THE PRODUCERS NEWS Published Friday of each week at Plentywood, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing Company, Inc. Entered as Second Ckiss Matter. October 18, 1918, at the Post Office at Plentywood, Montana. Under the Act of March 9. 1879. OUR PROGRAM 1. No evictions, no foreclosures. 3. Passage of the Workers Unemployment Bill (H. R. 2827) 2. Cancellation of all secured farm debts, 4, Immediate cash relief for unemployed workers and desti tute farmers. 6. Passage of Farmers Emergency Relief Bill (H. R. 3471) Subscription Rates: Per year. $2; six months, $1; three months 60 cents. Foreign per year, $2.60; six months, $1.26; three months. 60 cents. Advertising Rates furnished upon application. ALFRED F. MILLER, Editor EJNAR DUUS, Associate Editor HANS RASMUSSEN, Business Manager Friday, April 19, 1935 Prendergast Must Stop Block ing Our Committee Complaints are already coming in to the grievance c::_ mittee asking that ceratin action be taken on this or that case. Some of these complaints have been given to the Pro ducers News from where they were given to Gonius Laursen. In spite of the fact that there is plenty of work to be done, the relief office refuses to give way and allow the selection of a man who is just as fair and man could be. That man is Sophus Morstad. Stenehjem, although he doesn't say so, is under the in fluence of Prendergast who blocks everything. In Great Falls, where the farmers were not onto this thing as well, they also have a committee like we have here. On that committee they have the relief administrator, the county attorney and the county treasurer. We have the makings of a much better committee less Prendergast spoils it for us. Every farmer should let Prendergast know how he feels about these blocking tactics of the relief office, and he should also write to Helena telling them all about this queer deal. We want this committee to start work with a full crew, but not with a Prendergast picked crew. com square as any un We have won another victory , MaRgie Rändali has just been politely told by the state lehel commission to quit her job as senior case worker. In other words, she has been fired. this was certainly a result of the stand taken by the farmers who had had their fill of the domineering and ty rannical woman who always made a starvation limit her goal in filling orders or investigating. Randall was working under Prendergast. She was his apl pupil. Prendergast approved what pfandall did. ' He is the poverty expert par excellence. demand tw Ï the to 8 ,°' , He Wl11 SO Only when we demand that he go, in tones loud enough to be understood by Helena. Unless Prendergast goes, the substitution of Ethel Baird for Randall might not do much good. Prendergast is next in line to go out. Prendergast Is Next Get Your Hay For $5 a Ton i was ^ 00 give to the farmer for a cent less than $21 a ton seems to be good enough to sell to hay dealer for $5 a ton. It is less important that cattle should starve than that a hay dealer should make profit, is the way the relief set up seems to think. The persons responsible for selling good hay to Louis Mai sh at $5 a ton also say that if the farmers are unable to pay $21 a ton, the hay will have to be shipped back to Minnesota. That is if some other hay dealer hasn't bought up the rest of it by that time for $3.50 a ton. * — T* 1 *? s ? r ^ business needs an investigation badly, homebody is responsible for this outright thievery of the hay that should be issued to the Sheridan county farmers That somebody ought to be punished. Farmers are as fully entitled to get their hay for $5 < ton as any hay speculator. They will use it for cow feed and not selling it to someone else again for a profit. , Farmers should now demand that they be given the hay for $o a ton and that the hay be used here in Sheridan county ms tea of being shipped back to Minnesota. That hay is needed here. a No Messiahs Wanted + , ° n a H Holiday members to take part i th€ Holiday Convention at Des Moines on May 7. Third party plans will be discussed at this meeting. M u ess l ah s have come forward to claim shepherds who will lead us outxrf the wS Wenmsf be on the alert to prevent them tak lng m t° a Poker game with stacked cards in their favor. tyoîa 9? rtainl . y we don't want a man like Huey Long who paid his workers 10 cents an hour in Lousiana while he was Sh Th 05e ' ' f h S e the T ealth " P ro ^am takes less from the nch than is taken now by federal income taxes. 8 j* 011 . 