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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Published weekly at Plentywood. Montana by
The Peoples Publishing Company, Inc.
Official Organ of the
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
In the Northwest
Official paper o f the City of Plentywood, Mont.
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ERIK BERT, Editor
HANS RASMUSSEN, Business Manager
Friday, December 18, 1931.
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CONFIDENCE IN CAPITALIST
DECAY
morne person called Frank Parker Stockbridge,
writing in the Meeker County (Minnesota) News
on December 10 unburdened himself of the follow
ing remarks in order to prove to the farmers of
Minnesota that they were not so badly off:
"Beyond doubt one of the powerful
sons behind the reluctance of capital to
hark in new enterprises or furnish addition
al money for established industries in the
past two years has been the fear of Com
munism.
I am convinced that the overwhelming
overthrow of the Labor Party in England,
Änd the recent revelations from Russia of
the failure of the Soviet program at a doz
en different points, have had more to do
with restoring confidence among capitalists
and industrial leaders than almost anything
rea
em
happened.
"No intelligent person will contend that
our capitalist system of government and in
dustry is perfect, hut no intelligent person
can deny that it works better than any
other system which has ever been tried on
a large scale."
The most "powerful reason behind the reluct
ance of capital to embark in new enterprises or
furnish additional money for established indus
tries" to quote the National City Bank Monthly
Letter for December, is that "the reaction from the
advance in commodity prices, and the failure of
f he bond market to show
any sustained firmness,
are warnings against any deductions that
is just around the comer."
recovery
The capitalist class realizes that the crisis is
entering a more severe phase than hitherto and
it will be hard for them to increase their profits.
This indicates also the degree of the
tion of "confidence
trial leaders" about which this
This "restoration of confidence"
restora
among capitalists and indus
person drivels,
was due.
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THE STRUGGLE OF THE DAIRY FARMERS
All dairy farming is divided into
two types, one is market mPk pro
duction (milk for sale in cities and
consumed as liquid fresh milk) the
other type is butter fat production
(for butter, cheese and other man
ufactured preduets.) This report
Will concern itself with the market
milk farmer who is closer to the
city proletariat, (except the prole
tanat which works on the "kulak"
dairy farms) both geographically
andin economic interests, than
perhaps any other group of small
or middle farmers. This group is
always found clustered around a
big city, the radius of their area
depends on the size of the city. The
milk shed (area of the radius) is
usually about 70 miles. New York,
of course, is much larger.
The farmer who sells market
milk has the usual problems of
mortgage?, rents, taxes, prices and
sanitary inspections. He also has
weapons of struggle as the
co-operative and the milk strike.
Both have been used to win victor
ies in the past.
The problems of rents, mortga
ges, and taxes do not vary from
those of other farmers so I will
not write about them, but
and sanoitary inspections bring in
new- factors with possibilities for
organized struggle.
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. ^ he ,^ £ ^ TT!?r tak ® s kls milk to th«
state highway and places his mar
some
prices
ked can^ m a milk platform, as
his neighbors also do. A truck
wi. S T2 K , -. 1 , - J"
The station i«; oJr^i K* 1 ? \
^ J
fieWs etc Here the B fa™eri s S milV
is weighed aZ ^
fat S ccZtlTnJ fn^^r!
m-Tk rn fxen ' P * j* f •* e
weight and ner™■*age° r lf ,? huttCT
fat.' hut the companv men d* Vhe
weighing and testing
The dairy farmer has no option
about the place he sells his milk;
he must sell to the nearest station.
He must have an outlet that will
take his milk every day in the year:
price he is receiving, go off to an-1
other locality and find another out
let, another market for his labor
(in the form of milk). Milk can-1
not he stored. It must move to the
city fast. The owner of the local
milk station is in position to die
täte prices and conditions just like
the local telephone and electric
light companies.
There w no need for the oorpor
at long to own the farms. ..They
can fully exploit the farmers by
lost cwp tag »h. rtatio«.
