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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Admit Mass Hunger this Winter

The Hoover government has openly admitted
that the toiling masses of the United States can
expect to suffer more during the coming winter
than in the past one. On May 26 John Barton
Payne, millionaire head of the Red Cross, told
President Hoover that forty million bushels of
wheat would be necessary to feed the starving
masses next winter. Of the forty million bushels
which was supposed to have been distributed by
the Red Cross some months back only % million
has actually been distributed and about half of
this has gone to feed livestock
In the smaller cities, Payne hypocritically
stated that "the need appears well taken care Of"
GAS to the larger cities, frankly 1 don't know.
Our experience there has been that there is less
demand for flour since city people contend they
are not well able to bake it into bread" This
bankers agent tries to hide the hunger program
of the Red Cross and the Hoover government with
the statement that the unemployed masses in the
city Contend" that they cannot use flour. These
masses who need bread have been given flour
which they cannot use since they are not equipped
for baking bread.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
More Hunger Is Bankers Program

George V. Mclaughlin, president of the
Brooklyn Trust Company, New York and vice
chairman of the advisory committee of the Re-
construction Finance Corporation, admitted be-
fore meeting of the National Institute of Credit
oil May &c that the efforts of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation during the past three months
to prevent worsening of the crisis thru increas-
ed credit has been complete failure.
"Credit has been injected into the market,
Mclaughlin said, "but it has not been used
The basis for legitimate credit is the expectation
of a profit. No sound business man will borrow
unless he can reasonably expect to earn profit
by so doing" Thus far the millions loaned by
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation have been
used to pay interest and dividends but the crisis
has continued to sharpen.
The program of the bankers is more hunger
for the masses and this is the program that Nc
Laughlin holds in view. ''The worst that can
happen in the hong run is that may have to
simplify our standard of Ewing and work harder
and even this may increase the sum total of Oul
happiness" More hunger, greater speed up, this
is Happiness" for the masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
TF4RESHINC
1T OUT
Imperialist Blessings

The ruling classes of the big na6ou.
stop at their own shores in their search g.. W Dot
They have combed the seas to find w., profit
sweat for them, markets for their mod, etS 70
have ensaved the black workers in A.: 1aey
yellow workers of China Tie
Already the French, the German En.,,
American interests have been at each 9u "a ana
throats in their efforts to get privileges n T c
They usually cover up their approximate " luna
land and exploitation of the workers and " u Hs
by saying that they help the country b, 1,aAS
roads and Saving" the heather. Of cou,sa . :,
only interest is profits ~st
A group of British engineering firu.
capital of $126OOO,OOO has recently deoid,, WIN
"assist in the industrial development a. ~, %
However, the London Express is more fror,e ' =
their purpose. 1t says, "They have in MIR wv
interests of the heavy engineering indn.t.,- ~s
Great Britain. Nothing about building ro.s.
bringing God to the heather, just anotbe- ."r VI
to get money for the big capitalists Of c.1D'
Britain. ea'
However, there's Chinese Soviet over A..
composed of 80 million workers and peasant. '''
they are tired of being Saved" to wort e.. p a4
ish, American and German capitalists At :.
cents day. They say, "DOwn with forpion Nv =
perialism and the partition of our countrv 9.
foreign Bosses" "
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
It's Funny About Professors

The capitalist press announces that group
of prominent educators and economists with ne
assistance of the federal department Of agrcu0n'
will trace the roots of the American farm PROF.
lem back 300 years" This will include com
plete survey of the history of American agncu'
ture" according to Professor Harry j. Carna''
of Columbia University.
Ten years from now or so when the pO
done, the evicted farmer, who has been punOei' I,
by the gang that supports Columbia Univrsly aD"
the rest of the institutions of "higher learnmE
can go to any one of the hundreds of Libraries =
the country and find out the history Of MS plu
dering-up to about 1890 :.
What the farm masses must do is to Ofgsi'-.
mighty struggles in defense of their lives in'. n
university saps, educators and economists "
at least have something worth while to Wrle :
bout As the struggles Of the masses O''v.
more determined and extensive even these r.
fessors may learn something.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
PIONEER REPORTERS
CARDS ARE READY;
GET YOURS TO-DAY

