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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
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VOLUME XV. Number 38
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
_ FLEN'I YWOO D, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932
ts.iuer*-u a« arcuiid Class Matter, October It. Itll, at tbe Fiat
'tfftcs at Mentywood. Montana. Under the Act of March S. ISU
USE TERROR AGAINST STRIKING
CALIFORNIA TREE PRUNERS: SIX
TAKEN FROM JAH AND BEATEN
15 MEN KIDNAP ARRESTED, WORKERS TELI
THEM TO LEAVE COUNTRY '
Donald Bingham, Arrested Leader, Held
Exhorbitant Bail
RANKS REMAIN SOLID AND NO SCABS ARE
ON THE JOB
on
Vacaville, Calif., Dec. 6.—Strik
ing tree pruners who are fighting
in day rates from $1.50 to
1125 aro keeping their ra ks
solid, in spite of vicions terror in- 1
»tituted against them by the busi
nessmen. ranch owners and Amer
kar.
Yefterday. fix arrested strikers
were taken from jail by a band of
15 unidentified men and driven to
the country. They were badly ;
'jeaten and .painted red and warned ;
to leave the county. The chief of
police said he didn't know any
thing: about the kidnapping nor
how the armed band obtained the
key to the jail. Workers strongly
guspect that he aided and abetted
the kidnappers. He was conven
ientlv absent at the time the
raiding occurred.
No scabs cutside of a few fore
men are working on the ranches.
The picket patrols of the Agricul
tarai Workers Industrial Union
which is leading the strike are on
the job and make the rounds of
the ranches every day on trucks.,
KIDNAP WORKERS
COMMITTEE VISITS TOWN
Saturday representatives of
Comrrittee for the Protection
Political Prisoners visited the
oners, Dorald Bingham, young
strike leader, is still in jail
on the exhorbitant bail :f $5,000
cash cr $10,000 property bord.
Although workers raised
erty bond to the value of $100,000
based on tax assessments,
judge has refused to accept it,
ing that the value of the propertv
wa* rnlv $6 800. There is
nar" 0 ' 1 - t Bin"h9m is being
for lyi'ching.
The committee also visited
eral townspeople "who have
attempting to terrorize the
ers
Ore. W. N. Goodman, a Demo
cratie boss, said "T am net in
of Ivrchirtr except in extreme
e^tv." and added that it was
essary in Vacaville.
MINISTER FOR LYNCHING
Tlr r, . „ „ ... .
miristprl was most vS""tow.ri
wTohV'lh"- far t m "N k T Wh (°
inefesf su ! ^Bter^feve^nf^wn
iShoutir" in Anita Whitnev's
tpc no aid "It JiulH L »
would b, e a
1 /' ,a ^ f ' ° f them
lyrchp
The'committee was greeted e n
thus : asticallv by the workers who
we e orhear'c'-ôd V- the srlidaritv
tf workeis from other parts of
the state. Truckloads of relief
which have arrived hav P also
helped the strikers to keen on the
(picket lines and determined to
fight to the end
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Many Come on Freights;!
Held Public Hearing and
D , d î
Present Petition
nT -
Washington, D. C., Dec. lO.More
^-soldiers, demanding immediate
Päyrr.crt of the bonus and no cuts
n disability allowance, are con
timmllv joiring the 1,000 already,
* the
TRY TO BAR VETERANS
Police are usimr everv effort to
keep the war vetfr«s^«î of the
Jy. Many Were hustled out of
city when the Hunger March -1
loft c n their trip home. They
reman ed at Baltimore and plan
n ed to return to Washington, A
eortirgert of Newark bonus
marchers were stopped at Hvatts
Md, by 50 armed police.
The Calfiornia delegation stated
ftat at least 1 000 more veterans
on their way to Washington
aboard f'eight trains.
Jb] Monday, a public hearing will
^ held at which ex-servicemen
ari o disabled veterans will give
''' crete testimony to prove that
a .'> starving and must have
^mediate payment cf the bonus.
