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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08

HILLSBORO, N. H., Mar. "a
meeting was called in Enfield, N
H. on March LIST under the aus
pices of the United Farmers Lea
que. Notices were sent to all mix
producers shipping to Pattez Sta
ton The farmers turned out well
to the meeting.
The principal speakers were
Fred Chase of Washington, N. H.
and John Korpela Of Enfield.
However, nearly every farmer
spoke, and they were very vlgor-
Gus in denouncing the New Eng
land Milk Producers Association.
It was brought out in the dis
cussion that the net price to farm
ers for milk was around &c 9
quart. This price is below the
cost of production. The farmers
are rapidly approaching a situa'
ton. where bankruptcy is the onl!
outlook. A committee was ap
pointed to call together several 70
calls of the N. E. M. P. A. to DE
mand immediate action
The next day, March End, a far
mers meeting was called in New
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08

and in addition he must give up
one-third of his crop to the land
sharks.
Most of the farmers are inter-
ested in fighting for a moratorium
on rent and taxes. Kansas farm
ers should build the United Far
mers League and subscribe to the
Producers News, the only farm
paper that is able to give leader
ship to the toiling farmers of the
u. S.
There is only one solution to
the problems of the farmers of
America. Make a united front
with the unemployed and employ
ed workers and declare war to
the bitter end on the land sharks
and grating politicians. They
must follow the example of their
Russian brothers in finally des-
troying this robber system and
building on its ashes a workers
and farmers government. The land
to those who till it-By ]. /. Whid-
den.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
new HAMPSHIRE DAIRY FARMERS
DEMAND HIGHER MILK PRICES
Farmers and City Workers In Joint Action Prevent At
tempt to Cut Wages on Road Work

port, N. H. Resolutions on the
milk situation were passed and
steps taken to arouse more farm
ers to the need of organization
and action.
There has been call for the
U. F. L. committee to go through
the mill centers of Vermont. Plans
are being made TO hold other meet
ings as soon as farm roads are
passable.
Every effort has been made to
divide the farmers from the day
workers in the small towns, and
by this division 10 make drastic
wage cuts to road workers and
other labor. At the town meet
ings in New Hampshire on March
Is, in several of the towns it was
found that the small farmers anc
workers were united against wage
cuts. In Washington, N. H., anC
Lempster n. r., all plans wer'
made by officials to cut wages
dollar q day, but in both places
the wage cuts were defeated. Il
Lempster the fight against thu
wage cut was led by member o
1.-The u. r. l.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
COAL PRODUCTION
OF USSR RISES
CAPITALIST COUNTRIES SHOW
BIG DECLINES

Goal production IN. the.. Soviet
Union showed an increase of. al
most twenty-five per cent during
1881 while the capitalist world
showed substantial decreases in
productions, according to figures
made public by the U. S. Bureau
of Mines of the Department ..
Commerce. Five countries showed
increases during 1881 in coal pro-
duction. The output of the Meth
erlands rose from 12,211,086 tons
to 12,900,O0O tons; SPANS from
7,119,8O7 tons to 100000 tons,
and midas from 23,185,087 to 3D.
1000 tons.
Against the almost negligible
gains of the only four capitalist
countries to show any increase
the Soviet Union showed an in
crease of almost 100000 tons
for the year ended September 30
1881 to total of 49,7O0,0OO tons.
United States production of hare
coal in 1881 was almost 100000
tons less than in 1880, while the
production of soft coal and Ignite
fell off $4,000, 900 tons.
Ir every phase of industry The
contrast between advancing so
cialist construction in the Sovie
Union and decadent capitalism
thruout the rest of the world i
shown glaringly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
KANSAS FARMERS WILL FIGHT
FOR RENT, TAX MORATORIUM
Must Organize Into United Farmers League to Repel
Attack of Land Sharks and Bankers

Pittsburgh, Kansas, March 26.--
/ have just returned from a tour
of the northwestern part of Cav
ford County, where the farm land
is very productive. Anyone pass
ing thru and not asking any ques-
tons would think the farmers
were very prosperous. If anyone
will stop, tho, and ask few ques-
tons he will find that rs per cent
of the farms are hopelessly mort
gagged. A few years ago all of
these farms were clear of mort
cages or had only small mortgages
on them. Now approximately so
per cent of the farmers in this ter
ritory are tenant farmers.
The land sharks, banks and in
surance companies have taken
many of them thru foreclosure
proceedings or tax sales. If the
farmer who once owned the farm
he lives on wants to stay on it, he
must pay in cash each year what
the farmers call a privilege rent
This averages about $3.50 per acre
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
Farmers Rally For Hunger March
SUPPRESS WORKING
PEASANTS LEAGUE

