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Volume XV. Number 25
_ OFFICIAL 0&6AN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE _
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932"
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RED CROSS REFUSES
ALL AID TO HUNGRY
driven by hunger
Red Cross Tells Jobless It
Has no Funds for the
General' Relief
merchant froths
Solid Front Will Be Thrown
Against Bosses if They
Try to Persecute
(BY IVER MOE)
Anaoortes, Wash., Sept. 6.—
Hungry, half starved men, women
and children of Anacortes, staged
& militant struggle against star
vation Saturday, Sept. 3.
The struggle was the spontane
ou» action of hunger-driven people
after being refused relief by the
Red Cross.
Five demands were placed be
fore the Red Cross in hope that
some solution might be reached to
alleviate starvation in Anaoortes.
The Red Cross declaration, they
had no funds for general relief
brought the people to the realiza
tion that something hed to be done.
.Women, .strivken with the horror
of returning to empty cupboards
and crying pale-faced children,
tearfully pleaded with the group to
*> something anything.
FACE STARVATION
It was real tragic drama of pri
vation and need. The participants
in the demonstration realized that
they stood face to face with star
vation an so the cries of "Let's
Ro get food," "we must get some*
thing for my babies," started tue
militant citizens toward Skaggs
Safeway Store.
, The demonstrators now calm but
determined entered Skaggs' stows
after a march of two blocks. Here
the hungry people filled their arm»
with staple foods, such as lard,
sugar, bacon, etc. Several men
took charge of the clerks. Two of
the four clerks offered some re -
«stance but later gave in and
listened to reason. The police were
summoned and upon arrival they
failed to get the situation in hand.
People Wre orderly, going About
their "shopping" little disturbed by
the presence of the law.
Two deputies happened to drive
past and took notice of the large
*owd, but since such orderliness
prevailed, they believed it to be a
8a k and drove on without investi"
gating.
MERCHANT NEARLY STARTS
RIOT
Paul Lavera, a private merdr
tot, a full block away from the
store, rushed to the place
•f action. He almost threw the
crowd into
a panic by shout
Wg something incoherently in a
half crazed manner about machine
5"- I 4 .»" to shov.
T®. Steide in order to prevent
notmg. The truth was finally ar
nved at when Luvera admitted his
fear of being the next victim.
A riot was narrowly escaped
minutes later due to the
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Î* d00f 1 ® o* preventing
we people from getting out with
"'e groceries. He succeeded in
letting the door locked but it brot
«ich a series of protesta from the
oewd that he was forced by aay
men to open the door. The
Ptople immediately cooled down
«mi continued to "shop/'
get something to eat
Two small girls, about ten years
** happened to pass by the
«oje. ensing what was taking
P i& ce, one said to the other "Hurry
noney, let's get something we have
aot had anything fit to eat for
South '' They dashed in and took
* small amount of groceries and
^appeared. Ten year old young*
such as these small girls,
«Swing such
an opportunity gave
a casual onlooker a queer,
2™8 fefeljng in the throat.
The policemen stood by during
en tire demonstration apd took
* ornnes of several of the work*
> but those listed will be backed
y thousands of militant, protest
farmers and workers if "'any
tten
LIBERTY PARTY TO
SUPPORT N. D. NON
PARTISAN TICKET
Th« Liberty party in itg North
Dakota state convention held
September 6 endorsed the Non
partisan Republican candidates
four state and national office.
Coin Harvey's party has
dorsed the Nonpartisan branch
of the Republican party because
this branch • ia engaged in the
same program of vicious dema
gogy to deceive the toiling mass
of North Dakota as the Liberty
party is engaged in all thru the
country wherever it has contacts.
Harvey spoke at the conven
tion. He is the faker who tried
to get his party aligned with the
fascist Blue Shirt-Jobless party
of Father Cox at St. Louis at
the national convention held
there on August 17. The Liberty
party support's the most vicious
candidates of the other capital
ist parties everywhere. In Min
nesota they support the Farmer
Labor fakers, in North Dakota
the Nonpartisan fakers.
on
en
Are you registered?
Citizens who are not registered
cannot vote at the coming election,
You will want to vote for Poster
and Ford, for Rodney Salisbury for
Communists, but if you are not
registered you will be disappoint
REGISTRATION
books close
SEPTEMBER 23
Citizens Not Registered
Cannot Vote; Register
Today
ed.
Those who did not vote at the
general election two years ago,
those who have moved to the coun
ty since that time, those who have
come of age since 1930 or will be
of age Nov, 8, must register to
vote, and must attend to that re
quirement by closing time Friday,
September 23. So citizens, don
put the matter off until the last
minute; dd it today.
