The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-09
SD. Farmers Union Confab
Adopts Plan to Have Relief
Administered by Farmers
Dawson Co. Delegates, Where Standardization Is
Already Accomplished Propose Plan Which
Gets Overwhelming Endorsement

that the AAA had been written Wy
the American Chamber of Com
merce while Hoover was president
and quoted Raymond Moley to
prove it.
They Propose 10 Action
Was this thunderous attack up
on the capitalist system to set the
stage for daring plan of action?
Having reached the climax, the
national president made no con-
GLIDING recommendations, nor. did
any of the other national speak
ers advance beyond the point at
which the national president stop
ped. You could feel the disap-
pointment of the delegates when
no immediate action was proposed
to meet the present state of en-
Urgency.
The suggestions of the speakers
came out in the course of their
remarks and are the familiar ones,
the Frazier-Lemke refinancing bill
and cost of production, then also
an appeal to build stronger CO.
operatives. What about these
meausres? Can they be called a
counter attack to the Roosevelt
program of surplus and starva-
ton? They are very gradual
measures and we are facing state
of emergency.
And besides being gradual, are
they sound? It the Frazier-Lemke
refirancing bill feared by Big Bus
mess as Bill Lemke claims? The
bankers and insurance companies
are beginning to realize that farm
ers can never pay their debts, and
sc are beginning to welcome the
Frazier bill as a means Of max
ing The United States govermr ent
take over and pay off the greater
part of these bad debts. The pass
age of the Frazier bill by the cap
italist-controlled congress vii. b
/, sure sign that a contr Jliing GROUP
Of bankers have decided that the
; American farmers are permanently
bankrupt.
What about the Frazier -Lemke
Long farm bankruptcy bill which
|, was passed at the last session
) Lemke himself only claimed To-
! this bill that it would tide tn
: farmers over until the real Frazie
bill could be passed. He spoke o
: some of the fees and charges to
. falling $40, and these are other
= not including lawyers charge:
which he suggested could be raise
by farmers giving parties. Sound
like bulsted farmers could alter
nate collecting from each othe
n until all had raised a hundred do
IS lars out of each other. But the1
l. after going through the dangerou
N procedure Of bankruptcy, Lemk
is did not mention the provision
lg his law that if farmers fail to pa
n taxes or the amount of interel
~ and principal due that they sha
he be subjected to the penalties {
he the law, which means foreclosul
v and eviction just the same. It
Of for failure to pay taxes that Il
ar thousands Of farmers today al
o. losing their farm.
en- Cost of production-agreed tn,
= every farmer requires it and h,
en- a right to have it. Here is a 81
TX gan worth fighting for. But, do,
p any intelligent person think tn
d the millions of farmers will be 2
w lowed to have cost of productic
ne under the capitalist system for DIT
90 fit? The winning of this demar
en- will mean the end of the capital
VI system. I am sure that the lea
ne ers of the Farmers Union are !
',- telligent enough to know tn
They should say so publicly. a
d (Con'inued on page q