DEMAND IMMEDIATE
PAYMENT
Tuesday, a committee of ex
*>ldiers will present a petition to
demanding payment of
5« and n 0 cuts in disability
alrS nCe v Pr , e8ident Hoover has
ea dv shown his attitude toward
ne veterans by his speech to Con-lt
^; 8S m which he urged clashing|
™ r e than $127,000,000 fm m the
compensation to disabled ex
On Wednesday, a mass mem
p nal will be held in Arlington
[emetarv in honor of the two vet-!
rang, Hushka and Carlson, who
murdered in Washington last
Ju 'v.
Tbe spirit of the veterans Is
VETERANS FLOCK
TO WASHINGTON,
DEMANDING BONUS
On
500 FARMERS STOP
FORFPI 0^1 TDF oaic
rylvtulAJoURE SALE
In WISCONSIN TOWN
Chippewa Falls Wis Dec q _
Five hundred farmers gathered
here to stop a foreclosure sale on
the farm of Charles Bcwe, which
is located 14 miles to the north
wes t in the town of Woohmohr.
The Farm Holiday Association
°f Chippewa County called out the
tb e farmers to protest the sale,
which had been ordered by the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur
ance Co., of Milwaukee, holders of
the mortgage,
The farmers were successful in
stopping the sale, and compelled
*he mortgage holders to agree to
postpone foreclosure until Feb. 1,
1934, Bowes, however, had to
j a K ree to make monthly payments
t0 the insurance sharks totalling
; $400 by Feb. 1, 1934.
j The mortgage including back i
terest and taxes arpounted to
a hcut $8,200. The farm which
ers 16° acres was valued at $20,
COO in 1920, but now is not worth
nearly that amount the
in
oov
although
amount of the mortgage hasn't
decreased any.
the
of
pris
held
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pr-cp- i
the j
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Never Get Enough to Eat; N
grave h/ J f tl D
Work for $1 Per
TENANTS UVE
ON CORN PONE
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sev
been |
strik
Day
Brown's Cove, Va., Dec. 6.—I
am in the foothills of the Blue
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favor i Rllige - Conditions among tenants |
nec- and sharecroppers ar e terrible.
nec- Here ' there 18 not eve ? a.™ 1118 !**
I ^he > f armers organization that
is making the proletariat of the
; West into a solid mass to fight the
starvation policy cf the wealthy
j andow " ers and bankers '
HEAR 0F FARM STBIKE I
pel ' 1 read about the farm strike to
face a share cropper. H e couldn't read
and bis children are too ragged
^od aTld P o0r to go to school. He sat
o 0d cn the porch and pulled at his
beard
H j S ' cabin waS un P a |Pted ®nd the I
yard ^as worn smooth and caught
the ram and became muddy..
. We sat there, and he said the j
nc b were ta bmg everything, and
[t was no use to farm becaus e the
Dnce you for crops was . .
to
them. He said the farmers would
have to get together and not send
anything to the cities and starve
the city people so prices would be
higher. I told him he couldn't get
anywhere unless the city workers
would help the farmers, and fight
against the rich with him. He got ;
hp and shook his fist at the moun
tain and sad:
..LIVE ON CORN PONE
"You're a-trying to starve us
P 1 ^ f<oiks am you aia
ald a band to help us m
[crops, and we » otta on corn
*p and m0uldy . m t e jL 1rs
rich run ;around m themi b g _
and dont want to gvve ' u ®
for our work. You got th I ,
and the guns, and the jails but
by gawd we amt a-gom to stand
this being dogs much longer.
1 The tenants and share-croppers
1 never get enough to eat, and when
they worked in the orchards aU
[bey got $1 a day for
bouf 8 w ° rk , and 'j us f f 0r their
I willing todo work just for their
meals Wh " nav bills,
dont have a y y their
and some doctors take away their
bogs and f^Jw^thdr farms.
