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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
MASS CONVENTION
ON UNEMPLOYMENT
CALLED ON JAN. ID
To Meet in Washington
While Congress in
Session

NEW YORK.-Farm organiza-
tons as well as organizations of
unemployed workers, veterans,
trade unions, small home owners,
youth, women and Negroes, are
urged to elect delegates to the
mass convention against unem-
ployment called by the National
Committee of the Unemployed
Councils, to be held in Washington,
Jan. Is, IA and Is.
The convention will prepare its
demands and present them before
congress which will then be il
session.
The convention will demand IN
employment and social insurance
at the expense of the employers
and the government. Other de-
mands which will be proposed K
the convention are for immediate
adequate cash relief for every IN
employed worker, that all wa,
funds be used for unemployment
relief. against reduction in relic
and against forced labor.
The call for the mass convention
urges that city and county relic
conferences be held to prepare 70
the national convention. On jan
Is, the day on which the demon
stration before the capital is plan
ned, unemployed organizations i
every city and county are urge
to hold local demonstrations
support of the demands of the n
tional conference.
A primary purpose Of the NJ
tional convention is to unity I'll
: movement of unemployed worker
according to the call. 1t has bee
! proposed that a national commits
+ representing not only unemployt
organizations but all other organ
cations willing to fight for soci
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Building Workers Send
Greetings to USSR

OSLO.-On the motion of a COmmun.
list delegate, a resolution was adopted
unanimously at the Union Congress Of the
Building Workers, and a telegram Of con
graduation sent to the All Russian Build
ing Workers Union on the occasion of the
18th anniversary of the October revolution.
The resolution read in part: ''The results
which you have received have aroused the
greatest enthusiasm among the workers Of
the whole world. Long live the Soviet
Union"l
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
VIM. Fox Tells
His Own Story

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The Senate
stock market investigating committee
heard the whole story of how the Fox Film
Corporation was swallowed up by invest
ment bankers and the Chase National Bank
from the lips of William Fox, former movie
magnate and founder of the Fox Film Cor
poration. The moral of the story is that
the Wall Street big fish find it easy to
swallow the smaller fish. Fox was paid
S15,OOO,OOO for giving up control of the
corporation, but let up sQuawk because
bankers did not give him all they had
promised him. He tells how he appealed
10 President Hoover for help against the
crooked practices of the respectable bank
ers of HalSey, Stuart and Co., and the
Chase National Bank HOover's repreSen-
tative was politely told by Albert Wiggin,
then president of the Chase National, to
mind his own business. In addition Fox
tells that the bankers were given the pri-
vate records of the Department of Justice,
usually not available to anyone, and the.
bankers falsified them to fit their own ends.
The bankers took the opportunity to take
over the profitable movie concern when
Fox came to them for loan at a time when
he was particularly in a tight position fl
Dancially.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

Iowa Farmers Union. But / have
learned that Reno and his ring
were only takers and betrayers OF
the Iowa farmers. They are only
playing the Iowa farmers for
bunch of suckers, so that Reno
and his ring could collect a plenty
Of cash and live like lords. That
is all Reno's Holiday Association
is for-to build up the Iowa Farm
ers Union, and also to get the cash
ard honor and glory.
L. A. Limbaugh.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Letters from the Farm
81 AM TOSSED ASIDE
LIKE DRY CORN HUSK"
WRITES OLD PIONEER
OacOma, S. D.