PRAGUE, Czecho Slovakia, APP
ril 2.-The Czech authorities have
declared the League of Working
Peasants which has its headquar-
tiers in Munkachevo to be dissoly-
ed. They have ordered the con-
fiscation of all the property and
all the documents of the League.
This suppression is a part of the
campaign of terror which is at
present being conducted against
the workers and peasants in Car
pathian Russia. Shootings, brutal
police attacks, mass arrests, raids,
punitive expeditions, etc., are the
order of the day. The League of
Working Peasants was founded
about a year ago to represent the
interests of the poor peasants. 1t
has grown in this short space of
time from 900 to 10000 members,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
SPOKANE UNEMPLOYED PROTEST
PREVENTS CLOSING OF BILLET
Mayer Forced to Agree That Families of Unemployed
VIII Not Have Water Supply Cut Off

the delegation of unemployed was
interviewing the mayor meeting
was held before the city hall at
which one comrade spoke for As
minutes.
Several workers Joined the I'M
employed Council because they
saw that we meant business with
our demands and that we were
not using empty phrases like the
socialist faker, John Mckay, and
the reactionaries he associates
with. This yellow Socialist did
everything he could to sabotage
the demonstration but failed mis-
erably. The workers could also
see what a rotten misleader he Is.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
HOME SOVIET ZINC
SUPPLIES SECURED

Moscow, March 49, The inves-
legations of the geologists in the
Temir Tau district show that the
great deposits of iron ore there
contain no less than nine per cent
Of zinc. During the next ten
years the district will supply So
Wet industry with Is million tons
OF iron ore and 100000 tons of
zinc. This quantity of zinc will be
sufficient to meet the needs of So
Wet industry and make it unnec-
essary to import zinc supplies as
is done at present. This will re-
suit In a saving of hundreds Of
millions of gold roubles which cal
then be applied to other purposes
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
RELIEF FOR FARM
MASSES OPPOSED
BY SEC'Y HYDE
HOOVER PLAN is TO USE
GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR
SPECTATORS, GAMBLERS

The Department of Agriculture
is using all of it's efforts to pre-
vent the farmers from getting
any relief from the Federal gov
eminent. Hyde admitted this in
a statement on March 20. La.
this statement he demanded that
f the federal government give
any loans to the farmers they
should be made on basis which
will permit the Hoover govern
ment to squeeze more plumber out
of the farm masses.
Hyde supports his attack on the
farm masses under the vicious slo-
gan of "loaning and mortgaging
the future of the farmers and his
children will never restore pros
perity." The farm masses know
that they will not get out of the
clutches of the capitalist class by
getting deeper into debt. They do
however, demand relief from the
capitalist class and its govern
ment. The only relief that tht
capitalist class has given the far.
mers is thru the form of crop anC
feed loans.
The farm masses are in such des
titution that the capitalist clas
and its government feel that the!
may not be able to get these loan
back from the farm masses. Hyde
therefore, demands that the loan
of the Federal government b
made either for "credit thru agri
cultural credit corporations" Il
: this way Hyde thinks that the,
would be supplied much more econ
structively" and on a "sound has
!, is" This means only that thr
/. the credit corporations the HOov
er Wall Street government woul
give loans only 10 those farmer
, who still can be robbed by tn
bankers, or TO the spectators TO
! the purpose of manipulating tn
markets.
4 Hyde also repeated his prOpOs;
that the funds should be used j
: financing the sale of America
wheat and cotton in market
where they have not yet bee
sold. Despite the fact that /
admitted a week ago that tn
o was "nebulous hope" Hyde keeI
on repeating this hypocritical l
e to the farm masses. This pls
o would also be used, if at all, on
G for the purpose of aiding the spe
IS ulators and the gambler to tai
d the wheat and cotton they have o.
of their hands.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
FARMERS, JOBLESS
DEMANDS WILL BE
PRESENTED APR. II
Conference of $50 Prepares Demands of Marchers to
County Court House
Demand End of All Evictons of Toing Farmers By
Sheriff Agents of Bankers

Hancock, Mich, Apr. 2, l932-The Houghton'
county conference of the United Farmers League held
Tapiola Mich, March 26 decided to mobilize all the
farmers and unemp loyed workers the Houghton
y house present their demands to the county
supervisors Tuesday, April II, at II A. M.
About so farmers and workers took part in this
conference where very questions taken up
that deal with the farmers struggles with taxes mort
the crisis The supervisors meeting
enthusiastically supported Greetings
poyd councils from Paavoa and Boston On the day
ployd from Hancock Paavoa and will fight by
the farmers delegates immediate relief county
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08

taxes viii correspond acre fDR
acre with taxes paid by the
poor farmers to-day. We furth-
er demand that no poor farm
ers' or workers property shall
be sold for delinquent taxes and
that all back taxes be cancelled.
We also demand an equal rep
resentatiOn of Door farmers IN
the tax equalization boards,
STATE POLICE
We demand the removal or
all state police from this cOun-
ty at once. They are an UNI
necessary burden on the tax
payers and are of no use IN the
county, These funds must be
turred in for immediate relief
Of the poor.
FREE SEEDS
We demand that county off
Gals bring pressure tO bear
upon the State to get state aid
to finance poor farmers IN the
purchasing Of seeds. Without
state aid and county aid In pro-
curing seed this spring a large
majority of farms in HOughtOn
county will not be planted into
Continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
SALE OF SURPLUS
ABROAD Is LIE
SPECTATORS TOLD plan
WOULD NOT HURT THEM