! P«*P le ^l^er and tenants
and the share c opp ye |.
a T e n ® th . in l f Ibout nreacliing
I Socialists go P f -jends
ri^andco-fperatine
! wl ^ b .Jb
mitil it makes you c •
«7 A DM UNION GAINS
nynra/iorDQ. 1-IFÏ PS
S IN MEMBERS; ntLT3
i HUNGER MARCHERS
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Mountainview, Calif., Nov. 27.
mem bership in the Cannery and
Agricultural Workers Industrial
Mountain View local has
alm0S t doubled ini the ^ month
aT1 d a half. Weekly meeting, al
erna te on education and business.'
TT , members collected $38.90
., ~ delegates that have gone
' National Hunger March to
WasWneton, D. C. Thirteen large
. ' * foo d were also sent.
f>oxes 01 ---;
. ,, n der
high although many .
1 gone much sufferlng on - ^
to Washington, having
both hunger and com.
POOR FARMERS TO
BE EXEMPT FROM
TAXES IN RUSSIA
In a decree the Central Execu
tive Committee and the Council of
People's Commissars of the Soviet
Union have set a special single
tax on the individual farms. The
tax is directed chiefly against the
rich farmers. The collective farms
and farms employing red army
men, red guerilla men and woun
d ®d ex-soldiers are exempt from
the tax. The district committees
are empowered to exempt further
all farms which have fulfilled all
their obligations towards the state
either from the whole tax
For farms of rich farmers
the tax is double the usual agri
cultural tax,
peasant farms in question it totals
from $7 to $12. The farms of the
Door peasants are exempt. Twenty
five per cent falls to the district
and the rest to the state. The
tax must be paid in full by the
end of the year.
or a
part.
for the individual
STOP All BIDS
AT TAX SALE ON
IOWA FARMERS
Holiday Farmers Warn All
Bidders Not to Raise
Voices
1500 CROWD OFFICE
Farmers Also Endorse Pe
tition Against All
Evictions
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VV G | a f S xl e f ? r taxes was sched
S ed last Monday an hour before
the sale was to start. They were
determined that no farmers er
workers homes should be sold for
taxes and had warned all bidders
not to put up a bid.
NO BIDS
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 6.—Over
1500 farmers and workers succeed
ed in halting tax sales for 30 days
here.
Members of the Farmers Holi -
day Association began to crowd
;into the county treasurer's office*
When the treasurer began to
rea d off the list of property
against which there is $450,000 in
delinquent taxes, not a single
voice was raised. The treasurer,
Ncrman H. Nelson then announced
that no f ur the r sales at auction
W» jlace until January 3.
grant a 30-day delay on tax sales
because of a petition presented by
th e Farmers Holiday Assn., thru
a committee of four township
chaiiman of the association—Wil
liam Frost, A. F. Burmeister, C.
M. Kissinger, and W. C. Coon.
ASK 60-DAY STAY
The petition read:
" We , the farmers of Woodbury
county, impoverished by 3 years
0 f poor crops ari d lew prices, to
the extent that we cabnot bey the
cf life, let alone pay
the burden of taxes;
"\v e therefore, petition you, the
honorable officials, to adjourn the
tax sa j e f 3r 60 days. We further
more petition you to stop the evic
tiobs from farms, because of debts
incurred.
« W e heartily indorse the unity
of the impoverished farmer, the
workman and the unemployed. We
oHicials wire Washington to give
"W«. the committee of the Holi
»«mriatittn reswectfullv ask
oTîhe above re
ouSt?'
th farnie rs did not win
th e 60-day stay of tax sales, they
the ® ay concession from the
wmemoremce* ion
- they will again move to stop
of faTmers' hom^ on Jan. 3
■ ■ auction is scheduled
wne.
again. .