STRUGGLF
Th t .
^ ggle that **** always!must
nuf r ° n between tile P° or ^ mid
. aimers and the dealers who !
marlKt T
ago t ^ e
;^ mainl >'
Omp« x- ew ^ ers€ i r and
farmed The
' ' de f r,l gner P nces
f ? ^Ti St ^ k - e * The
uosted * e | r
U roads and
!L ^ mdk from having
7° some ^clones were
mainlj because the territory
r As th<? dty grew the
l!^! h d -f/ a e i xpanded - In 1915
pother milk strike took place, this
area tekin ?
* Vw Wk stat ®' parts of Pennsyl
• nor J h ® rn New Jersey
. e L * air * n ) en s League was a mil
organization of poor and mid
d e farmers -
*n
-p , .
Take note—we say it "was."
Then came the war and costs of
everything the farmers bought rose
price. The farmers demanded a
higher price. The dealers refused.
The Dairymen's League prepared ,
for. a strike. Suddenly Herbert
Hoover, then food administrator
b « ca »e chief strikebreaker. He ar
nested all the leaders of the Dairy
men's League and
the old re
liable strikebreaking weapon, th«>
injunction, to smash the strike.
I M . trike and won a par
v * ctory ■ London's gave in and
^erognized the Dairymen's League
3nd commPnced to buy only thru
that organizatioa - Sheffield's held
0Ut " d organized farmers who
sold to them on the lines of "a
COmpany union " and calIed st the
Sh ® ffie5d Association.
' Smce then Bart «* a and the mis
who ^ ooniro\ of
^ Dairymen » League have been
f ble ' make the Dairymen's
Lea P* a class collaboration or
iaart — the A. F. of L.
The Borden organization itself
Las expanded into a gigantic trust
owning plants from coast to coast.
Sheffield's have been absorbed by
i the National Dairy Products Co.,
also a coast to coast trust. Both
Borden's and National Dairy Pro-1
ducts are controlled by the Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., Wall Street interests.
; Against a united front like the
above, the farmers must organize
las broadly as possible to
monopolv, which will top reserves
) to ü£U o( n£
cording to him, to the "failure of the Soviet Pro
gram at a dozen different points."
In order to show how much confidence the
italist class can draw from the "failure" of the
Soviet five year plan, we reprint a few figures
rrom our issue of two weeks
cap
ago which cover
several of the basic industries in the Soviet Union:
IRON AND STEEL
In 1913 Russia occupied the fifth place in
the world output of iron and steel. In 1931
the USSR is surpassing Great Britain and
Germany, and in 1932 it will surpass France
and occupy second place—next to the USA.
Tsarist Russia produced in 1912, 3,500.000
tons of iron and 3,400,000 tons of steel. The
Soviet Union produces in 1931,
tons of iron and 8,800,000 tons of steel.
1932 it will produce 17 million tons of steel
and an equal amount r?f iron.
COAL
In the output of coal Russia occupied in
1913 fifth Place in the world. In 1930 the
USSR excelled France, in 1931 it reaches
the level of Germany, and in 1932 it will
occupy third place after the United States
and Great Britain.
8 . 000.000
In
OIL
Jn 1912 tsarist Russia produced 9,100,000
In 1931 the USSR output is
27.600,000 tons. The Soviet Union has
ried out its five-year
tons of oil.
car
Program of oil pro
duction in 2 1 2 years and is now occupying
second place after the United States. Soviet
output of oil is still increasing and nearing
the first place in the world.
ELECTRICITY
In 1912 Russia produced 1,945 million kil
owatts hours. In 1931 the USSR produces
12,700 million kilowatt hours and is about
to occupy one of the leading positions in the
world.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
The USSR will occupy in 1932 the first
place in the world in the production of ag w
ricultural machinery, leaving the USA,
Canada. France and Germany way behind.
