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_ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE _
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932
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SOME QUESTIONS
AND OUR ANSWERS
In the Car.by News of Canby,
there appeared on January
Süi. a questionnaire proposed by
^ Harold Aanes of Clarkfield,
2-L, We do not know who this
An** is. The purpose of the
ABB Tk'unaire. however, was to
^Ldead the faimere into support
•_« the program of tire Grange, ;
the Farmers Union, the Farm Bu
~' aU and the Federal Farm Board. •
The questionnaire asked for
..,4 or no" answers to a senes of
ûU e S tions. The questions cover
tv* program of these orgaiuza
tionî. and require not just yes or
ro" answers. . _ |
The answer of the " . ai ™.
League to the q
follows: .
1—IV> you favor uniting
three major National Farm Ur
j^tniiAtions into one, having one
program?
This would mean only the unit
ing of the three programs which
attempting to mislead the far
in the struggle for their Ute
interests. The United Fanners
League stands for a united front,
But the united front that the
United Farmers League stands I° r
is the united front of the toiling
'TSS'ÄX.'to "hf îto«
°* r tinned organizations. The
mentioned organ»»»-«»"».
United Farmers League is wg >
»nd eager to enter into united
£? fS £th
mers 1 , ■ at all
those who are not organ^
locals of fte
ers
a>
are
p* ^
K a a c L on with the locals of
4 n Farmers Union, the Grange,
other organization of farm
2—Do you favor having one
National Board of Director« to
art as our main 4 r€ * r 2**J ti *Jf
w *ti* a ^^bordin
ate^B^rd for dLry, one for Uve
nne for grain one for cot
Sudh organization is the kind
that the Federal Farm Board and ;
the bankers favor. This organi
zation would mean cooperating
with the Farm Board m the way
that these orgamzations have done
5 S: SÄ ÄW
front of the toiling farmeis mast
be a united front in defense of
their homes and tneir families—[
not a united front with Legge,
with Stone, or with Hoover. ( :
3—Do you favor Farmers
Ownership of ail marketing fa- i
cilities where the farmers would ;
cun«» i :
reap c^pro^
Do you feel satisfied with the
present system allowing 'only a
few persons to set the prices
and the profits?
We favor the workers' and far
mers' ownership of all marketing
facilities But this is possible,
° nlV eo W n h t™î the X«" In the
Soviet Union the State power is
in the hands of the workers and
farmers and there they do
control the marketing facilities as
well as the productive facilities,
The "farmers' ownership of mar
keting facilities" in the United
States, under capitalism, means;the
only the strangling of the farm-,
or anv
ei>.
,
■
ers
ers thru so-called cooperatives and
means that all of the profits go j
to the speculators and to the com
mission houses. |
We do not feel satisfied, and
the farmers are not satisfied with
"the present system allowing only
a few persons to set the prices
and take the profits." But that
system, the system under which
we live, is the capitalist system.
This exploitation of the workers
and farmers will continue as long
as the capitalist system exists. It
has ceased where the workers and
farmers have thrown that system
on the rubbish heap where it be
longs, in the workers and farmers
fatherland—in the Soviet Union.
4—Do you believe in having
an organization of* for, and by
farmers working for their own
advancement?
Or—
Should we include merchants and
professional men?
(Have you ever been asked
join theirs?)
The United Farmers IS an or
ganization not of all farmers, but
of the toiling farmers—the small
and middle farmers. The United
Farmers League is not an organi
zation for merchants or profes
sionals, except where these are
willing to fight with the farmers
on a program of CLASS STRUG
GLE. BUT THE UNITED
FARMERS LEAGUE IS FURTH
ERMORE NOT AN ORGANIZA
TION FOR THE RICH FARM
ERS OR LANDLORDS. 'These
are part of the capitalist class, of
P® exploiters, and the United
farmers League carries on the
struggle against them as it does
against the bankers and the rest
°i the capitalist class.
do not ask the farmers to
*°rk for their
to
own advance
ment. We call on the farmers
snd organize them to struggle
militantlv for their CLASS 1N
TERESTS. The "advancement"
of the interests of the toiling far
mers can only be achieved by mili
tant struggle AGAINST the "
terests of the capitalist class,
AGAINST the robbery carried on
bv that class.
5—Would you favor a plan
which would beep all surplus
pro< jj U rt S <yn the farm, thus in
SU ring a good price?
