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Gov. Langer of N. Dak.
promises the President
Full Co-operation In the
Coming imperialist War
at conference of governors
at WHITE HOUSE on MARCH 6th
^ of Promises in Speech at North Dakota Farmers
Holiday Association Convention at Devils Lake,
North Dakota, Friday Evening, June 29
Brae?
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jngerson Asks Governor to Explain
Secretary of North Dakota Farmers Committee of Action
in Open Letter to Langer Demands Further Infor
mation Relative to the War Conversations
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World War Impending," Says Morgenthau
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i am fer ni y country right or wrong," shouted Gov.
William Langer, in a burst of fervid oratory, when
speaking before the North Dakota Holiday Associa
tion first annual convention in the pavilion at Lakewood
Park, near Devils Lake, North Dakota, Friday evening,
June 29. last.
i promised President Roosevelt that I would
operate with him to the fullest extent, and that when
war was declared, the state of North Dakota would
lead in Red Cross contributions; that North Dakota
would lead in the purchasing of war bonds: and that the
State of North Dakota would lead all other states in
furnishing its quota of young men to fight the nation's
wars
co
. just as it did when Lynn J. Frazier was governor.
NOT A RIPPLE OF
applause
i
One could have heard a pin drop
The audi-|
in tie huge pavilion.
ence held Ps breath in silence.)
There was not a ripple of ap- j
plause. Even Usher L. Burdick,
the flick lawyer politician presi
dent of the North Dakota Farm .
. . . . , .
m Holiday Association sat dumb
with amazement. He had up until
now applauded enthusiastically
every high point in- the Governors
colorful a r <i domogogic speech to
Holiday farmers and administra
tion job holders composing a large
par: of the audience, who had ac
companied his excellency in his
progrès to Devils l>ake to act as
:b« cheer brigade.
Lawyer Burdick did not lift the
crowd to its feet cheering this
time. Ho hold his breath with the
farmers and the governor's camp 1
followers. His hands lay motion- 1
le«« i r hi,« lap. Usher L. Burdick
besides being the president of a 1
militant (?) farmers organization,
is a candidate for Congressman
congressional
tjoo?. and h e was not s o sune but
that Tanger had hit a sour note,
ÎÆT IT'taÄ Mr.L
James
Sinclair's
BANKERS WILL
GET GOVT AID
Army of Apprai
Help Bankers Liquidate
Frozen Mortgages
Will
sers
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Washington, Aug. 1 .— Ai
army of federal em-1
P*oyecs has been organized j
h.v Henry Morgenthau, gov
ernor of the Farm Credit Ad- ;
Ministration, to carry t hru
® federal refinancm 0, of
fem mortgages to, bankers.
* staff of between 2,500
m k„V ° 00 appraisers is being
iJl y the 12 Federal
ersin ar 'k S- T* 1086 apprais
conn'/ carr y °n a county-to
!9 ino- i -V cam P a ipP for refinano
Sloans for the bankers.
are already 11,000 appli
2JJ" itt for loans totalling over
' 00.000. The farmers will
** Nothing out of this refinanc
The financing is being done
^ »e bankers. Orly those farm
* ho ?et the consent of the,
3 ^ or other mortgage holders
. ** »'hie to refinance their
pet nothing but a
tor the Bankers
There
who
<io refinance their
will
of
* the
^Ifcnies,
^ rien
18 tw
♦armbw gct nothing
masters. In the place
bankers, machine
insurance companies
tbe federal
^loiter.
government
Hr«^ insurance com
*i!l I other mortgage holdere
V theh- arant **l federal bonds
? is Is anotw fr ° Wn Tnort 8«ge».
J ^ l 01 *be bankers and p
masters f or the farm
* in
Burdick did not disturb them.
CHRIST AND
WAR
The governor before making his
war statement had just finished
telling what a Christian he is and
^ 0Wl always kept a crucifix
hanging in his private offee, where
he could keep the image of the
crucified always'before him
for he was a Christian ruler of a
Christian state.
