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PLENTYWOOD. MONTANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.
No. 35.
XIV.
Entered as second Class Matter, Oc tober 18, If IS. at the Post- *
office at Plentywood, Montana, Unde r the Act of March 8, 1878 .
National Hunger March Nears Washington
united states army officers
in MANCHURIAN WAR COUNCILS
leadership of the United States In the Attack on the So
viet Union Shown In Soviet Press
first American army ob
has reached Mukden for a
^ of the battle scene in Man
jS Lieut. Col. J, G. Mcllroy,
fr'Vj states military attache in
Uut tos already reached the
of conflict. This is an open
of the United States in the
of the ring of imperialist
îteelaround the Soviet Union.
While Mcllroy is in Mukden,
other United States army of
ficers are now in Chinchow to
make a tour of "inspection.
JJTof iiupecian is tne planning
.{ the imperialist war staffs of
5. attack on the Soviet Union.
These officers, Col. Nelson E.
Mareetts and Lieut. Harry S. Al
drich, his assistant — conferred
with 'officers of the staffs of tne
pleuch and British armies who are
already tnere.
The leadership of the United
States capitalist class in the at
tack on tne Soviet Union has been
ported out clearly in the chief
Soviet papers, according to the
capitalist press reports
«ate the following:
The
nrrer
Tokyo
jcene
step
two
This
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which
'The newspaper Izvestia and
Privda laid down an editorial
barrage today, charging the
United States is trying to driv*
the Soviet Union into war with
Japan for the 4-fold purpose of
undermining the 5-year plan,
getting orders for military e
quipment, weakening Japanese
competition in the Pacific and
setting up a Manchurian buffer
state against Bolshevism.
dispatches from Shanghai, New
York and Washington. They in
cluded an attack on Secretary
of State Stimson and upon the
"authors tof the Kellogg pact
who while they declare that they
strive for peace are now reveal
ed as the open instigators of
war."
CAPITALIST PRESS ADMITS
WAR AIMS
Open admission that the Japan
ese occupation of Manchuria is di
rectly aimed at the Soviet Union
and has the support of the United
States and the League of Nations
is made in a dispatch to the New
York Evening Post from its Par
is correspondent, Raymond G. Car
The Post's correspondent
frankly gives the position of the
imperialists as follows:
"Why not state the truth, that
Japan emerges victorious not only
in Far Eastern battles but here as
well, because the great western
nations, behind their League
masks and under their diplomatic
camouflage secretly want Japan
installed upon the Asiatic main
land, a dependable sector of a pro
t*ctive ring around Soviet Russia."
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TO ATTACK CHINESE
- SOVIETS
The dispatch leaves no doubt
that Manchuria is to be used as a
military base against the Soviet
tnion, as part of the ring of
which the imperialists, led by
the United States and Franco have
Jew forging around the Soviet
Union. It states:
not mean that
cs people., will., take
lying down. The
tne»» ttÆ P ! e ~ not . th ® govern
* ludh is a different thing
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I "What Finland, Bsthonia, Lat
I na ' Lithuania, Poland and Rou
9 mania do for conservative Eu
H £Pe in their functions as buf
II ** nations against Soviet Rus
9 it is argued—and settled
I * r that matter — Japan, in
1 h'enched in the Asiatic mainland
i *«uld perform at the gateway
1 the Reds' 'backyard.
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In addition to establishing a
®wchurian base against the So
rt Union, the imperialist powers
the aim of partitioning Chi
"8 and crushing the Chinese So
II e ? 5 and the Chinese Red army,
"is task was formetly assigned
y î he imperialist hangman Chiang
''•Hhek who has repeatedly fail
li'. 111 his attacks on the Chinese
1? army. The imperialists now in
rjd to tackle this job themselves
in rv Japanese armed force?
,, na Playing a leading role.
u *oll reports:
wj Pan * *f permanently
~?ded into Manchuria« it
jfmted out by an eminent au
°nty prior to the meeting of
. «wicil, establishes a new
***** frontier
ex
was
ll gainst Bolshe
upon the continent iof
'ism
Asia."
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REVOLUTIONARY RISE
< OF MASSES
Yorf°T Sky ' writer the New
tu . recognizes that while
aid nT P + e J la ^ sts ^ ave secure d the
thev . Î v corru T>t Koumintang
rising ° ave to reckon with the
?, an K*r of the Chineses mass
He save*
îv®. ''"inesc
Sf. ,r defeat
Uii nege
The meeting of the North Da
kota Taxpayers Association which
was held at Devils Lake on Nov.