OacOma, S. ID.
Dear Editor:
am a semi-invalid old man.
Raised a few chickens this summer
and sold the cockrels when three
months old and got 10 cents per
head In the market. Counting
numerical losses, they stood me in
about z cents per at the hatchery.
giving me 8 cents for my invest
ment of money, time and feed Ny
son-in-law brought in IL full
grown hens and they figured up,
according to weight and current
price, 90 cents for the weight OF
less than 9 cents per head.
Come again on the side as u
what we buy. Chicken feed has
been 1 cent per 10. all summer
flour or cents. cornmeal thu
same, cotton goods still going up
and so on.
l have rugged up for myself /;
little den 8 by 10 feet, but 1 d,
not know where to get fuel to keel
warm this winter. Am burninI
cow dung now. ! wrote to m,
County Commissioner and asked
for two tons of coal. After I
month of patient waiting, hav
not had even a reply to my lettel
During my filing" at farming,
have paid out over $4,000 in take
alone, started to pay taxes in189'
And now When the Octopus hs
sucked me dry, / am tossed asid
like a dry corn husk.
They have saying, "Beggal
are not choosers." BUT HOW DI
WE GET TO BE BEGGARS?
Pioneer Farmer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
EXPECTANT MOTHER
DENIED MEDICAL AID
AND LACKS CLOTHING

Wilton, N. d.
Dear Editor:
We are about to face another
winter, with most of the families
around here without food or cloth
ing to keep them in comfort. Our
crop did not amount to much, so
if no relief comes, 1 cannot see
what TIE outcome will be.
l know of a young woman that
is about tc become a mother. She
has rot been to a Doctor or had
any of the food that is needed in
her case, and she has no clothes
for the baby.
All / know is that we must
STRUGGLE if we want to gel
what We need. We must struggl,
together against our enemies, ant
not wait for some faint hope likl
I the allotment bonus.
! A Farmer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Natl. Labor Board
Arbitrates 1877 Cases

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The National
Labor Board to date has arbitrated 137
cases, involving 100000 workers, according
to Senator Wagner, its chairman. 1--WE are
averting strikes and that to us is the most
important phase" said Chairman Wagner.
How satisfactory these arbitrationS are can
be judged from the fact that the coal min
ers went on strike again after the Labor
Board had arbitrated. In the Patterson
silk strike, involving thousands of workers,
the decisions of the Labor Board were re-
iected by vote of the workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Seventy-five Prisoners Riot
at Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, -Seventy-five
prisoners started mutiny in the Eastern
penitentiary last week in which 1900 soon
Joined. The prisoners set fire to the prison
dye shed, while machinery and goods worth
thousands of dollars were being destroyed.
Finally policemen, armed with pump guns,
stopped the mutiny. No cause was given
for the riot by the prison authorities. The
prison riots in the past have been caused
by poor food or unbearable working con-
ditiOnS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
British Set Up Milk
Marketing Board

LONDON, England The Engia
government, taking a leaf out Of President
Roosevelt's book, has set up milk mar,
keting board which will have dictstOrA
powers over the sale of milk by farmers %
distributors. More than 10000 farmer
are directly involved. Like the Umsa
States agreements, the board has pOEen
over all farmers, regardless Of whetns
they have approved of the board. Id:
board determines prices and conditions O
sale.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
RFC Buys Worthless
Stock of Defunct Bank

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Pretending to
be releasing S71,OOO,OOO to depositOrs in
closed or partly closed banks. the Recon
struction Finance Corporations is buying
UP the worthless stocks and notes of these
money goes directly into the pockets of the
bank directors. There is no guarantee that
the depositors viii get what is owed them.
The taxpayers, workers and farmers, foot
the bill, because it has never been denied
that the banks will never be in position
to repay the R. F. C. loans.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Treasury Head Complains Clerks
Should Show More Respect

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In spite
of Acting Secretary of Treasurs
Henry MOrgenthau's censorship of
Treasury news, reporters here got
wind of the fact that Morgenthau
had visited F. A. Birgfeld, chief
clerk, ard complained about the
behaviour of the guards in the
Treasury Building.
Morgenthau, friend of the
farmers and workers." showed
what class he represents when he
gave the following orders to all
guards. They are to "show re-
spect for official superiors by
standing at attention when ap-
preached or being addressed"
They are not to sit down while
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Porto Rican Govt.
Is Flat Broke