Governor Langer realized with
confusion that he had' blundered,
that he had published state secre*ß
—that in his super efforts to be
sensational, that he had let Presi
dent Roosevelt's war cat out of the
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Greatest Naval War Plan
Is Approved by Roosevelt
Washington, Aug. 3.—The
started by the U. S. Navy was
Department awarded contracts
private shipyards and allocated
iftavy Yard®
At Hyde Park New York,
Roosevelt yesterday approv
ed the contracts which call
for the expenditure of $130,
000,000 of the total of $238,
000,000 which had already
been allotted from the "pub
lic works" appropriation for
naval war purposes. Admiral
W. H. Standley, Chief of Op
erations ; Rear Admiral E. S.
Land. Chief of Construction,
ind Rear Admiral S. M. Rob
inson, Chief of Engineering,
flew to Roosevelt at Hyde
MASS PRESSURE FORCES RELEASE OF HUNGER MARCHERS
STAY OF EXECUTION FOR YEAR MEANS DIS
MISSAL OF CASE; TWO U. F. L.
MEMBERS AMONG 18
Minneapolis, Minn,, Aug. 7—The
18 workers arrested in front of
the City hall here have been re
leased. Mass pressure of workers
mibilized by the International La
her Defense forced Judge Fred B.
Wright of the Municipal Court to
stiiy execution of the sentences for
a year, which means a dismissal
of the cafe, as the thousands of
dollars of property bonds were or
dered released.
Though the state supreme court
I upheld Judge Wright in the sen
tencing of the 18 workers, the
hundreds of resolutions «and postal
cards that came pouring into his
office, the numerous mass meet
ings called by the International
Labor Defense in protest against
this jailing of the 18 workers
claused Judge Wright to make a
revered! of his decision, on Aug. 4.
TWO UFL MEMBERS
Among those who*e release has
been forced were two farmers:
Rein© Tantilla, United Farmers
League organizer of St. Louis
county, Minnesota, and Arthur
Boelke, member of the UFL, jus
tice of the pence and prominent
farmer of littleforkk Minn.
WAR DRUMMER
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Governor Langer, who pledged
the lives and blood of North
Dakota farmers' and work
ers' sons vo President Roose
velt at the Governors' Confer
ence in Washington on March
6, and boasted of it at the re
cent Holiday convention.
bag. He stammered. He flushed,
He, then, charged the subject,)
and told the farmers what a com
moner he iis ; that tho a lawyer
by profession, he 'wis a farmer
too—just a plain old sodbuster;
that he liked the sons of the foil;
and then he invited any farmer,
especially any holiday farmer, to
just drop into the Governor's of
fice any time he happened to be
over to Bismarck, +o have a smoke
and a chat with him; and also, if
by chance, any of the farm wivee
ever came to the capitol, they
should come right out to the Gov
ernor's mansion +o. see his 'Missus'
who ie very fond of farmer wo
men, for a visit and a lunch, and
to stay over night if it were to
late +o go home tha day.
"Yes, sir! Come right over
(fontlmiori f>r\ F'v,k* Twnl
greatest war program ever
ordered today when the Navy
for 21 ships to be built by
16 ships to be constructed at
*
Park with the bids which
they had already approved
for the Navy.
The $130,000,000 approved in
the bids covers o.nly the hulls and
machinery. Armaments and fit
tings for the war ships will take
additional hundreds of millions out
of the federal treasury to prepare
for the r ext world war.
... The . dealers ..are stacking the
cärds for the next deal. This deal
will be war to, dissolve the crisis
of capitalism in the blood of the
workers and farmers.
The 18 farmers were arrested
j November 21. Among the 18 were
! a number of workers from the
i West Coast who were o-T their way
te Washingtoi, D. C., for the Ha
| tional Hunger March, organized
by the Unemployed Councils oi
the United States. In line with
the instructions sent out by tne
then president of the United
States, Hoover, to "discourage
the mobilization of the national
hunger march, the Farmer Labor
Mayor of Minneapolis, William A.
Anderson, who since then, has
been badly defeated in the muni
cipal elections, mobilized the po
lice department for his part in
"disconraging" the militant work
ere.
FARMER-LABOR POLICE
BEAT WORKERS
Because of the fact that tbe
march to the city hall on Nov.