11 showed, clearly the attempt on
the part if the shopkeepers and
businessmen to prevent any real
struggle on the part of the
ploited masses for tax relief. The
character of the meeting
out clearly when G. A. Lamb, of
Michigan City, a Farm Implement
Dealer, was elected to head the
association. The tax sitation was
"explained" by Iver Acker, State
Tax Commissioner, the representa
tive of the state government which
is squeezing the last drop out of
the poor farmers in order to
the profits of the bankers and the
rich farmers.
Acker gave the main purpose of
the meeting in his speech in which
he stated that,
"The state organization will
TRY TO MISLEAD
STRUGGLE FOR
TAX REDUCTION
Meeting of N. D. Taxpayers As
sociation Shows Clearly that the
Businessmen Propose Farmers
Should Suffer In Budgets.
ex
came
save
undoubtedly centered its interest
and efforts toward REDUCING
STATE EXPENDITURES. In
order that it may function in
telligently, a capable committee
of the association should attend
the hearings of the state budget
board and the association should
of course be represented at Bis
marck when the legislature con
venes. If a TAXPAYERS AS
SOCIATION FUNCTIONS AS
A FACT FINDING BODY and
works to effect a fair and intel
ligent elimination of unwise and
unnecessary public expenditures
and functions to promote effi
ciency and economy in admin
istration of all governmental
affairs, such an organization
will render the taxpayers of this
state a service of inestimable
value." ■>
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What this agent of the state
government wants is a ' fact fmd
ing body" in order to cut those ex
pendit ureg of the state which are
for the benefit of the poor and
middle farmers and the workers of
the state.
They want reduction in expen
ditures for new schools and for
sc i 1 °°i transportation for the chil
dren of the poor farmers. They
want taxes cut by forcing on the
farmers' children the worst possi
ble in the way of educational fa
cilities. They want to deny the
farmers' children even the miser
able pittance that is given to the
children in the cities.
WANT "REASONABLE" TAX
REDUCTION
The demand for tax reduction
should be reasonable," said Acker.
It must necessarily be gradual."
He wants "reasonable" tax reduc
tion, when the majority of farm
ers thruout the state cannot pay
any taxes. The farmers _ do not
want "gradual" tax reduction. The
United Farmers League demands
decisive tax reductions for all poor
and middle farmers zj .id abolition
of taxes for those who cannot pay.
The "fact finding body" proposed
by the North Dakota Taxpayers
Association is an attempt to pre
vent tax reduction for the poor
and middle' farmers.
At the Meeker County (Minne
sota) Taxpayers Association meet
ing which was held on November
6, a resolution was passed which
stated "Let the watchword be,
'How little and not how much can
we levy.
the entire speech made by the
main speaker of the meeting, J. F.
Reed of Dawson, president of the
Minnesota Tax Payers Association.
The attempt is to cut taxes for
the bankers and the rich farmers
and to eliminate from the budget
"unnecessary expenses" and "ex
travagances" — those miserable
benefits that the poor and middle
farmers get out of the state and
county budgets. According to the
Meeker News, "When questioned
about an income tax Mr.
stated the league at this time
not in favor of such a tax."
Reed, like the remainder of the
bankers' agents who are leading
the fight against reduction of tax
es for the poor fanner, rejected
the idea of even an income tax,
because the capitalist class might
have to pay over a few additional
dollars in taxes.
Senator Magnus Johnson,
filled in while Reed was *
way to the meeting, hypocritically
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This was the theme of
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Reed
was
Mr.
who
on his
Danish Industrialists See
Great Progress in the
Soviet Five Year Plan
A party of Danish industrialists
have just returned from the Soviet
Union. On their way through
Stockholm the members of the
party were interviewed by Stock
holm journalists. The leader of
the party, Director H. Blache of
the Copenhagen shipyard Burmeis
ter & Wain, the biggest shipyard
in Denmark, declared:
I received the impression that
the Soviet Union is on the march.
The Russian people are at work
under a firm leadership. They
have made great progress since I
was there last. We saw great
electrical plants, impressive steel
works, factories for the production
of airplanes, tractors, etc. All of
these factories and works have
been built with the assistance of
the best experts to be had in their
respective fields. Personally, I am
convinced that the Soviet Union
will çarry out the five year plan.
In m y opinion it is already well on
the way to having done so."