Listen! Pm going to break the
best piece of news ever printed on
this page. Shall l let the cat out
of the bag? Here goes.
We're on the road to make all
of our readers of this corner, re-
pOrters. Yep, real reporters. Is
not that great? Do you know
what a reporter does. He's the
right hand man of his publication.
He really keeps it going.
You've heard all this before?
Maybe. 1t doesn't seem so to me.
I've been going around for three
weeks, ever since 1 first spoke to
you, aching for letters. At my
side there was big stack OF
brand new piping-red Reporters
Cards. Nobody sent for them
Not even asked about them.
The cards are still here. They
are just itching to be sent to you
They want to be carried along il
your pocket to demonstrations, e
viction cases, mass meetings an(
hundreds of other places. They
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
GorguIoff Member of Kulak Family

Paul GOrguloff, the assassin of President
DOumer of France is member of kulak, rich
farmer family in the Soviet Union. His mother
has been found living in the southwestern part of
the Soviet Union in the village of Labinsky. She
is 81 years old. Others in the village in addition
to his mother have identified GOrguloff's photo
graph according to Moscow papers. This de-
stroys the tissue of lies spread by the capitalist
press at the time of the assassination of Doumer
that it the work of Communists. It was the
work of the enemies of the workers and farmers
state who used this as a means for melting the
attack of the capitalists on the Soviet Union.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
A TRUE STORY OF SOME
PENNSYLVANIA PIONEERS

1t was some thrill for us to
travel down the long road leading
from mining town to mining town
and see all along the road signs
reading: "Vote Communist"
1t was a deep mystery to all of
us. How did these signs and slo-
gans get there? Who had done the
job?
We guessed: 1t must have been
members of the National Miners
Union. No! 1 think maybe it was
the young workers. I'll bet I
know who it was. 1t was the Pr
oneers!
And that was the truth. It was
the Pioneers. They did it. I'll tell
you how.
Election speakers of both the
Republican and Democrat parties
had been to town. They rode in In
huge beautiful limosines. And with
slogans and music and fake prom
ises to bring prosperity back if, OF
course, everybody would only vote
for them.
Nick and John and Mary had
listened carefully. So carefully
that the politician from the bic
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

paint up, the town for the RED
candidates. Everybody's eyes be-
gan to shine. They grinned and
snickered. Boy, what a trick 10
play on a Politician Everyone
wanted to go and do the job. The
plans were laid. I think we ought
to go in twos, boy and girl, then
people won't get wise. Sure we
gotta do it. Secret, kinda. When
it's pitch dark and everybody's in
bed asleep. Each group will be
another bucket brigade. Well start
from all four ends of town and
work towards the middle. So wen
be sure to cover every road.
Oh, boy, wont we though. And
they did. The Bucket Brigade, each
with bucket and brush set out
to paint the town red. And in the
morning when the squire opened
his eyes he saw right facing his
window on the wall in big red let
ters, Foster for President, Vote
for the party of your class, Vote
Communist. The squire who was
fat and too old to stand such g
shock just lay back in bed anc
didn't wake up till week later
And when we came riding into
town Vote Communist was the
first thing we saw. That's how
the Pioneers helped in the election
campaign in one town.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
War Funds for Attack on U.S.S.R.

On May 81 the cabinet of Admiral Saito
decided to reconvene the Japanese Diet on June 1
to appropriate 1913 million yen 10 carry on the i'm
perialst invasion into Manchuria and to prepare
the attack the Soviet Union. This appropria-
ton or approximately 100000 900 is for munitions
and other supplies to carry on the struggle for
seven months.
Of the 19SOOO,OOO yen allotted to Manchuria,
124,OOOOOO will go to the army, 100000 to the
navy, million to the foreign office and 20 mill
ion to the finance ministry an emergency re-
serve. The remaining three million win be dis
tributed among other Department.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Make 1t a Sure Thing