21 Wap small In size, consisting of
200 to 800 workers. 40 to 60 po
lice with riot stick? were mobi
lized in front of the city hall and
wVn the m ambers came abreast
of the ci tv ball, ♦be ««one formed
a filing wed ce and wiei«iinv «dubs
bmke beads and Jaws and ar
STOR'C AL SOCKET
MONTANA.
HELENA
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OF
THE
COUNTY EDITION
PRODUCERS NEWS
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
VOL. XVI. Number 20.
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday August 11, 1933.
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Japan* has bought five million tons of scrap si eel—the raw materials of munitions of war. This pic
ture shows 6,000 tons of this steel being loaded at Long Beach, Calif. The American capitalist class sells
scrap iron to Japan to kill Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and American workers and farmers sons, and make
millions selling munitions to prepare the U. S. for the next world slaughter.
SOLTIS ORGANIZES
NEW LEAGUE LOCAL
OF 17 IN DAKOTA
Forbes, N. D., Aug. 7.—At
a meeting of farmers held in
Elm Creek hall which was ad
dressed by John G. Soltis, a
local ef the United Farmers
League wag (organized with 17
members. Steps were also
taken to organize he town
ship solidly by a canvass of
the farmers.
Soltis sprfke itm the militant
program of he League a!nd
stresst id the importance of
mass action. He also spoke
of the war danger.
Brown Co S D Budget
, P n r f i
increases roor Kelier to
! $150,000
STRUGGLE GETS
RISE IN RELIEF
Hecla, S. D., Aug. 6.—The
provisional budget of the
county commissioners of
Brown county for the next
fiscal year calls for an in
crease of about $85,000 for
poor relief, bringing the to
tal Tor tb*s denartment .'to
8 1 "0 000. it is' re
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ported. Final nnproval of
fi'p K-^ow* î-, n~H«(Tuled for
the nr*M?ting.
This increase in the relief
budget is no doubt doe to the
rested 19 of the workers. Then,]
a number of the 18 were taken
into separate cells and there three
and four cops beat them again.
Specta'ors to the brutal beating
given the marchers by the cops
told of the brutality of the police
of so-called "Farmer-Labor" ad
ministration,
Robert W. Gochan, a mining
engineer, testified on the wit
ness stanl a s jfoU^rg; "j saw
instances where they (th'e po
lice) hit men from the back.
Later still, I saw six police
men, two of them were sit
ting on a man who was in the
gtt*ter and the other four
grouped around his head. I
don't know whether he is here
or not h«t he was a rather
small man, laying in the gut
ter in front of the parking lot
«nd two policeman were hold
ing Mm while four gathered
«round Ms head were heating
Mm with sap« on the head."
Gochan was arrested when he
protested to the police against the
▼idousness. On the elevntor to
the JaH. he was beaten un. When
t1> nopre determine«* that h® was
s coTîe«r a «rrartnate and had "1"
f!uen«*e w fV«*h*n release'*.
SUFBKMF COTTTtT TTP
HOLDS VERDICT
An appeal to the Minnesota Su
Farmers and Workers
of Sheridan County!
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Out to the Mass Relief Demonstration, Farmer-Labor
T » -p i a nn i d KM 1
lemple, luesday, Aug. 22, 1 r, M.
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Farmers and workers ot Sheridan county, interested
in relief the oncoming months; those on relief, who ;
hive been on relief and cut off, those who need relief
immediately or will need it before the winter is over,
and those who sympathize with those who need relief,
must come out to the Mass Demonstration for Reief I
which will occur at the Farmer-Labor Temple, Plenty- !
wood, Tuesday afternoon at 1 o clock, August 22, to de
lei mine upon the amount of the relief needed, to take
steps to make a survey of the need for relief in each
precinct, and to demand of the county commissioners of
Sheridan county. Gov. Cooney of Montana, and the Re
construction Finance Corporation;
1. Adequate relief.
2. Relief paid in cash.
3. Abolition of work for orders.
4. Payment for all work in cash, for union hours
and wages.
5. À New Relief Committee, and keymen.
6. Free dental and medical services and drugs for
the impoverished farmers and unemployed workers of
the county at county expense.