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FARMERS RALLY
IN BIG MICHIGAN
MASS MEETINGS
RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED
DEMANDING THE IMMEDI
ATE RELIEF OF BOSSES
Hancock, Mich., Nov. 18.—Here
as elsewhere the farmers are be
ginning to move toward organiza
tion. In Ontonagon, Baraga and
Houghto counties, all bordering
each other, seven big farmers'
mass meetings have been held.
At these meetings the poor and
middle farmers have passed reso
lutions containing the immediate
demands for which they are or
ganizing to struggle. (In another
place in this issue we print in full
one of these resolutions.—Ed.)
We have elected Farmers' Com
mittees of Action at every meet
ing and on Dec. 8th all these com
mittees gather at the Houghton
count court house, backed up by
hundreds of sympathisers, to pre
sent their demands to the super
visors.
Oopper Trust Closes Mine
One would think that there is no
such thing as farming here in the
north country were te Copper
Trust rules, but there is. In the
last six weeks about 800 farmers
have attended mass meetings pro
testing against high taxes and
mortgage foreclosures. The first
copper deposits were found in 1867
and it was about that time that
the Calumet and Hecla Co. was
organized. It is estimated that
195 million dollars has been paid
as dividends to stockholders. This
company has never been taxed ac
cording to its real value because
the company's henchmen and tools
have always been in the official
leadership in Houghton county
where most of the mines are. One
of the biggest copper mines closed
down completely about Iwo months
ago. This affected, not only these
industrial centers but thousands
of farmers were hard hit as a re
sult.
OUITMEYER COUNCIL OF Of 1 TO
MEET SATURDAY. DECEMBER $
ru
The Quitmeyer council of the
United Farmers League will hold
its next regular meeting at the
Franklin school house, Saturday
afternoon at one o'clock.
There will be an interesting and
worthwhile program,
bers will carry on an impromptu
discussion based on the
tion of the capitalist system.
Every member is urged to at
tend. The matter of dues will re
ceive special attention.
At this meeting Mother Bloor
will speak on the conditions of the
toiling farmers in the United
States.
The last meeting, Saturday, No
vember 15th was a splendid one,
of the members of the com
Folmer
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corrupt
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most
mittee being present.
Christensen is executive secretary
of the committee, which holds
meetings twice a month without
fail. The committee is a large
one and still gaining prestige
the bankruptcy of the capitalist
farmers organization is becoming
more and more obvious.
At Hie next meeting the commit
tee will take up for consideration
the inadequacy of the R*d Cross
relief, the coal needs, there being
many farmers who are sorely in
want of fuel. Also the feed loan
applications rejections will be in
vestigated to discover if possible
the reasons for the rejections and
the source of these reasons.
The Quitmeyer committee has
taken up the matter of subscrip
tions and reports that it has se
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED
FARMERS LEAGUE IN NORTHWEST
With this issue the Produceds
News appears as the offical
organ of the United Farmers
League in the Northwest. The
farmers who have so long sup
ported the Producers News, re
alizing the necessity for spread
ing the work of the United
Farmers League offered the
Producers News, thru the di
rectors, to the United Farmers
League for its use. The Unit
ed Farmers League has accept
ed the offer of the farmer
owners of the Producers News,
and the United Farmer, form
erly the official organ of the
United Farmers League, is
amalgamated with the Produc
ers News with the present is
sue. Those farmers who form
erly subscribed to the United
Farmer will now receive the
Producers News to the expira
tion date of their subscription.
As the official organ of the
United Farmers League the
Producers News takes on fur
ther tasks,
fighting organ of the militant
farmers thruout the North
west.
The rapid growth of the
membership and the influence
of the United Farmers League
has made a weekly organ rec
essary. The Producers News
assumes that function in the
United Farmers League activi
ties. In the struggles that the
United Farmers League leads
against the robbery of the
farmers by the bankers and the
capitalist class the Producers
it becomes the
CALL TO THE TOILING FARMERS
EVERYWHERE
By ELLA REEVE BLOOR
State Organizer, United
The news that the farmers now
have a paper of their very own is
surely good news. The Producers
News is distinctly a farmer's pa
per, and we must use it as a
mighty force in organizing the
United Farmers League. In the
wide distribution of news about
the activities of the farmers it
must be utilized to the fullest pos
sible extent.
