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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

a foreclosure sale.
These Worsening conditions and
increasing attacks against our
fighters make more necessary than
ever the immediate and regular
publication of our FARMERS
WEEKLY. The paper will be a
nationwide leader of the farmers
struggles to improve his conditions
"a leader of the fight against the
attacks of the banker class.
But our paper is in danger. The
campaign to put it on a solid basis
is proceeding too slowly.
Unless there is an increase in
activity in spreading the paper, we
will not reach our goal of $4,000
by March 1.
Action, Action, Action
Delegates to the Chicago Con-
ference! Boosters, members of the
Advance Guardl Friends of the
FARMERS WEEKLY Forward!
Spread the FARMERS WEEKLY,
the only militant farm paper in
America which fights for the in
interests of all toilers On the coun-
tryside.
Make a plan for the campaign
in your community. Get subscrip-
tions. Get Greetings, donations,
ads. Use the sample issue to help
you in this work.
The deadline for material for the
first issue will be Feb. 20. Any
thing received after that date will
be used in the next issue.
The farmers can raise $4,000 by
March for their paper. More
boosters and more action will put
the campaign over the top.
BECOME A BOOSTER LET'S
HAVE MORE ACTIONi
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

The following resolution was /
passed by CWA workers at Wolf
Point, Mont, says H. G. Frank,
corresponding secretary Of the
group. 1t is a sample of mis-
placed faith:
To our Public Officials
We have understood and still be-
lieve that the main object of the
great federal projects, which were
conceived and put in motion by
our President, Franklin D. Roose-
welt, was for the purpose of bring
ing prosperity back to this coun-
try by the distribution of work
and money to all unemployed, that
the same should be distributed
evenly and that the pay to be in
proportion to the workers ability
to further this movement.
We believe that it was and still
is the intention of our President,
that the officers placed in charge
of this work and money shall use
their offices only for the advance
ment of the New Deal" and not
for the purpose of accommodating
money at the expense of the un-
employed of our country, yet we
find in some offices, men holding
chief positions of trust and re-
spnsibility, using these position;
and authority for the purpose Of
hiring members of their own fam
lilies, that they may secure added
luxuries, and thereby deprivine
other families of, not luxuries, but
the necessities of life.
1t is matters like this. the gree,
of those in authority, grabbing
the chance. to profit at the expens,
of the common people because o
their inability to do anything
about it, which causes unrest tn
the country over, it fosters dis
content and dissatisfaction, b,
giving the workers the impression
that this is not "New Deal" bu
the same old "Raw Deal" whicl
they have had before, therefore
| in the spirit of fair play, We de
2 mand that those instances b
remedied by the discharge of tn
surplus members and the install
I ing of a registered CWA worker
J, with qualifications to handle tn
work, without regard to politica
y fraternal or family relations.
Z Respectfully submitted, Wol
\ Point C. w. A. workers.
III. G. Frank,
- ~. Caa
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To the Advance Guard Of The Producers News:

to build the Producers News has made this step pos
sibe. To you goes much of the credit for the Farmers
Weekly entering the of struggle IN its compare
lively strong position. Three years ago, even Two
years ago. without the corps of boosters which mas
grown up around the Producers News, this would not
have been possible.
The progress of the united front drive for S5VVS
by March 1 while not as successful as we would all
like, has shown the determination of the hardpreSed
farmers to build and consolidate press Of their very
own.
Into this drive the Advance Guard of the PKO-
DUCERS NEWS must throw itself with increased ue
termination, with increased activity. You VIII u
course send no more subscriptions bundle orders "
brentwood These should go to Chicago, TO I0i'
South LOOMS Street.
But that isn't all. Here are the tasks which COZ,
front the Advance Guard of the Producers News Snu
which require immediate action.
l. Order bundle of the first regular issue OF sne
FARMERS Weekly. Get your order in to Chicago Del
March l, accompanied by money The price 1Or wv
bundles is
100 copies or more, 1c each
so to 100 copies, 1hc each
Less than so copies, &c each
2. Get more subscriptions. If you have no sun
scr1ption books, write to Chicago for them
3. Get advertisements from local merchants
vertising material will be sent or request.
A. Get greetings and donations, from oI 5g;Jua
tions and individuals The name Of every na,ott Ons
who contributes 25c will be printed. Orgal y; coli
should take space of 81 or more to express "i''
darity with the fighting farmers paper > -
s. Put in regular order for bundles 70 pr orgs-
your neighbors or to brother members Oh VOO1
niZation. -
With war and fascsm, hunger and evlcn9;n
u.s. there is no time to lose in building 4 4ners
circulation for the "Voice of the Tolllng r"-I
THE STAFF OF THE NATIONAL EDIIlON
The Producers News
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
WIFE OF SENATOR
PRAISES FASCISN