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NEBRASKA FARMERS ARE FOUND MILITANT
Idaho Delegate on Way to Washington Participates in Struggle
(BY A. H. EUSTIS)
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Omaha, Nebr., Nov. 28. 1 took
a few notes on our way from Idaho
to the Farmers National Relief
Confeience in Washington, D. C.,
I ^ here they are:
| Now and then I would fall asleep
as w e rolled through the cornfields
of Nebraska, wake up only to sr>c
^ corn _' a sort of endless sea
of corn, something like seasick
ness would come over roe and I
would again fall asleep, only to
awake and see more coni—<crn
f rPm hell to breakfast—then fields
of having grass youve read abnu
; frieNDLY TREATMENT
^jj en we arrived at Newman
Grove a reception committee met;
^ One of the delegates knew of
a f arm ers coop garage and for
toatei , vu m» .t :he fmt
thing. There was a large group
0 f people sitting around the fire
talking about us when we drove.
j 0 nes and I had the good
fortune of getting a house in
The people of this commun
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FARMERS REPORT ON
INTOLERABLE PLIGHT 1
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Conference Delegates TeU of Wide Suffering
(BY M. B.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—Coming from 26 states, 250
delegates joined in the demand for. a moratorium on mort
gages, taxes and interest payments, no evictions and fore
closures at the National Farm Relief Conference which opened
he e yeste.day. Additional farmer-delegates- are expeetdd to
arrive today.
STOPPED ICO EVICTIONS
The first speaker was Lux of Nebraska, big stocky, ex
soldier in the army of occupation in Germany after the war.
He levealed the role of the mortgage sharks and bankers and
irsurance companies. He showed the farmers how under the
Madison C:unty Plan in his state the farmers fight evictions.
They stopped one bundled evictions with their militant action.
He called for a united front of American faimers cn Amer
ican soil. The Nebraska delegation at his suggestion sang
two songs the chief of which had as its chorus the cry of
Solidarity, solidarity."
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NEGRO DELEGATE SPEAKS
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Stephen Stafford, of Florida, a Negro delegate spoke of
conditions in the ilowei garden state. He described how diffi
cult it was for the Negro greup to get to the Conference. He
told how Negno farmers were starving. Seven months of
summer every year and that didn't help the farmers making
a living. Farm hands make fifty cents a day. They are not
pa : d all that in cssh. Only one-third of it is paid. Rest in
groceries and when the crop is sold by the landlord. If frost
hits the crop a^d makes it worthless the farmhand gets what
is left after the frost and landlord are through—which is
nothing. A da ry farmer of Pennsylvania showed that in spite
of the fact that the farmers he was representing live near one
of the greatest markets in the world they are struck by the
. crisis as much as the Dakota farmers who live thirty miles
away from a one-horse town.
Farmers from Wyoming, New Jersey, Connecticut, Mon
tana and Wa c hi'"gton spoke. Nathaiel Kerachsky of Con
necticut said, "We've been told by politicians that Connecticut
is the only solvent state in the Union,
until they told us about it." Andy Oja sf Montana described
how his group of farmers passed through Clinton, Iowa, on
their way to the Corfe enee and there they sa*w on the soup
lines children six years old, eating soup that tasted as if an
jcm'on had been soaked in a barrel of rain water. And when
Oja remembered in a flash that out west there were thou
sands of b c ef, sheep, acres of undug potatoes which could be
used to fill the cheeks and bellies of thes e starving children,
he was more than ever determined that something must be
done.
We didn't know it
WOMAN SPEAKS
The women are also represented at the Conference. Mrs.
Chase of New Hampshire spôke. She is a hard working woman
who for the last twenty years has been able to buy only two
hats for herself, each one nc more than thirty-five cents. She
was here at the Conference because she believes that good
things of life belong to the ebrsumer. Also little Mary Ohisoo
from Pennsylvania spoke, She gave a heart-rending picture
of the suffering of farrAér»' children.
MOTHER BLOOR GIVEN OVATION
Mother Bloor, veteran fighter, Well known especially
among the farmers eut West, came as a representative of the
United Farmers' League. She was given a rousing reception
by the farmers present. She gave a vivid picture of the two
Iowa st'.ikes,
Marshall of Ohio and Bauman of Minnesota delivered
fiery speeches abcut conditions in their respective states.