Sir Robert Horne in recent speech Ii Us q
of Commons said, 81 remember than on '., No.
1916, on the field of Waterloo, the Duke o. n
ington said to a staff officer: 1T is gong ~,
damned close thing 1t is going TO q .i.n As
close thing between the survival Of civln1a'iO"
we know it and its decline" ...us
Civilization as we know it, capitalism i.atss
untold misery for those who toll 1t means urOf
for them when they can no longer procure
it for the masters. mill.
1t is a damned close thing now wnsto gvt
ions of toilers will survive or not we no -sotbsr
to decide that it won't be close tnnie = mur-
capitalism survives or not. This sysOem - srs
der and hunger must go if the million iD''''
TO live.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
The Bucket Brigade

city took especial notice of them.
Now, he said, l can see how in
terested you kids are. And he
took puff at his big fat cigar.
And 1 know just the thing YOU
kids can do to help us bring pros
perity back You get all of
your friends together and III giN>
you red paint and you paint up
the town, 'Vote the Republican
Ticket" Bring Prosperity Back"
John and Nick and Mary were
so surprised they didn't know just
what to say. You see even tho
they were Pioneers the fact that
such a thing had never happened
before took them off their guard.
Nick was the first to recover.
Sure, we'll take the red paint.
John and Mary looked astonished.
Had Nick forgotten that he was a
Pioneer? But Nick gave them a
reassuring wink and they knew
he had something up his sleeve
So they took the red paint and
went home. And it wasn't until
the evening at the Pioneer meet
ing that Nick popped up.
Comrades, he said, 1 took the
paint SOS we wouldn't have to pay
our own money for paint. Instead
of painting up for these takers
who never do anything for Us
miners kids, or our fathers, wei
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

struggle for unemployment insur-
ance and immediate relief, emer-
gency relief for poor farmers, the
struggle against wage cuts and
the fight against taxation of the
workers, farmers and small home
owners.
ELECT DELEGATES
All workers and farmers organ
izations that support the aims Of
this convention, that want to see
real Workers and Farmers Tick
ct in the field, are urged to elect
TWO DELEGATES FROM EACH
LOCAL OR STATE ORGANIZA-
TON ONE DELEGATE FROM
EACH PARTY UNIT.
All workers without exception
are urged to attend the state con-
vention as visitors and observers.
Forward to a United Front of
the workers and farmers against
the exploiters!
Fraternally,
Minnesota District Committee,
Communist Party, U. S. A.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
APPLICATIONS
ARE READY FOR
PIONEER CAMP
ALI Children, Whether or
Not Pioneers Can Go to
Brush Lake Camp

Don't you want to go camping
this summer? Wouldn't you Like
TO spend nearly four weeks at
Brush Lake, swimming and hik-
ing, playing base ball and kitten
ball? There will be room for
about 100 childen at the Brush
Lake camp this summer. Aren't
you going to be one of them!
The cost for the whole camp will
be only 81 and we are sure that If
you try real hard you can have
that much by July 6 when the
camp opens. Each Pioneer troop
should cover baking powder boxes
with paper and write on them:
Help the Brush Lake Pioneer
Camp" Take these boxes to every
big meeting you go TO and pretty
soon you'll find that the boxes
will be pretty heavy and you'll
hear the clink of pennies and nick
els and dimes that means that
your troop will have enough
money to send every member to
CAMP.
We're gUing to have some fun
at camp! When we wake up in
the morning We'll splash around
in the lake for a 5-minute dip just
to wake us up and give US a good
appetite for breakfast. After
breakfast when we've cleaned up
our tents and washed the dishes,
we'll begin our classes.
Well study about the conditions
of workers in Germany and
France and China and we won't
forget to learn about the workers
and farmers right here in the
United States. Well learn the life
stories of those workers who have
given their lives to help us win a
better world to live in. When you
come back from camp you'll be
able to tell your mothers and IA
theirs things they didn't know be-
fore.
The applications for camp are
ready now. Every one who wants
to go to camp should fill one ir
and send it to the Pioneer CamI
Committee, Box SGT, PEentywood
Montana. Of course those appli
cations received first will be Civ.
: en- first consideration. So send ii
yours. Remember that you dom
: have to be a Pioneer to go tx
, camp.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

