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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
FRENCH STATESMEN
SEE APPROACH OF
WAR, REVOLUTIONS

New York, Aug. 8.-France is
looking forward to about 1885 az
very critical time. The occasion
for their war fever is primarily
Hitler" reported DR.. Lionel D.
Edie, formerly professor of fl
nance AT the University of Chi
cago on his return from Europe.
"In regard to the fear about
gold, the point of view ON the
Continent, is almost impossible to
describe.
"SOme French politicians, men,
bers of the government and peO-
pie in responsible positions assO-
ciate some form of social revOlu-
ton with the possibility of the
franc being forced off gold. They
talk about rhe possibility of blood
shed in Paris if the franc falls
They tank about It not merely fOl
France bue FOR a large part Of
Central Europe.
'They seem to think that a col
lapse of the gold standard ON tn,
Continent a second time woult
somehow produce a general sOcia
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
RFC WILL AID FOOD,
DAIRY AND TOBACCO
TRUSTS, is PROGRAM

Washington, July 22.-The Re
construction Finance Corp, is
broadening out its farm relief"
program by lending money to the
manufacturers of farm products.
This is the gist of I'm announce
ment made by Jesse H. Jones,
chairman of the r. F. c.
Among those to be relieved by
the R. F. C. are Gamers, dryers
and preservers of peaches, tOma-
toes, peas and corn, the manufac-
turers of dliry products and the
tobacco curers.
Thus the New Deal is going to
aid the dairy and tobacco trusts
while the farmers are fed with
empty promises.
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the money.
Not even the farmers who nees
refinancing the most.
No farms are being refi-
nanced unless the mortgages
are held by busted banks.
We have a Lot of them, and
at present rate, the money
may not even reach all of
them. Instead of lowering the
interest rate on the refinanced
farms, the farmer is still
forced 10 pay the same exhor-
bitant interest as before. The
gOvernment merely buys the
mortgage from the busted
banks giving Them cash in re-
turn.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
The Constitution
by NJ. Bragin
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

cent against it. The back country of Kentucky piled
up 80 per cent against it. North Carolina, where
there had been farmers rebellion before the Revolu
ton, voted strongly against it. Six states adopted it
without qualifications. Seven recommended amend
ments. Rhode Island had to be forced into line by be-
ing threatened So in 1889 the Constitution became the
fundamental law of thhe land though it has the
history of country actually been voted on by the
majority of the people.
SALES TAXES
AS soon as the new government leaped firmly into
the saddle it began whip new laws over the heads of
the people The domestic debts owed to the rich must
be settled pronto The fat salaries of officials must be
paid Over 100000 taken out of the pockets of
the people yearly in the form of duties Rum worth As
cents gallon was taxed Is cents. Moasses worth Is
cents taxed six cents; molasses used by the
masses in tea and spread bread The paper GER
tficates issued by the government were suddenly re-
deemable at par. Spectators who able to learn
about this before everybody ese scurred around buy
ing up all the paper for song.
The people attacked Congress- They demanded that
the original holders of the certificates the soldiers
farmers laborers, be paid in full Congress refused
political bargain struck in which the liberal
Jefferson involved and the national government
assumed states debts This again to insure payment of
interest to the rlch
In the meantime the masses were suffering intense
w. Cash was so scarce that workers couldnt get hold
of coppers to buy bread and vegetables. Sharpers
bought up great quantities of these coins at next to
nothing and sold them to the farmers making great
profit And the government went ahead grinding out
more oppressive laws from its mill for the people
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL BANK
Though the customs houses were collecting about
two millions every year, there remained great deficit
national bank with a capital of S10OOOOOO must be
established to help the money situation Naturally the
subscribers would be wealthy The chief money vein
of the country would be open to their mouths Not only
only did merchants traders shipowners etc., speculate
in the bank scrip and make profits but rec
ords discovered hundred years later showed that Con-
gressmen who voted for the bank also horned in The
people attacked the bank another whip by the
moneyed interests to direct the government The Bank
was established. But this not enough. To help
in meeting the increased interest which the govern
ment had promised to pay the rich when it assumed
state debts Congress passed most adominabe excise
tax
Next week: 'The Whiskey Rebellion
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
TEN PEASANTS ARE
JAILED BY POLICE;
ATTACKS RESISTED