0 r—
Do y3u favor dumping on the
mar ^et and taking what is of
f ered by commission men diaia
tcrested in your welfare?
We do not favor keeping the
surplus products on the farm. We
know that the surplus exists be
cause the workers and the farm
ers du€ ^ presen t crisis can
no ^ buv them even tho they are
hungry and go in ragged clothes.
^he products we raise should be
consume d. The United Farmers
League struggles in solidarity
workers of the city for
immediate relief and for the wonc
erg Unemployment Insurance.
workers get relief, if they get
unemployment insurance, at the
^ xpense 0 f the rich, they can eat
" d clothe t , hc ," lse .', ves - , Th ;, 8 ^
fake care of the surplus and
would not need to be kept on the
{ or in the ^hoZses and
j naries
i ■ 6-D. you befieve that we
farmers* with an economic prob
j ^ fadnR ^ should take par
m
If
Usan side8 jn political
splitting our vwe—and let the
economic issue dome secondary?
We do believe that the farmers
should "take partisan sides" in j
the coming elections. We do not
believe that tiiey should split thei
S?.%h« A »e!£blkLi ^Democratic
Socialist and Farmer-Labor are
parties of the capitalist class. A
vote for them is a vote for the
capitalist class, is a vote to keep
in power the worst enemies of the
toiling farm masses. We believe
that t h e farmers should vote sol
idly for the party of their class
the party of the exploited of oty
d cuntry-the Communist Par
|*V economic struggles .£ tne
;f armers ar e indpient political
struggles. The farmers learn
this every time they meet with
t he county commissioners to pro
test for relief. From this we must
draw political conclusions. we
must vote—as we rnust st gg
a g a i ns t the misery of this crisis—
* Aco w e should vote for
Qn | y political party that rep«
resents that class—the exploited
—the Communist Party.
7—Would the farmers have
miore chance of gating legisla
ti ve action (of the kmd ey
1 want and ne€ " ) aI ^ W _i t ain
be lea, eapeus.ve to_ _mjtotau,
1 than can be credited to the pres
j ent three? (Why are corpora
| tions merging? Is it to strength
e n or to make them weaker?)
j The farmers would have just
as little chance of
lation from the merge ,
, gamzations as
individual g« . '
leaders of
jnot interested in re g
for the farmers. l€gl f latlve
gestures tiiey mak are £ r f
purpose of preventing the farm
ers from organmng themseive
into imlrtant ranks for th !^
hef. The merging of the th»e
organizations wo^d have m its
only
the imsleadership of the farm
the
masses. . ,
8— Do you favor having a
contest, giving » substantial
prize (say five or trti thousand
dollar») for the best program
submitted (for Marketing and
Organization) with lesser prises
for outstanding »nd useful
ideas?
Do you favor uniting the best
parts of the present organiza
tion programs?
Offering a prize for the best
program submitted for Market
ing and Organization" is an open
admission of the bankruptcy of the
existing programs of the three
farm organizations. The purpose
of the contest would be to revive
the interest of the farmers m the
bankrupt programs of these or
ganizations. The "prize program
would be a hash of the three pro
stewed together.
grams
The program ■■
Fanners League has not been put
together like a mulligan stew of
the phrases of all the demagogs
who have offered some land or
other of "farm relief." The pro
gram of the United Farmers Lea
gue is a program of struggle. It
has been created in the struggle
the basis of tfie class struggle.
not of "farm re
of the United
on
It is a program . . . .
lief" but of the basic interests of
the small and middle farmers.
9_Do y*m Wkve that the
o»"canization should
farmers'
have its own broadcasting sta
tion so oar leadens could give os
(Continued on Pag* Two)
SHOOT STARVING
HORSES, CATTLE
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
"Snow on the ground for 2
months, ranging from 6 inches
to 6 feet, and temperatures down
to 20 below zero have added to
the sufferings of both man and
beast.
and coyote« have been feeding
on carcasses of animals dotting
the farms, all winter.
"Schools have been closed be
cause horses used to transport
children are too weak to walk.
Many farmers have shot their
horses rather than see them
starve to death. There are farms
on which not a live animal re
mains."—Capper's Weekly.
can be spared. Thia was admitted
by Paul Bester, Commissioner of
» *,
Federal Loan Bureau, at
hearing of the House Committee
on Banking and Currency on Mar.
