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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, OCTOBER 26, 1933.
Number 31.
Published Weekly
VOL
@0 CALLS FARM
PREPARATIONS
n-mands of Strike are Cost of Production and Re
of Farm Debts Under the Terms
of the Frazier Bill
financing
rEN0 SEEKS SUPPORT OF BIG BUSINESSMEN
United Farmers League Calls for Mass Picketing and
Election of Rank and File Strike Committees
Under Control of Dirt Farmers
DES MOINES, Iowa,—At a secret meeting in St. Paul Thursday
Oct. 19, Milo Reno and a
natioval farm strike to
coherence was held in the
ieaoers called off the previous
The reasons given for the
jf tji e federal government to
failure to resort immediately
asked farmers whether they
-"*want
tiled a
cever
1.F.L ISSUES
STATEMENT ON
FARM STRIKE
Pledges Support to Any
'Strike That Is Intended
to Bring Real Relief
URGES PICKETING
Calls for Rank and File
uivii-mmic . 0<
MINnEAP S, Minn., Oct. 2
-ia a statement issued yesterday
Dy Alfred Tiala, national sec
ury of the United r armera
Uttue. the support of the United
»^"famer'^^strike h^ft
atended to bring real relief
the farmers who are in* distress.
The United Farmers League as
organization will mobilize
•yrepathetic elements to support
such a strike.
"However, we Want to call to
attentior. of all farmers that
issues and the demands of the
pending strike are still very much
befogged. W e believe that farm
« themselves should formulate
^e dem^ds for which they are
«niggle, instead of having
"demands" handed down to them
by somebody else "
Thi> statement has been «nt
Strike Committees and
Control
Ü state organizations of the
Ctitw Farmers League with in
«radio's that It be given wide
spread distribution among small
and middle farmers
After analyzing Reno'* demands
for the strike, the statement con
;_
"We must fight of course and
^ United Farmers League is rot
to hold the farmers back.
/ am going to spur the farmers
forward. But in order to win we
fight correctly, efficiently,
struggle at all stages must be
to the control of the rank and file
®f the farmers. Otherwise it will
■* betrayed.
"Burners everywhere must elect
ftar own strike committees
* Demids rmist^be'worited" out
» rank and fTefamm confer
^•..The amere muet
mass picketing of roads to
prevent H/.L » j • i j
«« an ar,< * T *
■ SX Ä IST*
B Let us im a™* -«.U r iw«»
des and bet.aval 6 Tkp W1 &
I conclude^ \he siïtSUt.
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FRED B. CHASE,
MILITANT FARM
LEADER dead
2oïp R0 ' N - H o Oct.
the B ' Cbase > on « of
exerut me mber s of the
Paring of the
tee fn a ^ atlona l Commit
ni *ht af rt!° n ' died here last
FV . atdle age of 52.
the Was 0ne °f
,i *kw?rjr olutio : iarT
among f* d ojKamzei*
for the
a * air st the I
*\ o{ th * hanks
and
Ca Pitalist
death
Movement
oppres
and the
apainst the whole
system. I n his
militant farm
offers a serious
the
wiff a ^ Ves behind him a
whom tW ? s0ns ' a11 of
** révolu^ 6 fighters in
ary movement
small number of Holiday leaders
begin on Saturday, Oct. 21. The
same room where last May Holiday
strike.
calling of the strike are the refusal
an NRA farm code, and Roose
to currency inflation. Reno has
want a farm code, or whether they
inflation.
I
1 The demands of the strike are i
cost of production and refinancing i
j of farm debts under the terms of
! the Frazier Bill.
The call to strike was made with I
out warning and without consult- j
mg the rank and Me of the Holi -1
day Association. Absolutely mo
preparations have been taken for
I making the strike effective, nor
are the demands announced as the
object of the strike the result of
1 any expression of the desires of
; the Holiday membership.
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Sincerity Doubtful
I
The manner in which the strike j
; has been called and the total fail- i
J ure to make any strike prépara- 1
i tions, cannot but lead to the con- ;
viction that the Holiday leaders j
; are not sincere in their strike call, i
i It io apparent from Reno's actions.