How does one register? If in
Plentywood, go to the office of the
Clerk and Recorder and he will
furnish a card to fill out which one
signs and swears to, then he is
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Injured In Great Falls
Word was received this morning
that Mrs, Ema Timmerman who
was on her way to Missoula had
been struck by- an automobile in
Great Falls and badly injured. Her
many friends here will be grieved
to leam that the doctors say she
will be confined for at least a
month or six weeks. Complete de
tails of the accident are lacking.
DUCK SHOOTING
TO STAAT OCT. 1
F J ^ ^ 0T 30i ifldasiTe
the hunting season is open on mi"
gra tory wa ter fowls. Shooting be
g i ns a t 9 o'clock op Oct. 1, on the
other days 30 minutes before sun -
rise, concluding at sunset each day.
Limit is- 16 ducks and fout geese
P6 ä.
ian partri dges and Chinese phteas
Five grouse per day law_
20.
fully killed Sept.
HOSPITAL DANCE
The Sheridan Memorial hospital
«Üi the annual
board aittfMUMJ» t . .,.
bospitaK dance wi» be held thw
year on Friday evening, October 7.
The high school auditorium has
been engaged for thé ooc*aion
have a cue against the county,
not the county agswtefc the pcopl»
The crime lie» vritk the aystem un
der which such conditions prevail.
Anaoortes is wn -exoiurivaly indus
trial town and the unemployment
embrace, psacticaily tha «ntire
working class. In spite of this,
wreot Am««*« *«U
Vu» t«1m» than an* Wwn ia th>a
vicinity. The watchword, howmmr,
is, "Fight, don't starve."
Renew Your
Subscription Now
CONVENTION OF
FAKERS'MEET
Demands Offered By UFL
Delegate Rejected By
Convention
CAPITALIST PARTY
Convention Reject Demand
Offered By U. F. L.
Delegate
Thomas offered the toiling and
The
(By Two Worker Correspondents)
Grand Island, Nebr., August 28.
—The state convention held here
today to place Norman Thomas
and Mauer on the ballot in this
state proved to all who heard the
proceedings, and especially some
25 or 30 subscribers of the Pro
ducers News, what a double cross
ing the workers are getting by the
bogus Socialist party, paid, fi
nanced and guided by the major
old time parties.
suffering farmers nothing,
convention adopted a plaftorm
that promises them less.
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The U. P. L. will go strong
here. Several meetings have al*
ready been arranged. Two organi
zers are awa iting credentials to
start work in earnest hut are ai
ready arranging meetings where
from 25 bo 76 farmers have at*
tended and Where the Producers
News has been distributed.
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The Socialist conventions refused
to give the farmer immediate aid
to keep his farm while kidding him
along With radical phrases and
A delegate offered the U. F. L.
program of no foreclosure for the
farmers, no evictions, no tax sales,
etc. and the socialists voted it
down.
While endorsing the national
platform that in its plank No. 11,
on "Unemployment and labor legis*
latien" offers to protect • them
against mrotgage foreclosures and
a promise moratorium on sales,
but does not tell how nor when.
general denouncement of capital
ism. The farmer must have re
lief now, not after he is entirely
dispossessed and pauperized. The
U. P. L. is a life saver for them
when they need it. Here's to
sweeping victory for the Produc
ers News fight for the TJ. P. L.
0. M. DONALDSON
CALLED BY DEATH
Information received in Plenty
wood Thursday morning conveyed
the sad tiding^ of the death
Otto Donaldson who passed away
at Winona, Minn. Wednesday eve
ning after an illness extending
past two or three years. Creep
ing paralysis is said to have been
the cause of his death. He had
been in Minnesota for several
months seeking relief.
Mr. Donaldson had conducted
garage in Culbertson for a number
of years, coming to Plentywood
1913 where he has been in
garage business.
The body is expected to reach
here Saturday when final funeral
arrangements will be made.
Further particulars will be given
next week.
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In order to prepare the fanners to accept the
décimons of the governors' meeting leaders of the
Nebraska-Iowa Cooperative toured Deugl**, Sarpy,
and Washington counties in the preoeeding days
to dampen the militancy of the farmers. ThSas
leaders included Otto Pfeiffer, president of the
Association, Ed Martin of Millard, Neb., and Wil
liam Rtown of Ban sop, Nebr.
Milk "Cooperative" Again Trief
Strikebreaking
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"Only through
tfa* can-WO farm W* ha«a anything to
•tent thé
«aid Pf «Iff sr.
