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VOLUME XV. Number 47
_ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS i fag ue
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
17 , 1933
Entered as second Class Matter. October 18, 1911, at the Post
office at PlentTwood. Montana. Under the Act of March ». in»
IE Leads Fan» in
Mopping hour Idaho
Soies; League (.rows
MANY BIDDERS
250 Farmers Appear at
Sale Where Sheriff
Expected None
FARMERS JOIN UFL i
Farmers Force Release of
12,000 Pounds of Beans
Seized by Defunct Bank
(BY W. H.)
Buhl, Idaho, Feb, 7.—Idaho
fanners are rapidly following the
example of farmers to the west
and east of them. On January 31
an organized group stopped a sher
iff?: sale south of Twin Falls.
250 OUT
About 250 farmers were on the
job to stop the sale and there was
good discipline. The sale wa s con
ducted by the receiver of a defunct
bank and the man's tools were to
be sold with some livestock. The
»ale had very little advertising and
they were not expecting much of
a crowd.
However, When the sheriff saw
the determined farmers, he said
that the bank receiver had called
the sale off as there were too
many bidders. Two other sales
near Twin Falle were postponed
after that.
Another sale was said to be
postponed, but the farmers be
come suspicious and went anyway.
It wae lucky they did, because the
undersheriff came out to the
place. When he saw the crowd he
called the sal eoff but said that
12,000 pounds of the farmer's
beans which were in storage would
be sold at auction three houds
later at the closed First National
Bank.
RECEIVER RELEASES
BEANS
What made it even worse was
that this farmer had deposited sev
en! hundred dollars in this bank
a few days before it failed. The
bank didn't have to pay him his
money but the receiver said that
he had to pay the bank what he
owed it. Four hundred massed in
front of the bank and the receiver
released the beans.
We feel that we have been well
paid for our efforts to date and
tfct framers are all joining the
Ikiited Parmres League.
6,000 COSTA RICA
farm workers in
RANKS OF JOBLESS
San Jose, Cbsta Rica, Feb. 1.—
Costa Rica has approximately nine
thousand unemployed in a popula
tion of nearly 500,006, according
to a census made before the cof
foe harvest began. The situation,
here has undoubtedly been re
lieved to some extent.
Agriculture accounts for more
than 6,000 of the unemployed.
NORRIS RUSHES TO
ADVISE ROOSEVELT
He Should Not Take
Conservative* Out of
Senate
.senator Norrie, "progr-ssive"
«^publican has come to the aid
the Democratic administration 1
w telling Roosevelt that he should i
001 remove his chief conservative
JPPorters from the Senate by
them into the cabinet.
Tne Senators who Norris thînfr s
oad remain in the Senate are I
<*rdell Hull of Tennessee, Walsh
Montana, and Glass of Virginia.
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JT 1 Mr - Noms. "1
«fid tell t, ? them> Bat I
Thou rht u R 1 < ?T 8Teit thÄt 1
teke o m be • shame to
the s«w! L ,t '° n * 1 nM>n cut cf
— • o l , «re tley will be
«amvx be rL at 'lj There ,hr>
P aced.
U» "PK>PM.i«" shows
pf tru € face. He rush*« tn oiiVn
with the rock-ribbed
"®^cratic leaders to run Sn
aTrJ?"* coming "sesrion.
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of Wall Street.
UFL EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL MEETS
ON SAT., FEB. 18
Superior, Wis.—An announce,
ment
was made by Jame?
Flower, National Secretary of
the United Farmers League,
that the first meeting of thé
National Executiv? Council cl
the U. F. L. would be held in
St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday,
Feb. 18. The new National
Secretary and the Executive
Council were elected at the Na
tional Conference of the U. F.
L. held in Washington, D. C.,
on Dec. 10, 1932.
announced that for the present
the address of the.National of
fice of the U. F, L. would
tinue to be Box 94, Superior,
Wisconsin.
It was also
con
The Executive Council in
National
eludes besides the
Secretary, James Flower, the
following members; Charles E.
Tailor, Minneapolis, chairman;
Alfred Tiala, Makincn, ,Minn.,
John Hetts, Colby, Wis., Prank
Arvola, Hancock Mich.. Arthur
Reuber, Littlefork, Minn.
HOME OWNERS
MEET IN OHIO
CaD Cleveland Co n ference
to Resist Foreclosures
and High Taxes
Cleveland, Ohio—Two hundred
elected delegates of the Small
Home and Land Owners Federa
tion protested against the eviction
of Andrew Hanyaz of Parma,
Ohio, before the Southwestern
Savings Loari Co. of Cleveland re
cently.