. ^hat he has been forced to appear |
j to take some kind of action by
re- j the r j s i n g revolt spreading nation-i
^«je among the impoverished farm
population.
is ; Friday, Oct. 20, Reno held a
to i conference in Omaha, not with the
: farmers to lay plans for beginning
an ; the strike, but with big business
all leaders of Omaha. In this, meet
* n £ Reno achieved the stupendous
i victory of securing the agreement
the ! °f the business men present to a
the verbal resolution which stated : "It
im- *s the sense of this meeting that
we favor guaranteeing the farmer
cos t «f production."
Representative* of
to Big Business
the , r , . , ,, » , ,.
. e ^ho attended the meeting
i inchïde < i the representatives of the
to "««« 4 . b ""™» interests end
4ruats J***™*\, su î as
head » f . the Ncbraska Power Go,.
4b * ctaurman L of tie Chamber of
Commerce, the president of the
federal Land Bank of Omaha, and
representatives of two big grain
c0 "JP ames -
To assure these enemies of the
!farmers that R * n0 Ws heT * h -
mer did «et mean business when
issued 016 «all for strike H.
£ farmenter. Reno s lieutenant in
Nebraska, said: .
i dpead of Hollda y 18 com *
muris * activity. Only those un
! friendly to our cause will be the
1 ones w ho will cause picketing.'
. . picketing
! ^ ** . .
1 ? a, ™® n ^ er thus utdizes ^ !
I udlce 4bat man 7 t farm . era *"*
agamS *. coml r mSts , steer !
awa * forn L?'
j t f m4y ' #h,cb 5" make a
fective, which is mass picketmg.
R*no himself issued statements
Myi "« that » icketin « is .ï ot CM !
templated. Tom Horsford, presi
dent °f Montana Holiday, and
mary other Holiday leaders have
' expressed themselves as against
I violence. B y violance, they mean
! maes picketing.
I Although he called the strike to
j on Oct. 21, not until that
very day did he mail out any calls
to his Holiday organizations
The g restent
, , , A w
throughout the country. The ay
they are responding is a good in
dication of how the Holiday works.
Nowhere has the strike started
yet, except for the report that a
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PICKETING IN WISC.
AGAINST ORDERS OF
HOLIDAY LEADERS
NEILSV1LLE, Wis., Oct. 24.—
Disregardirg warnings of Reno
i ar.d other Holiday leaders against
mass picketing of roads to make
strike efforts effective, farm
; pickets spilled load of milk on the
highways and permitted only 800
pounds of milk to reach the con
densery here.
I At Vesper, pickets spilled an
|other load bound for a condo? sery
i in that town.
W. C. Daniel, president of the
Woodbury County Holiday Assn,
in Iowa, announced plans for
"peaceful picketing" of highways
leading to the Sioux City market.
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protection of Wall Street profits.
BREAD PRICES
RAISED AGAIN
IN 49 CITIES
Government Admits Cost
Q f Making Bread Declined
During September
FARMERS GET LESS
Since Febuary 13 Price of a
Loaf of Bread Rose
23 Percent
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.
—The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration reported yesterday
that in the month of September
the average price for bread to
consumers in 49 cities had risen
from 7.6 cents per pound loaf to
7.9 cents. This rise took place de
spite the fact that the cost of ma
terials going into the bread had
decreased from 2.89 cents
pound loaf, in the same period,
"Some of this increase may be
due to better pay to workers," said
Dr. Fred C. Howe, Consumers'
j Counsel of the A. A. A. "But dur
j ing recent years the machine has
per
so largely replaced hand labor in
the manufacture of the ordinary
loaf of bread, that the cost of la
bor forms only a small part of the
price of a loaf. So there would
have to be a large increase in la
bor costs before it should show
the retail price of bread."
During this same period, the re
months.
This increase in the price of
bread is expected to continue
throughout the winter. The re
suit will naturally be a decrease
the amount of bread consumed
and a narrowing of the wheat
fanners' market.
port states, the average price of
wheat paid to the farmer went
down five percent.
Thus, neither the farmer, nor
the worker employed in the mak
ing and bringing of bread to the
consumer, benefitted from the in
creased price. The extra profit is
reported to have gone to bakers
and handlers of bread.
On Feb. 15, the average in the
whole country price for a pound
loaf was 6.4 cents. The price on
Sept. 26 of 7.9 cents represents an
increase of 23 per cent in seven
HUNGER MARCH IN
EMMONS CO. NOV. 7
We Have the Best Reason
to Fight Like Tigers
By J. H.