Sofia, July II (delayed) On
July 5 the peasants of the village
Talamaschli rose up against the
police sent to investigate certain
events" The police methods are
we'll known to the people land as
soon as the two policemen arrived
the peasants surrounded them and
demanded that they leave the
place. AS the police refused to
leave and behaved with the ut
most brutllity, they were stoned
and finally routed out of the vii
lage.
AS soon as the news of this
peasant revolt became known, the
district captain sent a detachment
of police to the village. After
brual billy raiding the village, the
| police arrested 10 peasants.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
NEW TARIFF RISE
BY FASCISTS WILL
AID RICH FARMERS

Berlin, July 15.-In order to
satisfy the Unsuitable greed of the
rich farmers and landlords, the
fascist government has again
raised the duties on lard, bacon,
and tallow. When the first two
new duties were imposed the fas-
cists put the responsibility or
Hugenberg who was then Minister
of Agriculture. Now the third in
crease is put drought after Hug
enberg was kicked out of the gov
eminent.
Even the official statements of
the government admit a great
falling off in the consumption of
fats. These new tariff increases
are going to take the last bit of
margarine off of the bread Of the
employed and unemployed work
ers.
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THE GATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS


The history of jamming it through the legislature
ShnkS to high heavens. The most conservative of his
Oans have to admit here the political depravty Of the
fathers of the constitution. Lies, bribery threats,
violence, everything was used spite of the fact that
property and religious qualifications whitfield down the
number OF votes out of a population OF 100000 to
100000.
In Pennsylvania the federalists who advocated the
immediate passage of the Constitution, brought it up
day before adjournment. The opponents wished more
time for elaboration and so refused to appear the
house. The federaists drummed up mob which seized
these men at their hotel rooms, dragged them to the
house and forced them into their seats. There they
were compelled to answer present to make quorum
was then decided to take up the whole question with
IN live weeks.
When the legislature met to vote, two young
were authorized to take shorthand notes and make re-
pOS on the proceedings The reported did such good
JOB that his stories in the Pennsylvania Herald were
eagerly read and aroused fiery opposition to the Con-
Sututon. number of wealthy got together and
bought up the paper. No reports appeared. The
Stenographer bribed ceased taking notes. and IL
naLy published report which had only two speeches
IT, both by ardent supporters of the Big Roof The
oSC O1fce was used to keep mail and newspapers WIN
unIaVorabe accounts of the voting from spreading.
MASS ANGER AROUSED
In New Hampshire, the legislature was Immediately
%JCGrned when it obvious that the CONSTITUTION
uu De defeated to give the ruling class chance 10
%ouSe Its hackers Such foul trickery aroused mass
nger; In Pennsylvania groups of workers and farm.
T S attacked the federasts and burned a number OF
one leaders in effigy. Rhode Island farmers marched
81 Iovdence The people burned copies of the Con-
S"tuuOn in Albany, New York
+ but the fight against them. The rich had con-
U q the press They began series of articles later
CG IN the Federalst in which they tried to sell the
setS;AIuuon Knowing very well that their acCual
;a ents were hidden in the minutes of the Constl.
de Un now in Washington's hands, they talked about
the rights of the masses, etc. These led
d also promised to add articles providing for free
and speech press assembage the rights of petition
"O 'flal by jury, etc.
the Inc Inc Constitution was finally passed Everywhere
avaiSt country where the poor farmers lived voted
on fbl In the east where the arstocrats squatteo
gOoen eggs, the Constitution was approved. Inc
Oh Virginia with its small farmers voted "a per
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
SHAKESPEARE IS
SOVIET AIR GOAL
Engineer VIII Attempt the
First Flight on
Aug. Is

