The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-06-30
Friday, June 80, 1888
DOLLAR WHEAT--WHO BENEFITS
BY ROOSEVELTSNEWD DEAL?

Wheat has gone a dollar a buShel. Other grains
have gone up likewise These supposed to be the fruits
of the New Deal for But know that our conditions
have been improved bit the advent of the New
Deal What, then does it mean?
There are now S6OOOOOOO bushels of wheat the
houses During the past few months the value of this wheat
has been increased by hundreds of millions of dollars
There are now between IL and 13 million bales of cotton
in the gins and warehouses This too has increased in value
by hundreds of millions OF dollars
Whose grain and cotton is it.
bales of cotton which kept behind locked doors while
millions hungry and ragged the property of the food
and textile trusts the SPECTATORS the banks and OF the
gamblers These the ones whose profits have been
swollen by hundreds of millions the first dspensaton of
the New Deal.
What are the fruits of the New Deal for the working
of the crisis been decrease in the number Of
those walking the streets without jobs While the propa-
ganda machine of bankers headlines the
papers telling of rising prices our crops are still in the
ground The groceries in kitchens few and far be
tween chdrens teeth still uncared for clothes
are more ragged than on March when New Deal was
handed US. ,jxi I: =.
We the working people, have not our conditions i'm
prove. 81"
In the next few months the Roosevelt administration
will start evyng huge sales taxes which they want to
believe will be OF benefit to u.s.
In the propaganda which the Department of Agricul-
ture sending out it is attempting to dsavow the sales tax
because of the growing realization among the impoverished
farmers that such increased burdens their city brothers
can mean no solution for the farm crisis.
The Roosevelt farm administration has stated that
there is absolutely discretion with the Secretary of Ag
rcuure to decide whether such tax should be levied The
Agricultural Adjustment Act expressly provides that when
the Secretary determines that benefit payments to be
made with respect to cotton other commodity he must
proclaim such determination and a processing tax auto
macay into effect at the beginning of the marketing
year next following"
The automatic the processing tax is used to
blur the fact that the Secretary of Agriculture the
same administration which passed the Automatic sales
tax.
In the first years of the crisis the Hoover adinstra
ton proclaimed its program of blowing down every third
row Of cotton and cutting production of wheat and other
crops This was the Old Deal.
What is the New Deal? Roosevelt is putting into
operation the acreage cutting program that Hoover ad
vOcated.
The wheat crop for 1884 and 1895 to be cut 20 per
cent This years cotton to be cut between Is and
so per cent. This is the New Deal.
By these the Roosevelt administration is trying
70 cut production so that the rich owners of the present
Plus can squeeze untold profits out of the consumers the
working people of the country.
The consumers of products, the workers in the
cities and other farmers have had increase in their
purchasing power The food and textile trusts are aisnO
the prices to these working people The amount they can
buy is being cut Even if we cut production they will
not be able to purchase what produce
Ihe surplus viii again increase the price get will
again be forced down by the gamblers and trusts who are
now reapng millions dsposng of the present surplus The
surplus will be here prices will not our costs of pro
ducton the workers will be crushed by even worse CON
dltons but the spectators will have reaped their crop
their profits wrng out of the lives of the working people
THIS is THE NEW DEAL
Against this program of acreage cutting sales taxas
and starvation the working people must build one unitd
front Unity of city workers and farmers must be thrown
against this hunger plan We urge on our readers o in
tenslfy the struggle for the following demands
y, Fnces Tor our products to guarantee ms a decent
Hvng-but ne increase in cost to the workers
9 Federal unemployment insurance and ;r,rood;o4a
products ~ CONSUMERS vi
Joint struggles to force price reductions nv the food
and textile trusts Higher prices for the farmers and
lower prices for the city wrers must come ont If th
profits of these nIunderorr = ~ o~s Va eAe