4 want a man like Father Coughlin who was S ^ a . fa ^ cist 'j iar and racketeer by Hugh Johnson, who is 110 himself but who knows the inside dope ÎKï «" A« Ä <5 sxs . Jü^^t a Party that doesn't spend its time iawimr about inflation and munitions control, but that puts an end and W wo?ker. ara 0nS and ffuarantees security for the farmer orwi w^»*îîf Ve suc h a party, we, the rank and file farmers Wc want no'Messiahs. W m fl-lg The Real Reason deportation. Mlller *"* bee " arrested is being held for 40 " overtw ' 016 TÏ? Reasons back of the arrest are much different _ Alfred Miller, as editor of the Producers News was onn of those people who stood in the way of the New De.-U sta™ ation program m Sheridan county. He helped get better hef for -W who needed it. He was not afrSd to e^ose re ' Coffee an' ; I i i In Montana there People on relief, the year; but i are 90,000 same as last ]u. , ■ income taxes paid by i during March! Ciö , show an increase of 97 r*>r cent over 1934. *** And when little Willie was ask dLJ w C „ W0U have P ie »r Pud 4 éd^ he o Said: "We «rst." seif "? „ Mrs ' P° osev elt has got her tupe tat, eW d ; ess and ^ud her pic ture taken for the exclusive photo." _A ad it takes years of good undorcT^ a° People really tion Ï Ä Z hy pe^ion and men way S Sh ° U d h® Spelled in differ ent And in papers, in an n io V*, 8 Angeles they hung a 19-year-old Negro and said af terwards it was due to a bination of small errors. ..I",. the farm er said about his G P Î K: 'He's such a consci ious pig that he's taking this pork reduction business ° U a j and Just Won,t eat. And a British firm is now ad vertising homes "with built-in dugouts. guaranteed gas-proof and bomb-proof." And the Junior said he ", close to getting the right a G j on f in the next seat got it. And the government is laying awake nights worrying, afraid that Aif red Miller ig gQing to overthrow the force." corn too seri was very answer government by And , a woman is boasting that she has been kissed by ried man * every mar in town but one, and wt are all wondering who that could be. one HARRY L HOPKINS BACKS DR. BUTLER Ex-Senator John Erickson Is Relief Commissio Choice In State n WASHINGTON, April 11.—It yesterday by federal relief officials that Dr. Butler's administration of relief affairs in Montana has been entirely satis t£ "replant rector. The state administrator, altho he is a state official and can be dism issed or retained by the state, must . h . ave 016 a PP r oval of Federal Administrator Hopkins, It seems w k f the . ne ^ relie * commission in micTsôuB^uToï'V? P a' 5iZ Î ance by the federal authorities yes terday when, upon advice from Washington, the commission was faced with the alternative of taining Dr. W. J. Butler as ad ministrator or making way for the federal replacement of relief work in Montana. At present he is the only one recognized by the federal »administration to distribute federal funds in the state of Montana. Ex-Senator John E. Erickson who was appointed by the new re lief commission does not seem to meet with favor by Administrator Hopkins. Dr. D. M. Warren, assistant to Dr. Butler, is acting as adminis trator in an emergency. So liter ally we have three men at the head of our relief organization at the present time. ro Railroad Companies Ask Another Raise In Rates CHICAGO.The railroad compan ies were granted enough privileges to make up $250,000,000 they asked for. Part of it, $85,000,000, will come out of increased freight rates. The rate will come out of the hides of the workers. The Montana public service com mission is already preparing to *V| held hearings on the applications of every line in the state to get a freight rate increase. Strip Farming for Soil Blowing Is Discussed In addition to the tillage meet ings scheduled for Dagmar Medi cine Lake and Outlook, there will be a county-wide meeting in Plen tywood on Friday evening, April 19, at 8 o'clock p. m., in the court house. Meetings have already been scheduled for Dagmar on Thursday, April 18, at 1:30 p. Medicine Lake on Friday, April 19, at 1:30 p. m.; and at Outlook on Saturday, April 20, at 1:30 p. So important has strip farming become as a soil blowing control method that the federal govern ment has granted loans to finance this method in Kansas. Some Can m.; m. adian provinces consider it so im portant that they are contemplat ing its use as compulsory by law where soil blowing is serious. The heavy wind the past week brings up the increasing importance of this method of control for soil blowing. tr„ fV, ™ V 16 ^ era I government going n i h its grand foreclosure program, about which ine ot. Haul and Spokane Land Banks are bragging now. Those are the reasons for the arrest. Those are the reasons that compel us to rally to his support and prevent this 03 der from being carried through. " h*.