SAN JUAN, Porto Aico.-After II.
government had paid all school teacher
salaries, the Porto Rican treasury was Ief
without dollar to its name. Due to ths
miserly relief given out to the destitute
peasants and workers and the large nun.
Der of unemployed, the government h,
been unable to collect any taxes from then
And of course, its policy is to spare the ricE
plantation owners and absentee America
landlord milionaireS from taxation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Representative to Cuba,
Not Ambassador

WASHINGTON, D. C. = President
Roosevelt will send Assistant Secretary Of
State, Jefferson Caffery, to Cuba as his
personal representative, and not as Am
bassador, it was announced here. This
means that when Sumner Welles leaves
Cuba, he win be the last Ambassador until
the Cubans establish a government more to
the liking of the American capitalists than
the present government which has been too
weak and too afraid to put down the re7O-
lutionary activities of the starving work
ers and peasants of Cuba.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

at duty Tor to smoke or converse
with their fellow woTkmen. They
are not allowed to read. Their
clothes must be kept clean, and
they must wear their hat straight
On their head. Their coat must
be buttoned.
Add this to the fact that Only
recently all federal employees, ex-
cept those like Moergenthau and
his class, received a Is per cent
wage cut and you will see how
kindly our capitalist government
and its good representatives like
Mr.. Morgerthau, treat their EN-
ployees. Morgenthau is merely
carrying into his Department the
traditions of his class-exploita'
ton and boss rule for the workers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
FASCIST BREAK
PLEDGE TO TAKE
OVER BIG BANKS
Say Naturalization of
Banks Would Be
"Unsound''

BERLIN. = Another solemn !
pledge made by the Nazis to the |
German people has fallen by the |
wayside as harmful to Capital. |
The committee appointed by Hit
Ter to investigate the German
banking system has unanimously
declared complete naturalization
of the banks unlbund and harmful
to the bankers and capitalists. SO
another election pledge of the
Nazis, made to fool the people
TITO thinking that the Nazis were
against the capitalists, is thrown
overheard.
DR.. Hjalmer Schacht, president
of the Reichsbank and prominent
Nazi, in arguing for the viewpoint
of the bankers said, that although
human welfare Stands above CAPT.
tai, it would be wrong to under
mine confidence by Matchmaking
the banks.
ms Trick OF the FascistS viii
go a long way toward undermining
the confidence of the poorer mid
die classes in the Nazi program
and is proof of what the anti
Fascist forces have said from the
beginning that the Fascists are the
military arm Of the capitalist:
and completely in harmony with
the interests Of Big Business anS
the banks. Their notwithstanding
program, which called for com
plete naturalization of the banks
was never taken seriously eithe
by the Fascist leaders or by tn
industrialists who poured gold int
the Nazi treasury. "Radicalism
was adopted by them as a net i
which to catch workingmen arC
middle classes who were disguise
with the methods of the old-lin,
conservative capitalist parties. !
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Famine Threatens IN
Swedish Province

STOCKHOLM committee ap 2LOotfss
by the Diet of the Province OF NTia .,ovgrs-
has sent an appeal to the natlOn@T me iros
ment for help to avert famine ,-; me ids
ore works in this district are lyiffs s;urs
The peasants have suffered crop sa Nv vhS
and have received very low prices ssj lar thg
produce they sold. For lack OF lOu and hsT'
have slaughtered their livestock t fpr ssB.
no bread for themselves. Al ~ narts 3
time In the Southern and CenIr@ dS~reHsDi
Sweden. where the crops are rorlsttsi
there are great stores of grain acc ca and TIE
in the granaries of the landow '.;n Is aIrssn
large farmers. Part Of this gram .overnrieni
beginning to rot, but the 4 where {
makes no attempt to distribute
is needed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Fukien Armies War
Against Chang

SHANGHAI Battles on a larOe al.
have broken out between the trooD "a. ].
General Chang Kai Shek, tool of the y "
perialists and the armies of Fukien p,
vince which seeded from the Chinese y
public and declared its independence a. .
protest against Chiangs help to the n
perialists. The Fukinese have capturaj |
of ChiangS warships.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
CUBA GOVERNMENT
MAKES PLANS TO
SUPPRESS MASSES.
San Martin Buys Guns,
Tanks and Bombs to
Use On Workers