skeieton-like horse-often not ev-
en- his own, but borrowed on usur-
ious terms from the kulak erich
farmer)-so long as these condi-
tons obtained, there could be no
question of any forward movement
or any development, or freeing of
the peasants from their age long
poverty.
The Russian peasant had be-
come accustomed to this existence
of dark and debased misery. The
capitalists and landlords educated
the peasant into believing that il
could not be otherwise; that there
could be no farm other than the
private, individual farm. And The
poor devil, sweating and toiline
all his life, strive to become ricl
and died a poor man, cursing hi.
property" Millions gave up theil
strip of land and field to the vii
lagos, to the factories.
The working class having com,
to power did what the great teach
ers-Marx, Engels, Lenin-ha,
taught them. They not only de
prlved the landlords of their land
and gave them to the toilino naas
ants. They offered the peasant
the advantages of large seal
farms with high forms Of tech
nlque, with division of labor, wit
correct organization. The workin
class has done this without depriv
ing the peasantry of their lane
On the contrary, by uniting, tn
peasantry has increased its DOS
sessions. But the great thing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

that the peasants have extended
the sown area and increased the
harvest.
Sown Area Increased
In 1880 874 million centners of
grain were gathered in. Never
had pre-war Russia. with all its
"high culture" landed estates,
with its innumerable kulaks, col
lected so much grain. The big
gest harvest in pre-war Russia
was 816 million centners in 1918.
Before the war two-thirds of the
entire commodity grain came from
the landlords estates and the ku-
laks' farms. The rest of the grain
not produced for the market was
consumed by the peasants them
selves, each on his own farm. 1t
is easy, therefore, to understand
the excitement with which the ex-
lied landlords and capitalists a.
waited the dawn of universal fam
Inc In Russia. Who would feed
the towns, who would produce the
grain for export, now that all land
lords had received their marching
orders, and especially now that
the Soviet government had begun
to liquidate the last remnants of
capitalism in the viIlages-to de-
stroy the kulalzs as a class. But
already in 1880 the collective
farms and Soviet farms togetbe,
gave more than the kulaks and the
landlords had ever produced be-
fore; they gave enough for the
village, for the town and for ex.
port. And the capitalist world
shrieked in terror about "dump.
ing" when the first cargo of So.
Wet wheat was shipped abroad.
(CTO be continued next weekly
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highest price for its grain-but
this is of secondary Importance in
Soviet economics, for only a small
part of the grain goes abroad; the
overwhelming majority is neces-
sary here on the spot and the
more the better. Increase the
sown area, increase the sown area!
is the call sounded by the Com
munist Party and the Soviet gov
eminent. Soviet economy is I'M
conscious of any "crisis." The
word does not exist in our diction-
airy in connection with Soviet
home consumption.
New Methods
How did this miracle of growth
take place in an agricultural soci.
ETY., which until recently stood al
the lowest cultural level in Eur
ope? The answer to this question
is contained in one word, which
has already penetrated all the
languages of the world "kolkhoz'
collective FARM
The governing workers brought
all the force of industrial tech
nique and industrial methods Of
labor to help the poor and middle
peasants (those who made no use
of hired labor.) So long as eacl
peasant worked separately on hi
own strip of land; so long as h
scratched at the earth with hi
primitive implements and employ
ed the wooden plow, which still
survived from ancient times; S
long as he sweated and toiled o.
his barren strip Of land with
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Pioneer Corner Youth Section
The Commonwealth of Toll
(Air: "Nellie Grey')

In the gloom of mighty cities
Mid the roar of whirling wheels
We are toiling like chattel slaves of old
And our masters hope to keep us
Ever thus beneath their heels
And to coin our very life blood into gold
CHORUS:
But we have glowing dream
OF how fair the world will seem
When each human can live his life secure and free
When the earth is owned by labor
And there's joy and peace for all
In the Commonwealth of Toll that is to be.
They would keep us cowed and beaten
Cringing meekly at their feet
They would stand between each worker and his
bread
Shall we yield Lives up to them
For the bitter crust we eat?
Shall we only hope for Heaven when we're dead
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10

cent pound compared with a pre-
vious low mark of 4.98 cents for a
month made in 1898. July cot
ton went below the five cent level,
the first time in the half century
history of the exchange that fu
ture contract had touched that fig
ure. The suspension of F. AL
brecht & Co., of Liverpool, who
have extensive European and In
dian connections, which was the
second suspension in week, help
ed to break the market.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Federal Deficit Now 81, 1884, $50, 500

