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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
AAA Makes Waysfor Live at Home Farming
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"In our eastern coal fields at
least 100000 miners are perma-
nently displaced. it is believed.
through mechanization, exhaus-
ton. or closing of the mines.
There are said to be 5000
stranded copper miners in Ari-
iona and $4,000 oil field work
ers stranded in the southwest.
There are many lumber towns
in the northwest left to precari-
GUS struggle as a result of the
needless removal of timber.
"Manv of these workers came
originally from the farm. and a
good many have gone back there
during the depression. 1t is too
early to say whether or not they
will stav there, but there are
signs and portents that the rush
to the cities of past decades
may not be repeated. We may
be entering prolonged period
when opportunities in the cities
will not be as bright and num-
erous as they once were.
"These trends have bearing on
what we do with the land even
in our emergency efforts /.
Meanwhile, farm families and
city families alike need help in
readiusting themselves; millions
of them must be given a chance
to become seH-suppOrting. 1t
NAV startle many people to
know that our public relief
agencies have rural as well as
city problems; the fact is that
one out of seven rural families
now receives relief"
The live-at-home farm ma
save the capitalists money, but
means condemning small farmer
and unemployed workers to a lii
of the lowest standard at whic
mankind can keep alive. For tt
Live-at-Homers, there will be
farm machinery. no fertilizer-ol
lly the hardest drudgery. Thel
will be no cash for coffee or sugs
or for those things which cann'
be raised at home. There will
only relief rations for clothinI
This is the bitter. ragged edge {
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Comentown, Mont,
Dec 10 1929

Dec. Il, 1855.
Producers News.
Plentywood, Mont.
While / was away to Chicago as
a delegate to the Farmers Second
National Conference. my wife was
in Comertown one dav trading out
our relief order. She had bought
groceries and needing a few plates
she saw some pie tins, she thought
they would last longer than plates
so the bought four She left the
groceries and pie tins on the coun-
ter.
While she was standing around
Mr.. Satern. Mr.. Negard. and Mr.
Strand. who seem to have nothing
to Go only mind somebody else''
business came in, handled over thu
pie tins, and this is the lingo tina
went on:
"Those pie tins are not Just thu
right kind, the pieces would .hav,
to be cut in eight because Their,
are eight corners on the tins"
Mr.. Satern our key man said
"Well if it was banana pie,
would be too big for me-"
And after arguing pro and col
for some time they saw my wifi
standing there. so thew started t
talk Norsk. After talking Norsl
and laughing for some time on
was heard saving. "Well a NIGEL
baked loaf of bread is plenty goo
enough for those people for Christ
mas"
I will say right now. we woul
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Sign 80 Pct.
Of AllOtments
BY Emergency Agent Peterson