"Upsetting a tow
venting farmers from hauling their pro
duce into the markets cannot right the
mt srife ahd
wnfegs from which wo are suffering. Only
violence can be the result' and wherever
violence tm, public sympathy for the
righteous cause éf afriootitoe to Is«**'
This Nebraaka-Iowa Co-operative Milk
dation is the one which at the beginning of the
New Giant Locomotive
Works In Soviet Union
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Moscow, August 25.—The foun
dation stone of a new giant loco
motive and carriage works was
laid in the town Verchneudinsk in
the Far Eastern Republic yester
day. When completed the works
WiH have a capacity of 1,080 loco
motives, 12,000 goods trucks and
2,000 passenger coaches annually.
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Co-operative Service
Will Open Saturday
Mothers Bread, Pound and Half
Standard Loaf, Six Cents the
Loaf; Reduction of Four Cents.
The Co-operative Service Resta
urant and Bakery will open for
business Saturday.
Manager Salisbury announces
that Mothers' Bread will be re
tailed for 6 cents a loaf, pound and
half loaf, 8 cents the loaf for two
pound loaf. Other bakery goods
on the same basis. This means a
reduction of 4 cents for the stan
dard loaf, and puts the price of
bread in Plentywood more in lint
with reality.
Fresh hamburger sandwiches
will sell for five cents apiece. Ar
rangements have b een made to
keep the restaurant supplied with
young white-faced beef butchered
as required. A special 25 cent
dinner will be served from 11
o'clock until 4.
Farmers with surplus products
can bring them in for sale. This
service will be free and farmers
will get all that consumers pay,
Alfred Hjelm, who was to show
his fine stock of men, youths and
boys fine Co-operative made cloth
ing at the Co-operative service on
Saturday will not be able to do
so as planned because r&lpid sales
has so reduced his stock, but he
will be here in Plentywood inside
of a week or two, just as soon
he can get in new stock. Every
öne nee( ji ng a suit should see these
al* su its, priced from $8 to $15, and
- Hjelm guarantees them to be bet
ter than anything even shown
the country, all Union made, no
sweat shop stuff.
at* Manager Salisbury at the Co*
i operative Service said to a repre
sentative of the Producers News:
, "Prices are being reduced m Plen
tyWood s teadily as a result of the
aid ! price publicity. For instance, vine
j gar, which sells for 24 cents per
a j gallon in Great Falls nows sells
for 35 cents here instead
40 cents, a drop of 5 cents—only
the vinegar is now being watered.
You can tell this by the strength
and by fact that watered vinegar
is cloudy. When merchants water
vinegar they should use charged
.
re
a
water as it mixes better.
"Wealthy apples are selling
98 cents the box in Great Falls
and $1.50 in Plentywood; cheese
is 15 cents the pound in Great
Falls and 30 cents the pound
'Plentywood; Concord grapes are
and 24 cents the basket in Great
Fails and 30 cents in Plentywood.
The outside stores sell very much
cheaper than do the stores
Plentywood.
"For a concrete example of
difference in grocery pries
tween Plentywood and Wîlllston
cite the experience of Ashton
Moore, who went to Williston with
his car and trailer and brought
home a load of groceries.
Moore bought a $76 order of
ceries, saving $25 on the trip after
paying gasoline and other expense
of the trip. For sugar he
$4.40 per hundred; foY good
salmon 10 cents per can, the same
can the Service Store seife for'
cents; for good shoes for' children
he paid 98 cents at Montgomery
Ward and company. Moore saved
of
eve
the
been
had
a
in
the
reach
Mr.
strike had its attorney conspire for a sell out of'
the strike with J.' Roberts, head of the big Rob
erts Dairy in Sioux City. (This sell out was ex
P<p»ed in last Weeks PRODUCERS NEWS),
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Sioux Qbr Tribune Advise#
Good Taste" to Fanners
In order to prepare the way for the sett out of
the striking farmers, the Sioux City Tribune which
has called Hto» the "friend" of the farmer» stated
editorially that the farmers should cease to piekfct
until the governors - c o nf ere n c e -was thru. They
thought that by this means they could end the
picketing of the farmers altogether.
Talking about the governors, the Steux City
Tribune add, "These officials are coming to Sioux
CHy in » spirit of helpfulness and friendship," to
hide the Yäct that these governors «orne to Sioux
City as str&e breakers j to end tbs «Mke for-the
milk trust.
"You are invited, N said the Tribune, "to con
sider-whether you a m not actually prejudicing
y our tmm-to -the -eyes tha.
