The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-12-14
Permanent Starvation is Kew
stone Of a IA Policy


The growing resentment among farmers and workers
against the New Deal program Of crop and livestock de-
srucOn has caused the AAA officials change the words
Of their songs little
lace gave good exhibition of this before the National As
ISOLATION Of Marketing Officials ago in New
York.
The past program of the AAA he called reduction" and
the present program that for 1885 he called adjustment
to current demand"
The reduction" program of the AAA was DESIGNED
to cut down production to what impoverished farmers
and workers could buy cut out of production those
millions OF small farmers whose production not needed
at those hunger standards of living
The adjustment current demand" phase of the AAA
shows itself Mr. Ezeiers words to be not
one bit different from the past as the work
ing people concerned He admits this in words that
are quite to the point
By and large" said Mr. Ezekiel to the marketing Of
fcas Our program one of holding farm produc
ton down IN line with what city can afford to
buy and pay for;
If a worker is cut off from relief, then the AAA de-
gram"
that the which was used to raise food and
ing for this worker and his family shall not be cultivated
millions of workers thrown out of jobs and onto
starvation relief diet then the AAA DEGREES that the mil
lions of which have been to raise beef wheat
pork cotton wool for them shall be laid waste or turned
back into grass.
This is called adjustment to current demand" and what
prospect it holds for millions of small farmers!
Mr. Ezekiel has the decency to admit that this SIS not
very inspiring program for long time objective This
admission however does prevent him and his colleagues
from putting through just this very inspiring pro
If
admission OF the necessity for driving the farmers off the
land Usually this program supposed get rid of the
submarginal farmers those who the best times"
could not make living Now however the AAA is taking
up the old slogan of Tugwe undersecreary Of agriculture
Of forcing to million farmers out of commercial production
Mr. Ezekiel says without too much ado "The whole
problem of holding agricultural production in line with cur
rent demand could hardly be solved merely removing sub
marginal lands because they contribute little o sns
Then the dust for the eyes of tn farmers e
tona board is worsg on the general pro-
Of land period of years. and is expected
R9Ca Ticl 1i~~rf
connection viii be under discussion in the new congress-
What this actually is the following: Even if all
te husbmargnal land taken of production would
sun leave surplus over and above what the millions of
unemployed and partially employed workers can buv There
Tore productive and fruitful land must also be turned back
mo grass because millions OF starving workers who
hungry for the thousand and things the farmer produces
are not allowed to the to buy these products
Ezeers statements also an adittance to the fact
that the policy of the AAA to reduce farm "spluses' bv
paying for wheat cotton corn etc. that has not been
grown does not work out sufficiently enough econ
omlc adviser really that the government no longer
willing to pay allotment checks to farmers when it can
achieve its purpose of cutting production by simply driving
few million farmers off the land Through the mouth of
Mr. Ezekiel the Roosevelt administration is announcing that
those checks going to stop soon, if earlier than at
the time when large enough number of farmers have been
forcefuy retired to subsistence plots breadnes
The AAA tries to its brutal program of starvation
and crop destruction So, says Mr. Ezekiel GAS RAPIDLY as
Jobs can be created for these people Gin ces) they viii
again become effective purchasers of farm products He
is not that this viii ever come through for he saws
later on IF and when the time comes when fine nose+ nm
employed have been absorbed Unto production)"
The New Deal program is therefore the following:
The demand for farm products has been cut bv the lack
of effective demand" the part of the millions of une
ployed workers ~
Production must be cut to this effective demand"
Taking submargina lands out of production is not suf
fcent
Good productive, admittedly not submarginal land nst
also be taken out of production The farmers must ne lis
possessed driven out of commercial production and ha
to peasant self-sufficiency and misery W ~
Inc New Dealers, the Roosevelt administration onnose
those measures which would be effective answer Fl biS
situation OF hunger amidst productive resources TTnenov
ent and social insurance would put millions of dollars of
purchasing into the hands of the unepovej and
part time workers = anu
There would be Surplus" no need for cuttin rro
ctlon no need for driving two million farmers out If ro
1uction Jul u piO
FOR these reasons the farmers should back the National
congress Tor Unemployment and Social Insurance which
meets IN Washington next month From the eastern s+afaS
mass delegations OF farmers should attend as wen as dele
. Fations from The drought area -