Preliminary checkup of reports
from the 15 districts in the coun-
tv appears to indicate that over
ninety per cent of the allotment
contracts have been signed with a
number of farmers unable to get
the community meetings on az
count Of the snow storm that pre-
vailed over the county both Mon
day and Tuesday.
In practically all districts one or
more of the committeeman were
in session Wednesday to accom-
modate those who could not meet
them on the two scheduled dates.
Those who did not have an OPP
portunity to sign or above dates
may still come to PlentywOod
where all contracts are filed and
sign before the members of the
allotment committee
Those in charge Of Wheat AllOt-
ment campaign are gratified with
the splendid response that was
manifested in all districts, particu-
larlv when it is obvious that many
honest acres had to be cut out
from practically everv application
J to meet the necessary 13 per cent
cut that had to be made in Sheri-
dan county to reconcile our appli-
5 cation figures with. the adjusted
official figures of the State Board
Of Review.
There still remains a lot of work
for the allotment committee and
clerical force to carefully check
each application and contract fol-
possible errors in order to avoiC
DELAY when the contract reaches
Washington.
Where the tenant did not hav'
t. power of attorney to sign for tn,
3. landlord. such contracts will haVu
to be forwarded to the landlord TO
the latter's signature.
Is A certified list of all contract
I'd must be forwarded to Washingtol
aS together with the contract and on
ut COPY of the application. A cop
ut of the final publication for news
eS papers must be prepared and tn
ht proof read.
eS 1t is not necessary to hold u
he all applications or contracts unit
n all are corrected or completed. A
soon as rs per cent of all col
I'd. tracts that were signed are con
Ir. pleted. they will be forwarded
ng Washington for their consider
e's ton. The balance will be held I
he for later shipment.
lat Next Tuesday, Dec. 10, Il
Board of Directors will sit as
he Board of Review for the purpo
I'VE of making arv adjustments tn
ere have occurred as a result of erro
in computing the allotment acr
i'd: or benefit payments. The decisit
it of the Board of Appeals is final.
A leoal notice of this meetil
,on appeare in all papers Of the cou
lie tV.
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conforming to the requirements of
capitalism. in which the only
standard Of measurement is
whether or not profits can be
made. The estimate of the "sur-
plus" of farm products on which
the AAA was based, was the
profit estimate, which ignored
completely the needs of the popu-
lation as a whole.
In his "long-term planning" Mr..
Wallace admits that he proposes
to cut production permanently to
fit only the starvation markets.
In the quotation cited above, he
gives as a reason for a permanent
reduction in acreage the fact that
We have millions of. unemployed.
Economic planning" under CAPT
talism, we can see, bases itself on
a permanent army of the unem-
ployed which, paradoxicallv, it ig-
nores.
The AAA reduces acreage by
working hardships on the small
and middle farmers and by fore
ing this class to bear the bur-
den Of the higher profits it puts
into the pockets of the rich farm
ers and the bankers. We do not
have to dig very deep for proof OF
this. If you are a wheat farmer
YOU know how the allotments were
distributed; YOU know that the
rich farmers seemed to get all the
bonus where the smaller farmers
came out with a largely reduced
acreage and minimum yield.
= The southern farmers (for whom
Mr.. Wallace apparently has 81
r much well-worded sympathy hav
a. seen the AAA in its most vicious
B. form. Let us read "a pews stor,
ut carried over the wires of the AS
I'd ISOLATED Press on October 26:
a "a part of the $1,000, 900
ch acres of cotton land taken out
IS of production will be made a.
a. valuable for the use, probably
he free, of tenants who may be dis
C. placed by the program. The
rs farm administration takes the
e. position that it will have control
over the land on which it will
pay rent, and if the need arises,
! this will be turned over to ten
y ants for whom no place re
: MAINS"
" Flowing up cotton under I'll
AAA meant blowing up tenant
1e- There must be no mistake aboJ
ng this. The AAA very ruthlessl
~. threw thousands of tenants o.
we the land on which they had toile
all and plans. of course. to dispose.
ICY thousands more during the con
TED ing year. In this case we see vel
clearly that when a Wall Sire
ro- government develops can agricu
not tural plan" this plan rebounds
the the profits Of the landowners, Il
oy- wealthy. and to the distress a.
us, restitution Of the masses.
we Mr.. Wallace's "agricultur
re- plan" for five years or ten yea
oy- will not differ in this respect fro
UNI his plan for 193S-S4. When
sss' takes 80 million acres out of Oh
70 duction permanently. it will not
ms ''the greatest good for the gres
vas est number" as he promises.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Live at Home Is
Program for Masses

mar. VILLAGES plan does not
lI1 ignore the poor farmers COM
pletely. Perhaps you have already
noticed Mr.. Wallace's peculiar en-
phasis on Commercial" agricul-
ture. 1t is primarily tbs "com-
mercial'' agriculture which he
seeks to reduce.
By the use of this word, Mr.,
Wallace seeks to differentiate be-
tween the production of farm
products which are sold on the
market and the production of
farm products which must be con-
eumed as food by the producer and
his family. The farmer who pro-
duces for market completes with
Mr.. Wallace's friends. the specu-
lators, middlemen and rich farm
ers. The small farmer who pro-
duces only for his own table com
petes with no one. On the con-
trarv, such a person may not even
have to be put on the county re-
| lief rolls. This is quite an adj
vantage in the eyes of Mr.. Wal
lace who bemoans the fact that
zone out of every seven rural fam.
lilies now receives relief"
AS a matter of fact. the ive-at-
home farm appears to the Roose
| welt administration as a likely
way to take workers as well al
farmers off the relief lists. MI
Roosevelt recently began a colon,
of live-at-home farms at Reeds
: vile. West Virginia. where unem
ploved miners of that section ar
established on small subsistence
plots to get along as best the,
can. or else starve.
Mr.. Wallace is well aware o
this project, He knows also tina
the federal government is plan
ming. as a substitute for relief an
social insurance. q system of thes
self-sufficing farms. So Mr.. Wal
lace goes on to say:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