Gcv. Cooney has been invited to attend this Mass
Meeting in person, to talk over the needs of the people
of the county face to face.
It is the duty of every member of the United Farmers
League to attend this Mass Demonstration. It is his
duty to see that hi® neighbor attends and that ways and
provided if possible for him to attend. Mem
bers of the U. F. L.. and all attending should bring
wives and children. This Mass Meeting should be the
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means are
bring pressure to bear to see
that his all goes to the needy
worker® ahd farmers and none
of it into the political "pork
barrel."
militancy of ilhe relief work
ers as shown by their strike
and other atctivities and fn
support given them by Brown
county farmer*. We must
court was taken & Ihe case
by the international Labor Do
i«nse, but the sta.e supreme court
haiioed down a vicious verdict
sanctioning the brutality of the
police. Although the evidence
produced in the trial was that the
We think the triai
police without provocation of any
i sort made the attack, for which
they had been mobilized in front
of the city ball, yet the supreme
court held
court's finding that the defendants
were guilty was clearly justified
by the evidence,"
Immediately after this decision
was announced by the supreme
court, the International Labor De
fense, initiated a more intensive
campaign for the release of the 18
arrested. Though there were two
members of unions affiliated with
the American Federation of La
bor among the 18 that were ar
rested, yet when John Conner, on®
of the two, who Is a member of
the Lather's local, went to the
Central Labor Union for creden
tials that he might address the
unions on the case to get the!*
support, the leaders In the Cen
tral Labor Union refused to grant
him permission.
4«
A. F. OF L. LOCAL SUPPORTS
DEFENSE
In defiance of the leadership,
the Painters local of the A. F.
L., ore of the largest elected
j FMQIMpT'D TESTIFIES TO BRUTAL BEATING OF
imtmDI nVPD NOV 91 RY FARMEÄ
UNEMFLOYED, NO\^ 21BY rAKMt/<
LABOR rULILt
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j oelegate to the Provisional Com
mittee of the 1LD for the 18 ar
rested, and sent a check fox $5 to
aid in the campaign for the re.
lease of the 18 arrested.
unions sent resolutions of protests
to Judge Wright.
Anothei reason for the drop
ping of the case of the arrested
by the boss-controlled courts is the
vigorous campaign conducted by
th£ Communist Party, the Unem
ployed Council, the International
Labor Defense, and other organi
zations against the FAascift Mayor
Anderson, whose policy of terror
and starvation was constantly be
ing exposed during the two years
of hîg administration. "Eve-cen te
n-day" Anderson, the title given
him by the organisations was re
peated a thousand-fold thruout th*
city, lerndting in Ms defeat in
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Othei
Marek of tftfe
Judge Wrigbt »aw a similar
«♦nation facing him. He and the
other fee agents of the boss-class
in Minneapolis are still trembling
from the campaign of exposure
tbn+ was levied at Mayor Ander
And when the hundred« of
postal eands minted bv the Inter
national Labor Defense, demand
RUMORS OF DOLLAR
INFLATION RESULT
IN VALUE DECLINE
New York, Aug. 2.—The gold
I alu f on 01 *^ / dollar "
Tuesday was 75Vs cents fell to 73
and 01ie fifth cents 0I1 Wednesday
(The gold value of the dollar bad
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; bouyant or eome t 1 ™® ue
to soit ' by the Roose
veR Administration of the idea
in^V"near^uiur^ ^ 1,68011:6(1 t0
I 1 " 6 .^ 6a L „
! ^ ^ t^"t
again that ^ deal is going
^ ^. r y ga Ve j^ s hide by printing
pre ss inflation.
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Billion Dollars to
be Given.Big Banks
R. F. C. WILL DOLE OUT BILLION TO RICH BANK
ERS WHILE NEW DEAL REFUSES RELIEF
TO WORKING PEOPLE
Washington, Aug. 1.—One billion dollars more is go
ing to be handed to the bankers by the Roosevelt admini
stration a® one of th€ major relief steps in the new deal
program. This is going to be done through the purchase
by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. of the preferred stock
of these banks.
Up to now the chief means for handing out millions to
the banks has been to lend it to them on their notes. Now
the R. F. C. will lend up to $50.000,000 to any one bank
through the purchase of preferred stock from them.