Moscow, U. S. S. R.-The Soviet
areonautic engineer Chertofsky,
Designer of the shakespeare bal
loon which is expected to make
the first regular flight ON Avia-
ton Day, Aug. Is, outlines the
aims of the experiment in an ar
ticle in the bi-weekly magazine
Technica.
The fist object, he declares, is
to investigate the stratosphere
with a view of utilizing the less
dense air for high speed flights.
This is more important to Soviet
aviation because of the great size
of the U. S. S. R. than to smaller
countries.
Another object is the study of
the degree of performance or the
variability of solar rays, both In
quantity and in quality.
Mr.. Chertofsky says the strato-
sphere ships gondola has beer
made round instead of cylindrical
as originally planned. It is Iabout
z feet 10 inches in diameter will
a cubic content of about PAT feet
It is constructed of welded stee
instead of riveted aluminium sheet.
like Professor Auguste Picard
and his sever. windows on the sid
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
Farmers Union Chief
EVades Issues Raised
by Reporter Of News
3VERSON PICKS UP SANDER OF S. D. CAPITAL
LST PRESS IN ORDER TO AVOID FACING
ISSUES SQUARELY

There Is mountain of evidence
that EversOn backs the economic
and political policies of Wall st.
In the June % issue of the South
Dakota Union Farmer, which is
edited by Everson, there is pub
Gshed long article by Emil Lor-
ike, vice president Of the Farmers
Union, which throws the fullest
light on the game that Everson
and Loriks are playing with the
farmers. After Loriks tells the
readers what great mam Everson
is (this is the technique of the
high salaried farm takers, to
praise one another, since the farm
ers will not), he refers to the
mighty revolution that took place
last November. He says:
''The time arrived when the mass
of our citizens realized that they
hid been taken for a ride" and 10
and behold; On last November 8,
the American people rose in a
mighty revolution, armed with the
weapons of the ballot, completely
overthrow the Harding Coolidge
Hoover dynasty with its imperial
ism"
BEHIND THE NEW DEAL
The masses, then, are victorious
under the new deal.
Again:
"The crowning achievement of
the special session of Congress
was the initiation program con-
ferring vast discretionary powers
upon the President to devalunte
the dollar, remonetize silver anc
to issue treasury certificates, etc
etc.
If this is not backing Of
the policies OF Wall Street,
ther. what is it?
Initiation has cut the real wages
of the workers by 33 per cent. II
has likewise reduced the purchas-
ing power of the farmers. All
that is regarded by Everson anC
Loriks as fine thing for the
masses.
Loriks, who works hand in glove
, with Everson, and who also is on'
of the pillars of Morgans Demo
! cratic party, showers this fulsom'
praise upon Roosevelt:
. STANDING BY ROOSEVELT
"While you may not approve O.
, his entire program as enacted a
the special session, you will con
cede that he has substituted &C
1 ton for inaction, sympathy TO
z callous Indifference, and that h
has demonstrated a real sincere
E desire to rescue America from tn
? utter chaos and destruction"
o Could anything be palmer
v than that7
q Everson backed the Farm Boar
l under Hoover. He says not, as b
5 did at the July a picnic at Sir
Buttes, Perkins county, that eft
success depended upon the pei
sonell". In principle it was cor
rect. He now says the same thin
about the allotment plan. Peopl
Of the type of Everson, must a
ways reserve for themselves som
slight loophole, so they can jun
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25

starve because they have no jobs
"Our" government cuts off their
relief and makes US farmers plow
under our crops to raise prices. Is
this system? Yes, a system of
robbers, plumber and corruption.
Rally under Ghe fighting
banner of the UFL for the
immediate demands of: Cash
relief for impoverished farm
ers; cancellation of OHr debtss
keep the American farmer on
the American farm; the wives
and children have the first
mortgage.
But always remember thak
while we fight for these de-
mands to keep food in our
bodies and q roof over our
heads, we must build our or
ganizatiOn stronger and more
sOlidly, so that We can one day
help to put an end to this
Rotten, corrupt, bankrupt, i'm
beetle, and anarchic system,
and establish In it's place a
new system, planned, orderly,
economic system, a democracy
i'm which the workers and The
farmers will rule.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
BANKS DISSATISFIED
WITH DEAL

A curious hitch took place here
in the administration of the new
refinance scheme. After several
hundred farms had been appraised,
and the government was about t.
take over the mortgages, ba- kers
discovered that if the farms were
appraised, at the present value
they would not get enough money
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
ROOSEVELT new DEAL RAW DEAL FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN

the prices for our produce would
rise accordingly; but 10 and behold
we have a wondrous new deal
which enables the trusts to in
crease their price to the consumer
and still pay the producer the
same. We are getting about S5
to 80 cents per 100 pounds for
milk Hnd about II cents per dozen
for eggs. The bottom dropped out
OF the rye market so that the
gamblers could make a swell
profit, and We farmers are sit
ting here holding the bag, full
big, and we must either keep on
holding it or give it away.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
PEASANTS PROTEST
MILK REGULATIONS