SMALL HOME OWNERS
UNITS
The growbig movement of small
home owners to protect their prop
erty is gaining ground in Ohio.
Many workers who were encour
aged to buy their homes by the
mortgage companies are finding
that these came companies are
taking away their homes and are
swallowing their savings at the
same time, now that they are un
employed.
In order to widen the movement
against foreclosure and eviction a
county conference of the Small
Home and Land Owners Federa
tion will be held in Cleveland Col
lege, Sunday, February 26 at 10 a.
n. Present indications are thav
there will be between 806 and
1,000 delegates at the conference
The Federation has already ten
branches in Cuyahoga county,
where it was first organized and
many mroe branches are being
formed. The organization now has
over 2500 members.
Delegates from many different
organizations will be represented
at the conference which will ala-»
take up reduction in taxes, and a
moratorium on mortgageg until
economic recovery. It is expected
that the United Farmers League
will also be represented. Organi
sations wishing to send delegates
should communicate with the Fed
eration at 4823 Lorain Avenue,
Cleveland.
DAIRY MERGER OF
THREE COMPANIES
IN EASTERN FIELD
The merger of three dairy pro
ducts companies operating in West
Virginia, Virginia, Tetnneeeee, Ker
tucky, and North Carolina, on Peb.
7, is part of the growing concen
tration in the food industry thru
out the cotfnxty. The properties
involved in the merger are valued
at $760,066, •
The Southern Maid Dairy P'od
acts, Inc., a new corporation, ac
quired the Southern Refrigeration
Company of Bluefield, W. Va..;
the Holston Creamery Company of
Bristol, Tdnn., and the Southern
i ce Cream Company of Johnson
^y. Tenn.
The new concern will operate
Plants at Bristol, Vo., Kingsport,
Tetnn., Johnson City, Tenn., and at
Weld« and William*»,
ln West Virginia. It ako will
"'«"'tain distributing stations at
Elk Park N - C - Rosrermrille, Tenn.
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Ashbel Ingerson Reports
Gratifying Response
to Call
UNITED FRONT
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Lem Harris, Secretary of
Nat'l Committee for
Action Coming
BULLETIN
Bismarck, North Dakota, Feb.
12.—Because of the furious bliz- !
zards and the Mocking of the
roads over the whole state and !
the stopping of all organization :
work in the field during the i
storm period, the North Dakota
Call Committee has decided to
postpone the Conference until '
March 1. 2. and 3d. This will j
give the organizers for the con
ference another week far orga
nization and preparation to ?
make up for the time lost dor- j
in g the bKzzard.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 13.—
Ashbel Ingerson, son of former
Senator Ralph Ingerson of Burke
county and secretary of the Call
Committee of the North Dakota
Farmers Relief Conference reports
that "farmers in many parts of
the state are busy holding meet
ings and electing delegates to the
Conference."
The Conference will be held at
Bismarck, February 23, 24, and 25
and farmers Wishing to learn more
about it should get in touch with
Mr. Ingerson at 717 Thayer Ave
nue, Bismarck.
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GRATIFYING RESPONSE
Secretary Ingereon reports fur
ther that the "respotnae to the!
Call has been very gratifying,
showing that the farmers of the
state are realizing as never be
fore the necessity for the taking;
up in earnest, themselves, the
problems of relief.
"The Conference is a united
front gathering to which actual
farmer members of all farmers'
organizations and groups of un
organized farmers are invited to
send delegates, provided they are
actual dirt farmers. Republicans,
democrats, notapartisans, liberty
ites, socialists, and communists
are all invited bo participate if ac
tual farmers. It is high time they
all got together for their common
relief and defense.
LEM HARRIS TO BE
PRESENT
The program adopted by the
Fanners National Relief Confer
ence at Washington, D. C., Iasi
December, will be placed before
the North Dakota farmers by the
North Dakota delegates who were
at Washington. Lem Harris, sec
retary of the Farmers National
Relief Conference will be present
at the North Dakota Conference.
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KNIFE RIVER TWP.
ELECTS TWO TO GO
TO N. D. CONFERENCE
(BY A. H.)
Saniah, N, D., Peb.
delegates were diesen at a relief
meeting in Knife River township
to attend the Farmrs Relief Con
ference to be held in Bismarck,
Feb. 28-26. The farmers were
very enthusiastic about it and
thought it Was the best thing since
the discovery of America. I was
chosen for one and Matt Hansen
for the other one.