HAVANA, Nov. 24.-As a re-
suit of the rapidly rising revolu-
actions of the masses, the |
Grau San Martin government is
rapidly preparing for open war
and suppression against them.
The government has already
bought 800, 900 hand grenades for
street fighting.
Today it was announced that the
government had ordered 10 ar
mored tanks and thousands Of gas
bombs from British armament
firms.
All these instruments are es-
pecially adapted for street fight
ing.
Revolutionary organizations are
mobilizing the masses for protest
against the expenditure of govern
ment funds for war purposes while
hundreds Of thousands Of workers
and peasants are starving.
So great has been the pressure
Of mass protest against the recent
raid ON the Confederation National
Revolutionary trade union group
by Sergeant Chamizo, and the ar
rest of Cesar Villar that the gov
eminent continues to make lame
excuses, even going so far as to
promise a court-martial trial fol
| Chamizo, for unwarranted attack
on the workers center. It is vel
known. however, that Chamizo was
ordered to proceed with his attack
! by the government itself.
! Stop Lockout
The wave of indignation ant
solidarity which is rising all owe
tie country has already resulte'
in defeating the attempt Of the to
bacco employers to declare a lock
out.
Exceedingly important is the do
velopment within the Havana Fec
Grafton of Labor, the reforms
: Union controlled by renegade Of
ficials. where the secretary Of tn
organization, who is at the san
: time president of the TobacC
Transport Union. was forced
e resign as the Union decided
: affiliate with the revolutional
y unions in the Confederation.
Stop EvictiOns
After large teachers demonstr
: tions, the government was fore
to grant their demands.
II The government has also be-
s forced to accede to the demands
le tenants. The government extend
D. the moratorium on evictions fl
f another two weeks.
lie Hold ScottsbOro Meetings
"A The Young Communist Leag
successfully arranged demonstr
1e tons in front of all the Americ
q Wall Street Company offices,
"a handing the immediate release
e the Scottsboro boys. Many offi'
mt were smashed by the demonsu
n tors.
tie Among the offices affected
r. the American Embassy W.
Steamship Line, the United FIR
to the United Light and Gas &c
ms pany, and many others.
Ia The meetings were all timed
'0 take place at the same time, t
preventing the police from be
able to make any arrests.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
RAISN GROWERS ARE
TURNED DOWN FLAT
Caruthers Calf.

Caruthers, Calf.
Dear Editor:
The raisin growers Of this val
ley are getting their part of the
New Deal by being turned down
flat on their demand for 8 cent
raisins. They viii come to their
senses ard unite with the United
Farmers League before the Blue
Buzzard devours them all.
Fl. R. Bopp.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

will average less than $40 a ton.
Large companies however are
shipping culls to Seattle and these
are selling on the market at $40
a ton. In the spring the farmer
faces a possibility Of going with
out water or else fight for it.
VIM. Ferguson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Nazis Suppress Kaiser's
Supporters

BERLIN.-Two leagues workipv 8
the restoration Of the HehenzoIIern ~. w
archy were ordered suppressed by the MI MI
government. The Hohenzollerns ara .. Ls1
supporters of the Fascists but apnar rSt,'
their personal interests became too pv;S.1.
to suit the present jobholders of the Rro'N
Shirt army.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
American Workers
Protest Hitler Meet

BOSTON, MasS.-More than 5000
workers gathered at Ford Hall here to pro
test against Fascist meeting where Ger
man professor spoke on Nazism. A large
detail of police charged the crowd with
drawn clubs to quiet the cries of "Down
with Hitler" One man was knocked I'M
conscious by a policeman's club and taken
to the hospital.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

ATHENS.-For the second tim. :.
chief of police in Athens has refuses n 1e
mission for the holding of an Ant R ReS
meeting. The reason given is that &c q
government intends to wage war i ne
not ask the workers first! = VIII
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

insurance and the other demands
Of the movement, be formed.
Organizations interested in this
convention. are requested to write
the National Committee, Unem-
ployed Councils. 80 East 18th
Street, New York City.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Shakespeare Flight
Makes ILL., Miles