The hearings were being held
Crows, buzzards, dogs
LAND BANKS ARE
WALL ST. AGENCY
TESTIMONY SHOWS
BANKS BUYING OWN BONDS
FROM MONEY RECEIVED
THRU FORECLOSURES
The policy of the Federal Land
Banks is that the farmers who
have been forced to borrow from
them are the ones who should suf
fer all the burdens of the crisis
so that the bankers' investments
6 .
provided
the Federal Farm Banks could
be repaid with the bonds that these
banks had issued. Even if this
aw were passed, it would he prac
tically meanginless for the mass
of t h e small and middle farmers
who are in debt to the Federal
1>ai î d Banks. They cannot pay
their debts with Farm Loan bonds
either at their face value or at
their present depredated values,
This was, however, not the rea
son that the bill was opposed by
Bestor, the Hoover-Wall Street
ageRtf in the Land Banks system,
« The banks and the investors
^ ^ ones affected by surh
«*««-•-» J« - « «"J
plained. It will do no good,
can do no good, for the borrow
ers who .need help. It will en
a bl e those able to pay to make
unfair pro fits, but those who are
delinque Tit in payments on their
loans will be unable to make any
use 01
The interests of the Land Banks
(Wall Street) and of the investors
are the ones that Bestor is inter
este d in protecting. He is wor
ried by t he fact that a farmer who
cou i d b y any chance take advant
a ^ e of the P r «sent depreciated
priMS o( the r ^„ d Bank bonds,
would be making "unfair profits."
During the course of the hear
j n g Bestor was forced to admit
th a t the Land Banks themselves
bad been engaged in making "un
fair profits" in this very manner
—buying up their own bonds at
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UNEMPLOYED WOMEN BEFORE A JOB AGENCY IN NEW YORK — PROSTITUTION IS THE
"RELIEF' THE CAPITALIST CLASS OFFERS THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF WORKING CLASS.
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Farmers' Destitution Prevents Use of Tractors
By JOHN W. MARSHALL
Conditions among the sharecrop
of the old South are undoubt
than in Sandsuky
pers
edly worse
County, Ohio, but in few places
outside the old South can one find
American farmers living under
destitute circumstances than
found among a large section
of the rural population of this
rich agricultural section of Ohio.
Sandusky County is probably
typical of a large section of the
However, the
more
are
state and country,
fact that since the discovery of oil
in this section, farming has been
discontinued or reduced to a minor
operation on many farms, adds
somewhat to the picture of des
pair that greets the eye
travels thru the country,
land is flat and fertile, but large
as one
The
RED ARMY REPULSES ATTACK OF
WHITE GUARDS IN MANCHURIA
Attempt to Murder German Ambassador In Moscow
To Set Off Attack On Soviet Union
MOSCOW, March 14.—A detachment of White Guards crossed
the Soviet frontier Wednesday night near Blag0ve3hclier.sk from Man
churia. They were intercepted by Red Army frontier guards in a
sharp encounter m which six White Guards were killed. The rest of
the White Guards fled back. This White Guard raid is of tremendous
significance because of the
that the infamous attack upon the
Soviets by Chinese militarists in
1929 were also preceded by
White Guard border raids.
Expectation « of an
Japanese attack against the So
Iviet Union, arid fear of the out
break of a revolution in Japan it
self where "riots and other disor
ders are reported" were expressed
in Washington official circles yes
terday.
=uch
immediate
.
Expressing "anxiety" and mys
tification over the Japanese war I
moves in Manchuria and Korea, j
State Department officials admit- j
ted the massing of Japanese troops
along the Soviet frontiers, "heavy
fresh troop movements into Man
churia," and "the odd movements
of the Japanese battle fleet in the
Sea of Japan," on which the im
portant Soviet port of Vladivos
tok is situated. Washington dis
patches a few days ago reported
that the Japanese battle fleet was
off the post of Vladivostok. The
Baltimore Sun later announced
that the report had been confirm
The anti-working class Wash
ington government is clearly both
elated and concerned over the Jap
anese war Elated,- because
these war moves are directed a
gainst workers* Russia, jointly
hated by all ths imperialist plun
derers and murderers. Concerned,
because of the possibility of the
strengthening of Japanese imper
ialism through its annexation of
i arR€ territories on the Asiatic
mainland. Expecting an early at
tack by the Japanese against the
goviet Unien the Washin?ton Qov
j apan itself.
revolutionary masses of r upan
w in the plans of tneir im
pe rialists {or armed intervention
against the Soviet Union. State
Uenartment officials
uepartment olticials
the reports of armed struggles by
the Japanese workers and peas
ants against their imperialist op
pressors. Another fear exerdsing
ithe State Department is that,
short of a direct attack by the
j Japanese, the firm peace policy of
the Soviet Union will prevent the
1 Soviet Union being pushed into
war by the Japanese imperialists.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Times clearly expresses this
fear:
ed by the U. S. Navy Department.