1.—Two
Modem Revere Rouses Farmers
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(BY B. H.)
Sanish, N. D. Feb. 1—"To arms;
To arms; The Red coats are com
Revere as he went tearing through
the countryside on hie flaming
steed in 1775—calling his fellow
men to struggle for their freedom
from the English tyrants.
MODERN PAUL REVERE
But now in 1933 in Knife River
township, Mountraill county, a
modem Paul Revere rides. It was
Charlie who received the signal
and went around the community
on a half starved nag. Ploughing,
plunging through snowdrifts, hun
cold and shivering in the
blizzard, he told his starving fel
low farmers to come to the Plain
view school house on Monday aft
ernoon, Jan. 30, 1933 to decide on
some method of obtaining imme
Such was the cry of Paul
gry,
FARMERS ARE DETERMINED
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Farmers took a noose along with them when they wnet to
the sale of Cecil Kcstner, at Deshler, Ohio. Thi* time they
lynched the mortgage. The sale brought only a few dollars
and the property was returned to its rightful owner—farmer
Keatner.
It was the telegram of a Plymouth county lawyer, to
the New York Life Insurance Company, ending in "My Neck
ia at stake," which convinced the insurance companies the
f armers of Iowa a!nd elsewhere meant business. It won a par
tial victory for these farmers from the insurant* companies
—a moratorium on their mortgages.
Nebr. Attorney General
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Fries to Hinder Work
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TELLS FARMERS SEARS AND ROEBUCK SALES
WILL BE HELD ILLEGAL BY
prti idtc
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His opinion contained the follow
ing five points:
1. Courts will bold sales where
intimidation is practiced void,
2. Many sincere farmers who
are able to pay are being vic
timized by neighbors.
3. Few bank« ©r insurance
company foreclosures now are
being held except where there is
wo chance tor thte farmer to get
out from under his debt lead,
evdn under favorable conditions.
4. The farmer by utilizing le
gal means has from a year to 18
months to delay toes of his farm
by foreclosure.
5. There is serious doubt any
of the legislative proposals for
In order to stem the rising tide
of struggle against foreclosures
and evictions, and to divert the
attention of Nebraska farmers
from the Nebraska Farmers Re
lief Conference which meets in
Lincoln, Feb. 15-16, Attorney Gen
eral Paul F, Good of Nebraska, de
dared on Feb. 6 that Sears and
Roebuck sales would be declared
illegal by the courts.
Because of the mass action of*
the farmers, the courts have not
dared to make any such ruling yet,
so the attorney general comes out
with his opinion which has abso
lutely no legal standing.
ATTORNEY GENERA LT5
OPINION
TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS SIGN ORDERS FOR
RELIEF: FARMERS DEMAND COUNTY
PAY BILLS
. . ._ _ . awlA
1 chosen—but then what? Pood and
j dot}ie8 »^ed by all right
away—without a <Uy> delay—and
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
diate relief for their starving, half
naked families.
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ALL BUT TWO OUT
Charlie's call, like Paul Revere's
wae spontaneously responded to.
At 2 p. m. Monday, representatives
of 18 families of the toWnship had
assembled at the school house and
two other families, unable to send
representatives, had sent letters
asking for immediate aid. This
represented the entire community
except two families.
The meeting was called to or
j der, a chairman and secretary
retiewing the mortgage situation
would affect existing mortgages,
(('«nUnuMl an f^ro)
UFL GREETS TWO
FARMERS STATE
RELIEF MEETS
The Producers Netes greets
the two Farmers State Reliât
Conferences which will be held
during the coming week. On
Feb. 2® the farmers of Minne
sota, participating in a Hunger
Hardi with the workers of the
state, will meet in St Paul to
place their demands befere the
state legislature.
On the same day the farm
ers of South Dakota begin a
three day conference in Pierre.
These conferences are ab in
tensification of the work al
ready begun, and a carrying on
of the work which va« started
in the Farmers National Relief
Cobference.
The United Farmers League
will de its utmost to spread the
United Front of destitute farm
ers started at the conferences
thruout the respective states.
In building this United Front
the United Farmers League
wfll attempt te gab new mem
bers for the League aad new
readers for its official organ,
the Producers News.
poration funds, Which Governor
Langer's field man, Roy Frazier,
had promised to send to Mountaril
county would not arrive before
Feb. 16 at the earliest.
Could we wait until then? No;
Two week» is a long time to go
barefoot and without food in win
ter here. If we wait We will need
only shrouds.