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r aad in the
DEMONSTRATE FOR DEMANDS AS STRIKE
BREAKING GOVERNORS MEET TO PREPARE
HVPOCRmCAl REPORT FOR BIG TRUSTS
FAKE MORATORIUM!
Not One Single Immediate
Demand of Farmers Is
Met In Report'
TRY TO PASS BUCK
Farmers Face Eviction As
Governors Recommend
Leniency"
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The conference of governors
which lasted from Friday, Sept. 9,
to Sunday, Sept. 11, has resulted
in nothing more than a thousand
word statement designed to mis
lead the farmers into believing
that they can expect relief from
the capitalist class without fight
ing. In the hearings which the
governors held all of the "solu
tions" of the "farm problem" were
brought forth by one or another of
the speakers who reached the gov
ernors by special permission. Sev
eral of these solutions are con
tained in the report which the gov
ernors brought forht.
In no way dote the report
answer any of the demands of
the toiling farmers of the mid
dle and northwest. It is noth
ing but an attempt to divert
these farmers from militant
struggle.
FARMERS CONTINUE
PICKETING
The farmers around Iowa not
only demonstrated militantly for
their immediate demands while the
governors were in session (the full
story of which is given in another
column on this page) but after the
parade they went out on the picket
lines determined to hold them
against the trust and its agents,
political and otherwise.
The statement issued after the
conference was signed by the fol
lowing group of political agents of
Wall Street;
Warren Green, governor of South
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PETER LARSON
DIED WEDNESDAY
Peter Larson, Who has fanned
north of Dooley for a number of
years died at the local hospital
early Wednesday morning after a
brief illness with pneumonia.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Saturday afternoon by Rev.
Simundson and interment will be
in the Dooley cemetery with Fuh
kerson-Nelson in charge of the
arrangements. '
Peter Larson was born in Sweden
March 23, 1864, being 68 years of
age at the time of his demise. He
came to the United State« iii r 1960,
settling in North Dakota, and in
1911 settled north of Dooley where
he has since resided. He is sur
vived by four daughters and his
Demands of Rank and
File Farmers, to Hold
Washington Conference
"We, the rank and file farmers of the middle
west states are resolved to prevent the failure of our
strike struggle. This is no time to compromise or
surrender. The strike must go on until the farmer
and his family are secure against the attacks of the
moneyed class of creditors. We therefore present
the following demands to the governors and call
upon all organizations of every race and creed thru
out the country to join us.
"Our debts, rents, taxes and mortgages were con
tracted when prices were high. We cannot pay any
of these until debts and prices get back to the same
level. Our cash income is now too small to give a
decent living for our families. Therefore, we de
mand a moratorium on all debts, rents, mortgages
and taxes.
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"With 13 million already unemployed in the
cities, there are no jobs waiting for us. Because we
made our home and have fed the people of America
for generations, we proclaim our right to remain in
our farm homes.
We demand that all f o reckx u res, tax sales or
eviction of farmers he stopped.
We demand the right to fight, by picketing the
roads, against the food trusts and middlemen who
rob both producer and consumer.
We demand the protection of our sheriffs and
officers against armed thugs and gunmen, such as
those that were sent by the Des Moines cooperative
dairy marketing association, to break the strike on .
route 60.
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And we demand the right to continue the strike
until we receive more than the accepted local cost of
production from the middleman. This must come
out of their profit and not from increased prices to
city consumers.
"We farmers of the middlewest states have be
gun the action against the moneyed middlemen in
our farm strike. But we realize that it cannot bring
us permanent results unless aU farmers and workers
unite with us.
'Therefore, be it resolved that we call upon aR
groups of rank and file farmers in all sections of the
United States whatever their race or creed to form
committees of action and join with us in sending
delegates to a National Farm Strike Conference of
Action in Washington, D. C., on or about Decem
ber 1 to present these demands to whatever admini
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Plead» Guilty to Crime, is Sentenced to Long Prison
erm by Judgç S. E. Phul and is Now on Way to
Pénilentiary at Deer Lodge — Accomplice
Not Yet Apprehended.
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WAS PICKED DP BY WASHINGTON SHERIFF
Arthur Hancock pleaded guilty
todoy • before . Judge Paul in Dis
tnct court at the court room of
the Sheridan county court house to
a charge of assault with intent to
commit robbery ; on Mr. and Mrs.
Jonas Erickson at the f V m south
and east of Antelopt the latter
of* last June.
Hancock was sentenced to
term of ten years in the peniten*
tiary where he will be taken at
once by the sheriff.