NEW YORK CITY. - Three
Thousand employees of the Civil
Works Administration working on
a project at Bear Mountain went
on strike for higher wages and
won a victory here last week. A
mass march on the office of Fred
erick Daniels, state civil works ad-
miristrator on Monday, December
A, won an increase of 10 cents an
hour in wages and the right to
work four days a week instead Cd
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Medicine Lake Bride
Honored at Shower

Mrs. B. M Nelson and daugh-
tiers and Miss Thelma Nygaard
were hostesees at kitchen shower
in honor of Mrs. Erick Grandluno
(nee Addie Stringer) at the Frank
Stringer home Saturday afternoon.
There were about FORTY friends in
attendance. She received many
useful presents.
Lunch was served and cards
dancing were enjoyed during the
evening.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

833. Five wear average produc-
ton, 2,490,290 bushels as against
2,421, 800 bushels in the first re-
lease.
These additional bushels ana
acres were not taken from thin
air. but from other counties in the
state where there did not occur
the over-run that was apparent in
Northeastern Montana. Central
and Southern Montana counties
had to make still further reduc-
lions to help out Northeastern
Montana counties as there could
be no over-run for the state as q
whole.
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forced to shape policies and to
take steps for the years ahead
in farming.
Gas it is, fat land lies idle be-
cause with a surplus of produc-
ton there seems no justification
now for retaining it; and cruel
ly bad land is being worked by
poverty-stricken families, wear
ing out their lives to no pur-
pose, carrying themselves, their
neighbore and their communities
down to the meanest sort Of an
existence in a weller of tax de-
linquency, impossible debts. and
deteriorating local institutions.
at is clear that we must de-
termine in the immediate future
which lands are best suited for
the commercial production of the
stable crops. which had best be
put back in trees, and which
should NOT be used for agTicul-
ture at all, but simply provide
places of recreation and resi-
dence.
with millions out of jobs;
with Commercial agriculture
utilizing far more of our total
agricultural plant than there is
need for in view of all these
things. we are compelled to con-
slider the best uses of our lands
for the greatest number"
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mond farmers. or arrest each and
every one of us who took part in
the demonstration.
What about it Mr.. Hoven? Are
YOU going to do your part to-
wards helping banker Rooster in
framing up this case against these
farmers? If lou are. then we in
sist that you include all of US and
make a real Job of it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
RINGING FRA ME!IP.
GISEC CLOSE HOME

When We lineup aT case against
shout tt6ht the I5a1'R Boys, the %., Tom
Mooney eve. case Of o other cases just like
snd dozens DUrIobablY don't pay as
them attention to it os as we are GUAR far
@'f because those cases az 80
away. II not 90 to Califor-
But We Sow , to Alabama to find
ris or G frome-ups. We have q
hese -. [ case coming up right here
N Sherlq Dot oniv in Sheridan c9u IN
tarnleTI' a nUS farmer in the whole
y, but ever sn,ld be very much in
country The case banker Rooster
tsrt oa.einok, in conjunction with wi , our
Of OuIiU o4fornev and sheriff have
;,smed up against the 'nree ~"
m. ,d farmers. n,,+ +bose
bvtIsDO Ever stole any wheat, as
farmers oy ~ been accused. but that
tney LS'e cav that they are not go,
does mo- 10 q" convicted by a picked
ing 70 Things like that are done =,
jury. Aor places and a desperate
n n.. Csrt' Is going to be made her'
attenp .La ~ Rooster and his sup
BY Dri to put these three farmers
Ssbind the bars. ,,,uo tho,
.sa sr' is nOthing fair about nov ~
tnele n these frameup cases arr
ulT Lad the rearer they get to tn
1 DI0 The names picked from tn
i i-S box all depends on wha
pg MY went into the box in tn
9 nan nlace and what names go int
ms Wv w. ali depends or those VIII
%. ..s landing it. Law and fairnes
are Me nothing to do with it, Jus
nave That thew did in the Scots
q %, ease the other day. After
OGlG In ;Trv had been picked the
g slinOad a handful of Negro name
~ tSe Jury box, Just to fool tn
INV ne"nle and make it look fair. :,
V'T II there was anv Justice in Il
~ banker Koester would be tt
ian' tbf iron gates would be yaw1
S ;rr for and not the three Ravmor
tanners that this banker is fran
nm against and had arrested
Al the big demonstration on Il
Crngcins farm, where the thru
i G,,5s Of wheat were hauled ava
ss the owners share, these thr'
men did net take anv more acti'
mort than anv of the rest of I
tSsv lust did what the rest Of
told them to do.
The demonstration took place
broad daylight with farmers frc
four counties present. amor
which we're three former coun
commissioners ard one eX-ete
conservative. We prevents
banker Rooster from getting aw
with the owners share of
wheat. that's what we were the
for. and we are net a bit asam
Of II.
TIE farmers II this. part of I
country are not going to stand
that three men singled out. fran
M and made the goats. WI
every one of us present at Il
demonstration took as much D
IN saving the grain for the ow1
as thev did. And we insist t
Ire county, attornev either d
the case AGAINST the three R
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five, thus saving an additional 90
cents in train fare.
A few days later a committee
representing the men put addition
al demands to the civil works Of
ficials and won free transportation
to and from the job, better trans
portation facilities and the prom
Use of field hospitals for the in
jured. Free transportation is
equivalent - an additional two
dollars per week, making their net
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
AAA Is First Step
In Land Program