Observation-Disclosures Park.
inson Keyes, wife of one of the
richest United States Senators, Is
actively supporting Fascism in the
United States. She delivered a
public lecture here Friday night,
saying the Hitler movement is "a
great movement of youth for the
unification Of Germany"
The wealthy lady's lecture was
illustrated. She presented an off.
cial Goebbels propaganda film
showing Joseph Paul GOebbes,
Nazi Propaganda Minister, and
Adolph Hitler himself, spewing the
Nazi doctrine-a film closing with
the slogan, Gree Germany from
Marxismw
Thousands attended, in COnstitu-
ton Hall, the new building Of the
red-baiting Daughters Of the
American Revolution. The lecture
was under the auspices of the Ma.
tional Geographic Society, leis'
ure-class organization to promote
science" and exploration" Ms
Reyes recently visited Germany
She is one of the most banal and
best-selling of commercial "xO
mems magazine" writers, has full!
exploited the position Of her hu'
band, Henry W. Reyes, gentlemaI
farmer, banker, Senator from New
Hampshire.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

expeditions and support of the
arrested peasants.
A glimpse of the causes of the
uprising and the struggle of the
peasants can be obtained from a
description of the revolt in the or
gan of the rich peasants "Zielony
Sztander."
Sheriff Rachwal accompanied
by police camo to the village of
Kozodrzy and began to collect the
taxes which were already due. He
took away the last possessions of
the peasants. Special indignation
was aroused by the fact that he
took the last cent away from Bier
nacki. peasant who is living in
great poverty.
"The indignant peasants forced
their way into the Municipal Of
fices where the sheriff and police
were, and compelled the sheriff to
return all the money ne had taken
away from the peasants.
I'm connection with these events
81 peasants from Kozodzry have
been brought before the court il
Ropczyca."
The same paper also reports
that 1.-THE prisons are becoming 81
crowded with peasants that prob
ably there win soon be no NOR,
ROOM"
A large number Of trials viii
soon be held in connection will
the peasants strike in Poland las
October. Trials are taking plac,
now behind closed doors and ar,
rushed through hurriedly.
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college-trained Negro, and he had
to fall back on his athletic prowess
to earn a living.
But in athletics, too, there was
discrimination he said, recalling
the discrimination against Negro
athletes in the Eastern colleges.
"In basketball, discrimination is
the rule" he said. "In track, a
Negro athlete meets less outright
discrimination. Although he may
be snubbed by coaches and Off
Gals, and even by some of his fell
low students, it is impossible to
jim-crow a stop-watch. The rec
ords made by Negro athletes ano
some world records have been
made by them-are hard to Jug
GLE"
Jackson had never heard Of the
Labor Sports Union and its fight
to prevent discrimination agains'
Negro athletes, but his eyes lit VI
when we discussed this working
class organization.
"Of course / cannot believe tht
Scottsboro boys are guilty." h
said. "Even if one didn't know
conditions in the South, he woulC
be convinced by the fact that Rub!
Bates testified as to their inuo-
cence."
In leaving, Captain Jackson said
81 wish you would say to the farm
Crs here through the paper tina
for the Negro people 1 want t
thank them for the stand the
take, and for the support the
have given the defense Of tn
Scottsboro boys and the Negr
share-croppers in Alabama"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