It seems that after the vicious
assault on Jonas Erickson, 61 year
old and his wife, last June infoir
mation was brought fc> Sheriff
Madsen by a neighbor of Erfcksbn
that Arthur Hancock who back
in-1927 had worked for- Erickson
at the farm and in years p$st, had
been seen U) thé country about the
thne of the assault inquiry dis*
closed that Hancock had been
homesteader in ths Scobcy country
and his address was secured thru
old neighbors, when Sheriff Mad*
toh got *fn touch -with thé authdrh
part
Hancock lived. The Washington
authorities investigated Hancock
and found that he had a scar on
his head from recent injury He
was arrested by the Washington
officer» when he admitted that he
was mixed up in a fracas in this
section and Sheriff Madsen
notified.
■ - Friday a Week ago Sheriff Mad
sen and Clerk and Recorder Mad*
sen left via car for Washington to
get the prisoner. Hancock come
voluntarily to Monta»». The offr
cers arrived in Plentywood with
him Thursday,
Upon questioning Hancock oon*
fessed, teRixg the story of 11 hi
crime« in detail,
It seems that Hancock had osi'
tertained the idea ever since he had
worked for bornas Erickson tnatth«
farmer had money. Hi made up
bis mind to get that money. He
told his wife's brother Tern Ebb
«tod, his surmises. T,_
planned to get old man
xnoner. • They. Hancock and ' his
was
30,000 IN CITY
Mother Bloor Speaks to
Thousands at Two Mass
Meetings
LEADS BIG PARADE
Rank and File Conference
Calls on Farmers to Meet
In Washington
(By Special Correspondent to
the Producers News)
Sioux City, la., Sept. It.—Yes
terday was to have been Gover
nors' day in Sioux City. Elabor
ate preparations had been made
and a fanfare of publicity an
nounced the coming of the gover
nors and their representatives of
10 middle western states to solve
the farm problems. Before the
day was half over, however, it
was the Farmers' Day. The chief
of police ordered all police and
firemen on duty, but his minions
of the law were completely sub
merged and powerless in the face
of 30,000 fatn.$rs from loVra and
surrounding states who poured in
to the city. Whatever the farm
ers had chosen to do they could
have done; and they knew it.
DEBT HOLIDAY DEMANDS
In the expensive hotel where the
governors were holding their con
ference, lean men in overalls loun
ged in chairs which were accus
tomed to fat men in tailored suits.
And outside the door of the State
Suite where the conference was In
progress, farmers waited grimly
for a chance to tell their story of
foreclosures, evictions, tax sales
and poverty. They had come to
ask for an "embargo on farm pro
ducts selling for less than cost of
production." They were now de
manding a debt holiday, an end to
foreclosures and evictions.
There was not a fanner among
the many to whom the writer
spoke who expected a thing from
the govemers' conference. Some
of them Vere hoping that those
well dressed, well fed men sep
arated from them by a battery of
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FEDERAL AGENTS
RAID PLENTYWOOD
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Wednesday evening federal pro
hibition agents led by Otto Wade 11
swooped own upon the city of
Plentywood and made a beer raid
on several homes. The warrants
had been sworn out by some un
known stool pigeons, stating that
they had on a certain date bought
beer there at the rate of 1214 cent
per pint.
The homes raided were: R. W.
Frazier, Rfoy Mensing and Vem
Sachow, and several bottles of
beer were found at each place and
were promptly broken up and de
stroyed.
That these people had been sell
ing beer is something most of the
people did not know a thing about,
and for that matter did not care.
Some outside snoopers had to be
hired to do the dirty work, or
probably that job could be traced
to some local degenerate
Like so many others these peo
ple might have been making their
own beer, and they might also at
times have sold a bottle of it at
12% cents in order to buy food for
their family, wo do not know. Wo
do know, that after they have fal
len into the hands of an outfit
like the federal prohibition force,
they are hopelessly done for. . No
matter if they ever sold a bottle
of beer or not. The warrant
sworn out might be the purest
fake, but in the federal court it
stands as an undisputed document.
If these people can not furnish
bonds then they can now go to jail
land sit there tHl the next term of
court. After that they can go to
jail again and sit there some more.
While this is going on their fam
ilies can sit home, and starve;
ibe taken care of by the county
and Red Cross.
And ag.the while, when these
snoopers are raiding these poor
people« homes andv sending the
breadwinners to jaO, others aie
openly selling beer and booze with
out being mollested. This system
is getrihg so rotten that even
President Hoover can no longer
stick'up fort ib—and that's going
some.
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