MR. WALLACE paints a rosy
lIA picture of the Brain TRUSTS
land policy-at least on the sur
face. No one can object to scien-
tific land utilization, the cultiva-
ton of only suitable lands. But
under Mr.. Wallace's cherished
capitalism. there can be no land
utilization policy conducted by a
Wall Street government which
does not literally DISPOSSESS
the masses and benefit the banks,
the large landowners and the
rich farmers. This fact is prac-
ticallv admitted in Mr.. Wallace's
statements if we will only look be-
meath the surface.
'The agricultural adjustment
experiment" says Mr.. Wallace,
SIS the opening move of a his
toric attempt to devise a sensl-
bic working policy of our land.
We accept Mr.. Wallace's state
ment that the AAA is the openins
gun in Wall Streets land policy
If we examine the AAA. then, W.
can get glimpse of what Wal
Streets permanent land pollcl
would impose upon the exploite'
masses Of the country.
In the first place, the AAA pro
gram of crop destruction did no
consider for one moment tn
needs of the millions of unemploy
ed. In one of the most callous
cynical and brutal statements W
have ever heard, Assistant Secre
tary Tugwell pleaded for DESTROY
ing crops down to the minimum
of "the market tina treallv exists
in which people have money I
lbuv." Mr.. Tugwell called tn
'sbeing realistic" Actually. it wa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

WHILE the arguments for crop
wv destruction first advanced by
Wallace and Tugwell were based
entirely on the fact that the Unit
ed States must limit its aguicultur-
al production to the amount re-
quired by the people (emplOyec
ones with money. Only) Of the
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By ROB F. HALL

CECRETARY of Agriculture Hen
y ny A. Wallace recently admit
ted that zone out of every seven
rural families is on the relief |
lists" The admission came dur !
ing a speech at Chicago before |
the Association of Land Grant
Colleges in which he revealed
that a hve-at-home system of
farming is the New Deals solu-
uOn to the agricultural crisis.
Secretary Wallace devoted his
discussion to what he termed the
and policy of the administration.
with an audience made up large
" Of professors, officers and di-
fectors Of the universities of the
country, he could afford to speak
rather frankly.
The dilemma in which the CAPT.
SllstS find themselves, as seen by
secretary Wallace, is one of sur
p-us products which cannot find
markets because Of tariff barriers
TTa M ,9e by foreign nations. Mr..
Wallace chooses to leave it at
siat' de does not care to admit,
! seems, that there is no market
.Or these so-called SURPRISES be-
.suSe the masses both in the Unit
" states and in these foreign
wllntnes do not have the money
WY slI which to buy the food they
50 badly need.
Mr.. Wallace resorts To the trick
~ effectively used by Mr.. Hoover,
s u-t OF blaming the crisis in this
SSuhtry on the selfishness of for.
I Sn governments who attempt tt
a ep their home markets safe fol
NE home capitalists.
The British reduced our
s. as Of the British pork mar
aeI from 20 per cent to six per
.eat' and the Germans imposed
i.s .SSI,1 Of S15 hundred on our
'@O' SAYS Mr.. Wallace.
,,S u cOunse, while this gives us
f f. picture of the reason
Vsn me crisis, it illustrates YER
vra - now the crisis drives tn
II CAPITALIST nations to intensi
ju.t,n flr tight for foreign markets
msU ~ now the Roosevelt govern
tbr,sis conducting this figh'
nsvS AVN 1. the building of a large
Ams,,tne exploitation of the Latir
MES ss9 colonies and semi-colt
has :. ana the gold-buving pla,
cOIurnonr1e been related in thes
hts ~ ms particular speech. it
lsrs .E to see how Mr.. Wa
Ton uSeS this international stu,
Poo.soSsa basis for iustifving Il
nam I crop : destruction pr
dic.t., At the same time. he j,
nsfSeI5 In a general wav II
Of A"oy which the DEPARTING,
vSe,Exrlculture and the Rooseve
forei,..ni expect to win the
derosnn markets for the big mi
wsro In and SPECTATORS who ha,
sbrosaSS Of commodities to s,
ssti y take care of the situatiO
MI
would have to receive
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