Twelve million unemployed, starvation wages
for millions of employed, machine guns and tear
gas for the Hunger March delegates, miserable
slops unfit
on slop lines
in the industrial centers, Red Cross aid to
farmers in the drouth stricken areas that is de
signed to keep the families of the toiling farmers
hungry, cattle starving because the federal
emment refused relief to the farmers
drouth stricken area, feverish preparations
war for markets to dump the goods that the
ploiled masses in the United States have prodne
«d, need, and which are denied them.
No intelligent person can deny that our capi
talist system works better than any other system,
which has ever been tried on a large scale."
The Soviet Union covers on sixth of the earth's
surface. In one sixth of the world there is no un
employment, standards of living are rising weekly
for the masses who produce, Socialism
built.
the
gov
in the
for
cx
<<
is being
In one-sixth of the world there is progress.
In five-sixths of the world there is unemploy
ment on a scale never before witnessed even un
der capitalist exploitation and misery, standards
of living of the vast mass of the population are
falling to the point of destruction of the lives of
millions. Capitalism is crumbling. In five-sixths
of the world there is capitalist decay.
the nudwest ^ local milk strikes
** spread as far and as fast
as possible, although they are not
"hopeless" as some comrades may
lh " k '
The milk strike needs close.
£tud >- ^ many respects it is sim-,
da r to a worker's strike except 1
that when a ^ str ** * on
farmers must continue to produce
^ due to ** fa <* that ?o '
milking cows suddenly will stop 1
tke natural flow for a year, A 1
milk strika is not a stoppage of!
labor, it is a continuance of labor
without compensation i
of struggle,
The Dairymen's League i
middle farmers
ganization led by
iniyers an dpoliticians
P S '
in the midst!
is now a
mass or
a bunch of law- !
We must
build, upon the rank and file, dis
content, a militant movement, link
ed up nationally with the United
Farmers League, of committees of
action under whatever name the
farmers themselves propose, but in
any event a rank and file organ
of struggle totally different in
structure than the Dairymen's
League which neither In form nor
® policy any longer serve? the
farmers but does serve the robbers
°f the farmers. The demand for
their own weighers and testers to
check robbery by the companies is
as logical as miners' demand
tor check weighmen. And such
[demands serve as the point around
^Tiile it does not eliminate the
Solute necessity of farmers
st ™ggi:ng against all the capital
^ robbers, it would help them if
^h the assistance of the city
wor kers, these workers would build
:the 'r own consumers' co-operative
by C0 ~ 0pCr -
a . ' th 016 sma11 d middle
, f
rdatl0ns .' But 11 must !
f™**. ^ kept in mind that(
h «»-operatives of city work- ;
!" are . b > ^ means a substitute
p ® struggles for high-|
f! farmers' co-operation 1
3 * md workers'
, frs . co "°P era tives of the
,° e? solve all the prob- '
capitalist rihbery of all j
long as this is under-j
! J»' «*»P«ration is,
' ! 3 T P ' U , aux Biary to the
jfcSST g?k t0 <" eTthr ™
FWv •* v
thTnlLr ? . 1 tl0n Slmilar
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of
and
how
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HOOVER S MESSAGE
CContinued from Front Page)
robber crew of "leading citizens" have deprived the millions
of any but the most wretched slops in the way of "relief."
Last winter hundreds of workers starved with the aid of your
committees. This winter thousands are doomed to starvation.
"Tb meet the emergencies in agriculture the
loans authorized by Congress for rehabilitation in the
drouth areas have enabled farmers to pmoduce abund
ant crops in those districts. The Red Cross under
took and magnificently administered relief fcr over
2,500,000 drouth sufferers last winter. It has under
taken this year to administer relief to 100.000 suffer
ers in the new drouth area of certain Northwest
States.