The chairman explained pro
mises of the county commissioners
and Roy Frazier to bring relief
to the Mountrail farmers, but this
would be bye and bye. Sulo Mai
Jala explained that only through
usfog their mas» strength would
they receive relief now.
GET 91M IN ORDERS
The farmers then decided to
TEN FARMERS ARE ARRESTED
FOR STRIKE ACTIVITIES ON
MARKHAM, MINN. ROAD WORK
FARMERS STOP
MICHIGAN SALE
Over a Thousand Mass at
Mainstee; Some Go 100
Miles to get There
(BY G. S.)
White Cloud, Mich., Feb. 7.—
There wae a forerlosure sale at
the court house door at Manistee,
Mich., February 3. The farm be
longed to a farmer Hear Kaleva,
Mich, and the mortgage and all
other debts totalled $1800.
GO 100 MILES TO SALE
A Chevrolet truck with 16 farm
ers from Newaygo county went up
bo Manistee to protest against
this farm mortgage foreclosure.
We had to get up at four o'clock
in the morning to get there
had 100 miles to go. It was a very j
oold day, but the mein, all dressed 1
warm and took blankets along. We >
put straw in the bottom of the j
truck and a canvas over the top {
so we kept quite warm.
There were over a thousand :
people at the sale. As a result of !
their protest, this farmer will not |
be foreclosed. He has only $79
interest to pay atnd he has 30 days
to get the money to pay it in.
The farmers around here are
j beginning bo wake up and are be
ginning to realize that they will
'VszsgStzL rs
j their farms.
» will stop foreclosure
AT WHITE CLOUD
ty farmers saw and they sure were
well pleased with the good re
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as we :
We «• planning to «top a!
foreclosure here at White Cloud,
February 13 and hope we have
good reßults.
Among the 16 men who went to
the sale at Manistee was one wo
man and she is writing this letter.
ASK BANKER ON
REFINANCE BILL!
A fam mortgage refinance bill
will be written tar the Senate a.
Chairman of Joint Slock
Land Bankers Attn.
May Write BiQ
the result of a decision, reached
Feb. 7, by the sub committee ■''f
the Senate Committee on Banking
and Currency, v«hicti hae been hold
ing hearings on the subject.
The line of the bill has not been
decided but it will be of "tem
porary" character only. While the
committee isn't yet decided on
what fake program they want,
they know how they want it 'lore.
Senator Walcott, Connecticut Re
publican, stated that,
"No derision had been reached
but that the idea that expert
draftsmanship under the guid
ance of a capable man was be
ing considered further as a re
sult of conversations held hi the
first subcommittee . meeting to
consider policy matters."
LAND BANK HEAD TO
DRAFT BILL
Just what this means to the
force the two supervisors who
were present to sign relief orders
of $2 for each person. They didn't
need much urging as they are as
destitute as the rest of us in the
township. Provision, was made to
give more to bachelors and old
couples. There orders aggregated
$190 and a resolution was drawn
ap and sent to the county com
missioners, demanding that they
pay the Knife River township peo
ple's bills at the stores where they
have obtained their groceries and
clothing in exchange for the or
der» signed by the township sup
ervisors.
If every township woul*. take
similar action I am sure the coun
ty oommisaioners of this county
would be forced :«) get more than
the measly $6,000 they applied f dt,
and I believe it would be forth
coming immediately instosc of
pushed off from day to day.
Last $1 for
the "News
Mrs. H. S. Barritt, Dal
las Co. Missouri writes:
Here is my last dollar, I
can't do without the Pro
ducers News. When
taxes, interest, and mort
gages get you where you
don't know what to do
read the Producers News
it will tell you what to
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your
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United States."
millidn signatures by May first
do.
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A nationwide campaign for the
recognition of Soviet Russia has
been announced by the Friends of
the Soviet Union. Conferences will
be held in large cities thruout the
country March 12 and sympathetic
labor and fraternal organizations
will be asked to send delegates.
These oonferneces will start the
collection of signatures to a pe
titkm for "full and unconditional
diplomatic and trade relations be
DEMAND SOVIET
BE RECOGNIZED
Farmers National Relief
Conference Favored
Recognition
The goal is one
FARMERS BACK MOVE
The Farmers National Relief
Conference meeting at Washing
ton during December, 1932, went
on record as favoring Soviet rec
ognition, and it is expected that
many farmers will take part in
the campaign instituted by the
Friends of the Soviet Union.
The resolution of the Confer
cnes read:
Whereas the damming up of
foreign trade, especially exports,
has greatly contributed towards,
farmers' inability to market
their product.