Continued from Front Page)
a full crew on CWA beyond lay
/. In fact, the lay-off program
must be followed if the amount is
to continue that long, as Harry L.
Hopkins, Emergency Relief Ad-
ministrator, admitted before a
House Committee Friday.
The remainder of the appropria-
ton, $5O0,O00,O00 is to go for d.
rect relief for the following IL
months.
Some Congressional leaders are
trying to avoid the responsibility
for the small relief appropriations
by declaring that the President
has hundreds of millions at his dis
posal which he can use for relief
If necessary. While this is no
doubt true, they know very well
that unless appropriations are spe-
officially allotted to relief, Roose-
welt will. allow millions of unem-
ployed to go hungry under the ex-
cuse of ''having no power" to re-
lieve them.
The report of the House COM
mittee on this subject, submitted
Friday to members of Congress
recommended continuing CWA un.
til May Is by gradually diminish.
ing the number (of employed)
from time to time"
The committee admitted that
approximately 100000 people
-4,560,0O0 families-were get
ting relief from one government
source or another last March.
This is one person out of every
six IN the United States. And
while the committee doesn't say
so, it is well known that many
who needed relief got none, and
the majority Of those on relief
do not receive sufficient to keep
them in health.
During November, the commit
tee said, IL per cent of the fam
lilies of the United States (S,400,
000) were on relief.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
Captain of ''GlObetrOtters"
Tells Of Discrimination
Negro Athletes Jim-Crowed
in Northwestern Towns
He Says

PLENTYWOOD, Mont Inman
jackson, captain of the Harlem
Globe Trotters who plays center
on this fast professional Negro
basketball team, was surprised
and pleased to find Sheridan coun-
tv farmers organized behind a
program which emphasizes soil
darity with the Negro farmers of
the South.
When he learned the kind Of
paper the Producers News is, and
what the United Farmers League
stands for, he was glad to discuss
the Scottsboro case, the Negroes
struggle against discrimination and
Jim Crowism, and the necessity
of solidarity between Negro and
white toilers.
Jackson's six-foot-two almost
filled the little cubbyhole of the
newspaper office where the inter-
view took place. But he folded
himself into a chair with the easy
gracefulness of a top-notch athlete.
He told of the discrimination
which confronts this troup of Ne
! gro athletes almost wherever they
go. "And Jim Crowism" he said
"does not stop at the Mason and
; Dixon line. In Great Falls, Mont
| we were refused service at almost
: every restaurant in town. In
Minneapolis, the team was denied
\ hotel rooms and were eventually
$ sent to flop house down by the
: railroad tracks"
At Fargo, N. D., and at Marsh
: altown, Ohio, they had also faceC
the segregation rules fostered b!
r the moneyed ruling class. A
t Chadbourne, Nebraska, after play
o ing the high school team there
e they were unable to find either
: place to sleep or a restaurant
: which would serve them food. A
h Alliance, he said, they had to bel
d for lodging.
d In Denver, Colorado, Easter, tn
e small Negro forward who made
2 the tour with the Globe Trotter
1t last season, was refused seat j
le a theatre, although he had pur'
IS chased tickets for himself and gil
i companion.
Grace prejudice" said Jackson
1t "shows itself in many ways, some
g times unexpected ways. For in
, stance, we don't like it when tn
ID sports writer's refer to us
re 'darkies.' Although the perso
y who uses this term may not rea
Ii ize it, and may really feel yer
E friendly to US, it is condescenC
ing word. It sounds as if we M
ef groes are not to be taken seriou.
N ly.
to eve are Negroes and proud {
lg our race, but we do not like sue
m condescending words as 'darky
l. This may sound funny to SON
g people, but we Negroes see 8
, much of race prejudice that v
o. are very sensitive to such things
NJ jackson attended New York un
u versity in 1925, leaving that scho
nc to attend WHEREFORE universit
Oi a Negro college at Zenia, Obi
When he left college, the same di
= NAL future faced Jackson as fac
thousands of other Negro intelle
nj tuals. There were no jobs for
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

