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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Friday, June 10, 1892.
NATURAL ALLIANCES OF THE
ENEMIES OF THE WORKING
CLASS

In the Producers News of May 20 told OF
the lying story written by the Independent" OF
Clearwater county, Minnesota on the attack on
Mrs Ed. Bauman by the county commissioner,
Hugh Pattison. The editor of the Independent
wrote the most brazen lies about the meeting at
The command of a local banker. When the county
organizer of the United Farmers League called
to demand that the truth of the meeting be pub
lished the editor threatened to hit him with
ladle.
"This Farmer-LabOr editor talks about
and boosts Coin Harvey's Book" Harvey
is a candidate of the Liberty party for
president. This editor calls himself a
Farmer-LabOrite and tries to mislead the
farmers and workers to support the Farm
er-LabOr ticket In each issue of his pa
per he gives space to boost Roosevelt for
the Democratic nomination for president"
This local leader of the attack on the United
Farmers League is a Farmer-Laborite. Turnout
the entire state this is the task of the Farmer
Labor party-to be foremost in crushing the ris-
ing militancy of the toiling farm masses.
But he is not only Farmer-Laborite Or ra-
ther he is very much of Farmer-Laborite this
editor of the Independent. He finds himself in
sympathy, on the one hand, with Coin Harvey
and the brain storm of that doddering FOSSIL "The
Book" He finds himself campaigning on the 9TH
hand for Roosevelt for president on the Demo
crat ticket.
What does this unholy trinity of Farmer-La-
bOr-Harvey-Roosevelt mean? Harvey has recent
ly merged his Liberty party with the Jobless par
ty of the notorious hypocrite Father Cox, to form
tie Jobless-I liberty party and the Father Cox
Blue Shirts
These Blue Shirts show what lies behind all
of the phrasemongering of Harvey and Cox a.
gainst capitalism. Every word of their denounce-
ments is damnable lie, used only for the purpose
of hiding the fascist core at the center Of the
movement Father Cox Blue Shirts are blood
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Workingclass Leader Help
to Organize Estevan
Miners Last Year
SET BAIL AT 100000
Mass Pressure Must Free
Militant Leader From
Doak's Agents
By E. R. BLoOR

The latest victim of Secretary
of Labor Doak Is Martin J. For
kin an organizer of the COmmunis'
Party in Canda who, because OF
his work in organizing the Este
van miners last fall, was forced
to leave that country or suffer
prosecution by the Bennett govern
ment, which is known for its rail-
reading of militant workers with
cut any Formally Of a fair trial.
Section SO of the Canadian GRIM
inal code is the outrageous section
which sent the leaders of the Com
munist party of Canada to prison
for long terms which they are
now serving under abominable
conditions, and which was design
ed to crush the militant working
class movement.
This comrade, knowing that this
was his only chance, came to this
country where according to its
constitution everyone is granted
the right of political asylum.
When entering at Pembina, N
d., Forkin was Immediately pick
ed up by the immigration authori
ties and thrown in Jail. He, o.
course, refused to answer an!
questions without counsel. He wa
held incommunicado and was toll,
that he would be held thus unit
he talked even if it was a year O
more. After being in Jail thre'
days this comrade finally CAV
his identity and was forced +
: make a statement which involve.
his revolutionary activities. H
) was then allowed to communicat
I. with the international Labor De
Tense who sent a Representative
to Grand Forks where he was helC
The bail had been set by tn
: Labor Commissioner in Washing
ton, D. c. at $1,000.
The hearing was conducted i
such manner that the defendar
5 had no chance whatever. The
: merely gathered evidence and ser
: it into Washington and he was in
t mediately ordered deported BAG
to Canada where the Canadian pt
lice are waiting for him with ope
arms.
At the illegal entry hearin,
Forkin pleaded "nO guilty" an
the case was continued until tt
: federal court convenes next fall.
a This Secretary of Labor Dos
, is the same Doak who stated
n the New York Times sever
5 months ago that he always gran
, a voluntary departure and that
= had no objection where an "und
70 sirable" foreigner goes just 50
W leaves the United States.
+ The exorbitant bail and DOS
It ponement of the hearing until f.
Is makes it necessary that urger
y organized efforts should be MAJ
u Immediately for Comrade Forkir
le release. He is affected with t
berculosis and a long hot SUNNI
In the Fargo JAN may cause h
death. We must rally all our for
es to protest to Washington a,
to the workers and farmers of {
United States and Canada.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
CHURCHES AID COMPANY
RULE