The "nebulous hope" Of selling
the wheat and cotton holdings of
the Farm Board abroad which Sec
rotary of Agriculture had two
weeks ago, are now shown to be
not hopes but just lies. Immedi-
ately after the announcement of
the Department of Agriculture
was made the grain and cotton
commission houses got busy. Sec
rotary Hyde Immediately tried to
calm them by telling them that the
plan of the Department of Agri-
culture would not hurt them at all.
His telegraph statement to the
spectators reads as follows:
mo dumping of either wheat
or cotton is planned. No sales
will be made except i'm harmony
orderly course of business and
in accordance with Farm Boards
announced program. NegOtia-
tons have been suggested for
sales 10 countries which other
wise form no part American
market. Such sales would be
constructive if made, and would
result in benefits to American
farmers"
The Federal Farm Board would
not sell any of its holdings in thu
usual American markets because
that would hurt the interests O
the spectators who still haU
grain on hand. In order to foo
the farmers of the country tina
the Farm Board is interested il
their welfare, Hyde tries to maxi
them believe that the Fedora
Farm Board is going to sell tn
present surplus of American whea
in markets where United State
wheat has never been sold il
times of prosperity" Hyde want
to make the farmers believe tia
in these markets the huge surplu
of the United States can be dis
posed of in times of crisis wheI
the masses are starving.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
(By a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, Wash, Mar. S1-As
a result of the demonstration of
over 1900 workers the demands of
the Unemployed Council were
partially granted by the Mayor.
The city government had planned
to close the East Trent Billet. The
mayor was forced to agree that
the Billet would be kept open an
other is days. He was also forced
10 agree that the city would not
shut off the water supply in the
homes of the unemployed workers.
About TOO workers marched to
the city hall to lay the demands
for relief before the mayor. While
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
Demonstrate Against
Japanese imperialism

AMSTERDAM, March IL A
surprise demonstration of revolu-
tionary workers took place yester-
day in Rotterdam In front of the
Japanese Consulate. There were
shouts of, "Down with japanese
imperialism" "Clear Japanese
troops out of Chinal" and all the
windows Of the consulate were
broken by shower Of stones.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08

The following resolutions werea
idely discussed and passed unan- |
MORTGAGES
We demand that county Off
Gals take steps at once to stop
all foreclosures of workers and
farmers property. We hold
the county officials responsible
that no sheriff's sales of poor
farmers and workers property
will take place from now on.
We further demand. that the
county officials call a confer
eRce of the United Farmers
League Federal Land Bank
representatives (aIs0 other
banks holding farm mOrtgages).
This Joint conference Is to be
called at once for the purpose
of stopping all foreclosure sales
Of workers and farmers pro-
perty.
TAXES,
We demand exemption of
taxes on poor farmers and
workers property and a special
increase in taxes on all proper
ty of rich land owners. cOrpOr-
atoms, mining properties. tim
Der holdings, etc. so that their
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
200 Communists Are
Arrested In Toxic

TOXIC, March 10-The police
in Toxic have arrested over 200
communists charged with having
distributed anti-militarist leaflets
amongst Japanese soldiers and
sailors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
900 Farmers Join UFL
In County Of St. Louis,
Mimi, In Two Months
limited Farmers League VIII Mobilize 5000 for Duluth
Demonstration