Budapest, Hungary, July 3.-At
Soroksad, not far from the CAPT.
tai, violent peasant revolts have
broken out. The peasants and milk
sellers, aroused to the utmost
pitch of indignation by the new
milk regulations, stormed the
town hall and broke all the win
dows.
The militia on the spot were
completely helpless against the re-
bellious peasants. The crowd
could only be dispersed with the
arrival of reinforcements from
Budapest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
REFINANCE SCHEME
HELPS BANKS

The Wisconsin farmers expected
that after all the ballyhoo about
"our'' generour government spend
ing millions of dollars to- refinance
the poor, debt-ridden farmers, we
should have at least part OF our
load of debts eased. But, behold,
the New Deal in practice again.
Due to the fact that the demo-
cratic governor of Wisconsin, Gov.
Schmedeman, was able to carry
the proper enabling acts thru the
legislature promptly, Wisconsin is
the first state to obtain the "bene-
fits" of the new bill However
the farmers aren't seeing any OF
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to reopen. So they protested to
"our" government, and "our' gov
eminent very kindly consented to
have the farms reappraised, and
told the appraisers to raise the
value of the farms to somewhere
near the mortgage value.
Of course, we farmers will have
to pay the difference, but "our"
government is not concerned about
that. AS one politician frankly
stated, "Who pays our campaign
expenses ?" The democrats are
just as considerate of their banker
bosses as the republicans were.
I mention this incident because it
so very clearly reveals the fact
that the farm relief" actually is
TO farm relief at all, but a dole
to the bankers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
10000 SMALL AND
MIDDLE PEASANTS IN
SWEDEN ASK LOANS

Stockholm, Sweden, July 20.--
The growing distress of the small
and middle peasants in Sweden is
graphically shown by the fact that
10000 peasants have sent in APP
plications to the government for
state loans to cover their debts
and mortgages.
Only a very small proportion OF
these impoverished PEASANTS will
be able to receive a loan from the
fund set aside by parliament for
this purpose, since this amounts
to only eight million crowns.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
DO YOU KNOW

That the BOlshevik (COm-
muniss party of the Soviet
UniOn) was established 80
years ago? The party was es-
tablished as the result of a
split in the Russian Social
Democratic party at its Sec
Ond congress in London IN
1908. Lenin, leader of the
BOlsheviks, insisted that the
party be composed of only ac-
tive disciplined members. The
Menshiviks who opposed him
favored a party which would
include inactive "sympathiz-
ers."
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(BY ]. G. 81


Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 17.-In
the current issue of the South Da-
kota Union Farmer, the official
organ of the Farmers Union of
this stlte, edited by President
Everson, my report of a meeting
at which Everson spoke, on a farm
near Baltic, S. D., is reprinted in
full from the Producers News.
The article in question, was a
correct report of Everson's speech,
in which he lauded the New Dell
and held Roosevelt up to the farm
ers as the man who would lead
the farmers into the new Jerusa-
lem.
FEARS TO ANSWER
In his attack upon that ar
ticle, EversOn does not point
to q single specific misstate-
ment of his speech or to his
position on the new deal.
There is very good reason why
ne does not. In the first place
every farmer knows that he is
prominent wheel horse of
the democratic party, and,
secondly, tina. he hooked up
the farmers, last year, behind
Roosevelt.
Therefore Everson contents him.
self, in making the following
vague statement, about the article
81 am not going to take the tim'
and space to- answer the ridiculou
false charges, he makes In the
foregoing report.
REPORT WAS TRUE
Of course not! That would in
volve 9. reputation of capitalism
on his part, and, hs an agent o
the Wall Street parties, Eversol
will rot do that. To correct my
report of Everson's speech, Ever
son would have to- swallow that
speech. Every honest farmer VIII
attended that meeting, knows tina
my report was based entirely o.
what he said.
In order, then, to take whac
at the writer, Everson proceeds t
point out that I am an "imposter
because l represent myself as be
ing an organizer of the Farmer
Union. He bases his informatio
on a news item, appearing in tn
capitalist Aberdeen Is. d. Amer
lean News, Friday morning, Jul
. 18th.
A UFL ORGANIZER
The relief workers were on
strike for more bread. I spok
, at big strike meeting, in my CO
pacity as an organizer Of ii
United Farmers League, pledgin
the solidarity Of the farmers |
the starved workers under the "a
deal. However, "a mutton heade
reported, stated in his write up,
was an organizer of the Farmel
f Union.
I This vile capitalist sheet, a
+ day later, acknowledged it's
: mistake. Now comes Everson
I'll and makes me responsible for
e what the capitalist paper said
: This Is indeed hypocrisy Of
the dearest kind.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25

