The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
AAA's Change Of Tactics Is
Admission Of Famine Threat

The Roosevelt Administration decreed retreat from
its previous plans of carrying through its wholesale reduc
ton program Notwithstanding the drouth Wallace
announced that restrictions planting the 1885 crops will
be lifted.
The AAA and the drouth have worked well double
By this late action, the Administration is seeking
avoid responsibility for its part in the famine which
threatens the country The Administration already hears
the shouts OF the city workers demanding food which their
meagre purses cannot buy The Administration already
the impoverished farmers on the march, for real relief This
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Another reason is that America prepares for War; Sec
rotary of War Dem asks that the be increased to 1861
O00 and his statement published the day the crop
reduction is called off, Wall Street wants adequate food
supplies for its
Not the least of the reasons for the AAs retreat how
ever the consistent agitation of the militant farm Organ
zatons demanding the repeal of the criminal AAA and
posing the destruction policies of the AAA for what they
relief for the money class.
From the foregoing however, must not get the idea
that there has any basic change the Roosevelt farm
policy. The AAA set-up is being retained complete and
while restrictions lifted for 1885, the contracts held
in force, like club, to compel reduction in 1885,
sooner should the occasion arise The benefit payments will
continue which is another way of saying that the PRO
CESSING TAX will continue to be collected from city work
and purchasers with consequent narrowing of
markets The fascist compusion reflected by the entire
AAA continues part of the fundamental philosophy and
practice of the farm administration
The action of the Roosevelt Administration in lifting
restrictions tardy admission of the seriousness of
the situation From the beginning of the drouth the New
Dealers have attempted to conceal the of the
depedatonS of the drouh and the AAA They chded
for speaking of scarcity of food and feed But famine
ana IL is Q1SCncCy famine winch This
country faces.
Mr. Wallace and his friends longer deny what
peT have stated frequently of atetha this is the worst
drOuth record It's losses admitted by the
TO equal the catastrophe total of Nor
they deny that they have with the cruel cunning of the fox
exploited the drouth with such thoroughness which such de-
Srucve efficiency that of their gang
shaking their heads the havoc they have wrought
billion bushels less Five miloA bales less cotton
Two hundred million bushels less wheat Five to mil
lion less cattle These only part of the cost of the
holy alliance Of the drOuth and Wall Street.
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are expected to the coin of hunger of eviction of
poverty and misery They expected to pay with the
health OF themselves and their families and perhaps with
the lives of their undernourished children
And in precisely this manner shall pay-JNI ESS
we able to the of fellow farmers to struggle
against this threat, and for real relief.
In every state in every county and in every township we
must rally for the struggle for drouh relief Every energy
must be thrown into this fight and every nghbor no matter
what his politics. his religion has organization must be
persuaded to Join this fight At this monet GIN grim ne
esst the unity of the impoverished and exploited farmers
is a life-ard-death matter
The United Farmers League of Sheridan county is call
mo DROUGHT relief demonstration for Tuesday September
IT Plentywood