The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-13
NEGRO AND WHITE
FARMERS IN SOUTH
GREET CONFERENCE
Response From Share Choppers and Tenants to Call for
Farmers Second National Conference Coming
in From Many States
BIG SOUTHERN DELEGATION Is EXPECTED
Special Demands for Negro Farmers Be Formulated
Conference; Unity Between Negro and White
Farmers VIII Be Strengthened


WASHINGTON, D. CT
ern farmers, both Negro and
of Roosevelt, and particularly
campaign, is finding vivid exI
from that section of the count
tional Conference which will
Is to 18.
From the heart of the 81
share crOpper who earns aboI
writes as follows:
"We are planning to send
group of delegates of Negro and
white farmers from Alabama. We
have many frmers who would like
to attend the Conference. They
are very poor.
81 enclose 81 for copies of the
Conference C1ll. Send them as
soon as possible so the farmers
car get them out. I think this
leaflet should be stuck up so all
the farmers can read it. In
this way the Conference will be
advertised and also popularized
throughout the whole farm Sec
tion."
0uofa Tao Small
From another part of the same
state comes this letter from a
white farmer:
Eve are moving at once to Sc
cure a strong delegation from thiI
section. At lelst five delegates
are already assured for the Chi
olgo Conference. lam writing
state headquarters to get tn
whole sbate into action at once.
= 81 think our quota of Is dele
gates is too small"
Another letter from a Negr
: sharecropper in the Black Belt t
n the Farmers National Commute,
6 for Action states:
/ Arkansas Active
, From Arkansas comes a lette
brimful of action and determine
n ton. "Send me at once the nam
re of every hustler within the col
le fines of this state. shall writ
D. them all and try to organize
se motoroade to leave here or SON
IN other central point within the sta
ne for Chicago. Will get as mar
as possible, whether it be one
lg fifty"
is From Mississippi and Florid
s. too, farmers ere responding Ell
rs Enthusiastically. Letters from the
er states were printed in last weei
or issue of the Producers News.
Eliminating inefficient"
Farmer
One of the outstanding featuI
- of the New Deal in agricultu
u the Agricultural Adjustment A
is the driving out of production
res millions of Surplus farmers" I
wn so-called inefficient" farmers.
it The first step in this directi
of was the acreage reduction pl
er- gram. The next step is the lar
,rs le7sing program, whereby I
Id. Roosevelt government will lea
he Is, 100000 acres of land on VIII
Try cotton is now being raised, a
tn halt cotton production on this la
For each acre lelsed the govel
nent will paw from SO to 81
VS. the landowner.
O Majority Are Tenants
" 1t is in the south that the 4
jority of the farmers are tena
- and sharecroppers. Under
land-leasing program about 2E
600 of the very poorest Negro {
white farmers and their farnil
- are to have their means of liv
hood taken away from them {
thrown out on the rolds to star
be- The struggle against this bru
disregard of the impoverished ;
que downtrodden southern farm'
ILL troopers and tenants will be
of of the outstanding problems of
vas Farmers Second National Conf
ng ence.
ons Because of the special Cypress
an. of the Negro farmers in the Bl
srs Belt, it will be necessary to for1
ong late special demands based
ons their needs. It will be necess
the to establish unity between Ne
ne and white farmers, especially
southern white farmers.
nds
+ho Unite Negro and White
;elv The Conference viii seek to
un- tablish a basis Of struggle u
ere which both the Negro and
the white slaves on southern IA
tied can strike together against &
the common oppressors, the large
we owners, the insurance compar