Therefore be it resolved that
•or U. S. Government give
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farmers can be gathered from the
fact that the sub-committee sug
gested had asked Angus McLean,
chairman of the Joint Stock Land
Bankers Association, to provide
the "expert draftsmanship,
of the chief agents of the bank
ers in robbing the farmers is con
sidered a "capable man" to re
lieve the farmers of their mort
gage problems.
The senate suggests a banker to
write the "refinancing" bill. The
farmers know just what to ex
pect from bankers. They also can
see what chance of real relief
there is from Congress' plans and
programs.
One
NEW WEAPON WINS
TENANTS A LEASE
Lincoln, Neb., Joint Slock
Land Bank Forced to
Grant Demands
Neligh, Neb. Feb, 7.—The threat
of the farmers around Clearwater,
that they would have nothing to
do with any new tenants on the
VanVleck farm baa proved effec
tive. W. E. Barkley, president of
the Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank
dwner of the farm, has sent a
signed lease for . the Van Vlecks
to the bank's local agent, E. E.
Backwith.
The Van Vleck brothers gave up
their farm to the Lincoln bank
some time ago when they could
not pay the interest on a mort
gage. They asked for a lease as
tenakits. The bank demanded such
terms that they could not meet.
When their neighbors heard of
this they sent a signed statement
to the bunk, relating that if the
bank leased the land to any other
farmer, that farmet would be
faced with the united enmity of
th ecommunity. As a result, the
bank could not lease the land to
anyone else, and the Van Vlecks
will remain there.
CONTINUE FIGHT
Demand Recognition of
Farmers' Grievance,
Work Committees
UFL LEADS STRIKE
Commissioner Discriminate
Against Farmers
Road Work
on
(By the Farmers Strike
Committee)
Virginia, Mfcm., Feb. 11—Ten
farmers were arrested today for
their activities in connexion with
the strike of 100 Markham farm
ers on county road v.ori^, The
farmers struck because County
Commissioner Koski refused to
recognize their work and griev
airce committee, although he had
promised to do so before election.
The farmers are organizing to
continue their fight and to win the
release of the ten arrested farm
The Farmers Defense Com
mittee asks all farmers to seed
protests to Victor Koski, county
court huose, Virginia, Minn,
Markham, Minn., Feb. 10—About
one hundred farmers of Markham
have declared a strike on aounty
road work and are picketing the
county garage and highways In
the township in order to prevent
any work from being done until
their demands are granted. Un
uty 'sheriffs have been sent to
break the strike but the farmers
have repulsed all attacks and are
standing solidly behind their
mauds. ,
ers.
FARMERS SHOULD DIB.
TRIBUTE WORK
The strike, which is under the
leadership of the United Farmuv
League, is the culmination of a
struggle between the farmers and
Victor Koski, commissioner of the
sixth district, the district of St.
Louis county in which Markham
is located.
man ding the recognition of their
own township committee of action
which Would have charge of dis
tributing equally among the paor
farmers the little county work
which there k. In past years the
work has been given only to a
few friends and supporters of the
commissioners while the majority
of the farmers have received little
or nothing.
Victor Koski, the newly elected
commissioner, in his campaign
promised the farmers that he
would recognize their committees
and it wa* upon this plank in his
platform that he rode into office.
WIN R7 .COGNITION TO
*FEB. 1
Early in January the U. F. L.
branch in Markham called a mass
meeting attended by 126 farmers,
for the purpose of electing their
(Continued on Fa.ge Two)
The farmers are da
'EVIDENCE CLEARS
SC0TTSB0R0 BOYS
GbrT* Testimony dean
Boys Forever Says UFL
Executive Committee
Superior, Wis., Jan. 28.—The
national executive committee at
the United Farmers League
sent the following letter to Judge
J. P. McElroy, who presides over
the county court in Birmingham
where the nine innocent Soottsbote
boys are in jail: .
i„ the name of the thousands
of toiling ftmws in thi ■ er
gunizatkm we demand the im
mediate release of the nine
Seottsboro boys. To continue te
hold them is, we are firmly co«
vinced, illegal and unconstitu
tiotoaL
The letter written b' Ruby
Bates In which she declares the
boy» never touched her is suf
fldmt evidence to clear the boyi
forever.
To hold these young J»yt in
prison any longer bears out aad
ex p oe m to the world the class of
Injustice of the courts of Ala
bam a and the race prejudice
policy carried out therein,
Sir:
Signed,
JAMES FLOWER,
National Sec. of the United
F ann er» League.