The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
Friday, September 10, 1882
TOiling Farmers!
What are We Fighting for?

The Farmers Strike has aroused the nation!
1t has aroused the hostility of Wall Street and it's
agents, big and little, from Washington down TO
the county sheriffs and the local banker. 1t is
arousing the sympathy and support of everyone
who works, whether farmer or worker.
The United Famers' League calls upon all who
toll on farms in the cities, to support the Mar
ket Strike 100 per cents The strike must be won!
1t is a fight for the right to live! Wherever the
strike is now on, solidify it, bring everybody
in! At the same time, organize and spread it.
WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES?
The government has shown very quickly that
it is NOT Impartial that it is NOT neutral"
II has shown that it is the servant of Wall Street
and all its agents, the servant of Monopoly Cap
ital, finance capital. 1t openly functions as the
thug of the capitalist class. Clubs tear gas, black
jacks and machine guns-the same capitalist ter
Tor that savagey jails and shoots down the work
in every strike, the capitalist terror that
stained the streets of Washington with the blood
of the veterans, is used against striking
farmers.
Terror is the answer to all toilers when they
begin effective struggle for the right to live.
And the first result in the Farmers Strike has
been to show up the danger of such leaders" as
Milo Reno, the insurance man, of allowing non
farmers, lawyers, preachers and other careerists,
to control and to betray the struggle. The "tem-
porary truce" called for by Reno and Chalmers
means cowardy surrender of the effective mass
struggle and retreat to the old game of ''ne-
gotiations" and Ground table conferences" with
slick government agents of the monopolists. 1t
means sell outl And the Council Bluff farmers
did absolutely right when they refused to obey the
"truce' refused to surrender what they won. When
capitalist starvation is slowly numbering Millions
only a traitor would stop the fight against it
the excuse that capitalist government is using
arms to protect the marketing monopOlies. Mass
picketng will defeat the terror. Mass picketing
can win. On with the strike.
The strike is against marketing monopolies
But these monopolies are only enc of the arms OF
the rObber class, the Monopoly Capitalists, Finance
Capital. We must aim our blow not only at the
market monopolies, but against all monopoly, and
against Finance Capital
Because, of what use will it be to us to get
higher prices for our produce, if we have to turn
over every red cent to the bankers, the farm ma
chnery trust the tax collectors and the landlords?
Are we facing the machine guns, poison gas, jails
and clubs just to help these parasites? The United
Farmers League says "NO". And calls on all the
toling farmers to unite for struggle against fl
nance capital on ALI. fronts.
These marketing mOnopOlies strangle and
starve both the farmers and the workers. There
fore, the farmers strike is not and must not be
allowed to become a blow against the workers.
Already some of the dairy companies are trying
to stir the workers against the farmers by max
ing higher prices to the farmers conditional upon
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nj the city workers.
Any farmer knows that the price he gets for
his produce has very little to do with the price the
monopolies force the city workers to pay. There
is an enormous gap, which mainly represents the
gains of monopoly capital that controls the mar
keting machinery, not to mention the terrific
amount of pure waste and destruction that accom-
panies capitalist marketing of farm produce.
Finance capital, which controls both factory
industry and agriculture controls also the govern
ment The government belongs TO the big bank
ing capitalists, with their capitalist political par
ties. Parties represent classes, and those who tell
you differently only lie. Just look them over
Hoover, the Republican backed by Mellon.
His program "for" farmers is well known. A pro-
gram of helping the banks and monopoly general
ly to skin the farmers alive, all except the rich
farmers and farm corporations who really get the
credit Roosevelt, backed by RaskOb and Owen
Young is Democrat and therefore is against"
Hoover, but has no program really different than
Hoover, unless it be his bright idea about putting
the millions of unemployed workers on "subsist-
ence FARMS" which means starvation for both
workers and farmers if it means anything.
The socalled socialists" who support Hoo
ver's farm board and its help to the rich farmers
giving them advantages against you through aid
to their sOcaled "cooperatives," who praise every
worthless promise made by both Republicans and
Democrats and add some of their own-"social-
lists" in words, supposed to be against capitalism
but who with their kind the world around have
done their darndest to keep capitalism in govern
ment power. The "progressives," tricky tcngued
lot stepping around as an Opposition" be they
Republicans, Democrats, or FARMER LabOrites"
but without whose support in fact Hoover would