BRIDGETON, N. 1.-THE stratosphere
flight of Major Chester L. Fordney and
Lieut.. Commander T. G. Settle has ended
with record of ILL miles. This is some
5000 feet higher than Prof. Picard's rec
ord made in 1882 But the record of lib
September has not yet been broken.
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(Cont1nued from Front Page)
ton the gold value of the dollar.
Mr.. Lubin ignores this.
In this period, because of Mr..
ROosevelt's gold buying policy, the
dollar dropped a full point, and
was worth so cents in terms of
foreign gold currencies.
In terms of the gold dollar,
therefore, prices are dropping
RAPIDLY.
World Situation
The picture of the world situa-
ton is presented as follows:
World prices tended downward
during October. the irdices for all
the seven leading countries show
ing losses from September except
Germany" The Annalist SAYS.
Undoubtedly the weakening of
world prices reflects the decline of
United States prices in terms of
gold. which is now tending to drag
down the price level not only in
gold-currency countries. but even
in those that are on a paper basis
and have hitherto been immune"
What Is Gold Buying
There NAV be some unclearness
in the mind of the reader as ia
just how the Roosevelt gold-buy.
ing policies work.
1t might be answered like this
The government buys raw gold OF
the open market. Each day it bid:
a higher price in dollars for eacl
ounce of gold. If we bid S29 fol
an ounce of gold today then to
morrow we bid 80 dollars, then thu
value of our dollar is less than
was yesterday if measured in gold
The result is a cheapening of
the dollar and therefore an in
crease in the home price of com
modities. This is precisely wha
irflation is.
Now if prices on the world mar
;kets. measured in gold. renal
about the same, our Spectator
and exporters are in a fine DC
sition. When they pay a Unite
States dollar for YOUR crops. the
are actually paying you only {
gold cents. Then thew can tur
around and sell YOUR product @
the world market for 100 go
cents, with a clean profit of
GOLD cents.
This Is Initiation
This is the idea behind inflatio
The masses at home are led
think that they are getting high
prices. The Big Business Middl
men spectators and manufa
turers are buying labor power a
farm products, raw materials {
dirt cheap prices ard SELF
abroad at higher level.
In this wa- our Wall Street
nancieys are in a fine position
compete with the financiers al
manufacturers of France. Engla
or GERMANY. They have won t
ADVANTAGE. Of course. at the
, pense of the masses at home.
Intensifies War Danger
This is economic war betw'
3 the governments of the Uni
e States and the governments
s France. England and German
q Already Great Britain and Fra
= are showing their hostility to I
u new move of the United Sta
l. and newspapers report that Fra
It has lost more than S750,000,
4 worth Of gold in the last
:. weeks.
T" It is a truism that econoi
war inevitably leads to open n
tarv engagements. The attem
of the Roosevelt government. tn
fore. to save the profits of
bankers. is heading the masses
this country into another wo
lie imperialistic conflict.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
ONCE FARMERS UNION
ORGANIZER; Is NOW
FOR BUILDING u. F. L.


ASoOn- iowa
Dear Sir:
kindly mail me the constitution
and bylaws Of the United Farm
egs League. also an issue Of your
paper which gives full details of
the Second National Conference in
Chicago on Nov. 1913.
I once was an orgarizer Of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
30 IN STOCKADE
In MINERS STRIKE
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
GALLUP, N. M.-Striking Gal
lup coal miners have forced
mine owners and government
officials to grant eight of their
II demands, including the re-
lease of the 80 military prison
ers held here, according to Ma
tional Miners Union leaders who
led the strike.
The operators have agreed to
recognize pit committees, in
staIlation of miners checkweigh-
men. and no discrimination nor
blackiisting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

GALLUP. N. Non their way
home after a mass meeting of the
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CROP PRICES DOWN
AS U. S. BUYS GOLD

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