It is up to us who are organized
in the United Farmers League to
use this great opportunity as an
organizing force to bring our
membership in closer touch with
each other, to build up that mem
bership. In order to do that we
must immediately organize shock
troops, groups pledged to get hun
dreds of new subscribers, in every
township to buy and distribute
bundle orders. In a systematic
way we can get our paper into the
hands of every farmer.
News Correspondents. This too
must be an organized campaign.
In every township committee one
member must be held responsible
to send in the news from his sec
tion and to see that it is live and
interesting news.
The entire country is now in
cured several new subscribers and
several renewals have been taken.
The committee will make a can
vass of the members for the pa
per, especially now that the Pro
ducers News has been designated
official organ of the United Farm
ers Leagup.
BANK CLOSED
Twin Falls, Idaho. Nov. 2.3—
The Twin Falls National Bank
was closed today by E. M. Wright
national bank examiner. The di
rectors issued a statement declar
ing the suspension was "tempor
ary."
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Mother" Bloor's Lecture
Dates In Montana for the
United Farmers League
Saturday evening, Nov. 28, Fair
view.
Sunday evening, Nov. 29, Sid
Monday evening, November 80,
Plentywood.
Tuesday evening, December
McElroy.
Wednesday evening, December
Outlook .
Thursday evening, December
Richwine School, northeast
Medicine Lake.
Friday, December 4 at Navajo.
Saturday afternoon. December
at one o'clock, Quitmeyer at the
Franklin school house.
ney.
News will be not only an agi
tator but one of the chief or
ganizers in the fight. It will
not only report the news of
the struggles of the farmers
thruout the Northwest but will
give as much guidance and
leadership to these struggles as
is possible.
With the constant worsening
of the world economic crisis,
which means ever greater mis
ery for the toiling farmers and
the city workers the entire cap
italist press is intensifying its
attempts to mislead the toiling
masses. In the agrarian sec
tions of the country as in the
industrial centers all manner
of demagogs and fakers are in
creasing their vicious activities
in order to divert the masses
from determined struggle. This
is especially true of these fak
ers in the agrarian sections.
The Producers News, as of
ficial organ of the United
Farmers League in the north
west will carry op. a constant
exposure of these demagogs
and fakers. The aim of these
fakers is to prevent a consist
ent struggle of the tolling
farmers against those who ex
ploit them.
The only possible way for the
farmers to repel the attack on
the capitalist class and to win
immediate concession from the
ruling class is by organized and
determined
United Farmers League is lead
ing that struggle aided to the
fullest extent possible by the
Priducers News.
The
struggle.
Farmers League, North Dakota
terested in the struggles of the
farmers and we must keep on sus
taining this interest and arousing
new forces to spread our militant
program.
Rally around the Producers
News!
Build the subscription list!
Order bundles for every town
ship!
Send in your news!
All together for the Producers
News!
GREETINGS OF
YCl STUDENTS
Revolutionary Apprecia
tion of Farmers Support
Editor Producers News.
Dear Comrade:,
Thru the Producer* News, our
fighting organ, the students of the
Young Communist League Train
ing School extend their revolu
tionary apreciation to the farm
ers of North Dakota, South Dako
ta and Montana, particularly of
Sheridan county, for the support
which has made our school pos
sible.
The support which the militant
poor farmers of the northwest
have given the school is the sym
bol of the rallying of toiling farm
ers in solidarity with the work
ers of the cities behind the mili
tant leadership of the party of the
toiling masses, the Communist
Party. In the Northwest the
United Farmers League, the fight
ing organization of the poor and
middle farmers has been the or
ganizer of the support for our
school.
In ordert that the farmers who
have given their support so will
ingly and with greqt sacrifice
may know something more about
the. school we will mention a few
facts. The student body of the
school now contains sons _ and
daughters of poor and middle
farmers from North Dakota, South
Dakota and Montana. *
The students have, without ex
ception, found in the school the
greatest spur to further activity
in the struggle of the oppressed
masses. The theoretical training
has opened to them a world view
of the struggle of the oppressed
against the exploiters. It is pro
viding them with a very sound
understanding of their place
the vanguard of the exploited
masses, and particularly in the
struggle of the farm youth
gainst the misery and exploitation
of this robber system.
With comradely greetings,
The Student Council of the
Young Communist League
Training School.
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1,
2,
3,
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the
Labor Sports Union
Pledges Solidarity With
Men on Hunger March
New York City— The National
executive board of the Labor
Sports Union has given its unre
served endorsement to the Nation
al Hunger March.