-* mee Wv + n ae ighb°rhood. Send résolu Washington 1 and i°o Whiter * MnîîÜ Depa f tment of Labor at Washington, and to Wheeler, Murray and Ayers in the same the various manipulations of the relief office under Pren dergast. THE PRODUCERS RESERVE The band concert and dance put on in the school house last Satur day night by the Medicine Lake band was a very successful affair and netted the band about $60. Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard Neilsen have asked us, through this col umn, to express their heartfelt gratitude to their many friends throughout the entire district for the many and useful presents giv en them on their silver wedding anniversary. Paul Jacobsen, Jr., celebrated his 5th birthday last Sunday and had as his guests his cousins from the reservation and Mamie Rorvig. Mrs. Martin Jorgensen was a visitor at the Aage Jacobsen home last Friday. Hans Christensen returned Mon day morring from the Rochester hospital. Several of the young people from this town went out to the George Hunter home Friday night to assist with the charivari tend ered Mr. and Mrs. Murray Hunt The sick list this week is exten sive due to an epidemic of red measles. Those afflicted are Dor othy and Melvin Murk, Beatrice Lyngaas, Carol Vilen, Robert, Hel en, Doris and Stanley Lund, Betty Jean Hanson, Virginia Madsen, and Yvonne Strandskov. Mrs. Sparling and Mrs. Larsen of Medicine Lake were calling on friends here Monday afternoon. Miss Mootheart and Mr. Rice were business visitors in Plenty wood Monday. The Lutheran Ladies Aid met at the F. W. Carpenter home last Thursday. George Bennett returned to this district Monday morning after absence of five years. He notes a great deterioration in the gen eral appearance of the country and the towns around here due to the bad years. The Farmers Cooperative Imple ment company is loading a car of tractors for shipment to Alberta this week. Mrs. Wise, an old timer who has farmed about 15 miles west of toWn for 18 years, shipped her household goods to Kansas City this week and is leaving this try for good. Mrs. Wise had auction sale of her farming equip ment a couple of weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Johnson and er. an coun an Mr. and Mrs. Bert Johnson of Brockton visited friends in town Monday. Ira Eatinger, who is working at the Riverside Dairy at Nashua, called here Sunday. Sylvia Nielsen, who has been employed at the Ne Is Sampsen home this winter, returned to her home in Dagmar Saturday. Miss Grace Ibsen spent the week end at the Walter Rasmussen home. Mrs. Stewart of Plentywood vis ited at the Robert Henderson home Sunday afternoon. Miss Bertha Paulsen was a guest at the Osmund Estensen home Monday evening. Mrs. Sorensen and daughter of Dagmar visited friends here Mon day afternoon. on U.S. TO BUILD C.C.C. RESERVE Reserve Army of 600,000 Youth Approved by White House WASHINGTON, April 10.—A drive to enlist 100,000 employed youth in the CCC will be opened next week under the $4, 880,000,000 work-relief program just enacted, it was learned yes terday. The new CCC enlistment, in cluding some replacements, is the first step in a plan, said in offi cial quarters to be approved by the White House, to build the CCC into a vast young reserve army of 600,000 youth toughened and train ed in military discipline. more un President Roosevelt yesterday allocated $30,000,000 to the CCC from the $4,800,000,000 fund set up by the work-relief act. In this act a total of $600,000,000 goes to the CCC. It has already received $323,362,315 of "Public Works Ad ministration" money. Thus the sential war-preparations purpose to which the administration is put ting so-called unemployment relief funds was emphasized anew. That is the manner in which money for war purposes increases without be ing mentioned in the war budget. es HIER OUT (Continued from Front Png«) labor organizations from all ;t;_ the country participating. Labor organizations in the western part of the state are joining the fight. Funds Needed Sheridan county farmers have started raising the necessary funds to provide for adequate legal de fense. All contributions should be sont to Mrs. Grace