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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-27
Deaths

BECK, FRANK W.-Passed away on Sat
urday. November rs, 1888, at the Ma
tional Homeopathic Hospital FRANK W.
BECK. the beloved husband of Mabel l..
Beck, late residence, 3733 Morrison street
Northwest. Rem aims resting at the W. w.
Chambers Co. funeral home, Fourteenth
and Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Funeral services will be held on Tues
day morning, November 2S, 1888, at 10
O'Clock, from the W. W. Chambers Co. tu-
neral home, 400 Chaplin Street Northwest
Relatives and friends are invited TO
attend
nterment strictly private.
CHASE. GEORGE wASHINGTON-Passc
away on Saturday morning. November
%. 1898 at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. Chase Bourne, 1904 Harris Street,
Mount Rainier. Md, GEORGE WASHING
TON CHASE, in the eighty-fOurth year of
his age. the beloved husband of the late
Mary Elizabeth Chase. He is survived by
SIX children. four daughters. Mrs. Chase
Bourne, Mrs. Martha l.. Nutter, Mrs.
Emma Goldman and Mrs. Mabel Speaks,
and two sons. Mr.. Orville Chase and Mr..
George +. Chase.
Funeral services will be held on Tues
day afternoon, November %, 1888. at > 30
o'clock, from the residence of his daugh-
.er. Mrs. Chase Bourne, 1904 Harris Street,
Mount Rainier. Nd.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend.
Interment will follow in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Services by Chambers.
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dlltuu.
Intcrment will follow in Washington
Memorial Park Cemetery.
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attend.
Interment will follow in St MaryS
Cemetery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

CHICAGO, nl.-The powerful support of a nationwide
movement of impoverished farmers was swung into line be-
hind the ceaut demand for complete cancellation of Sc
cured farm debts when the Farmers Second National Con
ference voted unanimously in favor of demand No as
posed by the resolution committee Saturday
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Canadian Farmer Says
Boundary Lines
Must Go

CHICAGO, Ill.-If there was
any one outstanding feature of the
Farmers Second National Confer
ence which closed here Sunday
after four-day session, it was
unity.
First there was unity between
the farmers themselves. The dele
gates represented So different or
CARNATIONS, incluling the old line
organizations such as the Grange,
the Farm Bureau, the Farmers
Union, the Milk Pool. They came
from SO states, north east south
and west. There were grain farm
ers from the northwest, cotton
farmers from the south, potato
farmers from Oregon, fruit, truck
vegetable growers, dairy farmers
poultry farmers. They were united
on the immediate and burning
need for relief.
In the second place, there wa
unity between farmers and work
ers. This was demonstrated evel
before the farmers arrived by tn
offer of the Workers Internations
Relief, the Unemployed Councils
and the International Workers Or
der to arrange for the feeding o
the delegates. The homes of tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
UFL MEMBERS URGED
TO, ARRANGE MEETS
FOR CONF. REPORTS

VIRGINIA, Minn.-A plea to all
U. F. L. members to begin at once
arranging meetings Of farmers to
hear the reports of delegates TO
the Farmers Second National Con-
ference has been issued by HAL
mer Johnson, acting county secre-
tary of the U. F. l..
Reports should be made pri-
marily in those communities which
do not have active u. F. L. locals,
declares johnson, and UFL mem
bers must take the initiative, go
into these communities and make
arrangements for a report meet
ing. "
In every local, able farmers
should be elected and instructed to
arrange meetings. All farm orga-
nizations should be approached to
help with the meetings, in order
that the program of the confer
ence can be carried to as many
farmers as possible.
At every report meeting, the
secretary urges, talk should be
made on the United Farmers
League, its program and its rec
ord Of struggles for the interests
of the impoverished and exploited
farmers.
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definite pledge as to how many subscriptions he or she
would secure before January 1, 1884
Every Farmer Must Help
The subscription price adopted $3.50 for one year,
go cents for six months and 80 cents for three MONTHS with
commission allowed to the expenses of the
Delegates were commissioned to get their locals to dis
cuss this question and to make collective pledge to build
the paper The following directions were adopted to be put
into effect at once:
To build FARMERS WEEKLY into the which we
need we set ourselves these tasks:
a) by getting subscriptions selling individual cop make
.f every farmer in the community regular reader.
M to get every interested the
an booster IN spreading the circulation his
neghbors ~
collective
reports conditions and activities the community and
the criticism and suggestions which will help to
improve it.
(d) to have pamphlets literature available for sale all
times
(e) to and raising finances through
socals bates collections at meetings.
direct from individuals organizations.
C to solicit advertising from local merchants and the
bring local merchants that they
i will do this
(g solicit paid Greetings" from Individuals
first newly FARMERS WEEKLY. Lists
such Greetings advertising will be furnished
Unexpired subscriptions to both the Farmers Natona
Continued page p
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new SCOTTSBORO
TRIALS OPEN In
SPIRIT OF LYNCH
Negro Boys Brought to
Decatur Where Mob
Talk Threatens