The L. S. U. calls upon all its
members and all worker sports
men to support the National Hun
ger March and join in the fight
for unemployment relief and un
employment insurance.
The L. S. U. also pledged itself
to help organize trained, disciplin
ed marching in the National Hun
ger March.
UR SPREADS IN
NORTH DAKOTA
—
SENDER GARLIN TO SPEAK
ON FIVE YEAR PLAN
In the last few weeks the Unit
ed Farmers League has entered
new territory—away up on the
Canadian border. We held a
rousing meeting in Northgate
community hall with Ash Ingerson
and Mother Bloor speaking on
"The Farmers's Struggle for Ex
istence." The crowd was so big
that one farmer said "I guess
there isn't a farmer in the district
staying home tonight.
In Flaxton the UFL was on the
job to protest against the build- 1
ing and dedication of an expensive
war memorial building—paid for
by the farmers of the county—a
memorial to a war for profits.
The occasion of the dedication
was also used by the "leading cit
izens," especially the banker and
the American Legion, to stir up
"patriotism."
The United Farmers League or
ganized an anti-war meeting the
next night after the dedication.
The American Legion threatened
to Mother
yy
run Bloor. speaker,
out of town—but when the meet
ing opened many husky farmers
appeared on the scene. The
American Legion faded out of the
picture and a rousing protest
meeting was held right in the sha
dow of the war memorial.
300 FARMERS MEET AT MAX
In Minot and Max the League
is coming forward in great shape.
In Max the schools and halls were
denied us and the meeting had to
be held in a pool hall granted us
by a sympathiser.
Over 300 farmers crowded the
place. A good deal of literature
was sold, and much interest was
shown, especially among the farm
youth. These farmers have sent
two young farm boys to the
Young Communist school at Plen
tywood and were the first ones in
the district to raise their quota
for the National Hunger March,
The northwest district is send
ing five delegates to the National
Hunger March and when they re
turn they will visit the UFL locals
to tell of their experiences.
TAYLOR SPEAKING IN
MOUNTRAIL COUNTY
Charles E. Taylor, now state or
ganizer of the League in South
Dakota will speak at Flaxton for
the United Farmers League, Mon
day, Nov. 30. From Flaxton he
wiU go thru Mountrail county
speaking every night for the UFL
before returning to South Dako
ta.
Mother Bloor is now in Montana
for an intensive campaign but will
return in a few davs to help in
organizing the meetings for Sen
der Garlin, editor of the Labor
Defender, who has just returned
from the Soviet Union and will
give a series of illustrated talks
thruout the district. He will be
gin his tour in Frederick, S. D.,
Dec. 6, then go into North Dakota,
beginning Dec. 8 at Grand Forks.
A complete list of Garlin's lecture
dates will be published next week
in the Producers News.
Civil Aviation Makes Big
Strides in Soviet Russia
—Many New Air Lines
In accordance with the appeal is
sued some months back by the So
viet authorities and by the Com
munist party, a great drive is be
ing made in the Soviet Union to
develop the civil aviation service.
Last year the civil air lines total
ed 26,000 kilometers. This year
they total 41,000 kilometers.
Next year 40 new air lines are
to be opened up with a length of
30,000 kilometers, so that the to
tal length of the Soviet civil avia
tion lines will be 71,000 kilometers,
so that the Soviet Union will take
pride of place over all capitalist
countries. Still more important
the extraordinarily high safety
percentage in the Soviet civil avi
ation service. It is by far the
highest in the world, thanks to the
elimination of the capitalist prof
it-grabbing element.
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Marchers Coming In
4 Columns Represent
12,000,000 Jobless
National Civic Federation Attacks Marchers' Demanda
Impossible" for Capitalist Exploiters
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KM DELEGATES WILL PRESENT THE
DEMANDS OF UNEMPLOYED MILLIONS
AND TOILING FARMERS TO CONGRESS
Five delegates started last Tuesday from Grand
Forks to participate together with 1 300 other delegate»
in the National Hunger March to Washington, D. C.
These five delegates, Hams Rasmussen, farmer, of Plen
tywood; James Allen, unemployed farm worker; Sulo
Mayala, farm youth from Beiden, N. D. ; Bill DeLuxe,
member of the Unemployed Council of Gramd Forks;
and a farmer from South Dakota, were chosen by the
farmers and unemployed workers of the northwest to
represent them in this gigantic demonstration and de
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HANS RASMUSSEN
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By Hans Rasmussen
Lakota, N. D., Nov. 26. — Ar
rived in Minot Sunday evening,
James Allen waiting ready to go.