Admit Soviet Firm Peace Policy
eminent is alarmed by the reports
of "riots and other disorders in
9f
It fears that the
confirmed
"Information here is that Sta
lin is sufficiently committed to
a program of peace to accept
even the lose of the Chinese
areas lie idle. But all this idle i
land is not covered with oil wells,
nor is it swamp land. Much of this
idle land belongs to farms whose
former owners have been sold out
by the sheriff. Some of these
former owners took refuse in vol
untary bankruptcy hoping to save
$500.00 which the law allows.
Many farmers who were prosper
ous enough in 1924 to believe that
the correct course to follow was
to "keep cool with Coolidge" are
in the latter class.
Unpainted shacks with some
windows boarded up are a common
sight. Many farm buildings once
good are now on the road to ruin.
Here is a section of country
highly .suited to the most modern
methods of mechanized agricul
to re, yet while farmers were plow
fact*-- "
Eastern Railway particularly in
view of the fact that there may
be famine in tfiw Soviet States
Russiat, as previously reported,
has oMicentrated about loo.ooo
troops in tive Manchurian trouble
ome, and to points there she
now has a fairly good two-track
railway."
The speculation about a possible
famine in the Soviet Union can at
wish-ful
nrn1 mi VP AIT MAM
REPUBLICAN NON
DADT1CAM 1 1? ATI 1C
1 jf\J\ t LLilllUL
once be set down as a
fillment of the imperialists.
(Continued on last page.)
CONVENTION SHOWS GROUP
IS OUT FOR JOBS
By K. P. LOESCH
MONTPELIER, N. D., March 2
—On February 24, the Nonparti
League faction of the Repub
convention in
san
Jamestown and solemnly commem
orated its past "progressiveness."
About 30 delegates were present, j
almost one-third of whom were !
from Jamestown. Most of an ai- .
ternoon session was occupied with
routine convention affairs. The |
ruled i
yokels-of
self-seeking opportunists
throughout while naive
seconded the motion.
u
Progressivem" — whatever that i
is—was the keynote of the con
vention. They changed their name
from "Nonpartisan League" to
Progressive League." The James-1
town Sun, a mollycoddlish paper
with only one editorial conviction,
which is, that the Communists are
bad; was endorsed for DfficiaI
county paper. This leaves the
field free for the Sun ao the I. V.
A. does not have to endorse it.
The great difference between
the two republican factions is the
job. Incidentally this endorse
ment also proves the "progressive
ness" of the League.
Progressives" know
nothing about present day prob
lems. That is why they vacillate
back and forth through the whole
gamut of social reformism. Now
its finance reform, then tariff re
form, again tax reform, next mar
ket reform, etc., back and forth ad
mansium.
Did you ever watch anybody
trying to fix a stalled machine
who knew nothing about the
chine?
Friends, turn to the Communist
movement for light.
These
ma
ing everywhere in the mild weath
Discontentment coupled with
pessimism is universal. These des
titot© farmers feel that organiza
er of late February and early
March, I saw only one tractor in
operation in the whole county.
These poor farmers can't buy gas
oline for tractors, so they are
trying to eke out an existence us
ing the more primitive method of
horse-power; thus demonstrating
the "progressiveness" of capital
ism.
Taxes have not been' paid for at
least two years in a very high
percentage of cases but many far
mers feel that there is no danger
of being sold out for taxes as no
one will want the land if he can't
make enough on it to pay the
taxes.
Unemployment Rises
Further In Germany
„ o™„ » _
The Reich's Institute for Unem
ployment Insurance reports that
on the 16th of February there
were 6,127,000 unemployed work- >
ers registered at the labor
changes throughput Germany, rep
s^cftteTLst^or^u^y. 85 '^
authorities expect a further in
crease in the second half of Feb
ruary, but hope that by the end of
February the topmost point for
1932 will have been reached.