DECATUR, Ala.-Seven of the
ScOttsboro boys were brought here
at o'clock Monday evening in
custody of 20 Birmingham Deputy
sherffs, heavily armed. The Ne
grOes, riding in four automobiles,
we're preceded and followed by
ears loaded with officers, carrying
machine guns, sawed off shotguns,
ana automatic rifles.
With the new trials 10 begin
~ NOV Il, the lynch spirit hangs
1ke a heavy cloud over the city.
IN Investigator who has spent
several weeks in this town has
n4Oe an affidavit to hundreds of
conversations in which local bust
usss men and even National Guard
Vuicers have expressed the threat
Iych the Scottsboro boys and
ue l: L. D. lawyers who repre-.
sent the defendants.
II
~. ruby Bates, white girl who tes
led as to the innocence of tn,
ro boys, has notified the 1. L
life. "iaue against heI
JuS SAul Monday, however, tn
e, W. W. Callahan, Sheriff
=. :, hawkins of Jefferson county
NM attorney General Thomas T
SAnight refused to listen to tn
s Ssnands Of the I. L. D. for ,
hOng guard to defend the Scott:
A, me |. L. D. charged that ii
iS man, authorities were know
y placing the boys in a ira
W VIeTe the lynchers could get ther
b. OrAers and farmers organizatic
fave OOmbarded the Alabama .
s tSia with so many letters al
bsvs rams' however, that tn,
st,0 e been forced to throw
SS o.a guard around the Scott
OOro defendants 'e 00O''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
By R. F. H.

resolution consolidating the Farmers National weekly,
official organ of the National Committee for Action ana the
Producers News organ of the United Farmers League was
passed unanimously the Farmers Second National Confer
ence at Chicago
The consolidation was approved at an earlier meeting
of the United Farmers League executive council ana was
endorsed by membership meeting of u r. L. delegates a
the conference. .o. 81
Tho new paper will be published at 15lO west lotn ot
c;caro III with the first combined issue appearing Jan
* The editorial staff will be composed OF Elk BERT
editor Of the Producers News and Rob- F. Hail. editor OF
the FNCA paper roou.
u7,+or Hariu speaking for the Workers and Farmers
Irat;uo Unity Alliance, declared that his organzauOn
Viii adding their monthly Bulletin to the merger
For Unity in Fight
The consolidation was hailed as the most effective
+hod f unifvng the ranks of the millions OF mpoVer-
shed and ruined farmers for concerted fight against tne
nIotation and robbery of the Money Lords Delegates
their utmost efforts to get subscriptions, advertise
menfs and contributions to launch the new paper ana y
male Il bigger and better force in their fight for better
standard of living. -.
m o+o of the conference meant that ORGANIZATIONS
-, me W. numbering more than 10000 swung behnC
the formation Of single militant farm paper The snS
o ths becomes the official organ of the u F. L. tn
NebrasIa Holiday Association madison Co. Plan) TIT
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SELL EVERYTHING
SINGLER'S ADVICE
TO Wis. FARMERS
Calls Truce in Wisconsin;
Urges Farmers to Stop
Buying

