The producers news. [volume], March 27, 1936, Image 1

About The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937

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Producers News
Official Organ of Farmers Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, March 27, 1936
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
NO. 1
VOk ^
Holiday Declares for F-L Party
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Farmers Come to Aid of Callahan
_
will put brother
mot in ms HOME
Union Central Get» "Re
straining Order" — Only
Mass Pressure Can De
feat Designs of Robber«
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(Continued from last wee )
When Hurschel Callahan arrived
it Bedstone he could not move into
Mi own house, on his own
because intruders was living: in his
tome. The locks had been br° e ,
tnd the premises burglarized. His
property had been stolentacting
den, and the supplies left there
ippropnated and consumed.
uilahan does notkno^ 1
his old neighbor Art Blaise broke
the locks himself ° f r , h e |Pf d Swan -
S.îp® toake
9° X 5îffSA Lcp
to. But Blaise waa in the house
vhere he had no more legal right
to be, than he had to move into tne
tae of Judge Paul of Plenty
wood, while that official happened
to be away. The entry was made
illegally and without process of
tow. And Vhat Hurschel should
have done, and what County Attor
»ey Vernon Hoven should as a part
«1 the duties of his office have
ve, was to have arrested Blaise
on the charge of house breaking
*nd burglary. It anybody had
broken the door of the home of
" e jadge of the district court, or
the sheriff or the county attorney,
od moved in, and moved the fur
niture out into the granary, and
hid valuable pieces of machinery in
"e coulees, he would have been
properly dealt with at once.
»here a powerful mortgage _
IJJhy or its agents is involved in
nouse breaking or burglary 0 f this
*u'v , e * 8 no action. In fact
J burglar j 8 protected in the pos
i °m P re mises, and his
?***** Madsen
I ^bes themselves.
. 11 a warrant
and his
ta») * °* srrest had been
othtf K° r toe Blaises as for any
b«*ker and burglar,
W «I er Tl 11 have h®« 1 8 «ttler
hJL •Jd to® Callahans would
back in toe possession
nt* *Lu m v' and toe stolen prop
WTrapt ^»J >een recovere <*
But
corn
for ait 86 Riven, in the case
tohaSf?. 1 ! e .^ entry, is that Cal
and iff; to 18 land on contract,
^oken j , c °ntract had been
that » toe contract provides
° f failure to perform
the °* toe contract, then
to cancei\ Centraî is em poWered
«es«i on same an d take pos
ji to (wL* P r ^ m ises. But who
W Wwu etheP toe contract
rS en or * toere is a
ht t 0 ° Surely this is
toat the Union
fi Jr I™!™™ Co. can de
^operty toen enter the
t^on.» 0t 5 er -ithont any
tïrt lî! of "y awt Any
•«otraet h.°ul s ^ at whether the
a matt.. .. 1 Wuidated or
■>C;: r .^?ct to be proven
» ^ courts »'ant««!
Sr"" 1 *« which a writ
f*®dian ifaf* T ^*. issued against
S2, eÄL ÜBtal <***£ Life
u^'on was «»titled to
1 »ot and v ason °f forfeiture.
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SPORTS FESTIVAL
TO BE STAGED AT
CROSBY IN JUNE
Committees Are Making Ar
rangements for a Three
Day Event June 18-19-20
The Straight Eight committee
are laying plans for the greatest
three day celebration in the his
tory of Crosby and this community
to be held June 16, 17 and 18.