As everywhere, the capitalist
exploiters have as their allies the
priests and ministers who try to
split the ranks of the workers into
weakened groups by stirring MP
racial prejudices. The fact that
over 500 of the workers are ma
tive born Americans, in no way
weakens the discrimination. In
many schools Nexicans, or chill
dren Of Mexican parsntage, are
segregated In clashes away from
the others. Mexicans are forced
to live In the worst part Of town,
away from the hundred percenters.
The Catholic Mexican Welfare
COMMITTEES has approved publicly
of this segregation. '.Many priests
favor segregated colonies but
some fear that this makes it easy
for the radicals to work on them
II. We wish here TO again call
attention to the Red propaganda
being carried on among the Span
ish speaking people of Colorado.
This is a real menace which II not
combatted will certainly mean the
destruction OF the Catholic faith
Of many of these people and later
on have bad effect on peace and
good order in the state" (Our en-
phasiis.) AS always in the name
OF good order" the church sides
with the present ordes of child
killing owners against workers
and their families.
Eighteen thousand beet workers
have risen to demand not only the
means to live, for payment in cash
instead of credits, but also for the
recognition of the Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union. Fol
the Union carries with It the
smashing Of all racial discrimina.
ton, the end of forced labor, anc
builds the solid United Front.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
THE FARMERS BALLAD
BY ALGOT STARR
Tune: Nay I Sleep in Your Barn Tonite Mister?)

Against q weatherbeaten shack leaned farmer
His age it was past two score and ten
And now he was leaving his homestead
And perhaps not to see it again
AS he gazed over wind swept Dakota
And he saw the brown thistle rolling by
The sitting dust is sitting a-sweepins
And the sun is 80 red IN the sky
His wandering gaze then lit upon the hillside
Oh, 50 bleak and all covered with stone
Then he remembered his hope and ambition
When he came here to farm all alone
But soon he found bitter disappointment
For the stones they were many and bad
But all his hope and faith did dwindle
And he labored as If he were mad
Now he had passionate yearning
In his old age he should be secure
And the means it lay here in the prairie
The virgin soil so rich and so pure.
But all was not sunshine and zpses
It cost more to produce than he would
Soon he found himself financially wanting
Oh, I must borrow il / am to make good.
The growth of the twelve per cent interest
And the bleeding of the farmer commenced
And with his expenses and high taxes
Made him see what he was up against.
While the interest grew like weeds in July
Before long, many times it had doubled
And his sweet dreams of hope did defy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Jail Militant Philippine
Leaders

Thirteen Communists were ar
rested on May "a in Neuva Ecija
in the Philippine Islands on "sus-
picion" of having participated in
the burning of houses and attack
ing the Carabaos leader, Jacint
Manahan. The 13 had been con-
victed in Manila and were free
while an appeal was pending. New
charges of sedition have been fill
ed against them. The Wall Street
government of the Philippines
hopes to crush the rising militancy
OF the masses thru police terror
and failing of the leaders of the
masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Marines Murder Seventeen
In Nicaragua

Seventeen Nicaraguan peasants
were murdered on May 25 by air
men of the United States Marine
forces in an attack at the Neptune
mine in the department of Prin-
zapOlka. The Nicaraguan peas
ants were attack from the air and
by a marine group on the ground.
These peasants as well as hun
dreds of others were killed to
make Nicaragua safe for Wall
Street exploitation
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
FORD, NEGRO
(Continued from Front Page)