Hardersen, Plentywood, Mont., who is secre tary of the defense committee. over NEWS OUTLOOK Louis Becker was elected as a member of the school board to take the place of Carl Beck whose term expired. The teacher of the Lindblom school, Miss Gladys Peterson, has been ill with pleurisy for two weeks. Her place is being taken by a substitute. Hans Hansen has been sick with rheumatism the past week. Among the Plenty*wood shoppers from this locality on Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Ad olph Hovdey. Tim Clawson returned the first of the week from Washington where he has spent the wir ter. One of the participants in the Outlook declamatory contest, Lou ise Hannah,, was ill Friday and could not attend. The others all did very well. First place was priver to Richard Sohruehl who gave the selection "Brotherly Love." Second place Went to Bar bara Ueland who spoke a piece by Dorothy Canfield, "Truly Mother." Third place was given to Dorothy Wirtz who gave "Glory For Sale." In the first grade rhythm band that played at the beginning of the contest, little Evelyn Hollitz „ , * »j, _ , . ' V1 ^ lted at the William Weiss home Sunday. Helen Smith Jackie Westphal Leonard and Albert Lindblom and Maynard Mathieson are among those who have been laid up the 6r ad C ° IdS ° r IO q ampptpc a 1 Q T> 1 , CVHfin IQ Mp J "' pm '■ KaS j won the applause of the entire crowd with her naive mannerisms. Vernon Stoner has been absent from school this week on account of illness. Ole Garrick went to Scobey for a couple of days this week. IGNORE APPEAL, EXECUTE NEGRO The Appeal Is Filed In Ample Time to Stay Execution at . i f in P 1SOn a f t Fri , day hpfm p tViP ctoto an appea pe ™ niihliV ripfp^riPT.>cr S pi^ eni \ C0Urt à V 16 dav Thr . mnr .,i 1CG ^°' arv 21 f W iS 1 Gd Janu_ hpni'ii,, PnKii» x. J F Bird who but j want to be sure that Hoover isn't." And that was the consciousness, the unformed idea> that was the force bebînd the huge wave ^re was ' course, hope hind the notion. But the shift was deeper and more determined than Civil War. Franklin had promised to remember the "forgotten man," an d promised the "New Deal," seorchingly scored Hoover, the man the masses ' were after. A ndw deal might mean something better. "But hone deferred maketh the heart sad." And the hearts of the impoverished farmers and urem ployed workers grow sad and sad der as the days go by. To their bitter sorrow and disappointment, fkey have learned that a so-called were had ever occurred before since the Promises Are Broken "Now Deal" might even be worse tka n the "Old Deal," and that the times that "just could not get wor?e " kave actually worsened, for wor kers and actual farmers,, though not for the bankers and bosses. The "forgotten man" was remembered Svith wage cuts, high e . r pnic 63 ' processing taxes, sub sistence farms and reduced relief, However, actually, there was a new shuffle of the old deck. Roose Velt toofe Up where Hoover left off, ard panie continued. There SkHn W broueht a S him "to «>« wme a tarn* of professors ^ A-s aad B Sars a " d *«r folse ala™ politicians - Vho had ™ ail McELROY I The Regional Labor Board has ! decided that the 29 men fired foi j union activity in the John Morrell packing plant at Sioux Falls, S. D., must be placed back at work. These men were discharged fol lowing the strike of March 9-14 militia that Governor Berry order- j ed out. i ; j i i Most farmers Swill remember the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North Amer ica, local 304, because of the splen did support these workers gave to the Sioux Falls conference. Peter Houtsma declares that the union is going to enforce this de cision, the local. Houtsma is president of ! THE NEWS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT: i reri , a. 1 . I Throughout the yiearg that the Producers News has been in ex-! istence in Sheridan county, it has ; persistently fought in the interest i of the» farmers and Workers of the county. j It is the Producers News that has led the fight} for feed loans, seed loans, summerfallow loans, against discrimination on relief, against evictions and foreclosures, against the( seizure of farmers' crops and machinery by the banks Iw , con ? panies ' aTîd every fight that has been in the interest of the farmers within the scope of the Produis News. The Producers News has not only brought thousands upon thou sands of dollars into the county by fighting for better relief, but it will continue to fight for better relief conditions for the petople in the county. News 6 iTWSSi ™ ^ t} ?