The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-14
Forward to the
FARMERS NATIONAL.
RELIEF CONFERENCE
CONVENTION CALL

Farmers of all sections owners, tenants sharecrop-
pers white and Negro, hlod meetings and elect delegates
to our Farmers National Relief Conference. We are
desperate our homes are being sold the auction block
We must act-no else will do anything Here are
the demands Conference will consider:
|. Debts, rents, taxes mortgages remain high The
prices are tremendously low. Therefore demand al
moratorium all these debts
2 With IS 100000 unemployed, and hope of
Jobs in the Cities we proclaim right to remain our
farm homes We demand that all foreclosures tax sales
or evictions of farmers be stopped.
We demand from the dealers, mddemen and food
trusts that deep into their swollen profits be used to
raise the farm prices We insist that the rise in the price
of food products out of these middemen Protlts
and not from increased prices to city consumers
If you support these demands then support the Con-
ference which will take them into the halls of Congress-
into the White House. and into the State Legislatures
Pie in the Sky
We have listened to the promises of politicians for
years, and have gotten only promises We hvae
seen Congress give billions in relief for bankers, and
nothing for the farmers The administration which gives
Germany moratorium her debts, refuses 1t to the
American farmer What of our farm leaders The
officers whom we have elected and supported in the ole
farm organizations have turned to be closer to the
bankers and merchants than to the rank and file farm
The Farmers Plan
While the governors of midwesem states were
meeting in Sioux City to draw up their promises ranl
and file delegates from 10 states meeting to draw
up demands and to issue the call for the Farmers Ma
tional Relief Conference. These demands and the Con
ference call were adopted by overwhelming majort
at mass meeting of 900 farmers in Sioux City o.
Sept g. Farmers all over the country formulatin
the same demands, and many have already backed tn
call to the Conference At the date of writing this
Sept 24h groups of farmers have endorsed the Confer
ence in North Dakota South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Conference starts in Washington on Dec. J.
the opening of congress.
Election of Delegates
Every farm community and every farm organic
ton which intends to send delegates to Washington
calling conference meetings. The meeting has the rig
send voting delegate for every Is rank and file farr
ers attending the meeting: Former farmers who ha,
been forecosed and unable to find other employing
are eligible be delegates Farmers whose major
of income is other than farming, cannot be delegates.
dividua farmers who have not been elected may cor
as fraterna delegates.
Money and Routes
Ten dollars delegate is sufficient for the trip
Washington and return. Communities of farmers mt
raise the necessary money, which amounts to about
cents per person elecng delegate. Delegates will
mostly in trucks. Meals and sleeping places will be w
farmers along the way who have agreed in advance
help the conference Cash is needed for gasoline oil
pairs and the stay in Washington. Routes and meetir
on the way are being planned by the Executive Sec
tary.
LEM HARRIS, Exec. Secy. for the Call Commit
We urge rank and file farmers from all farmers