The loans authorized by congress for the drouth stricken
areas. WHEN THEY ARE GRANTED IN FULL AND NOT
OUTRIGHTL^ REFUSED OR CUT, are sufficient to keep
the stock at about the same levels or slightly better than the
farmers' families are maintained by the "magnificent"
lief of the Red (Double) Cross cf which you, Hoover, are
Honorary Chairman. In the areas where the farmers have
produced "abundant crops" the crisis prices which have been
manipulated with the aid of YOUR Farm Board, Hoover, did
not allow them enough to live in other than misery during
the coming winter. These farmers in the drouth 'stricken
areas who are being aided by the "magnificent" relief of the
Rea Cross know the humiliation that this relief means handed
out by those to whom you are a tin god. This Red Cross
which feels that a member of a farmer's family can be kept
more cheaply than the Feed Loan Committee figures is neces
sary to keep one head of stock.
re
« "The hanks in the south have cooperated with the
Farm Board in creation of a pool for the better
keting of accumulated cotton. Growers have been
materially assisted by this action."
Yes, you have cooperated with the bankers and the plan
tation owners of the cotton South. You have cooperated in
the exploitation of the Negro and white croppers and small
land owners. The small farmers and croppers of the South
who have produced so abundantly now' face starvation thru
your cooperation with the land owners, the bankers and the
speculators.
"Constant effort has been made to reduce over-produc
tion in relief of agriculture." IN RELIEF OF THE BANK
ERS AND SPECULATORS. "
tion of the toiling farmers.
"I am opposed to any direct or indirect Government dole."
Hoover brutally refuses immediate relief to the 12,000 000
ployed in the United States. They and their dependents
starve as far as this agent of the bankers is concerned
long as the bloody millions they have taken from the
may be secure.
While he brazenly refuses relief to the millions
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I T IS NOT the cost of the gift, but the
thought that lies behind the giving that
warms the cockles of the heart
Christmas
come both in attractive Christmas
containing ten packages of twenty and in
cartons containing four boxes of fifty each.
For the man who smokes a pipe, we
suggest either a pound tin or one of
those crystal glass humidors of good old
PRINCE ALBERT. Here is a present that goes
straight as a Christmas carol to a man's
heart; P.A., the best loved pipe tobacco
in the world, all dressed for the
in bright Christmas costume.
What gift can you thiak of that will be
more welcome or gi ve more genuine
pleasure and satisfaction?
Don't
* Are you Listenin'?"
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMP*^'*
COAST-TO-COAST RADIO PBOC^A■ ,
CAMEL QUARTER HOUR, Morton DowntyT 08 '
Wons,and Camel Orchestra, direction
Renard, every night except Sunday, Coltiné
Broadcasting System
PRINCE ALBERT QUARTER BOTH, Ali« J*f*
"Old Hunch," and Prince Albert Orcbe**
direction Paul Van Loan, every Digit a<*r
Sunday, N.B.CRed Network
See radio page of local nerapaper for
cartons
on
morning.
Then, instead of some short-lived trinket,
how much nicer to give something that
w ill bring solace and delight for many days
after the Christmas tree is gone; until the
Ni ew \ ear is on its wav.
For the cigarette smoker, man or w orn an,
of course give Camels. A blend of choice
sun-ripened Domestic
tobaccos, they are kept fresh and prime
by the Camel Humidor Pack, with their
natural moisture unimpaired by parching
or toasting.
In appropriate holiday wrapping, Camels
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Turkish and mild.
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We wish yon Merry Chrism
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R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY.
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© 1931. R. J. Reynold* T^ a '
employed he proposes a Reconstruction Credit Corporation
which is to give millions to the capitalists—to the railroads,
to the bankers, to the factory owners, so that they may con
tinue to pay out millions in interest and dividends to their
stockholders and bondholders.
THE HOOVER MESSAGE IS A MESSAGE OF HUN
GER. IT BRUTALLY INSISTS THAT THE TOILING
MASSES PAY FOR THIS CRISIS THRU YET GREATER
MISERY, THRU GREATER SUFFERING. THE ANSWER
OF THE TOILING MASSES MUST BE THE SMASHING
DEMAND OF THE PROLETARIAN FIST OF THE TOIL
ING MILLIONS THAT WILL POUND IMMEDIATE RE
LIEF FROM THIS HUNGER BAND.