They called for united action with unemployed workers in the
cities
This is a revcluHona' y movement of farmers. Noticeable
here and there are confusion, right wing tendencies as in the
case of one farmer who felt there was too much criticism of
the government goirg on. The farmers have a lot to
learn from the experience of the farmers in Soviet Russia.
The first day's meeting was full of eloquence, fire, winged
phrases, and brandishing of fists. The eyes of the workers
and farmers of the United States are on this Conference in
Washington.
U/lll!)
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KILLED BY AUTO IN CO. TAX SALEi
jVcteraui Communist Parly
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( Leader Dies Instantly
| J n Accident *
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! Willis Wright, well-known work
l in S class leader and organizer of
(the Communist party, was in
stantly killed when he was hit by
an automobile on the highway near
Comrade Wright had gone to
^h™^
' va V Washington had been
forced to abandon because of mo-I
Mr trouble. He was walking along
the road towards du?k wb en the
a «to driven by a local man, hit
him,
. Comrade Wright Was a militant
fighter for the cause of the wont
c,ass al l bis life.
^st before his death he was or
* amzin g the Communist party in
Idaho
Workers throughout the North
lity are the most hospitable and
friendly of any we have met. We
have been treated as part Jf them
a nd given every comfort possible,
Thanksgiving dinners cf chicken
and all the "fixin's" sure did taste
good after two days of baloney
and bread.
INVESTIGATE CROOKED
DEAL
Thanksgiving afternoon we went
with a crowd of farmers to a farm
17 miles out to investigate an
apparently crooked deal against a
farmer. This farmer did not know
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4 -r* CafaaIaca r-.« .L.- e. i
■ Ty to Foreclose F sriner
I St/lno- I n 1JI _ %/____
LlVttlg in Home 30 Years
were ready to resort to force to
prevent foreclosures,
LIVED ON FARM 80 YEARS
1 They are especially indignant at
the beginning of foreclosure pro
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec, 6.—About
ICO farmers flooded the court
house Friday and declared they
Iowa Farmers Also De
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mand Moratorium on
Debts
! WÊÊÊÊÊBBÊm
Spencer, Iowa, Dec. 7.
5C0 United Farmers members and
others crowded the county treas
urer's office and courthouse lobby
at the time set for the Clay coun
(^re^^" ^ "° ^ ° f '
i After the sale farmers held a
mass meeting at which resolutions
f or repeal of mandatory laws and
; a moratorium on farm mortgages
| were unanimously passed,
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| west and particularly in Montana
' where Comrade Wright spent
many active years are shocked at
the sudden loss of their veteran
leader.
About
I ty tax sale last Monday.
Farmers successfully restrained
FOR MORTGAGE
MORATORIUM
so
whether he had signed a hill of
sale or a mortgage although he
had supposedly signed a mortgage,
All he knew was that sonv> one
had come and taken all of his
stock but a calf and a chicken. His
machinery was also gore.
About 70 or 80 of us drove from
his place to a banker's farm to ;
take it up with him as he was ,
w«rW Bed lÄ t b n e i^ he c T he ^ à w Î
*°*f. H , e i 0ld T US ^ t0 „ g fi t0 W
outrode P n? C thîs «ff.! ™
" this th poof Sme^hL^t
KCt his machinery back he soon
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oeedings against a couple who
have lived on th* same farm for
with foreclosure. The farm con
tains 16® acres and ha« a »MOO
mortgage agmnst it Neighbor.
t'T '. h ' y , wi11 Tight mflllently to
help the farmer retain his home,
INSIST ON KEEPING
COUNTY AGENT THO
FARMERS OBJECT
Hancock, Mich., Dee. 6.—The
Board of Supervisors insists on
maintaining the office of county
agent here, although through pe
titions and mass dtmonst ations
under the leadership of the Un ted
Farmers League, the farmers
.have definitely shown they do not
and cannot bear the useless ex
pense of supporting a county
agent.