(COntinued from Front FageJ
everlasting impression on James
w. Ford.
James w. Ford went to work at
the are of 10 on railroad track
lob at Ensley, Alabama, working
variously as blacksmith helper
in a steel plant, machinist helper
and also a labOrer in blast fur
mace side. by side with his father.
He worked his way through school
graduating from high school in
three years. While attending Fisk
University at Nashville, Tennessee
and within a few months of grad
uation, he enlisted in 1917 in the
IU. S. Army. Ford entered the
signal corps in charge of radio
and telegraph communication for
the 85th Brigade of the 90 Divi-
sion in France. While over there
he helped organize protest meet
Iings against Jim Crowism and
mistreatment of Negro soldiers,
ESPECIALLY frame up charges OF
rape against soldiers in his out
fit
i When he received his discharge
from the army and although ex-
pert as a radio operator and skill
ed in telephone communications he
i. could not find work. He finally
found job in a mattress factory
in Chicago and then in the post
office of that city as a parcel pos
dispatcher. He joined the Posta
Workers Union No. 1. He Tough
against the speed up system anC
: the bureaucracy in the union. HI
q was elected delegate to the Chica
: go Federation of Labor where h
: carried on many struggles in tn
interests of Negro workers ant
S for a general progressive policy
s He was finally fired from his joI
8 for his activities.
4 Ford participated in the forma
ton of the American Negro La
Dor Congress in 1925, and final
: Joined the Communist party i
: the early part of 1926. He wa
r elected delegate in 1927 from TIL
v Trade Union Educational Leagu
s to the Fourth World Congress G
4 the Red International of Labo
il Unions meeting in Moscow. A
r the congress he took an activ
o part in Negro work and was cleo
70 ed to its executive board and ge1
10 eral council. He remained in Mo-
Il cow for about nine months, worl
Il ing in the Negro Bureau of LabC
% Unions.
> He also attended as a delegat
70 the World Congress of the Con
4 munist International in 1928.
% was delegate in 1929 to the Wor
, Congress of the League Again
Imperialism in Hamburg, &c
IN many, and is at present a memb
A. of its executive committee. f
" was arrested in 1929 in New Yol
n City for leading demonstrate
n against the shooting of natives
y Haiti by marines. Ford was Sc
a. rotary for one year of the Int
an national Trade Union Commit
of Negro Workers and editor
o the NEGRO Worker" During 10
ID he toured Europe in behalf of t
he eight Scottsboro boys, who ha
been sentenced to death by an A
IL ALBANIA court.
in Ford was deported from Aust1
al In 1881 by the socialist chief
Is police, Graetz, for speaking in d
he tense of colonial people, and is
o. present member of the Polite
he Bureau of the Central Commit
OF the Communist Party of t
r. United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

ers of Dusseldorf in the evening
at an unusual performance given
by the Workers Singing Society
In the State Theatre. There were
400 singers, men, women and chill
dren, who presented thru song and
declaration the struggles % the
Communist propagandists.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
ORGANIZE new
CONTINUED from Front Page)

the board of directors, Bankers
Trust Company.
John C. Traphagen, president,
Bank of New York and Trust Co.
Felix M. Warburg of Kuhn &
Loeb.
George Whitney of ]. P. MOI.
gan & Co.
Albert II. Wiggih, chairman of
the governing board. the Chase
atiOnal Bank Of the City of New
York.
TO DECEIVE MASSES
The chief purpose of the new
corporation is not to stabilize
the bond market but to deceive
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

this children's hell. Company rep
resentatives, growers, and merch-
ants unite in silencing any school
superintendent who may be naive
enough to want to enforce the
compulsory school attendance law
during beet harvesting time. Yet
when the workers rise in their
strength 30 demand their rights,
these same company agents, who
have ignored the school law when
it interferes with their profits, ut
iize the t1espassing Law to pro-
tect their selfish interests. They
used the trespassing law as bas-
is for evicting strikers and the vi
cious state anti-picketing law to
make the way clear for scabs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Death for 20 Burma Rebles

On May Is 70 rebels were SEN
fenced to die at Thayetmyo in
Burmah, India. Twenty-Five 9TH
ers were deported for life. These
rebels belonged to the Kama
group under the leadership of Sa-
va Nyan. By wholesale execution
and exile British imperialism is at
tempting to stabilize its imperial
list regime on the backs of the CO.
lonial masses, as well as on the
backs of the British workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

talk about. l was not allowed to
speak because my name had not
been reported to the police.
The Obarkassel meeting was
presided over by Carl Jannack,
secretary of the International Red
Aid of the Lower Rhineland dis
trict with 1900 members.
We were the guests of the work
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