CHINESE REVOLT
(Continued from Front Page)
has the economic crisis in Japan
developed, however, during this
time that these shipments of gold
have been of no avail in prevent*
ing the suspension of the gold
standard.
The suspension of the gold
standard means a further intensi
fication of the imperialists strug
gle for the world markets and the
1 strengthening of the détermina
tion of the Japanese and other im
periaiist powers to solve the crisis
by the attack on the Soviet Union,
The Japanese capitalists feel that
j if only war is declared their or
ders will increase rapidly for ma
terial to slaughter the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union
and of the Soviet area of central
The deeper the crisis in which
, the capitalists find themselves the
j more determined they are to find a
j "solution" to the crisis by the de
: struction of the only country in
I the world where there is no crisis
China.
—the Soviet Union.
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Omaha Neb-Because he criti
:ed the coffee at the Salvation;**
I rommifw en Jy app f ared » I
to î** 0 *® Mayor Metailf
to petition for adequate unemploy-;
ment relief, James MacDonald,;
jobless for more than a year, was
sentenced to 20 days in jail *by ;
Judge Noble. y
WORKERS GREET
(Continued from Front Page)
are overloading ourselves with
<? ood food - Tbe more we eat, the
better they like it. They give us
sandwiches along to eat on the
r °ad. Now we have a broken!
spring.
Some »topped at Jewish
ball, others at the hmnish, and all
are bragging about the treatment
they have received by the workers
* n Cleveland.
Plowing with Horses
It is a lovely day, nice and
warm. The farmers are plowing
with two horses and walking plows
along the road on which we go.
We had car trouble and got
away from the caravan and had a
fime finding it again after arriving
in Toledo—a city of 200,000 with
only four banks left.
Where the city feed their poor
on bread and beans, we were tak
en and given a real good meal. If
you are thankful for being handed
out bread and beans day after i
àay, bread and beans is all
will get. The city
you j
of Toledo ;
knew we were organized and de
manded ^d n*ne is what
**.
A big meeting was held in the
Auditorium. We slept there all
night nice and warm .
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~~ lt 18 hard to ke€p track of 016 j
December lg
1881
day.. Today i. Smd „ ">
have not shaved, ft ; 7 a ®d j
we leave Toledo but ,uSn
during the day. ^
There are nurseries f n ,
along the road—acre aft**
with evergreen and >.
Speculators have laid
sites along the roads
and sold lots to the
out
V
yea *> ^
water hydrants are * gS?' ^
here and there, but ho^ ? *
m 4
About one o'clock we
Detroit the city of
where the local papers sSt ^
over 370,00« >
where their next mea l * '
from; where 75.000 chüdrta"^
only getting one mea i _ •»
where 80,000 people \J> fa
homes last year. '•Sf
Greeted By Workers
Outside of the city We
met by a lot of people who
ed and greeted us and took
Workers Home, where
treated to coffee and sandwich
Then for the big parade. We
8 er Marchers lined up fi rs ^ jv
c £ me the \oung Pioneers—c 0me "
tbem with very little clothes o°
^ut bow them youngsters ^
After the Pioneers comet*
Unemployed Council and half
do * en other organizations, all cJ
r >'mg banners and all singing ft.
marched to the big Auditor^»
where delegates and other«
t0 a Packed house of about Sjh
people- The more radical the
speakers were the louder the bit
crowd applauded.
After another long
us*
we
coaÜ
roarch *>
arrived at the Finnish Hall, whtn
a very good supper
was
[for us—soup, several khÜu*!
meat, potatoes, beans
coffee and cake, and Ms Î25
is called a hunger march, bat *.
appreciate the treatment they rw
us . P*
w „ .
, * . , s eep m the ?ymnau«a
where * 15 warm a *d each one hi*
a mattress to sleep on.