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DON'T NEED COUNTY
AGENT
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At a recent meeting, the farm
ers pointed out that they did not
ineed a county agent from the gov
; eminent to show them how to in
crease their crops, when they can't
sell the crops they have already
raised. The Beard of Supervisors,
however, with the aid of the rich
farmers, voted to retain this bur
'den on the backs of the farmers.
SHERIFF FIRES
ON FARMER IN
EVICTION CASE
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Deputies Besiege Farm,
Firing 300 Rounds of
20
:
Shot
FARMER JAILED
Puts up Heroic Struggle
In Defense of His
Home
Danger to his rrçife and Iwo'q
children, Virginia, 10 and Max 6 ,
finally led to his surender. Shei
iff John Mason and his men Lreu
300 rounds of ammunition at the
houte, blasting several windows,
and coming periously near injur
ing the family. A piece of plaster
fell on the boy's head and Cichon
Elkhorn, Wis., Dec. 6.—With
: rifle lire puncturing his house
1 from all sides, Max Cichon, farmer
: held off for over an hour 20 dep
uty sheriffs who wanted to fore
! close his home.
FIRE 300 ROUNDS
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was slightly grazed by glass,
! Cichon and his wife had no de -
hut flu old «hnttriin
; fens* but an old shotgun.
j Both Cichon and his wife put up
a heroic defense to keep them-1
; selves and their children fro m be
j ing evicted from their home, but
they were finally defeated by the
sheriff and his gunmen. Since
last April the sheriff has been
trying to force Cichop eff the land,
HEROIC DEFENSE
The Bank of Elkhom held a mort- j
gage on the Cichon farm and |
when Cichon was unable to pay it
off because of ruinous farm prices .
the bankers foreclosed. j
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Several times the sheriff at the j
behest of the bank has attempted I
to evict the Cichon family from
the farm, but Cichon drove him ,
away every time. This tool of the
banks and enemy cf the farmers
the last time set up a regular i
battlefield outside Cichon's home,
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REAL BATTLEFIELD
Deputies surrounded the house ,
in the night and prepared to be-1
siege the bouse from behind trees ;
and automobiles. The sheiiff set |
up a field telephone line and for a
time directed his men from a clump
cf trees on the hillside. After
telephoning three times to ask
Cichon to surrender, the latter fin
ally did in order to save his fam
ily from death at the hands of
the sheriff.
Both Cichon and his wife were
put in jail and held under $2,500
bail which, of course, they were
unable to raise. The United Farm
ers League and the Interratioral
Labor Defense are sending a law
yer to defend them.
will, for these farmers finish what
they start. Have never seen an
organization equal to theirs Thev
drove to another town some time
ago, found their way into a earaee
and Wheeled out two trucks and
gave them back to their owners
fro m whom they had beenTaken
by V company! due to TnabiU^
to make payments
They wor ^ ed several days cn the
tr ucks so that we are here in
0maha after ordy hours drive
^ iS tr e ° n f clc ! 4 e °d ^ 28
boar^ equipped with fl« ex
tirguishers, seats, stoves ard light,
and are q u be comfortable. So
'far we have been received well—
bad our pictures taken many
times, have been donated eats and
sleeping quarters and have been
!î* eated , sp'endidly all the way
through. I do wish the people at
M .,. we "S heI '_J .î ey
*' 11 «hen they begin losing their
P 1 «* 8 "> d «« ^«'rlug a. the
P«pl* ™ thia section are, and I
haven't seen the Vorst yet,
FARMERS RELIEF CONFERENCE
PRESENTS DEMANDS TO HOOVE
AND BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS
PROGRAM ADOPTED IN 4-DAY SESSION
READ ON FLOOR OF CONGRESS
250 Delegates Represent 26 States; Negro and White
Delegates from South
DEMAND MORATORIUM AND STOPPING OF
EVICTIONS FROM HOMES
LEAGUE PLANS TO
ACT AGAINST SALE
W W/ll-kf-Yii/ic 17 A DIY/I
W1ÜUW 3 t*AKM
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Brantwood, Wis., Dec. 10.—The i
United Farmers League, at its
meeting Sunday, decided to take ;
action against a foreclosure sale
scheduled for the Philips Court
House December 21.