$23 an acre. This level is in itself
a miserable pittance since an ex
perienced worker can earn at this
rate but $3.50 a year. The high
est proposed wage for this year
is $3.50 for the years work. "a
man can handle 10 acres, a wom-
an averages seven and children
proportionately less.) Thus by
putting in IL TO 16 hours a day,
mostly on hands and knees IN the
dirt, and icluding the labor Of
all children from five years and
older, a family could make 5000
for the year. The company pro-
poses to cut this to 1915. On this
the whole family must live since
there Is no other employment a
valuable for the thousands of
workers during the five winter
months.
The workers always have been
forced to borrow during the winter
a practices fostered by the sugar
company, in order 10 hold the
workers in a condition Of peonage.
Last winter the company lent
$1.25 per week per adult, that is
six cents a mead, which money was
issued in the form of orders ON
the company stores, where prices
ranged far above the other stores.
CHILD LABOR IN COLORADO
u. y. A.
American business men, who are
so sensitive to forced labor" in
other countries are glad to have
thousands of Colorado children
earn profits for them by CRAWLING
in the dirt under the boiling sun.
Twelve hours of work for five
and six year old children driven
at top speed. The speed up means
more pounds of beets for the
grower-it costs the life blood Of
the workers and their children.
Even the strike breaking Depart
ment of Labsr Ia forced to record
this child slavery-of sample Cd
1,O7S children, between The ages
of 10 and 15 working in Colorado
beet fields, a great majority work
over 10 hours" (U.S.D.L. Bulle-
tina No. 1879 The bulletin carefully
omits all record Of child worker,
under 10 years.
COMPANY DOMINATES TrH
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Great Western Sugar
Exploits Beet Workers

Under the leadership of the Ag-
ricultural Workers Industrial I'm
ION, the beet workers of Colorado
have struck against wage cuts.
Nexicans, japanese, Russo Ger
mans and Americans together are
fighting these savage wage cuts:
1880 contract was $23 an acre,
1881, $18 and now, in 1882, the
contract only offers So to SIS.
The beet workers are employed
directly by the small operators
but back of them is the dominant
influence of the whole northeast
ern Colorado region = the Great
Western Sugar Company, which
owns the chain of sugar factories.
Banks and operators owe money
to this company which therefore
controls every phase of life of the
area including the churches and
schools. This Is the company that
hiss always paid a miserable wage
and is attempting 10 put through
another slash.
PEONAGE IN COLORADO
But now the united workers riss
UP against the savage Dictatorship
Of this company. The 1880 leve,
ef wages, which was a reduction
since 1927 meant constant indebt
edness Of the workers to the EN-
pAoyer, that is, peonage. In 1931
it meant not only peonage bu
dependence on a greedy and in,
sulting charity. The 1892 level
lower stiil, is completely impos
sfble.
The present wage cuts is M
new policy. The whole record o.
the Great Western Sugar Com
pany is a record of squeezing
down workers. A bourgeois econ
onrist from the University Of Cal
6ornia records that during tn
period Of rising sugar prices, wag
eS rose very little. Thus fror
1909 TO 1923 the price Of beets ad
vanced 500 while contract labor
in the Colorado beet fields advanc
ed only 251o. But when beet pric
es fell 1870 in 1881 the compan
immediately cut wages 1920. No
this year they propose about 4os
further cut.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
COMPANY OFFERS ss7s
A YEAR FOR FAMILY

The first demand of the werk-
ems is for tbs 1880 wage level
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
COMPANY DOMINATES THB
ENTIRE COMMUNITY

The respectable citizens Of the
community combine to support
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
SOLIDARITY DAY

Continued from Front Pag.)
Day under the banner of the WI
r. for international prOletaris
solidarity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
/ UNITED FARMERS
LEAGUE LOCAL
MEETINGS
MONTANA

RAYMOND
June 10, Sunday, Gibson school.
200 p. m.
June 26, Sunday, Marsh school,
200 p. IA.
COMERTOWN-
June IL, Saturday, 500 Pm
QUITMEYER-
June rs, Saturday, Franklin
school, Loo p. m.
COALRIDGE-
June Is, Lindquist school 5 P. n
We call on an other UHitsl
Farmers League locals to send d
the dates of their meetings 50 Ehs
they can be advertised for severs
weeks.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-02