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C0UNTY AGENT OFFICE IS
WORKING BASE FOR ALL
; ENEMIES OF FARMERS.
i -
In the annual spring town meet
ings in Yellow Medicine County,
; Minnesota, which took place March
I 8 * the farmers of the county Wt f d
tSWSH " ^
i voted down the continuation of
the welfare worker racket. Despite
! the blizzard and the cold weather
; that made travel uncomfortable
and dangerous, the farmers turned
j out in good numbers to voice their
disapproval of both rackets the
and the welfare
FARMERS REJECT
county agent
worker.
The county commissioners, as
result of the mass pressure of the
of the county, made no
appropriation for either of these
offices at their January meeting.
The work of the welfare worker is
being handled at the present time
by the county commissioners. The
question of retaining the county
agent and the welfare worker were
put to a vote so that the sentiment
the farmers against these rac
ikets would be made plain to the
!
commissioners.
The results of the elections in
that I» 11 ^ tn *„ com,t >' aronnd
Canby were as follows:
Noyman: 22 voted for the welfare
worker and 56 against; 9 voted for
the County agent and 68 against.
_ _
Hammer. On the county agen
question, 6 were for the office and
^ ^ ld " ere for ' hc w * 1 '
;J™*« " d a * a " st ;, .
L 0shk "i; J he ^ ^ f,
fice of Welfare worker went 45
for and 55 against; 38 voted for
the County agent office and 68
against.
Wergeland: There were 13 votei»
cast for the Welfare workers and
19 against; 8 for the County agent
and 24 against.
Florida: Ten voted for the Coun
ty agent and 20 against; 13 voted
for the Welfare worker and 17
against.
Fortier: The town voted 2 for
the County agent and 25 against; 1
for the Welfare worker and 25
against.
The farmers of the entire coun
ty will vote down the county agent
and the welfare worker at the reg
ular spring elections which will
come in a couple of weeks.
tion would be a good thing if
can be accomplished.
They have
been sold out by the Grange and
the Farm Bureau and they are
naturally distrustful of any new
organization that comes into the
field. But we have there a small
group of courageous fighters who
have faith in their class and who
continually raise the banner of
organization. With the aid of
these I was able to secure a num
her of subscriptions to the Pro
ducers News. In fact, I was
the field two days and as no meet
ings were held, was able to ap
proach about ten farmers not al
ready subscribers. I secured nine
subscription.. The field i. ripe
» .
for organization but it requires
work, untiring and persistent.
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■ Toiling Farmers! Protest These Brutal Murders! Demand
. ^ Release of All Jailed Workers
Liberal" Mayor Murphy of Detroit Attempts te Lie
About Responsibility for Murders
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Thousands on thousands of workers marched Satur
day in the funeral demonstration for the four workers
who were murdered by the police thugs of Ford, Mayor
Murphy of Detroit, and of Dearborn, murderer Ford s
private city. The funeral services were read at the Work
ers Center on Ferry Avenue. From the Workers Center
the workers fell in behind the hearses in one of the greatest demon
strations Detroit has ever seen. They marched two miles down town
to Woodward Avenue the center of the business district. The liearsei
then proceeded to the Cemetery.
Preceding the funeral, on Friday night, thousands of workers
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Meeting of Montana
Farmers Holds Mayor
Of Detroit Guilty
a
^ Mayor
Raymond, Mont.
March 12, 1932,
^ Detroit, Mich.
^ ^ a mass meeting of farm
^ ^ Qrkers and s t u dents assembl
^ & Raymond sc hool dis
cugsed tbe asBau i t 0 f your police
^ Ford's on the unarmed demon
strat j on 0 f the Unemployed work
ers.
Whereas, the marchers were un
armed and defenseless and were
only seeking employment and
lief peacefully,
Therefor© be it resolved that
this meeting protests the methods
and terror of the Ford police and
Detroit police on the marchers and
we hold you and the city councilors
guilty of the unwarranted murder
and wounding of those taking part
in the demonstration at Detroit.
re
Carla Nelson
Henry Umback
Iris Grantham
Committee. ,
JOE YORKi
MURDERED BY FORD
fuuiu/iauui/ " * _
IN THE CLASS WAR
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Joe York, 19-year old Detroit
Organizer of the Young Commun
ist League, is dead. He was cold
bloodedly shot by Henry Ford's
gunmen, while acting as a leader
in the Ford Hunger March Mon
day. This is the same Henry
Ford who has been acclaimed as
the "Saviour of the American
Youth," for his Trade School.