The sale is on a farm located
about five miles south of Brant-j
wood, owned by a widow, Mrs. Ny
strom and her children. She has
been unable to pay the mortgage
on her home and is now faced with
A letter of protest was sent to
Charles Nystrom of Minnesota, the
owner of the mortgage, demanding^
foreclosure.
PROTEST FORECLOSURE
that he cancel the foreclosure sale,
The farmers also decided to mobi
lize the farmers of th e vicinity to
stop this forced sale and to oem- j
onstrate at the court house again i
forced sale. Delegates we»e sent
to other farmers' organizations to
ask them to participate.
Discussion was also held on the
progiam cf the United Farmers !
League, and a local comrade ex
plained it and pointed out that it !
was the only program that would |
help the farmers.
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farmer Uses IvUSSian |
Thistles to Keep j
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Warm !
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BURN CORN AND
WOOD FOR FUEL
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the best graoes of corn command
ing a bottom price and poorer
1 trades lamring still were manv
' suui were, mao)
farmers have found that the sales
(of their corn will not buy enough
jCoal to keep them over the winter.
They, theiefore, have been forced |
to use the results of their sum
: mer's labor as fuel. .
I (me independent school district
; in the state has advertised for bids
on 485 bushels of corn to be used
j to heat the school house,
i
Canton, S. D., Dec. 10.—With
while the heat value of com
s on l y about half that of coal,
ye t it is the cheapest fuel that
f a rmers can use. R. L. Patty, i
pi of essor of agricultural engineer
ing at the South Dakota State ■
College, has found alter a series
°f tests that it takes 57 Vz bushels
°f corn t 0 equal in heating power
on e ton of good grade soft coal. ;
Com as it comes from the field
will give off 6,367 B. T. U.'s to
th e pound, while soft coal pro
duces 12,767. Figured on a cost;
basis, corn worth 10 cents a bushel !
CHEAPEST FUEL
„„ . ... . , .
ton, wiU produce as fuel
4,452,600 B. T. U.s for each dollar
T3 C ° al will bring only 2,
L '37,170 B. T. U.s for each dollar
cosd -
USES THISTLES IN STOVE
Fred Gilbert, a farmer living
near DeSmet, has been forced to
gather Russian and Canadian thist
les to use as fuel. He has devised
a blaer with which he compresses
them into three pound bricks. A
brick lasts half an hour ana pro
puces a hot fire. However, an
enormous amount of time and e^
ergy is consumed in getting this
half hour of heat.
CHOP TREES
Many workers, unable to buy
coal, have had to chop down trees
for fuel. Many acres of 'woodlots
along streams and hills have been
stripped by workers in order to
keep themselves and their families
from freezinz to death this win
' ter.
MINER* *TARVTKr
mux an» siarvijm.
At the same time the United
States has rich coal deposits and
thousands cf miners are out of a
J °b and starving foi lack of the
l c0rn that is being burned -
i -
(BY EML PALK)
b G 5°r !1 M ' T1 p 9 -— A c0UT }'
ty u V ?Ÿ/f ,n m eetin I? w
scheduled for next Monday. It is
® xp f c J ed bat a thousand bank
fanners from all parts of the
m atte ? daPce _
COUnty a n d Rehm Tantill^ from
Q . T '. a a T J om
arouud the onSh of taxS as
man dcllnauent 'and
""g ,17m q " C * Wd
, wil | ^ a , complete re
port next week.
COUNTY HOLIDAY
MEETING CALLED
TO DISCUSS TAXES
ifroni 20 states concluded the first
|National Eelie f Comerence at
Washington, Dec. 11.—Amid a
thunder of applause, 250 farmers
Washington.