®P eo P le of the ^ WG SP »1^ be ablate dTfor u« ^ ***** ^ , Pay up your subscription now! Get your neighbor to subscribe! Help the Producers News to help y 011 * : HOSPITAL NOTES Donald Anderson of McElroy was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment last Monday. Jessie Madsen of Archer enter ed the hospital on Tuesday as a medical patient. Mrs. Gordon Peterson of Dag mar gave birth to a baby boy at the hospital Saturday. Both moth er and son are doing well. Anton Peterson of Medicine Lake their days played cards, or even supervised a beauty contest, wit divers other letters of the alpha bet behind their strange and un known names. These intellectual in.fakers caught up all sorts of cards from their sleeves and underwear to thrill and inspire hope in the niasses. Even before the ink was dry on the signatures on the "New Deal" bills, disillusionment set in. Peo Pi e distrusted the brain trust the °ry of having more by producing I e ss - The promised improvement was short lived. Then came the failure of the section 7a of NRA, which had promised the workers real unions, shorter hours and in creased pay, more jobs and better working conditions. The promised raise in prices of commodities oc -1 curred. Then came crop reduction, wheat control, the plowing down °f cotton and the killing of little pigs for the farmers. And pro cessing taxes for both the farm ens and workers. The drouth came to help the crop control theory And then came the subsistence farm proposal—the proposal to plow down two million farmers for the benefit of the rich farmers, And along with this came huge dividends for th e bankers, the bosses, the speculators, the food trusts, and the war mongers. Republicans Lose Again The republicans barked and bel lowed at th e "New Deal" and told workers and farmers that it * was a failure, that they must re-1 turn to the "Old Deal" and the ment of the masses, however, did not result in a back surge to republican wave. That was the amazement of the 1934 election, Five or six million of the work-1 ers and farmers did not vote at all. And in state, such as Minne sota, where there is a Farmer-; Labor party with a program, re formic as may be, but radically worded, the workers and farmers voted that ticket more consistent ly than ever before, electing Gov. Olson and Senator Shipstead, sev era l state öfficers and représenta republican party. The disillusion-1 fives in congress. In North Da kota the Nonpartisan League, which is in reality a political par ty supported by the farmers and Workers, won everything ercept the governorship. In Wisconsin, the LaFollettes organized their Progressive party and won, d^-1 feating the democrats and the re publicans in the first campaign. In California, Upton Sinclair, a renegade socialist, with his Uto pian, "End Poverty In California" program, a fake radical program_The of the greatest of demogogy, pre tending socialism, won the demo cratic nominations against the Roosevelt-Farley democratic ma chine and the huge capitalist press by a huge majority, and was de feated for the election by the com was admitted during the week for medical treatment. Ted Downey of Redstone was ad mitted last Saturday night and was treated for head injuries he New Deal Holds Fifty-Two For Murder In N. M. had received in an accident With his motor truck. pa mtr» xi iw xr J persons are now held for murder l " p > , M ™c°. gwmg. lout of the shooting there that re salted in .Hie killing of one unem-. P °u e i mi f r and ai î ®f' she L riff - . , me £ were killed by the i^ Ut ! es ' The 18 °y errun by armed thugs who terrorize every D0ü y . when a mass demonstration of workers was fired upon by deputies. The workers had massed to protest the arrest of several unemployed who! bad been seized because of their demand for relief, The , tow n is now overrun byi ™ ed deputies,. Protests should be addressed to Governor Clyde Tingley, State Sen ato v r Vo S el at Santa Fe, Sheriff Roberts at Gallup and Secretary Frances Perkins at Washington. N{ ™ Deal has promised many of these men to be hanged on . the gallows for protesting a gainst the misery prescribed for workers. It will be up to us to save them. - p rarm ™mes àllOW Need Q£ Renaît*« In repairs In Mate A survey of O« homes of the state show that at least 90 V er cent need a safe method of 86 wage disposal, over half need Paint badly, nearly half need . screenm 8> more than a third need sorts of major repairs, than