The engineer studied all available
maps-the geological survey has not
covered that part of the state-and
searched everywhere for monuments,
but found none. Finally it was sug-
gested an old-timer down the river
might enlighten him.
Sure" said this old man, "you start
with that old Hudson's Bay building
right on the river bank by the ferry.
Then you'll find stakes up on the hill"
and he described roughly the lines to
follow.
The engineer followed directions, and
was able to establish a fairly close
survey of the homestead. The remark
able thing was that he found stakes,
weathered by drifting sands Of many
years, along the lines the timer
had indicated. The fact that the stakes
were sound, from top to point, and
bore no hammer marks, bore out the
old mans story that the surveyor rode
along on his horse, counted the horses
steps and every so often dropped a
stake.
The old Hudson's Bay building is
one of seven which stood on the river
banp when Washington was British
territory and the factors traded with
the Indians.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-02
Eggs Bargain Food,
Says Nutritionist

Eggs are now one of the best food
bargains on the market and offer an
exceptionally good food value for the
money, says Miss Lorna Barber, ex-
tension nutritioniSt, Washington State
college. Eggs are a body building food
containing an excellent source of disable
iron, rich protein and four of the vita
Minis essential to growth. They add
richness, flavor, delicacy and fine tex
ture to nearly every type of dish served.
Families on short rations will find eggs
can fill an important place in the low
cost dietary.
The food value of eggs is comparable
to that of milk They are not sub
stitute but rather a supplement. The
iron lacking in milk is amply supplied
by the yolk of the egg. Other mineral
salts are present in the form OF phos-
in the organic form, making it easily
absorbed. Vitamins A, B, G, and G., all
so necessary in preventing deficiency
disease are present. The proteins OF
the egg yolk are of high quality and
very desirable in the diet of the grow
ing child. Considerable fat is also
present.
The digestibility of eggs depends
upon the cooking. Even in SO simple
a process as boiling, there is a right
and wrong way. The egg white and
yolk cook at different temperatures.
The egg white begins to cook at 1874
degrees Fahrenheit and the yolk at
l22 degrees. To keep the white tender,
place the eggs in cold water and bring
them gradually to the boiling point,
but do not allow them to boil.
Eggs lend themselves to the diet liz
countless ways and may be used as
the main dish in any meal Puffy om-
elet is always dish to be priced. 1t
may be varied by folding in crisp
bacon chopped ham, pecans, tomatoes
and cheese, or served with jelly, to-
mato sauce or spiced chicken. Eggs
served with rice or baked in potato
cups are especially attractive for the
noon day luncheon. Baked custard
used with fresh or canned berries Is
likewise delectable. These and other
recipes may be secured from your
home demonstration agent or by writ
ing the Extension Service Washington
State College, Pullman.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-02
BALANCING THE BUDGET

What the average citizen cannot understand is
why Congress is finding so much difficulty in bal
ancing the national budget. To him the nations
budget is not different from the budget of bust
ness institution or an individual
1t is just question of income and outgo and
there are just two ways in which to make it bal
ance: Either increase the income or cut down on
the expense MIR. Average Citizen argues that that
is what every else does so why can't the gov
eminent?
That sounds logical but the difficulty is not in
It's reasonabeness but due to the fact that balanc
ing the national budget is political matter Near
ly all the nation s income is derived from taxes
direct indirect. Therefore to increase the III
come means an increase in taxes and not many of
us are In favor OF that unless the new burden can
be shifted onto the other fellow And to reduce the
expenditures means that gOvernmnt appropria.
lions for public improvements must be curtailed
80 senators and congressman are besieged and be-
deviled, first by those who want taxes reduced
and then by those who want government funds for
some particular project. And between these con-
tending forces members Of Conegrss try desper-
ately to guess which of the two makes up the
larger group in their districts.
Of course, Mr.. Average Citizen is right and if
the budget is balanced, taxes will be increased or
expenses cut down. And it is just as true that we
can not borrow ourselves into prosperity by the
issuance OF new bonds or the making of new loans
That would simply increase our debt and throw
the budget more out of balance than it is now