A permanent orgaization was
set up to launch a nationwide
struggle for th e demands which
the four day conference diew up
and placed before Congress. Offi
cegs of the organization are Tcny
Rosenberg cf Nebraska, chairman;
Louis Bentzley, Pa.; Strong, Nebr.,
and Stephen * Stafford, Fla., the
latter three being vice presidents.
. _ _ _________ ___
^LL SECTIONS REPRESENTED
All the farmers present were
"dirt farmers." Many came from
I the great wheat plains and a large
I contingent represented eastern
i dairy farmers. The region which
saw the militant farm
'last summer—Iowa and Nebraska
—was also well represented. Every
farmer present was elected at a
meeting of 26 fellow farmers,
Many, especially in the stiike re
gion, wer e elected at meetings at
tended by two and three hundred
farmers. A special ovation was
given the southern delegation
which consisted of Negro and
white share croppeis who had a
specially difficult time in getting
to Washington,
The conference was opened at
the Typographical Union hall with
a report of the secretary, Lem
Harris, Harris pointed out that
farm prices have fallen so low
that farmers' incomes have been
more than halved while city work
ers have to pay as much for farm
products^ as ..they gver did_ He
suggested that the Conference for
Irrmlate a program around which
farm masses everywhere could be ,
rallied. This pogrram (a complete !
statement .of which will be found •
on page 3) was drawn un and pre- •
jsented to both houses of Congress,
I
UNABLE TO PAY DEBTS
Farmer after farmer get up and
told about fh#» teirihlp nonriTtirm« '
j n his locality Marv told on the
v. • ' * . ai : y . ld on ™ e .
floor how impossible it was for .
f armer s to pay their debts and de- '
mande d a moratorium on debts*
an d taxes
»whether or net the faimers
have a legal right to refuse
'mit eviction sales of farms,
Benlzley cf Pa., "they ceriamly
have nô moral right to put their
own w i V es and childien on the
I
:
to per
" said
bare road with no place to go."
(There was manifest apnroval of
... __
Attacked in Three States !!
Homewai-il
UI1 ™mewara
Journey
.
(Ci)UI illiu-u Ull I'MJJC Two>
_
MARCHERS RETURN :
HOME AFTER HUGE
PARADE IN CAPITAL
After their triumphant march ,• j
through Washington, the 3,000 -* I
Hunger Marchers left the capital l'|
on December 6 to return home to |
report to the tens of thousands o£*'j
delegates who elected them in the 1 1
Clties all over the ccuntry.
!
j
The Hunger Marchers
joined in their parade by 1,000 ex- •
servicemen and some farmers who
wer e already at the capital for the !
I Farmers National Relief Confer- 1
1,000 EX-SOLDIERS IN
MARCH
i
I
were
ience held December 7-10. Thou
j sands of Washington workers jam-1
, med * he sidewalks applauding the 'i
; marchers as they went hy.
The marchers paraded to Penn
sylyania avenue where they hailed
(vhile their elected committees pr«
sented their demands for $50 win
ter relief and federal unemploy -
ment insurance to vice president '
Curtis and Speaker Garner of the
The
I*
E
[H■ u^e of Representatives,
P residin K officers of Congress gave
® vas i v f, answers /o the com- r
^ttees of the unemployed and iti,
lS , clear that only renewed strug- ,
^in rX ° £ ^ 'f
WUI WlD reUM * 1
c
ATTACK RETURNING
MARCHERS
Marchers are making the return • I
trip in orderly columns. However,I
police of Pennsylvania, Maryland, 'V
and Virginia attempted to disperse *
the Western delegation, attacked 1 ;
them brutally and attempted to
force them, in some cases, out of*
their trucks to journey over the 1
mountains on foot. it
They were at first barred from *
Pittsburgh but mass protest of! ]
workers inside the city won them 1
the right o enter and get lodging *
the right to enter and get lodging
continue westward through Cleve- >
land. Urge mass meetings are f
planned for them wherever they »
make their stops.
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