Arrangements are being made
West Bros., Shows from Mis
souri f or a three-day appearance
. Q Q tol g 0/ y 9 The committee in con
wrestlers from Minneapo
^ Regina, Havre and Winnipeg
to head-line the biggest fight and
»wrestling card ever to be held in
noT A west
has been made for this fea
tur ® <** celebration and the
1 committee is looking for other
gQod fighters who can step U p and
^ ^ Those wishing to enter
- qualifications and furnish
Lrftgren. secretary.
cu *? * 6 _ / v
&T Î
? ac h of the three days which pro -
An allotment of
to pack the greatest gathering
of people from eastern Montan ,
southern Saskatchewan and North
Dakota into Crosby for this festi
vaL
EDITOR MILLER
FACES DEPORTATION
TO GERMANY
* An Associated Press dispatch *
* appearing in the Great Faib *
• Tribune of Thursday morning *
* March 26, under ia New York •
• City date line* states that Al
• fred Fortmuller, known gener- *
0 ally as Alfred F. Miller, the
♦ former editor of the Producers •
* News of Plentywood today
* faced deportation to fascist •
♦ Germany, following Federal
* Judge Francis G. Caffey's dis
• missal of the writ of habeas
• corpus obtained sevend week» •
* ago in Fortmuller'* behalf. .
* Miller, who *s a Communist, ^
* faces grave danger if returned ^
• to Germany under the present ^
* regime, to which he has been
* Ellis Island under an order of
• deportation. , *
* In dismissing the writ. Judge
♦ Caffey ruled that under the
* law aliens who »re members
• of the Communist party must
* be deported and that it was
• not withfci the power of the #
• court to exercise it's own no
• tion "as to the policy or jus
• tice of legislation."
• Miller had his original he»r
* in g before the immigration
• officials, here at Plentywood
• where he was aWy defended by #
♦ Sen. Louis P. Donovan of ^
* Shelby, who won for ,
» right of voluntary departure. ^
» Whether Miller has forfeited
» this ptfrilege by prosecuting a
. writ of haW corpus ia not •
• dischwed in the dispatches.
guests in city
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lartw and
Norman spent the week end
the Cal Peterson home.
son
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DECENT HOMES
FOR WORKERS
DANGEROUS"!
u
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—About
200,000 migratory workers, men
women and children, handle the
California crops annually. Liv
ing conditions on most of the
ranches are unspeakable. The
federal government established
two model camps, at Marysville
and Arvin, and has funds for
20 more. The Federal Reset
tlement Administration started
taking options on land.
Then suddenly its work was
stopped. No more camps are
Ho be built "unless the com
munity approves,
words, the State Chamber of
Commerce objects to any campe
under federal ownership or
management; the agricultural
section of the chamber demands
that the government give the
money to the growers instead,
and let them build ithe camps—
maybe—and control them.
They have all the leaders of
the 1934 agricultural strike in
jail, but they are still afraid
to take a chance on letting the
exploited workers live in de
cency and hence develop IDEAS
OF INDEPENDENCE.
In other
RELIEF OFFICIALS
TO RECEIVE CCC
APPLICATIONS
County relief officials through
out Montana have again been
designated by the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor as Selecting Agents
for enrollment of OCC juniors. Al
though there may not be as many
Montana camps in operation as
formerly, there is ample oppor
tunity for every young man who
is interested and qualified to en
_ .
Application for Junior enroll
? P ma be ma de immediately at
™f t y relief office. Enroll
me „t of Veterans in OCC will also
^ place between April 1 and
inclusive. Further • informa
regar ding such enrollment
obtained at any county re
roll
Unmarried men ages 17 to 28,
inclusive, physically qualified and
willing to allot a substantial por
tion of their pay to needy de
pendents of blood or obligation
eligible for enrollment as CCC
are
farmers union meeting
of the
coun
quarterly meeting
Farmers Union of Sheridan
at Dagmar, Friday,
The
ty 'will* occur
April 3. at 1 P- M „
Pres. H. D. Rolph of the Mon
tana Farmers Union will address
Z meeting, whidi is an open
meeting to which the general pub
lic is invited.
clarence FRramiM joins
PLENTYWOOD PRODUCE CU.