LINTON, N. D.—We are start
a y, ung . er drive on county com
missioners
They meet on Nov. 7,
and we are sending out calls all
over the county asking the farm
ers to come and mass at the Court
House, and, back up the United
Farmers League committee in our
demands. We are going to demand
$26,000 a month cash relief.
We have the best reason to fight
like tigers, as most all the coun
ties in the state are getting fed
eral relief, and if it wasn't for
our numbskull tightwad commis
sioners, we'd have it too.
The dirty devil* are trying to
make a big name for themselves
at the expense of the starving
farmers and unemployed workers.
Right noV they are working about
100 men on a graveling job at $2
a day in grocery slips. The men
are worked 10 hours a day.
If our county hunger demonstra
tion doesn't bring any results on
Nov. 7, our committee will go be
fore the State Relief Board, and
if that doesn't help, we will call
a state hunger march on the
capital.
25 MILLION MORE
T 1 FOR BUILDING U. S.
.) MILITARY MACHINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22..
—Continuing its. policy of looting;
so-called public works funds for in
creasing armaments and strength
ening the military machine in
preparation for a new world war,,
the Roosevelt government's public
works administration allotted $25,
000,000 more for the army and
na 27' .... -, ... .
Ten million of this sum went to
the war departmen for motoriza-1
tion of the army. The remaining
$15.000,000 i* distributed between
the army and the navy, but is to
be used by both for the upbuild
ing of the military aviation ma
chine.
PROCESSING TAX
ON HOGS WILL BE
2 CENTS A POUND
Will Open Way for Greater
Profits to Meat Trust;
Workers Will Suffer
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.
—Secretary Wallace has issued,
with the approval of Pres. Roose
velt, the regulation* determining
the processing tax on live hogs.
The tax will be effective Nov.
5 and will start at one-half cent
a pound. On Dec. 1 the tax will
be increased to 1 cent a pound.
On Jan. 1, 1934, it will be In
creased again to one cent and a
half a pound and on Feb. 1 the tax
will be two cents a pound.
This tax, itself exhorbitant In
view of the falling standards of
living of the workers in the cities,
will open the way for intensive
profiteering by the Meat Trust.
An example of such profiteering is
afforded by the huge increase in
bread prices since the imposition
of the 30 cent processing tax on i
wheat Bread nrofiteerintr has been
rZiffPd Tv r S h "l^o
admitted by the fédéra, govern -1
The tax collections are expected !
K „ *7 a
Administration to total $348,000,- !
OOO. However, according to
Ice's announcement, only $250,000.- ,
000 «4 this will bi paid to
ers for raising less corn and
GOVERNOR OF IOWA
HALTS TAX SALES,
FOR 1 MONTH ONLY
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 21.—
In a meaningless gesture of aid
to tax-delinquent farmers, Gover
nor Herring has issued a procla
mation postponing all county sales
of property for delinquent taxes
until the first monday in January.
The emptiness of the move is ap
parent when it is recalled that tax
sales were to take place Dec. 4.
Farm Bureau Officials Admit They
Carry on Racketeering Activities
»
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Admis
sions made to a senate committee
by officials of the American Farm
Bureau Federation reveal some of
that organization's activities on
i behalf of big capitalist interests,
M. S. Winder, executive secre
tary of the Farm Bureau, and S.
A. Van Patten, former publicity di
rector, admitted the following:
Centent
In 1930, 1931, and 1932, the
Farm Bureau carried on a "home
modernization
farmers, for which the Farm Bu
reau receved $69,250 from some
of the biggest trusts in the coun
try which benefited from the
"home modernization" campaign.
The Copper and Brass Research
Assn, paid the Farm Bureau $11»
250; the L. W. Ramsey Co. paid
$6,000; the National Electric Light
Assn, paid $31,000; the National
Lumber Manufacturer^ Assn.,
$16,000; the Portland
campaign
among
RAILROADS ARE
DISREGARDING
N. D. EMBARGO
« '
Contrary to His 1 hreat,
Langer Is Not Calling
Out the Militia
_
FEARS COURT ACTION
Now Blames Foreign Im
j ports of Rye for Causing
Wheat Surplus
BISMARCK, N. D.—Gov. Laa
ger's embargo on wheat shipments
is not stopping the railroads from
shipping wheat out of the state.