@AAAlOllS IuOSS CT16Q IN OTdCuOW'
were 16 peasants from Lapanov,
accused of participating in a riot
in which six peasants were killed
and 40 wounded; IL from the vii
lage Of Groble, the indictment
stating that they forced the po-
lice to leave the village; and 80
peasants accused of hindering the
District Governor in his activities.
In Tarnow, 141 peasants were
tried for participation in the armed
conflicts in the Repeczyca district;
46 peasants from other villages in
the Repecyza district for organiz-
ing support Of the fighting peas
ants in the village Of Nockowa;
and five for taking part in the
bloody conflict with police in the
village of Grabiny, in which 1000
peasants participated.
Many more smaller trials were
held, with more to be held, and
others to be retired. The trials,
which were staged to intimidate
the peasants and to suppress the
peasant movement, have instead
popularized the heroic struggle Of
the 100000 insurgents, and re-
vealed their need and misery. Be-
cause of the strong pressure OF
the campaign for their defense
conducted by the Polish Red Aid
(ILD) and other anti-fascist or
CARNATIONS forcing relatively light
sentences, the struggle Of the
peasants has become more deter.
mined. Songs about the revolt
spread from village TO village call.
ing for resistance to the punitive
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
The Letter Box
AAs.sA*s ~%%%%%%~%~~S
| Wolf Point CWA Workers Pass Resolution Protesting
II Graft in CWA Projects-We Examine and
II Criticize the Document

positively that all CWA work will
be discontinued by May 1. To
make the meagre funds appro-
priated last even that long, Roose-
welt is cutting one million CWA
workers off the lists every two
weeks. In the past two issues, the
Producers News has carried the
information of thousands cut off
in both cities and rural areas.
Time has been cut for millions
more, and income drastically re-
duced.
These workers, who are unem-
ployed and destitute through no
fault of their own are being turned
out by the Roosevelt administra-
ton to go hungry or starve. Why ?
For the one purpose Of saving
money for the big capitalist tax
payers and bond-holders.
The Roosevelt administration
inaugurated CWA work only to
keep the masses quiet and to pre-.
vent, if possible, their struggles
for real relief. 1t was especially
designed to mead off the growing
demand for unemployment insur
ance.
There has been plenty of graf
and corruption in CWA work
There has been plenty of discrimi
nation and politics, with the job
going to the favorites of the loca
political and business bosses. Tn
Roosevelt administration has sud
denly discovered" this situatio,
months after the radical press ha
| brought forward conclusive evi
, dence of this state of affairs.
, But Roosevelt and his lieuter
{ ants are not babes in the woods.
, They know their politics. Fo
: them to pretend that CWA graf
and favoritism is a surprise"
? them, is pretty raw. When tn
l Administration used its corrupt pc
litical machine to administer "rt
! lief" it knew positively that sue
}. would be the results. If it ha
: wanted any other results, it woul
e have granted the demand of tt
e Unemployed Councils and tn
: United Farmers League, and pl
;, the control of relief funds in Il
e hands of rank and file COMMITTEES
|, elected by the workers and farm
ers who need relief.
{ We think that the Wolf Poi
CWA workers did a fine thir
when they met and passed a res
luton protesting the graft al
corruption in CWA work. But v
think it very unfortunate that the
should have mistakenly thrown g
n those bouquets to President Roos
It welt.
r We are going to get real reli
It through struggle, not throut
pretty words. We are going
p stop graft in relief by organizil
l. strongly, and electing our ov
committees to administer relic
lie Certainly we can expect nothin
Is from the head of corrupt p'
TX litical machine such as the Dem
d cratic party, nor from a preside
a who prepares for war for t
IF benefit of Wall Street and at t
expense of the toiling masses
ID farm and factory.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
Hopkins Urges CWA be Ended