At a meeting at Madison, Wis,
leaders of the Wisconsin Holiday
Association and the Milk Pool
voted to put an end to the strike
and called for a truce. Walter M.
Singler attempted to blame the
farmers. "Why should we fight
out the battle to win higher prices
for those who refuse to join with
u.s." he exclaimed. Meanwhile
Singler is urging the farmers to
go on ga buying strike" as a way
of bringing the money lords to
terms.
Singler joined Arnold Gilberts,
the. discredited head of the Wis
consin Holiday, in urging farmers
to sell everything possible and
convert their products into cash.
The object, they said, is "to reduce
bank deposits available for credit,
thereby Strengthening the demand
for a two billion dollar currency
ISSUE"
| AS a consequence of the strikes,
the Milk Trust is trying to pena-
LIE the militant farmers who were
active in the strike and have cut
at least 100 from their list.
Towards the end of last week
North Dakota farmers were still
active. At Rock Lake, farmer:
prevented a shipment of live stool
9 from leaving the city. A stock
: car was pushed Town the tracks
the stock yards locked, and
loading platform torn down.
= At Belfield Saturday, about 10
Holiday members turned back 81
carloads of sheep and cattle, an
! shipments of turkeys, cream whes
ard other farm products.
Il At Sioux City last week, l. v
= Reck, president of the Sioux Cit
Milk Association set up by tn
Holiday Association and otht
), groups of farmers, admitted tina
~ he was leading member in Il
= Law ard Order League whiC
. had sent armed gangs out to Il
picket lines to break the strike.
At a meeting of farmers, Re-
was able to push through a vo
calling off the milk strike in t
l. Sioux City area, although the o
position to surrender was vigorol
to Half of the 300 farmers prese
mt did not vote.
k Reck was exposed as an ener
re of the strike from the start.
rs had wired to the governor, it {
Sc. veloped, that the farmers in t
Ike association were rot in favor
of strike. He admitted this, and tn
~ launched into an attack on 'v
lence and vandalism"
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WORKERS VOTE NO
TO HITLER DESPITE.
TERROR OF NAILS
Fascist Doctor Figures of
Returns for Fake
Election

BERLIN-The so-called election
in Fascist Germany on Nov. IL
proved to be a fake election, as
even the capitalist papers like the
Morgan-controlled New York Eve
ming Post had to admit.
In Zwickal it was reported that
seven members Of a religious sect
were arrested for refusing to vote
and for distributing handbills bear
ing the words, Jesus is Our
Leader" Cases like this, where
workers refused to vote for any
reason occurred on a large scale
all over Germany. People were
literally forced to vote at the
swords point. The Nazi Storm
Troopers secured the houses in all
the cities, dragging workers down
to the polls.
Yet in spite of this widespread
terror ard intimidation, the re-
suits of the election proved that
the workingclass movement has
not been crushed and that in the
face of unheard-of terror, millions
of workingmen had the courage tx
defy the gallows ard the ak anC
openly show, either by not voting
or by voting against the Nazis
their hatred of Hitler and the cap
italists.
Almost 100000 voters stayed
away from the polls, nearly one
! tenth of the total qualified voters
Another S,S48,362 voters had thei
ballots disqualified from the coun
because they were Spoiled" T
quote ore correspondent: "Wha
tales of heroism these ballots tel
How many thousands wrote sue
slogans of "Down with the Hitle
Murder Regimel Long live I'll
T Communist Partyl For Sovi'
Germany! Release the brave D
: mitrof, Torgler, Taneff and Poi
3 off" will be known only to tt
Nazi scoundrels."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
GRANGE CONVENTION
is SPLIT ON ISSUE OF
CURRENCY IMITATION

BOISE, Idaho-Delegates to the
rational convention of the Grange
were ir, sharp disagreement when
the question of initiation came for
ward. Louis Taber, national mas
ter, advocated controlled infla-
ton" in his annual message. Ar
thur Sherman, Rhode Island state
master, attacked initiation as un-
sound and dangerous. Delegates,
made up for the most part of we'll
to-do farmers, were lining up be-
hird the two different points of
view.
The Grarge passed a resolution
condemning farmers mass action
against foreclosures and on strike
picket lines as violence ard init
midatior. After the resolution was
adopted, some. of the delegates
thought better of it and had the
resolution recalled.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
ARMOUR WORKERS
STRIKE IN ST. PAUL

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Entrance to
the Armour and Co. packing plant
here is barred by picketing pack
ing house workers ON strike
against the miserable conditions
which prevail in the clearinghouse,
William Schneiderman, the strike
leader, appealed to employees OF
Swift, Cudahy and other packing
plan&s to join the strike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
New Enlarged Organ of Toing Farmers to Begin Publ
cation january IS; Immediate Support
Is Needed