The deficit in the federal budget for the
sfirst eleven months of the fiscal year ending
June 30 amounted to $2,684, 95O445 on May 81 as
compared with $1,O44,910O 99 at the same time in
1881. This means that by the end of the year
the deficit will have reached almost three billion
dollars. The growth of the budget deficit is
Election of the weakening of the financial struc-
ture of the capitalist state apparatus. Wall
Street intends to bridge this three billion gap by
milestone levies on the toiling masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Part |.

Fields, fields, fields Hour
by hour, for days on end the train
passes thru fields; they are look
ing just now like. green sea agi-
tated by the wind. ALI round, as
far as the eye can reach, the
wheat stands high enough to hide
a man. Not a hillock nor a tree
in sight-to the farthest horizon
the level steppes. These are the
vast plains of the Soviet Union,
yet they might well be the vast
plains of the United States so
alike are they Outwardly.
Where a Good Harvest is a Curse
And yet, what an enormous in
ner difference between theml The
American farmer looks with fear
and dread upon his fine harvest;
the more grain, the lower the
pricel Enormous stores of last
years grain are still lying in the
warehouses. No buyer and no
market can be found for it. A
rich harvest is a cursel Cut down
the sown area, cut down the sowr
area! Thus counsel the American
bourgeois economists. And mill.
ions of farmers besiege the towns
and search in vain for work in the
factories. A serious agricultural
crisis hangs over the biggest, The
most advanced of capitalist coun.
tries.
Agriculture has become th,
source of poverty and ruin for tn,
farmers; only the trusts profit
This is the position in the Unite,
States, and thruout almost TIL
whole of capitalist Europe. A sur
plus of grain has become a mis-
fortune, and this at a time whel
millions of unemployed are starv
ing. The peasant curses his stri-
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of land and leaves it to work as
farm hand for the landlord.
Where a Good Harvest Is
a Blessing
Fields, fields, fields with
joy and the surety of success, the
worker and the peasant-collective
farmer in the Soviet Union gaze
on the fields. They are growing,
these fields. They grow bigger
and bigger-every year the in
crease is greater. They grow much
faster than the Five Year Plan
foresaw. During 1880 alone, the
sown area increased by "a million
acres. Such an increase had never
been seen either in the post revo-
lutionary Soviet Union or in the
pre-revolutionary Russia of the
cars and landlords. The peasant
will never sow grain for Socialism,
prophesied the Simple Simons in
"Vorwarts." Yet the peasant
sows grain, and sows much mere
and much better than ever before
in history.
And the Soviet Union is the en-
ly country on the face of the eartI
where a good harvest is not f:
curse, but a blessing, because il
the Soviet Union grain is not sow
for profit on the exchanges and il
the banks but for the life, the la
Dor and the struggle of the toll
ers for the building up of a So
cialist society. True, the Sovie
Union as well is a seller on tn
world market, and the Soviet Un
ion Is interested in getting tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
Miners Defeat National Guardsmen

Jacksonville, Ohio, June e. Two hundred and
forty national guardsmen that Governor White
sent In to break the strike were defeated by the
militant spirit of the coal miners. One hundred
guardSmen guarding 20 scabs Give guards
men to scab) in the Lick Run mine and in
spite of the terror of the troops, who fired 40
shots at the strike pickets Monday night, the
miners having militant picketing, pre-
venting any more scabs from entering the mine.
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IContlnued from Front Page)
on June 10Th in Minneapolis will
adopt state platform and will
launch a full state and congress
sional ticket. The convention will
be asked to ratify the proposed
Communist candidates for COVER
nor, congress and other offices.
The convention will have before
it a state election platform which
will deal with the fundamental is
sues facing the workers and ex.
plotted farmers especially with The