a quarter need foundation repairs, a quarter need much more closet space and have no kitchen sinks. So says Washington. To make every home a haven of peace and happiness, the feder al government is issuing all sorts of loans to fix up and remake homes. The only hitch in^ the is that the fellow with a run-down house and no kitchen sink won't get a loan. more program bination of the democratic «rd publican parties, and the c f a gig an tj c s i us b f und . ting over 950,000 votes and i n • j n a three-cornered race hva iuJi* over 100,000. The Socialist the Communist parties made gains where there and çreat were no so-call ed "radical" tickets in the field Now, what does all this disclose? It shows that the masse« had abandoned the republican nar+ • and t urned the democratic nart'' on hope in 1932. After tW vet * 0 f hope and disillusionment " million did no t vote at j/ . w b e(re there were some well ^ g an ized and active proeressiv* parties in the field, the masse f - c he workers and farmers votedV lt and agains | thp de mo-rati party . "*■ Elections Prove Shift The spring elections prove bv the vote for Sugar in Detroit K t he elections in California and bv the municipal elections in Wisron sin and elsewhere that the sw ,W i s still to th e left and awav from bo th the republican and democrat^ part i es wbere there is anotbor party with a bettfr souridi Dro g,. am to vote for H T , . . , _. . L . 8 . J*. e ^ cte f Th * G . ° f Jf dnv ' f the left With ^ ^ 1°*^ tp • ? e . w Deal sinks - Fascism, the last w""! b ? y , re ' ar couds hn^g for it while" the ***** na Hf d- Famm< : a|S"?J*J °î !v e U, „ t,° d , dea l ,, and 1Q Q ß t> GW ' -n , , °* Roosevelt will be hated worse , °. 0V f j n ' ' a j d dem * ocrat ? stand *™ a repudiation such 38 Wl11 actually destroy that P ar ' w „ Q . w . 1 &treet Wor ned w iR f^e workers and farm ers re tnm to the republican par ,^ 0 ', * F ^ le capitalist bi-party machine is on the rocks. What next, then? A new party five or ever The faith in the masses is spring up. Wall street, the ploiters, know this. The txploit ens are now preparing to either defeat this surge or to control it, an d it's not so easy to defeat, That is the meaning of Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" and Father Coughlin's "League for Social Justicé" fascist organiza tions that ar e preparing to secure control of this new mass party in behalf of Wall street, win with the people, great question is: Can the ox so as to Wall streeters, can the bankers and bosses, through their hired ag ents, accomplish this? vanguard of the working class, if the class conscious Workers can help it. Time will tell. But not if the Large Stock of Seed Is Ordered BOZEMAN.—Farmers m Mon tana drouth areas have ordered close to a half million bushels oi seed grain from stocks purchased and held by the Agricultural Ad justment Administration, it was learned from Sam L. Sloan, exten sion agronomist at Montana State college, and chairman of the state seed stocks committee. The order figures, which repre sent the tota I orders submitted by Montana drouth county committee, to the Minneapolis office of the federal seed stocks committee, show 265,847 bushel of wheat, 36.718 bushels. 8,668 bushels of durum, 126.517 bushels of oats, 36.923 bushels of Red barley, 1,024 bushels of malt irg bar i ey , and 9,921 bushels of marquis of ceres, flax. | Montana's quota for all wheat was 750,000 bushels; oats 200 000 bushels; barley 50 000 bushels and I flax, 50,000 bushels '_* i LUTHERAN FREF rHIIRGH j Westby Mont Easter services'will b P held at j the following churches Wil 21 : i At Oslo 11 a m • at St John 2 p. m .; ât Scandia' 4 n m and I at McElroy 8 p. m The Lord's supper will 'be celebrated at these services j Dr. B*. M. Christensen of Minne ) apo li s w iU &pea k at the First Luth j e ran church at Westby on Satur ; day, April 20, at 8 p m An of f er ing for our schools will be laid on thg altar> Plana are now being made for a celebration in Westby the 17th 0 f-May, the Norse national day. A cbmplete program for that day will ^ published later G. Mellby, pastor. Butte Workers Win a Victory BUTTE.—Five hundred FERA workers marched on the county re 50llu lief headquarters here in a united front demonstration against slashing of the relief budgets an stopping of FERA jobs, jamming the offices for two hours that all After they 'wrung the promise cuts would be restored at once. called by Protective The demonstration was the FERA Workers' Union.