They are disregarding the em
bargo entirely.
Contrary to his threats to use
the National guard to enforce the
embargo, Gov. Langer has decided
not to u*e them. He has instructed
sheriffs to enforce the embargo,
but they are not doing anything
either.
Langer claims that the price rise
last week was due to his embargo.
This idle boast is given the lie
by the fact that the federal gov
ernment has been buying heavily
in* the wheat markets. It is> this
federal purchasing that has raised
the price of wheat.
Railroads declare they will
tinue to disregard the embargo. If
con
no chances of having the
brought to court, because it is a
clear cut issue against him.
, ... , ,_,
When he first declared the em
Langer placed on the shoul
derf , of fte COTSnmere the blame
'"J " hea4 'T?' . He h ", D<rw
shifted his attack to importations
L 'T st *! ek he da_
, tbat 4h f " m .<* *>" an >
b "«°J a 4be federal « ov -
14 "? 4 ? ct , the "»Porta 4 -»"
hogs-j^^
(ÄTrea^n
—inability of unemployed, and
workers whose wages are low, to
buy bread.
they are stopped, they will resort
to court action. Langer is taking
case
Langer stated that the results
of the embargo has been "highly
satisfactory." To whom, Mr. Lan
ger? Not to us farmers, you may
be sure,
manoeuver.
We see through your
We know that you
never expected or intended the em
bargo to do us any good. We
know that you are only making
another bid for popularity.
*
Paid Big Sums by Trusts to
Induce Farmery to Buy
Their Products
Assn., $3,000; and the Walstrum
Mfg. Co., $3,000.
During the same period, Van
Petten said, he organized the Sec
ondary Road Institute, which car
ried on a campaign! through the
Farm Bureau to "tell" the farm
ers of the need for good roads.
For this campaign, Van Petten re
ceived $160,000 from the Asphalt
Institute. $10,000 of thv? money
he gave to Winder, "for assistance
furnished."
These officials of the Farm Bu
reau offered to carry on,a cam
paign for a more adequate merch
ant marine if shipping associations
Chicago Workers Pledge Aid In
Farm Conference Arrangements;
Offer Solidarity In Struggles
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
2352 West Division St.
Chicago, Dl.
October 17, 1933.
Lem Harris, Executive Secretary
Farmers National Committee for Action
1622 H Street N. W.
Washington, D. C.
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Deal' Friend :
I
We have received your call for aid in organizing
the Farmers Second National Conference. The Execu
tive Committee of the Workers International Relief
has gone on record as accepting the call and passed a
motion to do its part in assisting you in this very im
portant task.
The Workers International Relief has decided to
organize the feeding of the delegates to the Confer
ence. This is part of the work carried on by our or
ganization in the struggles of the workers against the
attack organized by those wishing to place the entire
burden of the economic crises upon the shoulders of
the workers in the city as well as the toiling farmers.
The workers in the city are not able to buy milk
for their babies because of the high price, while at
the same time the farmers do not get enough for their
milk to keep on producing it. This in itself shows the
need of united action of the workers in the city and
of the toiling farmers to do away with such conditions
and see that milk is produced for use and not for de
struction.
The Workers International Relief, in its welfare
work in the neighborhoods where the children of the
unemployed are starving and the death rate is mount
ing every day, finds that milk is the cry of starving
babies and school children. The condition of the chil
dren of the exploited workers in the factories, where
the low wages and the stagger system make it impos
sible for the workers to maintain a decent standard
of living, is not much better.
Your program of struggle and milk strikes to
raise the prices of farm products to the farmers and
lower them to the workers at the expense of the
middlemen and profiteers, to be consider«! at the com
ing Conference, fits in with the struggles of the work
We must, therefore, come to a common under
standing that our power lies in UNITY AND SOLI
DARITY.
The Workers International Relief stands ready to
do all it can to organize its membership in support of
the Second National Conference.
Fraternally,
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF.
Alice Yorick, Secretary.
Chicago District,
ers.
Roosevelt Invites Envoy
of Soviet Union to U. S.
to Discuss Recognition
fc
Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Selected
to Conduct Talks With U. S. President
in Washington
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21—President Roosevelt announced
yesterday that Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Af
fairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, will arrive shortly in.
the United States to discuss with President Roosevelt the establish
ment of formal diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the
United States.