Report that truck load from Se
attle, Wash., went thru Bismarck
on way to Minneapolis.
T , . o,
Late Monday evening young Su
lo Mayala from Beiden acrivef
ready to go.
Left Minot Tuesday morning
for Grand Forks where we are to
pick up one or two more dele
&stes.
Ran into blizzard, the further
we went the bigger the snow
drifts. One big truck had hun into
a snow drift and turned over. No
body hurt—men helped us push
through.
Storm getting worse, bitterly
cold, windshield covered with ice.
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Jim is at the wheel. Forgot to
turn comer and went over into
the ditch but made it.
Run into more snow, got stock
and had to borrow shovel from a
farmer. Got stuck again. Had to
borrow more shovels. Jim is at
the wheel, shivering—it is cold and
I without overshoes. But outside
that young Mayala is digging a
way in the snow with the borrow
ed shovel—snow and blizzard are
his delight—he is a life saver. His
father just left for Russia. That's
the kind Russia is looking for.
It's getting dark, ran into an
other snow bank outside of Lako
ta and Pete Fay, living next to
town pulls us out with horses*—
did it without asking. That's the
kind of North Dakota we are go
ing to tell Hoover about. Send him
a Producers News and a million
more if he wants them.
Had to stop over at Lakota, 75
miles from Grand Forks. Slept
three in a bed last night. It was
an emergency bed.
Snow plow went thru last nite
so on we go to Grand Forks and
Minneapolis. We will have a lot
of things to tell Hoover by the
time we get there.
DEMAND GOVERNMENT RE
LIEF IN CASH TO ALL FARM
ERS AND THEIR FAMILIES
WHO ARE IN NEED.
*mand for immediate relief
These 1500 delegates represent
the thirteen million unemployed
and the millions of destitute farm
ers. They come from practically
every city and town of any shoe
thruout the country and from the
most important agrarian sections.
These delegates are converging on
Washington in four militant col
umns, bringing workers from the
Gulf to Seattle, and from Maine
to SanFrancisco, on to Washing
ton.
SOLIDARITY OF TOILING
MASSES
The march is being made possi
ble by the sacrifices of the mill
ions of the masses thruout the
country and the sacrifices of the
delegates themselves. These sac
rifices are the willing contribution
of the masses thruout the country
for this demonstration of unity
against the capitalist class and for
immediate relief for the hungry
millions. This National Hurtger
March is the solidarity of the toil
ing masses, white and negro, em
ployed and jobless, adult and
youth. It is the solidarity of thr
toiling masses in the cities with
those on the land—the solidarity
jof the city workers with the toil
jing farmers.
CIVIC FEDERATION ATTACKS
JOBLESS
The National Civic Federative,
the most vicious enemy of the
toiling masses m the United States
has come out with a demand that
the National Hunger Mar ah a» *
the militant workers orgamzatmas
supporting it should be suppress
^ th * capiat state. The
National Hunger March, which is
approaching Washington is mak
^ the agents of the capital*
and i ts agents quake with
fear> not on i y because of the 150»
determined unemployed workers
and poor farmers in the march,
but because behind these fifteen
hundred marchers, the capitalist
class realizes, is the mighty mass
movement of the oppressed mill
ions thruout the country.
The National Civic Federation
begins its attack by trying to
throw up a Red Bogey around the
hunger march. The demand* of
the millions of unemployed thn>
out the country are "imposable
demands" for the capitalist class
and its Natiinal Civic Federation,
The demands for immediate relief
to prevent the working masses
from starving by the millions are
"impossible demands" for the eap
italist class which is spending ey
er more millions on war prepara
tions.
DEMANDS OUTLAWING OF
WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONS
The National Civic Federation,
one of whose leading lights is the
chief labor lieutenant of the cap
italist class, Mathew Woll, de
mands that the militant working
class organizations be suppressed,
Not unemployment relief for the
millions of starving but cossaek
oppression is the answer the Nb
tional Civic Federation wants to
throw in the face of the jobless,
The National Hunger March,
says the Civic Federation:
_ .
, *!*** * erv * 8eaire
latl °" to . prote f »nr 8°wem
"■"* our institutions a
gainst the underground move
ment which today is operating
in this country without let «r
hindrance."
The fifteen hundred elected <k*
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