coop
crate with the capitalist class in finding solu-
ton for the crisis
This is the propaganda that the capitalist class
is broadcasting turnout the country with all the
facilities at its disposal. Every word of it is a
deliberate lie, broadcast for the purpose of pre-
venting the toiling farm from organizing
as a CLASS, AND FOR THE CLASS STRUG-
GLE.
During the present crisis the profits of the cap
itaist class have been cut, they have been unable
TO extract as much profit out of the working
masses as previously. The toiling masses Of city
and farm have suffered not only cuts in their
wages and earnings they have suffered the most
horrible attack on their LIVING STANDARDS
they have ever known. Loss of profits is the lot
of the capitalist class, HUNGER, STARVATION,
PRIVATION: these are the lot of the toiling
masses. The capitalist class is not suffering from
hunger, they are not being evicted from their
homes The capitalist class knows where its next
meals are coming from and knows that they are
going to be good meals paid for out of the misery
of the working class Millions of workers do not
know where their next meals are coming from,
but do know that their past meals for months
have been at starvation levels.
"It is the common interest of all to check the
financial crisis and the unwarranted price della
ton" Yes, the capitalist class would like to have
prosperity so that it could grind greater profits
out of the working class. IN THE PRESENT
CRISIS TO WHICH THE CAPITALIST CLASS
ITSELF CAN SEE NO NEAR TERMINATION
1T IS DETERMINED TO SAVE IT'S PROFITS
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TOILING MASSES
For this reason the railroads have cut wages have
fired hundreds of thousands of workers and have
raised the rates to rob the farm masses on every
bushel of grain they ship and every commodit!
they still can buy.
Agriculture has no quarrel with business" 1
is not quarrel" that the toiling farm masse
are engaged in with the capitalist class-it i
CLASS STRUGGLE. 1t is this struggle that tn
capitalist class is trying to lie TO the masses abou
in order to prevent them from organizing effec
lively for victory in it.
Business men have been in a position to appre
cate more fully the farmers situation the pas
ten years." How much the capitalist class zap
preciates" the situation Of the toilng farmers ca
be seen from its activities in regards to foreclos
ures and evictions. From the Federal Land Bank
down the appreciation" by the capitalist class o
the situation of the toiling farm masses has bee
expressed in evicting the farmers from their home
whe nthey have been able to get no more profit
from them.
Business and agriculture stand on commo
ground today" The common ground" today
intensified class struggle. The farmers are rally
ing in ever greater numbers, not in support
the Farm Board and its activities, but in defens
of their homes and in defense of their familie
They are learning that the only way in which tn
capitalist class and its agents can be repulsed
thru militant struggle They are learning that
order to get relief from the capitalist class in o.
der to prevent evictions, and foreclosures, the
must be organized, not for cooperative" venture
with the Wall Streeb-Hoover agencies, but fl
militant struggle against these plunderers.
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