wages $18. Previous to the strike
the weekly wage was $12.
Reports of strikes on civil works
jobs came also from Camden, New
Jersey, where thirty skilled work
ers are planning to strike if they
are not paid union wages; and
from YonkeTs, New York, where
1900 CWA employees struck and
won 10 cents per hour wage In
creases and better transportation
facilities.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

have a nicely baked loaf of bread
every dav if we can get the flour.
Sc YOU can see that Wall Street
has agents in little burgs hike
Comertown.
Resp. YOURS.
VIM. F. Corcoran.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

VI AAAAhe@AA AAAOs
This Live-at-Home existence is
sometimes spoken of as peasantry.
Actually, European peasants no
more than American farmers
would willingly accept such deg
radiation.
Wallace Threatens
Fascist Rule
THIS Eve-at-home program was
1 preached by the Department
of Agriculture under Hoover anu
Hyde. But where Mr.. Hoover on
ly suggested it, Mr.. Roosevelt,
through Wallace, is planning 10
enforce it.
How can it be enforced? Mr..
Wallace doesn't tell us exactly
how. but the following words. tax
en- from his speech are very re-
vealing:
"If selfish, bitter preiudices
enter in too much the nation
NAV find it necessary eventual
ly as a matter of self preserva-
ton to use cOmpulsiOn. | hope
that such measures will not be
necessary because / regard them
as against the inmost spirit Of
the American farmer as l know
him."
This is probably the most open
| 4I-so,o& 1f fa1nfe@ .s1rf1 xryh1ah Mr.
Wallace has ever allowed himself
to make. In a manner typical of
fascism. he seeks to excuse such
methods by appealing to "the self
preservation Of the nation"
; Mr.. Wallace may suspect what
, to many is already clear-that the
toiling farmers of this country
will not accept the degradation of
this starvation existence without q
struggle. Against Mr.. Wallace's
planned agriculture" the farm
ers are raising their own programs
cancellation of secured debts. cash
: relief, tax exemption for poor
. farmers. liberal credit - and they
{ are organizing to fight for these
demands.
In conclusion: In spite of Mr.
Wallaee's vague phrases, it is
clear that his PLANNED agricul-
ture" and his Scientific land utili.
zation" is a direct attack against
the living standards of the mass,
es in an effort to solve the crisis
for the ruling class.
Of course there can be planned
agriculture. and a scientific land
policy. which does NOT attack the
living standards of the masses.
But not under capitalism In So
Wet Russia there is plan for az
riculture. There is a scientific
land policy. There the program Is
quite the opposite from the Roose-
velt-Wallace program of small
self-sufficing plots. It includes
the most modern farming possible
on land suited to this purpose
Instead Of impoverishing tht
masses. it has set as it's tasl
making every farmer well-to-do.'
Urder workers and farmers gov
eTnmert It is succeeding in this
task.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

will be done at the expense of the
toileTs and for the benefit of the
bankers. the spectators, the large
land owners and the rich farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
ADDITIONAL WHEAT
ALLOTMENT QUOTA
By Emergency Agent Peterson

Sheridan county secures addi-
tional Wheat Allotment quota of
$500 bushels to add to the five
year average production. which
will amount to approximately
$4,000 in additional benefit pay
ments to applicants in the county
or an average of about 81 per APP
plication.
Jay Diamond, State Crop Sta
tistician and Chairman Of State
Board of Review, met with allot-
ment committee Wednesday OF
this week and made final adjust
ments for the Sheridan County
allotment quota. Three thousand
additional acres were also allo'
Gated to take care of possible ovel
run due to errors in computing
allotments.
The final adjustment figure:
now sta0d as follows: Three veal
average seeded acres, 297,153 al
against cur first ALLEGATION of 248,