The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-18
Bill Provides Firm Basis for
Fight of Poor
Farmers
All Workers Organizations
Should Support Bill in
Energetic Campaign
BY C. A. HATHAWAY
Daily Worker Editor

the labOring masses of Ghe
peasantry must be unhesistatingly
in their fight against
servituce and exploitation, against
and impOverishment. Of
course this does no. mean that the
prOletariat should support every
peasant movement without excep-
ton. But they should support
those peasant movements. hose
peasant struggles, which tend di-
rectly or indirectly to promote the
emancipation of the prOletariat, 10
supply motive power to the prOle-
tartan mill, to make the peasants
a proletarian reserve, to transform
them into allies of the urban work.
ers."-JOseph Stain in "Lenm-
ISM"
The Farmers Emergency Relief
Bill, proposed by the Communist
Party, has that feminist aim.
It is the first proposal for farm
legislation which takes into ac-
count the most urgent needs of the
great mass of the nations labor
ing farmers. 1t provides the i'm
poverished farmers with a clearly
defined fighting program which
leaves the bourgeois eXploiters Of
the farmers no room fer evasion
1t has the same significance In tn;
/ farmers struggles as H.R. 1898
the Unemployment Insurance Bill
has FOR the workers. 1t is certain
that this bill will quickly gain mas
support.
Another important fact must b
noted. This bill, the Farmer
Emergency Relief Bill, is brough
forward by the Communist Party
the party of the proletariat. Il
places the revolutionary working
class, and its vanguard, the Com
munist Party, in the very fore
front of the 'ruggle for the need
of the farming masses. 1t throw
up a challenge to the bourgeois
and reformist leadership Of tn
farm organizations, who worl
hand in hand with Roosevelt
banker government. 1t marks
distinct step forward ir the effort
of the working class to win tn
toiling farmers as revolutiOnar
allies.
Until now concrete proposals fl
farm legislation have come fror
. the bourgeoisie and their reformi
aids. Their measures, while inva
ably directed against the interes
, Of the impoverished farmers, ar
, benefitting only big city capitals
and a relatively few rich or we'll
do farmers, created many ILLUSION
+ among the poorer farmers. The
5 did not see the class divisions
= the countryside. They did not S
{ that the big landlords and the ric
, est farmers were working in clio
I alliance with TIE capitalist rule
!, ir the city. They believed IL
, promises made that first Hoover
and then Roosveelt's farm progrs
would aid agriculture in gener
5 and thereby also the impoverish
farmers.
e The Farmers Emergency Rel
? Bill draws class lines in the run
f districts as well as in the city.
q does not approach the profile
q from the viewpoint of aiding ag
,, culture Gin general. 1t unde
;, axes to provi'e a firm foundati
- for tie fight &c improve the lot
the most exhibited, the poor Fl
II middle farmers.
IL This fight can result in forci
the ruling class to g ant immedi;
e concessions o the impoveTisl
j. farmers. When ers rgetically su
4 ported by the workers, this fie
g can also lead only to a revolutit
arv alliance CT work rs end 20
farmers for the overthrow of c: