The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

crisis has sharpened al Of his
robbery and oppression acutely.
What has the capitalist class to
show from this unrelenting toll of
the farm masses? The meat trus:
Armour, Swift, Cudahy, has paid
out millions in interest and divi-
dends to the capitalist class =
millions ground from the farmers
who have raised this stock, mill
ions robbed from the workers of
the cities thru monopoly prices
charged for the products for which
the farmers got next to nothing. |
The capitalist class has received |
hundreds Of millions from the
farmers thru cxhoroitant railroad {
rates imposed by the Wall Street
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The capitalist class has wrung
hundreds of millions out Of the
small and middle farmers thru
taxes to keep its state apparatus
going-the very state apparatus
which is the police force to keep
the workers and farmers in sub
lection to this state.
These are just sOme of the
things that the farmers children
who are members of the Al Clubs
do not learn about raising calves.
They do not learn this because it
would expose the system of ex-
ploitation under which their par
ents are driven to unrelenting toll
by the capitalist class.
tWhen the club member Dor
rows money from a bank to pur-
chase his calf. and when he
takes out insurance to protect
himself and the bank from loss,
he receives valuable business
training"
He does not learn, tho, that all
of the legal procedure under which
the farmers borrow money from
the banks is designed for the pull
pose of protecting the bankers,
the capitalist class. The "valua-
BILE business training" that he re-
ceives in the All Clubs does not
include the fact that the banks
are the main source of exploiting
the farmers, robbing them of the
products of their toll for another
class, for the capitalist class. He
does not learn that the local banks
from which che borrows money
for the purchase of his calf" anC
from which his father has borrow
ed money for the purchase Of
land, machinery, seed, fuel, etc., il
the local outpost of the Wal
Street bankers who direct the en-
tire capitalist system in exploitin,
the masses of small and middl
farmers.
Why does the county extension
service provide such "valuabl
training" for the farm youth
wherever they can get a hold o
them?
''The experience he gets
showing his calf at the coa1t
or state fair in competition wit
other boys and girls is of gres
value for it develops cOnfidenC
in himself and in his ability"
CONFIDENCE IN VIVA
ABILITY? CONFIDENCE Il
HIS ABILITY TO PROVIDE A
EXISTENCE FOR HIMSELF A
AN INDIVIDUAL FARMER.
: The small and middle farmer
: are rapidly losing that confidenc
. They are beginning to realize tn;
they have provided, not a decor
living for themselves but IL
means whereby the capitalist clal
! has built up its billion profits an
plumber. The capitalist clai
2 wants to build up that confiden,
: among the farm youth. The
: want to convince the farm yout
: that by buying calves, they CO
. win a decent existence for Their
g selves.
They want to build up amor
the farm youth the confiden
: that they can thru work on t
4 farm build up a decent existen
: for themselves where their paren
e have been driven into deepe
|; slavery to the bankers.
r "a valuable part of his trai
: ing comes from attending CT
e meetings where he gets expel
4 ence in parliamentary practi,
: talking in public, and cOndu,
ing meetings"
i They want the farm youth
e believe that parliamentary pre-
+ tice" is the way they can d.
4 with bankers, with the tax c
. lectors, with the sheriffs. TIL
want to prevent the farm yoJ
from realizing that not parl
3 mentary practice but milits
mass struggle is the only way
which the attacks of the capt.
list class can be repealed.
} Talking in public" about
- benefits derived from the A
:. clubs, Conducting meetings" VIII,
- the county agent is the m
II speaker. This is the "valua
IL part of the training" given In
Al clubs. That is what it me;
IF TO be a member" of the All clu
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