reported that from January Is,
1882 to March 20, 1882, two hun
dred members have been drawn in
to the UFL in that county, five
new locals have been organized, at
the following places, Corbin, Ne
braska, st. Louis River, Bucklake
and Pila, with prospects for new
locals at Ely, Whiteface and Suo-
mi. In every locality where the
UFL has been leading the farm
ers to fight for such local de-
mands as immediate relief for
needy families, for county road
work, etc., the UFL has grown
fast on the basis of popularizing
the demands that were won thru
these struggles. Up to 70 mem
bers have been recruited in some
localities. This proves that only
thru struggling for the every day
problems and demands of the poor
farmers can the United Farmers
League be built into a mass or
ganization.
During the period from January
Is to March 20, % subs were re-
corded in the st. Louis county Of
flee of the UFL gotten for the
Producers News, more subs have
been actually gotten for the Pro-
ducers News but they have moi
been reported to the county organ
ization. The Red Sunday thai
was held on the 18th of March die
not bring very good results due
TO the fact that the weather wa
cold and because of the fact tina
the UFL members did no know
they could keep 1919 on each sui
gotten for the Producers New
which would help cover the cos
involved in getting the subs. Tn
county board of the UFL lai
plans to organize huge demon
stration in the latter part of Ma
to the county seat at Duluth o.
the basis of presenting again t
the board of county commissioner
the demands for tax eUemptio
for the small farmers and lower
ing the taxes of the middle farm
ers. If the county commissioner
do not accept these demands til
, farmers will be compelled to n
{ sort to tax strike.
The county board of the UFL
st. Louis county is convinced thu
if in every locality the Unite
: Farmers League intensifies its al
tivities around local demands an
issues fighting for the immediat
problems of the small farmers
: the localities the UFL will be alb
y to mobilize 5000 farmers to tt
I demonstration to Duluth in Ma
that in st. Louis county the UF
d will be able to fulfil and surpa
: the quota set by the st. Lou
e county conference of the Unit
e Farmers League last December
1 of 500 new members for the I'm
i ed Farmers League of st. Lou
q county by May S1st!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
Mimi. March 26.-Tke

Virginia, Mimi, March 26.-The
g Louis county board of the
TTrited Farmers League held a
sSrv successful meeting March 20
= Virginia. Many important prob
I"ms were discussed and plans
, made to carry on our work
!. orcanizing the small farmers
n st, Louis county as well as
Rpltrami and Clearwater counties
more effectively than we have
done up to the present time into
the U. F. L.
The St. Louis county organizer
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
JAPANESE CONCENTRATE TROOPS
loo MILES FROM SOVIET BORDER
Additional Japanese Forces Being Shipped Into Manchu
ria for Oppression and Attack

the Far East and IN Eastern
Europe clearly show.
Workers and farmers! Rally
to the defense of your Socialist
Fatherland! Demand hands off
the Soviet Union! Hands off
China! Demand the withdrawal
of all imperialist armed forces
from China! Support the revo-
lutiOnary struggles of the Chin
ESQ and Japanese massesi
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08
CUTTING COST OF.
PRODUCTION MEANS.
GREATER MISERY
MACHINE COTTON PICKING
WILL MEAN EVICTION OF
THOUSANDS OF NEGROES

is broadcasting the recent adyanc-
es made by the implement trust in
and devising new agri-
cultural machinery. The report of
the department includes the fol-
lowing:
1.-THE grain combine and the
corn picking-and-husking mach
inc with their great savings in
harvesting expense and time,
have been proved practical, al
though improvements are being
developed in the latter. Prob
ably the most outstanding de-
vice still in the experimental
stage is the cotton picker, and
ON it, and on satisfactory MAJ
chinery for picking beets, har-
vesting cane, artificially drying
hay and performing other farm
functions intensive research is
under way"
The purpose of this propaganda
is to fool the farmers into believ-
ing that they can work themselves
out of their present misery thru
decreasing the cost of production.
This will mean for the farmers
enslaving themselves even more to
the implement trust. The decreas-
es in the cost of production that
have been made during the past
ten years have not increased the
well being of the farmers. They
have meant only increased debts
around the farmers neck and
more intense exploitation by the
implement trust.
This is the result of the "tre
mendous savings" that have beer
made in production costs and about
which the Department writes az
follows:
Tremendous savings in har
vesting costs have been effected
by the combine and the corn
picker-husRer. Estimates Of
costs of harvesting wheat with
the combine and with the bind
er showed that for 200 acres or
more the cost per acre for the
binder was 1886 and remained
constant above tibet. acreage
while the cost per acre for a
combine was $2.01 for 200 acres
and it declined gradually to
$1.38 per acre for a 60O-acre
job. The cost per bushel of
harvesting corn by hand in an
Illinois region was found to be
about 10.5 cents, while the cost
per bushel of harvesting with a
two-row picker-husker was about
6.5 cents"
The agricultural agency of Wa
Street also spouts about the prc
gress being made in mechanic;
! picking of cotton.
: with the development of a
: satisfactory cotton picker and
) of harvesters for a few less
}, prominent crops, agriculture
would be largely mechanical
d the only important crops moi
being handled mechanically, and
e with little present prospect Of
e being so handled, being fruits
and vegetables.
e Numerous improvements have
> been made in the earlier devices
t for picking cotton, but the ma
q chine still is generally regarded
s as being in the experimental
stage. There have been rumori
recently, however, that a larg,
concern manufacturing agricul
n tural machinery has developed
picker which it considers to b,
a practical and that as soon a
/ economic conditions improve s
: that purchasing power is re
le stored to the farmer, this ma
e chine will be offered on the mar
e ket."
le The Department tries to hi
-e the horrible misery the introdu
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