The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
Friday, September s, 1888
The Blue Vulture

The Blue Vulture has made the fruitful Yakima Valley
of it's nesting places The golden eggs that many farm
expected of this caronbird have not been laid In
stead has brought to its nesting place tear and
chine guns terror and persecution vgantes and lynch MOB
Roosevelt and his propaganda machine have promised
deiverance for the Forgotten men, under the New Deal
Our correspondents in Washington have reported in this
issue what the New Deal really means In their reports we
find the following:
Farmers and agricultural workers have been pitted
against the other in the Yakima Valley
peaceful meeting being addressed by Casey BOska
jon, State UFL Organizer, broken up by National
Guardsmen with tear gas
Martial law was declared in Yakima county.
BOskaljOn was third degreed, and then turned
to lynch mob of rich farmers by the sheriff. together
with organizers of the farm workers. He brutay
beaten by this mob which had the protection of the
state police
The federal government Immediately stepped into
the conflict and sent of its agents to question BOs
kaljOn while in Jail in order to depOrt him if possible
One of the farm worker organizers who was beaten
together with BOskaIjOn lies death in Seattle
result of the beating.
The militant GOOld family of Yakima has been
arrested and is still held in Jail.
Organization of vigIante groups is reported in diff
ferent parts of the valley.
The Blue VuIture has showed his claws This is the
New Deal organized terror against the working people,
when fine phrases will not Supply them longer.
The struggles has its origin the inability of the i'm
poverhed farmers and the farm workers to exist under the
miserable prices for their product and their labor spirit
of struggle has been developing among impoverished farm
and the farm workers. In order to prevent unity among
workers and farmers against their enemy the rich
farmers the Chambers of Commerce. and the bankers
ganized brutal attack the farm workers who defended
themselves mijitantly.
Now a bull pen has been constructed in Yakima "for
the purpose of anagonzng the workers against the farm
ers and vice versa of correspondents reports
The officials of Yakima asking that the Blue Vuure
whose pen this is should lay them golden egg pay fol-
it. and to pay for prosecuting the workers in it. They
going to request that the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton the mich of the bankers donate 900 to foster
this attempt to spread antagonSm among workers and
farmers $4,000 for the pen and $4,000 for prosecuting
these workers.
The United Front Conference which had been organized
under the leadership of the United Farmers League
smashed up delegates arrested and third degreed
State Organizer Boskaon brualy beaten at the
mand of the Blue Vuure and the class represents
rich.
The order for the smashing of the Conference and
for the errOrzaOn of the delegates particularly those
representing the United Farmers League, was issued
because the capitalist class recognized in the United
Farmers League and in the United Front Conference
powerful force for unity in the working Glass; between
the workers and the farmers
The exploters of both the impoverished farmers anC
the farm workers understand that the leadership of thu
United Farmers League is different from the leadership
the Grange and other old line farm organizations The
understand that whereas the Grange leaders will permit
stimulate attacks the farm workers, the Unite
Farmers League will relax until such miseadership
the farmers is torn out trunk and roots from the ranks
the impoverished farmers.
The bankers know that when the United Farmer
League declares for United Front of busted farmers an
destitute farm workers it just that and what is nor
that it will compromise instant in the struggl
for this unity.
We in the United Farmers League stand for Unity thru
out the entire working class because realize that on
through such Unity can we carry effective struggle
along the whole frontaganst the master class The ruin
and exploiting class seeks to bread dsuny Just becas
they realize that Unity force which viii bring them
terms. 49,
Our correspondents give valuable conclusions from N
smash up of the Yakima conference
Il cannot help but feel that it win have heIDful
effect in the end by clarifying the situation wrote the
first A letter from the second written week after
the date for the conference confirms this statement