The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-04-21
Friday, April q, 1888
MAY FIRST AND THE ATTEMPTS -
TOCONVICT SMITH And CASPER

On Nav first the farmers in the counties around White
Cloud Michigan, will hold demonstfSo, ++i S which
e+ration will be part of the world wide demonstration WIFI"
have been held on that day for nearly tHty years.
The demonstration will have special significance Tor
the farmers in Michigan and for all OF us farmers.
On that day Clyde Smith and George Casper will be
tried in White Cloud because they nave ea ue Iae S
struggles to their homes from foreclosure ana ene
families from eviction They are beng tried on Cne l
up charge of criminal syndcalism
Their trial is continuation of this terrostc program
nv which the bankers are trying to crush the farmers o
submission Harry Lux, militant HoNGSy oIg :i i+i
been convicted Nebraska and is now held IN jail watg
anneal of his case Nile Cochran Iowa farner mas Dee
Sentenced in Elk Point South Dakota at the command OF
the milk trust Every single case is deliberate 1ra1neup
Nav Day has meant for nearly half century day on
which the militant working people OF the world nave gem
onstrated their opposition to the wretched oppression a
this system of society in which are living has meant Tor
all those who toll They declared that day. not only
their protest against the mser1es which ey nave Oe
forced to endure but their determination to end one day
that system which breeds starvation and war
The trial of Clyde Smith and George Casper, militant
United Farmers League organizers is threat on the part
of the bankers of the insurance companies OF Wall Street
and it's agents. to crush the farmers struggles fora decent
life by '1egal' terror.
The "new deal" has come. The of the RoOSe
welt administration the allotment marketing BILL the farm
mortgage b-whch supposed TO AID us, give reel W
our oppressors, the bankers.
Millions more are losing their jobs The bank "hol
day" was handwriting the wall which tells us that the
system under which living is cracking The Roose
Welt relief measures tell that the government has no IN
tention of aiding usfs duty is to its masters the bank
The Hitler regime in Germany the war debts discus
son the trial of the British engineers in Moscow the wal
in Manchuria, all signs pointing to WAR.
WAR is the brink to which the bankers leading
The working people of the world workers in factories
and farmers face the future of greater misery
We farmers in the United States have not in past
celebrated May great numbers The conditions in which
we live it necessary that all farmers band together
United Frant and Join with the city workers against
common oppressOrs.
May First means day of demonstration and protes
against the yrtem that has brought the misery we v
under and that threaten worse future for
May First means united demonstrations against fore
closures evctons for relief against and fascist dicata
torship.
May First ralyng to the defense of those farm
ers who have framed and being raroaed by tn
bankers courts.
May First belongs to the working class 1t is the da
of our cass-the class of the working people We mus
Join in the world wide protests and demonstrations that WI
sweep through every country on that day.