ton for direct relief CAM i -
the system of work relief i@in e.. When
tablished. was Is.
Take Work, But Not Por
eve had been taught to nI Sis
In the study Of the poor las1s sn eve,
the way to get people off that
rolls is to offer them a i, renet
continued. wv be
"Well. just the ouposit.
pened. We found that wSo. nap
started work relief manv INV We
fine people, who would nj peOpe,
to US for direct relief, would zone
for work relief, because tbsn 'ol l.
it was a job. SAD
"Those Of US who were sdr...
tering it knew that it Was r.p'.
by whatever name YOU eanaS !
but the unemployed mads ~.
distinction and they said, we bs ~
a three-daY-a-week jOb.% ave
Drought relief, in which !, VA.
necessary to send in feed for IS ~
mails, also revealed reluctanos@ , =
accept free gifts, Mr.. HoOt;e.
said. ~
"In fact, we cannot give ,.E.,
in the form of feed to s0ms J,
: those farmers unless thew voS
for it." he declared. "TKey vona
rather, it seems, let the eattl.
die. That whole attitude Of n.
people toward relief should l.
encouraged"
IT. other words, Mr.. HonLi,.
' would like for destitute farmer. - !,
3 feel that they would lost all ss,s
4 respect if they applied for relief
He would like for them n \ !
ASHAMED" to come for relief i
his opinion, it is much more ~
q spectacle for farmers to let thei
stock, and even their Children Il,
q rather than embarass the COVER
4 ment and Wall Street by demand
ing relief.
: This is the attitude toward reli,
which Mr.. Hopkins says, "shoul
y be encouraged"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09

TATHEN YOU READERS of the National Edition
M of the PRODUCERS NEWS receive your copy
w next week, that will be the last time you will
get your paper from Plentywood. In fact,
that will be the last time you will be greeted by the
familiar makeup and form of the Producers News
From then on you will receive the FARMERS
WEEKLY, published at Chicago For many of you,
this will mean getting the paper several days earlier
1t Will mean getting the last minute news of farm
struggles and world events. For all of you it will
mean larger, more interesting, more newsy paper.
This is what the executive council of the United
Farmers League had in mind when it proposed to the
Farmers Second National Conference in Chicago that
our three militant Farm papers, the Producers News
the Farmers National Weekly, and the Coop Bulletin
be amalgamated. A bigger paper. a better paper No
duplication, but single united front struggle Eyes,
it's struggle, too) to build one mass fighting organ
with nationwide circulation
The work which you, members of the Advance
Guard and readers of the Producers News have done
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
Why Did Roosevelt
Start CWA Projects?

Editors Note: This resolution
was passed on Jan. %. Even at
that time it should have been clear
to CWA workers of Wolf Point
that President Roosevelt h a d
inaugurated CWA work to help
the capitalists not to help the un-
employed workers.
When we compare the miserable
$3.50, 100000 which Roosevelt has
asked for CWA work, with the six
or seven BILLIONS appropriated
for war preparations, we get a
pretty good picture of the aims OF
the Roosevelt administration.
Moreover, Roosevelt has stated
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
246 Polish Peasants Tried
For Leading Impoverished
to Resist Tax Collections
Huge Protest of Masses Against Exploitation and Police
Brutality Force Courts to Pass Light
Sentences on Farmers

WARSAW, Poland. = The huge protest of the Polish
aroused by the descriptions of the fghtfu poverty
of the peasants in Central Gac and the police brutality
in tax collections given by the defendants the first series
of trials of 246 peasants arrested during revolt in Gaca
last summer has forced the court to pass relatively mild
sentences on them Nevertheless the sentences total to
than 100 years for the 246 defendants tried in
trials, four held in Cracow and four in Tarnow
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
SCORE WALLACE'S
ATTACK ON STRIKE
Continued from Front Page)


elimination practiced under the
basic and surplus plan will not go
on indefinitely unless we mobilize
our forces against it. We knew
the only pressure we can use
against the dairy trusts is an at
tack on their profits. This attack
we can effect through strike.
THE growing bond between
drivers, consumers and farmers in
many milksheds is proof that the
great mass Of the working class
citizens of the country are behind
US in our open statement that we
propose to use strike when nee
essary. No threats of Mr.. Wal
lace will intimidate us into giving
up this powerful weapon which we
hold in our hands"