The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-29
PA.YOUNC FARMERS
VOTE ADOPTION OF
CHICAGO PROGRAM
Young Pioneers of UFPA
Discuss Work of Youth In
Winning Demands
By Dave Kaplan

DUBLIN, Pa.-Ths program and
resolutions of the Youth Section at
tie Farmers National Conference,
was adopted by unanimous vote
CT the membership, at a meeting
here of Local No. 1 Of the Young
Pioneers of the United Farmers
Protective Assn.
Victor K.aunos, farm boy from
Hllltowr, Pa, and delegate to the
Chicago Conference, gave an ex-
cellent report Of the conference
and of the youth session. The de-
mands of the youth section were
discussed ard the members of the
local pledged to carry out these
demands through their united
struggles, and by building large
Youth Group. The discussion of
the Chicago program led to the
immediate decision, that the Young
Pioneers make an inter sive study
Of the relief situation, and to rally
the young farm people for strug-
gle to better their conditions. Each
member is going to find out from
his reighbors and friends, who
needs relief, who has applied for
relief and were refused. The find
ings of tire members will then be
brought up at the next meeting.
and plans for the necessary actior
will be laid.
Discuss CWA Jobs
John Dyke, an active member of
the Red Hill local of the Young
Pioneers who is working on a re-
lief job under the C. w. A., e&-
plaired the methods and red tape
that anyone had to go through be-
fore he was able to get a job. He
explained that although thousands
had applied for jobs, there was
only a few that had received any
work, and that when the destitute
demanded relief they were called
wops and foreigners by the relief
administrator. Dyke also pointed
out that although this supposed to
be relief work, the men were
forced to work whole month be-
fore they would receive any pay
whatsoever, and at that they
would only get two weeks pay.
Two weeks pay would be held back
on them until the erd of the job.
The Young Pioneers are going to
rally the relief workers to fight for
back pay and that the money be
paid on a weekly basis.
National Guardsman Speak
The members of the Young Pho
neers responded enthusiastically to
the speech of young farm work
er, who had been a member of the
National Guard for three years.
This young man told how he had
joined tie National Guard under
the illusions built up by the in
tense propaganda that he had been
fed about vacation with pay" etc,
Once signed up, he found his illu-
sions shattered. Irstead Of pro-
misese he and the other farmer
youth like him, were give riot
training with tear gas, riot clubs,
machine guns, etc. The boys were
not told when they Joined the N
G. that they would have to go out
to club and shoot down theil
friends, their family and those
farmers who like themselves were
struggling for the right to live.
II have learned to get the right
slant on things, stree I have come
to the study circles at the Farm
Schools on Wheels. I have learned
that the farmers and workers are
Emy friends, and that it is the same
people that exploit me who are
sending me out to shoot them" He
said that he was glad to be able
to join the ranks of the Young Pho.
neers because he felt that this or
~anization was going to help him