Of grain concentrates knd hay,
which we farmers must buy now
to keep our cattle from starving,
have gone up out of sight. Ordi-
narily hay is selling at about $40
per ton, oats at about 65 cents per
bushel, and the high protein con-
trates such as gluten and oil meal,
so necessary to feed dairy cows,
are entirely out of reach or any
but the rich farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
DROUTH CAUSES CROP
FAILURE

On top of all this we have had
the h.st severe drought in years.
Farmers who ordinarily thresh
1900 to 5000 bushels of grain, got
about $50 to 300 bushels. Many
of them did not even thresh. Hay
is below one-tenth of the normal
YIELD. For the first time since
can remember, there is a good
market for marsh hay. On the
heels of a crop failure, the prices
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25

by all OppOnetns of war thru
out the nation. We call every
organization to form a united
FRONT and we appeal to every
individual sincerely opposed to
war to begin Immediately the
the work of building this
mighty rampant against the
forces Of WAR"
The United Farmers League ha!
declared its support O.
this anti-war conference.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
onrcACEs HELD BY BUSTED BANKERS ARE
NUM- RFFINANCED TO SALVAGE
THEIR PROFITS
r,DMFRs HIT BY MOST SEVERE DROUGHT
Gamers Should Rally to United Farmers League in Or
'' der to Build Organization to Meet Attacks of
Capitalists Under New Deal
(BY JOHN HETTS,
State Secre1lry, Wisconsin UFL)

Colby Wis, Aug 2.-We finding in this state that
new deal is turning out to be one, at least for the
ino class Prices everything have gone up to the
@ that is everything the consumer buys The farmers
wy becoming dsilusioned about Roosevelt.
uror the initiation struck the*--
and forced prices up many farmers expected that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
WORKING CLASS BEARS EN-
TIRE BURDEN

The entire increase is an attempt
to make the working class in the
cities starve little more to make
the New Deal work. When the tax
was first imposed the Roosevelt
politicians said that the bakers,
millers, and fold corporations
would bear part of t. Now they
admit that the workers in the
cities are being forced to bear not
only the entire burden of the tax,
but are being plundered to pay for
a supposed increase in the price of
flour-flour which was bought
long before the price increase took
place.
This means that the work
ers in the cities are NOW re-
ducing their bread cOnsump-
ton to the hunger line. that
the market for flour is being
narrowed still further, and
that we shall have another
surplus" of wheat while more
workers gee hungry.
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hisintegration rigfr- across Europe
and they are profoundly fearful If
any such cOnsequences.o
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out when the time comes to check
up. But they always act as bull
warks of capitalism.
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and one at the bottom. A huge
rubber rire fitted or the bottom
will act as a shock aheirber.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-25
THE COMMUNIST PARTY
WAS RIGHT

l had the opportunity of read
ing an old copy of the "Daily
Worker" central organ of the
Communist party. / was very IN
terested to note that an article in
the paper dealing with the farm
refinance act very clearly exposed
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FORGET ABOUT PAST
STATEMENTS

The Roosevelt administration
has worried no more about this
truth since this first outburst, but
now admits the greater part Of
the recent increase in bread prices
is due to the increase in the price
of wheat, which it had formerly
called of insufficient Importance to
make any difference in the cost
of bread.
Howe declares that the cost
of bread making materials has
gone up 1 $40 cents per pound
of bread. He admits that
only $40 cent of this increase
is due to the processing tax
and that $40 is due to the
higher prices for wheat and
the various other materials
used in the ordinary loaf of
white bread"