Comrade York was bom in a
mining town in Ohio, the son of
a miner, today a member of the
National Miners Union. He went
to work in the mines when he was
15. After the 1928 strike, he left
for Detroit, the "city of prosperi
ty," to work in the auto shops
there, and take responsibility, as
the oldest of 5 children, to sup
port the family back home, which
was blacklisted and starving.
For two years he worked in the
autc plants. In March, 1930, af
ter the March 6th demonstration,
he joined the Young Communist
League. In May of that year,
the Y. C. L. decided to break the
terror in Hamtramck, a city con
trolled by the General Motors
Corp. A street meeting was held
which was brutally smashed by the
police. Comrade York was beaten
up and jailed for putting up a mil
jitant fight to defend the speaker.
When the Flint strike broke out
Flint, Michigan, though
a new
member in the Young Communist
League, York went to Flint in
spite of the terror. The same!the
night that he arrived he was ar
rested and spent some time in
jail. During the next year he was
very active in the Y. C. L.
At the Sixth Convention of the
Y. C. L. (July, 1931) he was elect
ed to the National Executive Com
mittee of the League. In August,
j 1931, he was elected as District
in!Organizer of the Detroit League,
In this winter's fight for bread in
Detroit, York took a leading part.
In unemployed protest demon
str ^n, he was arrested together
'ÄLT"'™ 1 " of
*• C. Li. in the city.
x young auto worker himself.
he took his place in the front
•♦packed the Arena Gardens in a
militant protest against the mur
derous terror used by Ford against
the unemployed whom he has
thrown out into the streets to
starve. The mass of workers was
great that thousands could not
gain admission to the hall. The
speakers showed the murder to
have been part of the Ford-Mur
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Murphy cooperating with Ford in
the attempt to crush the mass de
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DETROIT, Mich., March 11—Aa
emergency funeral and defense
conference of over 200 delegates
was organized on 24 hours' notice,
representing 90 workers' organisa- [
tions which passed resolutions con- [
denning the massacre of the four 5
unemployed workers by the Ford
Murphy gunmen, and elected a
committee of 37 to present de
mands to Mayor Murphy on Mon
day at 11 o'clock in the morning !
at City Hall. Leaders who direct
all activities from workingclass
homes are still being sought for >
arrest by Murphy-Ford police. De
mands will also be presented to
Mayor Clyde Ford at Dearborn,
Michigan, where the massacre took
place.
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The demands are:
1. No suppression of the right«
of workers, the right to freu
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the right to organize in unions,
2. Not bullets but unemploy
ment relief! Immediate job«
and unconditional release of all
workers arrested in connection
with fihe Ford Hunger March.
4. Punishment for those guil
ty of the massacre.
5. Abolition of all Ford fac
tory police and spies and imme
diate discharge of alt factory
police and spies.
6. Indemnity to be paid to the
families of all murdered work
ers by Ford and the cities of De
troit and Dearborn.
The workers all pledged them
selves to build the Auto Workers
Union and the Unemployed Coun
cils. '
Terror Continues
The terrorism is proceeding
at Dearborn, E corse, River
Rouge, and Lincoln Park, towns
run by Ford. Searching of
workers' homes and seeking •f
active workers In workers' e«i|w
is going on.
A stream of angry workers pass
the bodies of the working-clast
martyrs at the Workers Home. I
Scores of local mass meetings
condemning the massacre and [
adopting resolutions which Mur
phy answers by blaming the
sacre on the Dearborn police.
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workers' meetings and resolutions
adopted, pouring into Murphy's 1
office, the mayor of Detroit, Frank
Murphy, has been forced to admit
guilt of Ford and the Dear- •
bom police for the massacre which !
occurred on Monday, March 7.
Murphy attempts to evade the
sponsibility and conceal the fol
lowing damning facts:
1. His administration is pari
and parcel of the Ford machine 1
2. Murphy denies that his
! ra nks of the Ford Auto worker.«
w h° marched on the plant to de
: ma™* reüef from the millionaire
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j weat of 12-year-old boys ir
iMs Trade School. For this act
York was murdered.
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