United Farmers Protective Association the Michigan Farm
League the Sharecroppers Union well as many or
CARNATIONS which not yet 50 large as those named AS
and Organization, the new Farmers Weekly will be
than the official organ of these various organizations
lit win be the organ Of the tong farmers of America
ganized and unorgzed and regardless of whether they
members of the militant fighting organizations or
whether they are members of the old line farm Organiza
tions. CT @ M - ~
100000 Circulation Is Aim
Bert speaking for the proposed consolidation declared
that no militant farm paper could consider itself effective
I'm the farmers fight until its circulation numbered 100000
readers 1--WE should be satisfied with nothing less than
this figure" declared Bert IF every farmer, every or
ganzaon every local mere Degns at once
ings and contributions go forward together for
real fighting paper real national newspaper representing
the interests of the impoverished and militant farmers of
America"
The delegates cheered when the vote taken, and
when the call for pledges made hundreds of pledges
were brought the speakers platforms Each delegate made
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

Alfred TiaEa, national secretary
of the United Farmers League,
read the recommendation of the
resolutions committee to the 7O2
farmer delegates from 36 states,
assembled in the Peoples Auditor
ium here. Corn farmers from Ne
braska, Negro sharecroppers from
the South, dairy farmers from
Pennsylvania, and wheat farmers
from the northwest took the floor
to insist that neither initiation, re-
financing nor moratoriums offered
airy solution to the problems of the
busted farmers. Cancellation is
the only answer" they said.
A few minutes later when the
Chairman Charles E. Taylor called
for a vote, the answer was a
cheering chorus of "Ayes."
No Tribute to Mortgage
Sharks
eve do rot propose any longer
to take food from the mouths Of
our children in order to pay a
tribute to wealthy mortgage hold
ers," the resolution read. "Mora-
forums do not give us the
required securing, refinancing
schemes do not help the great
mass of impoverished farmers, and
initiation proves to be only a new
snare with which the profiteers
hope to extract bigger profits from
US.
1--WE demand cancellation Of
secured debts, mortgages, back
rents, delinquent taxes, and seed
and feed loans of the impOv-
erished small and middle farm
ers."
, The conference called for a
| united struggle of all exploited
: and busted farmers, regardless of
!. race, creed or political opinions"
: to win this demand for cancella-
ton as well as the six other de-
, mands raised at the conference.
: Organized Debt Strike
br An organized campaign to re-
It fuse to pay secured farm debts
o mortgages, delinquent taxes, anC
t back rents was launched by tn,
|! conference, to be backed up by thG
h organized strength of the desti
" tute farmers in every community
lie This united action, it was pointet
ct out is the only method by which
i foreclosures, evictions, and tai
D. sales can be stopped.
lie The first demand to be adopteC
called for immediate cash relief TO
all needy farmers, ain order t
live and continue production"
"For all other toiling farmers,
the conference decided, 1--WE de
: mand production credit withou
= collateral and without interest. w
demand the distribution of surplu
y Continued on page q
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Capital. He was enthusiastically
applauded.
Then there was another unity,
the unity of the Negro ard white
farmers.
When the delegation of Negro
and white sharecroppers from the
South arrived Thursday morning
and filed into the auditorium, the
delegates broke into applause
which lasted for ten minutes. In
answer to demand from the dele
gate the delegation took its place
on the platform and Joe Burns
Negro member of the Sharecrop-
pers Union from Alabama, spoke
to the farmers.
Delegates Sing Solidarity"
Orr the platform, the Negro dele
gates were greeted by the whitt
troopers from Texas, Arkansas
Florida and Alabama. AS Negr'
and white shook hands, as a sym
boil of their fighting unity, tn,
delegates broke into the SOM
solidarity"
The Negro spokesman finished
his short talk with the words:
'SWe pledge our whole hearted
support to the conference. We
shall go back to Alabama to
fight for greater unity between
black and white farmers against
Roosevelt and the New Deal"
A white farmer from Florid
followed. He described the terrC
down south and showed how the1
is discrimination against the farm
ers ir the regulations for dippin
CONTINUED on Page two)
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Washington, D. Con- the
l llnoT Of the existence Of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Re.
U UI, the government OF
tSa limited States gave it Of
f fetal recognition. The an
rnlo NOM, was made about
ten minutes before midnight,
Nov. II, by President Roose-
Welt before some 200 news
naper men who had haunted
tbe White House press room
for many hours waiting for
this. the biggest news of the
capital city for months.
President Roosevelt read to the
assembled newspapermen an ex-
change Of letters between himself
and Maxim LitvinOv, Peoples Com
missar of Foreign Affairs, who is
IN this country to effect recogn-
ton. The letter Of the president
To Mr.. Etvinov which put the Off
eial seal on the negotiations said:
q am very happy to inform
Uu that as a result Of our con-
versatiOns the government of
the United States has decided to
establish normal diplomatic re-
lstiOns with the government of
the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics and to exchange am
bassadOrs."
Millions in Orders
On the date that recognition wa
announced, former Senator Smitl
W. BrOOkhart, special adviser t
the Agricultural Adjustment AID
ministration stated that Soviet OF
ders for 5zO,OOO,000 are ready
and waiting only for the arrange
ment of credits. The first deals
with the Soviet government, h
said, would be shipments of cotton
cotton textiles, live stock and {
heavy machinery.
He considered that the cotto
shipments would come first wit
exports of raw cotton worth fro
%O,OOO,OOO to S60,O00,0O0, to ]
fnarced probably through AA
credits. An additional order f,
SO,0O0,000 in cotton textiles al
another s3O,OO0,000 for live sto
are expected, he said.
Mr.. Brookhact placed great ell
phasis on the credit safety of S
Wet Russia. otis a far bett'
credit risk than Wall Street."
declared, and characterized the S
Wet government as the most stal
one in Europe.
On the question Of debts in
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DELEGATES CHEER AS VOTE
OF CONFERENCE IS TAKEN:
CALL TO ACTION IS ISSUED
Farmers Second National Conference Builds United
Front for Immediate Relief
DEMANDS CASH RELIEF FOR NEEDY