At the same time, Roosevelt
made public an exchange of com
munications between himself and
Mikhail Kalinin, President of the
Soviet Urion. President Roose
velt wrote President Kalinin
9 n
Oct. 10, inviting a representative
would furnish them $94,000. They
never got the money, so they nev
er carried on the campaign. But
before the plan fell through, they
offered to do it for $30,000, and
finally for $15,000.
In order to cover up the racket
eering activities of the Farm Bu
reau, Winder said the money they
got from the big trusts was used
to pay the expenses of the cam
paigns themselves. Was the $10,
000 paid you "for assistance fur
nished" in the road-building cam
paign a part of the expense* of
the campaign itself, Mr. Winder?
Did anyone ever hear of the
Farm Bureau carrying on a cam
paign to bring improvements in
the conditions of its farmer mem
bers? No, the job of this organi
zatio<n, while bringing in business
to various capitalist interests, is
to keep impoverished farmers ser-,
vile and submissive to oppression.
to visit Washington "to explore
with me personally all questions
between our countries." President
Kalinin answered on Oct. 17, ac
cepting the invitation and inform
ing President Roosevelt that Lit
vinov had been selected to proceed
to Washington.
It will be recalled that at the
World Economic Conference held
in London several months ago, Lit
vinov announced that the Soviet
Union was prepared to place or
der* in capitalist countries for
goods amounting to $1,000,000,000.
The moves of the Roosevelt ad
ministration toward recognition of
the Soviet Union are made to
smooth the way toward the s©cur
ing Q f large orders from the So
viet Union. It is estimated that
such trade would give jobs- to
600,000 men in this country
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21—News of the
interchange of notes between
Presidents Kalinin and Roosevelt
and the possibility ' of United
States recognition of the 16 year
old workers and farmers govern
ment of the Soviet Union, were
received enthusiastically here.
Workers Internat! Relief
Will Feed Farmer
Delegates
REPLY TO HARRIS
Conference Delegates Will
Be Put Up in Homes of
Chicago Workers
CHICAGO, III., Oct. 18.
splendid manifestation of unity be
tween workers and farmers, the
Workers International Relief of
this city has taken upon itself the
huge task of feeding the delegates
to the Farmers Second National
Conference which will be held here
from Nov. 15 to 18.
This concrete display of Work
ing clats solidarity was made in
response to an appeal from Lem
Harris, evecutive secretary of the
Farmers National Committee for
Action, which, together with the
United Farmers League and its
other affiliated organizations, has
issued the call for the Farmers
Second National Conference.
"We have received your call for
aid in organizing the Farmer»
Second National Conference,**
states the letter to Harris.
Workers International Relief has
decided to organize the feeding of
the delegates to the Conference.
Need for United Action
In a
n
The
"The workers in the city are not
able to buy milk for their babies
because of the high price, while at
the same time the farmers do not
get enough for their milk to keep
on producing it. This in itself
shows the fteed of united action of
the workers in the city and of the
toiling farmers to do away with
such conditions and see that milk
is produced for use and not for
destruction.
"We must therefore come to
a common understanding that
our power lies in UNITY AND
SOLIDARITY."
The Conference 'will take place
in People's Auditorium, 2456 West
Chicago Ave. This hall ha s a
dining room where the delegate«
will be fed. The dining room can
take care of 600 to 800 every
hour and a half.
To aid in the feeding delegates
are requested to bring with them
root vegetables and other produce.
Every un
der the seat of the truck a couple
of sacks of potatoes, carrots, cab
bages, crates of eggs, frozen meat.
The housing of the fanner dele
gates will be taken care of for the
most part by workers. Almost all
the farmer* will be put up in the
workers' homes.
Each delegate must bring $3 for
expenses in Chicago. Fifty cents
of this goes for registration. The
remaining $2.50 will pay for all
meals for the four days, as well
a* expenses connected with hous
ing.
(See page 3 for news of meet
ings, reports of delegatee elect««}
and other activities in connec
tion with the conference.)
ARMY MANOEUVERS
IN JAPAN ACROSS
SEA FROM SIBERIA
i
KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 22.—In a
provocative action against the So
viet Union, the Japanese army is
conducting its annual manoeuvers
here on the Shores of the Sea of
Japan, directly across from the
Soviet Siberian mainland.
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