The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-11
CONFERENCE TO BROADEN
OUR FIGHTING FRONT

The Enlarged Executive Council meetlng OF Che OnCe
Farmers League meeting in Minneapolis on July Z5 went
on record as favorng the calling of the Second Farmers
ona Relief Conference in Chicago during October inns Is
noted in the report of the Executive Council meetng Oy Al
fred Tala, National Secretary, IN this ISSUE
EIGHT months have passed since the First Farmers Ma
tonaI Relief Conference At that time egnt monns ago
Dec g. the entire conference daeo O sac or to
to visit their senators and representatives we were @
that Congress could do nothing for u.s. because the hoover
regime still in the saddle
At that time we declared, the true representa-
tives of the American farming population tnat CuI
duly elected national representatives and senator's ran
&c did the local county and state authorities then we
pledge ourselves to protect our fellow farmers IRON SUI
ferng and their families from social dlslntegratOn ny
our united action"
During these eight months the farmers in various parts
of the country have demonstrated that this pledge mace at
Washington voiced their sentiments They nave carried on
the struggle against foreclosures evons forced Sales ana
deficiency judgments Iowa and Nebraska In wisconsin
ond New York state the dairy farmers have twice struck
for higher milk prices In Minnesota Montana North Ia
kota, relief has been won through struggle.
The New Deal has succeeded the Hoover deal but our
efforts have been insufficient to convince the majority OF
the American farmers of the faseness of its promises and
of it's policies. Many have developed Illusions tnat Moose
vet might do something to relieve their distress IheSe
illusions are being gradually dsspated as month after ont
of New Deal and no concrete gains Tor ne a
ers and their families are achieved
Desnite all of the bayhoo of the Roosevelt adnistra
ton no decisive out of the crisis has been made Inc
July crash the stock and grain markets the tying up OIL
two billion dollars in the crash of eight title guaranty and
mortgage companies in New York state the plan to pour
billion dollars into the surviving banks OF the country o
cate that the financial structure of the country crmone
further-that the crisis is tearing WIDER ts IN Ihe louu
ton of American capitalism.
The historical war preparations of the Roosevelt ad
mnistraton point definitely to imperast conflict as the
New Deals next move
Up to the present time the struggles of the American
farmers have been isolated individual separated one from
the other Broad struggle has been sabotaged by the
mseaders among the farmers Milo Reno called off the
ona farm strike that the National Holiday convention hac
decided Local leaders like Sngler have sabotaged stug
giles which threatened to broaden out across state boun
daries.
In order to meet the wOrsenng conditions of the
crisis we must spread front of struggle into every
county in the country We must unity our forces u. TO
bankers We must rally the farmers throughout the
nation for nationwide struggle against the impending
imperialist wal.
Fol this reason the United Tmmers League Executiv
Council has suggested that Setond Farmers Relief Con
ference be called.
The Executive Council has suggested Chicago as tn
meeting place because of its huge working class populate
In First National Relief Conference the first steps
made to Join our fighting front to that of the city workers
In the Second Farmers National Relief Conference we
lay the foundation for permanent front of struggle wit
the oppressed millions in the cities against the robber elias
which grnds all of into unSpeakabe misery and torture
For this purpose city is fitting than Chicago HON
of millions of workers and their families.
One other important task of this Second Conference
be to intensity the work of freeing the impoverished farm
from the yoke of those leaders who betray them in tn
interests of the bankers This cannot be accomplished final
at conference Only in struggle prove to OF
brother farmers the necessity of rank and file control
the necessity of dvorcng themselves from false LEADERSHIP
Unless free brothers from this false leader
shiu cannot accomplish the nationwide united front
of the farmers forge fighting front with the CITY
workers. AT the Second Farmers NatiOna Relief Con-
ference we must develop those first steps of nationwide
character, designed to build dirt farmer leadership Of
dirt farmers struggles, which initiated at the his
tOric First Farmers National Relief Conference