Clarence Fretheim of Jt. p aul,
«TW îc now connected with ^ne
Dore' and Redpath. wholesale fruit
and vegetable concern, will move
plentywood during the first
; n April and will j° ln _~ 1S
giSaesÄ*»
to
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AT SEMI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AT GREAT FALLS, SATURDAY
Resolution Passed by Unanimous Vote at Most En
thusiastic and Constructive Farmers and Workers Con
Considers Many
vention Held in State for Years
Vital Problems —- Will Aid Callahan
PLANS MADE TO REFINANCE AND
BUILD THE PRODUCERS NEWS
The semi-annual conference of the Holiday Association
of Montana, assemble ! at Carpenters Hall, Great Falls, Sat-
urday night at the f al session, after considerable debate,
passed without a decenting vote, the Resolution sponsored
by the Butte Miners Union, introduced by its president, Reed
Robinson, who was a delegate to the conference, committing
the Holiday Association to the principle of independent po-
litical action by the farmers and workers, and authorizing
the Holiday Associât on to participate in the calling of ä
state convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, based upon the
the theory of Production for Use and upon farm and labor
-----^organizations. A committee
RECENT COLD W AVE
CAUSES DEFICI IN
FEBRUARY FOL G. N.
ST. PAUL, March 26— he rec
ord breaking cold wave \ ich held
the northwest in its icy giip thru
out February was responsible for
the first deficit of the Great Nor
thern railway has reported in a
year.
W. P. Kenney, president, said
today that despite the weather
which slowed down business gen
erally 'while increasing the road's
operating costs, the Great North
ern's deficit at the end of Feb
ruary was only $20,100 more than
at the end of February, 1936.
The railroad's operating expense
for February, made public today,
was $797,767 more than for the
same month last year. Total op
erating expenses for last month
were $4,427,018.
Operating revenue tolled $4,
376,679, as compared with $4,399,
058 a year ago.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby gr' en that
the regular annual election of
School District No. 20, Sheridan
County, Montana, will be held
at the Plentywood school house
Saturday, April 4th, 1936,
for the purpose of electing one
Trustee for a two year term,
and one Trustee for a three
year term.
At this election there will also
he submitted to the qualified
electors of said district, who are
taxpayers therein, the question
of making an additional levy of
10 mills, to raise approximately
$4200.00, for the purpose off op
erating and maintaining the
schools of »aid district.
The polls will he open between
the hours of One (1) and Six
(6) o'clock P. M.
Dated this 23rd day of March
1936.
on
HELGESON^
S. H. E.
of five were elected to cooper
ate with other committees of
like number which had been
elected by other organizations
heretofore declaring for a
Farmer-Labor Party.
The passing of the resolution de
claring for a Farmer-Labor Party,
came at the close of a two day's
semi-annual conference of the
Holiday Association of Montana,
concerning which President Rod
ney Salisbury of the Holiday Asso
ciation declared:
"There was more sign of life
and more accomplished at the
Great Falls conference than at
any other similar meeting held
for years. It's soon our day if
we work hard. Fakers cannot
ware."
CONFERENCE CONVENED
FRIDAY MORNING
The semi-annual conference of
the Holiday Association of Mon
tana, attended by about 60 dele
gates from the Holiday Associa
tion, other farm organizations and
labor groups, representing seven
teen Montana counties, were called
to order by President Rodney
Salisbury of Plentywood, at Car
penters Hall, Great Falls, at 10
a. m. Friday morning, March 20,
When he made a short speech, out
lining that the conference waft
called pursuant to the constitu
tion and by-laws of the Holiday
Association, which provides for
such a conference at least twice a
He reported that the eon
year.
ference had been called under the
most difficult circumstances .re
sulting from the long, hard winter
and the almost impassable roads
in the rural districts of most of
the state, and that the date of the
conference had been set and then
changed no less than three times
in order that it might be possible .
for the farmers to participate in
as representative a way as possible
—and thät he was grateful that
the conference, under the circum
stances, was as well attended and
representative as it. was.
(Continued on page two)