This plan was made public*""
tonight over a coast-to-coast
radio hookup by Jesse H.
Jones, Roosevelt - appointed
chairman of the R. F. C.
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Roosevelt in a letter to Jones
"hqartily endorsed - ' all that the
latter had to say about "the need
to* credit and about cooperation in
the general scheme of 'everybody
In fighting for the release of
ign the release of the 18 arrested'
came pouring in on him, when the
meetings in the neighborhoods
called by the ILD came to the at
tention of Judge Wright, when the
workers came m large numbers to
the courts, Judge Wright backed
down, and dropped the case of the
18 arrested like a hot coal.
the 18 arrested and appealing into
the state supreme court, the In
ternational Labor Defense of Dis.
trict No. 9, was put to a large
expense. There is over $200 due
at the present time in connection
with loons made to the Interna
tional Labor Defense. The Inter
national Labor Defense urges all
sympathizers and organizations to
immediately send in funde to the
International Labor Defense to
liquidate the debt, to place the
L. D. on a better functioning
basis. Send funds immediately to
tK> In+emationa! Labir Defense.
Dist. No. 9. 10 S. Third St.. Room
4. Minneapolis, Minn, care cf S.
N. Davfe. secretary.
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
TODAY—IS a year.
FARMERS DUMP
ALL SCAB MILK
n
No Violence" Propaganda
of Leader Bewilders
Strikers
DEMAND 3c A QUART
Rich Farmers, Leaders in
Politics, Are Main
Scabs
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(By a Special Correspondent)
i Fonça, N. Y., Aug. 4.—On the
j fourth day of the stiike thrte
fifths of the counties o i New York
state are involved. Practically the
only scabs are members of the
Dairymen's Cooperative League,
j Today the pickets are well enuf
j organized and militant enough to
) stop truck« guarded by the state
troopers. The result is that in
Montgomery county where 1 am
.now there will be no milk in the
plants.
FIVE CENTS A QUART
The farmers are fighting for
five cents a quart and no classi
fied price plan. We are urging
also tha*^ the following demands be
included :
Rank altvd file leadership.
No check-off Lo organiza
tions.
Th« state to give one quart
of milk daily to each child of
an unemployed worker, the
milk to be bought direct from
the farmers at five cents a
quart.
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" On the first two ».ys, the
73 pickets who are all busted farm
ers a!nd farm laborers, were be
! wildered, especially because the
leaders urged "no violence.".. The
ue milk of the scabs was then.dumped
^ on the third day th e troopers
j started to ride the scab trucks to
t0 i the P lants - %
1 TROOPERS BEAT UP
i DEPUTY
The fariwrs did , not hold back
; the trooper® that day but after an
1 ic..ntinufd on mg« two)
back to work' ". This billion is cc
be handed to the bankers under
the excuse that it is aiding "re
Actually it is nothing of
ccvery."
the sort, only a means to hanu
relief to the bankers without mak
ing them responsible for it even
to. the extent of signing notes for
the money.
BAITING THE HOOK
In order to make the working
people swallow this kind of relief
the Roosevelt administration has
provided that the banks should
pay five per cent interest on the
preferred stock. The banks are.
however, allowed to decide if they
can pay the five per cent It is
to. be paid out of ''net earnings
only. The l^inks can deduct suf
ficient fund« in the way of "re
serves . .. to provide reasonably
for losses, depreciations, etc." so
• that there will be no net earning».
If the banks can show that there
are insufficient "net earnings" the
dividends Buyable to the govern
ment are just "accumulated.
STRENGTHENING BANKERS
MORALE
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ft
The Roosevelt administration
gives as another reason for this
billion dollar relief to big bank
ers the necessity for "strength
ening their, morale."
Thh? measure is being carried
through to save the big banks and
their profits. Not one thing has
been done to pay the deposits of
the small depositor«« who lost their
few dollar? when Roosevelt closed
the h§nks during the hank holiday
in March. The small ba^ks have
been cleaned ou+ in order to save
♦he bi«r ones Now that the hi*
ones are shakir tr a billion doll are
is to be given to keep them going.