Solidarity With Negro Sharecroppers Is Unanimously
Supported at Chicago
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a definite pledge as to how many subscriptions ne OF
would secure before January 1, 1884.
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Washington Recognizes
Govt. Of Soviet Russia;
Crop Market Opened
oornt;on Seen AS Great Victory for Peace Policy OF
NS'Oe' Workers and Farmers Government
uopMAI, DIPL OMATIC RELATIONS AGREED
c Orders for Cotton, TEXTILES, Livestocks and Ma
'O''' chinery Wait Credit Arrangements

Litvinov-Roosevelt negotiations the
statement was issued that "There
has taken place an exchange of
views with regard to methods Of
settling outstanding questions of
Indebtedness and claims that per-
nit us to hope for a speedy and
satisfactory solution, to these ques-
! tons" In the meantime, the U. S.
S. R. agrees to waive claims arts
ing out of the intervention by the
American troops in Siberia after
January, 1918.
The Soviet government restated
its principles of tolerance for all
forms of religious observance by
foreigners in Russia, and incident
ally pointed out the fixed principle
of religious liberty for all.
Or the question of propaganda,
the Soviet government restated its
"fixed policy to respect scrupuous-
ly the indisputable right of the
United States to order its own life
within its own jurisdiction in its
own way and to refrain, from inter
fering in any manner with the in
ternal affairs of the United
States" Roosevelt supplied the
same guarantee. This clause il
similar to that II, effect between
Soviet Russia anG other countries
with which diplomatic relation
are in effect.
Soviet Peace Policy
The statement of Litvinov whic
is echoed by Roosevelt, hopes tina
G "our nations may hencefoTth CO
4 operate for their mutual benefi
q and for the preservation of tn
peace of the world"
; The emphasis on peace, whicl
, has been made by Litvinov, light
!. up the contention that the success.
: full termination of recognition IA
% gotiations is a triumph for tn
|, peace policy of the Soviet Union
4 1t is also regarded as a triumI
for the tremendous achievement
- in technical, material ard cultur
= advance in the Soviet program
:, socialist construction. The Sow
10 government has become such
power that the United States go
- eminent could no longer igno
~ this socialist giant.
II. Exchange Ambassadors
Pres. Roosevelt has announc
that William C. Built, former W
"a son representative in Russia, "
70 be the American Ambassador
=, Moscow.
ne The Soviet government has p
20 posed as its ambassador to Wa
Oie ington the former Russian enH
to Japan, Alexander Trovanovs
he He has beer, accepted by t
United States.