The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-11-30
Friday, November 80, 1884
Fight Wall Streets New
Hunger Drive!

Already in October we stated that Roosevelt would
tighten up the distribution of relief right after the cleo
tion and not mistaken.
Orders have been issued from Washington to cut down
on relief and evidence png up Sheridan county and
all the country the effect that these orders being
card out faithfully Although having promised before the
election that nobody should stave this winter the president
believes that he well afford to slash the living
standards of people relief well of workers and
farmers in general After ALL he has the election
number of conferences Of bankers and manufacturers
have taken place recently where the real masters of the
country made their decisions regarding relief and
wages And today find that these decisions carried
out quickly by their executive secretary the white house
Harry Hopkins has ordered the thirty cents hour
minimum wage on relief abolished He announced that
"unempoyables will be cut off federal relief altogether
And in Georgia, Hopkins starts to experiment with
forced labor scheme After December there will be
direct relief in that state Everybody will be put to
work building parks perhaps like here in PlentywoOd,
maybe prvies. Minimum wages have been abolished and
the relief administration may whatever feels like pay
ing That this scheme and the wages paid Will give enough
precedent to cut down the OF those workers still en-
pOyed is fOregOne conclusion.
Hopkins has stated that he appreciates the forced labor
scheme in Georgia it works out to the satisfaction Of
Wall Street executive cOmmitteethat is ii workers and
farmers do not rebet will be introduced all over the
try And then good night There won't be much difference
between the forced labor camps of friend Hitler and Musso-
lin and the forced labor scheme of the new DEAL
The task is not small but the workers and farm
eT answer and defeat these attacks their living
standards The united front OF the bankers
and the Roosevelt government muSC De met WIN OfOdu
united front Of workers and farmers organzaons as well
as the unorganiZed.
There are the minimum demands of the workers and
farmers incorporated in the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance bill and in the Farmers Emergency Ree
BILL around whiclI it is possible to rally member OF
the working class for determined fight.
On farm front the united front is growing rapidly
In Sheridan county it has established in action When
ever there was necessity to defend the home Of farm
family their means OF making living, organized ana
nOrganzed farmers alike turned out to carry CnfCugh Inc
FIGHT Unitedy the farmers here stand behind the demand
of sixty cents hour for work relief ltedy they gained
victory spring when they raised re1ef WagSe from
forty to fifty cents an hour.
1t IS the TASK of tie United Farmers League and Oh the
Communist oarty to make every farmer and worker III
Sheridan county realize That than ever they have
to stick together and 1gh against the cuttns down OF
wages rene1, lGr enactment OF the workers Cheoy
naot insurance md tht Farmers Emergency R1l"l bills
Forge the united 1ont oil all impoverished tafr1fS ana
workers!