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Producers News
Official Organ of Farmers Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, May 15, 1936
NO. 8.
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VOl- xix
[r azier-Lemke Measure Smash ed by Congress Wednesday
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HEARS 1NGV0LSTAD
Ddiv« Splendid Lecture
Ravels in Russia" at the
Farmer-Labor Temple
on
4 fair-sized aad attentive
■ a mostly from the outside
JSÄ ^ard Dr. Fred
Î imoldstad deliver his splen
«i lecture, "My Travels in Rus
aOt the Farmer-Labor Tern
J Monday evening, May 11.
£ doctor, who is lecturing un
to the auspices of the Amer
m Guardian, came to Plenty
vood at the most unfortunate
tiae- first, the date was Monday
ma second, it was just after a
no during the seeding season;
ill of which militated against
tie securing of the audience
tiit Dr. Ingvoldstad deserved
ud had the right to expect.
Howe?er, those who came were
chinned with the personality of
the lecturer, and so interested in
the lecture that no one noticed
thit it lasted more than two
bourg.
Dr. Ingvoldstad, who traveled
ad studied widely for many
Booths last summer, keenly ana
had and vividly explained what
k m there in simple but grip,
aj terms; he carefully com
pared the conditions in the So
net with the conditions in the
capitalist countries, going into
•ne detail regarding education,
collective farming, and religion,
ud the progress made since the
flotation.
h wm regrettable that the
Impie could not have been
Med to hear Dr. Ingvoldstad.
RESTRAINING ORDER
SERVED ON FARMERS
L*» Madsen has been busy
serving restraining or
P»« members of the Holiday
HjJJtjon of Montana, issued out
L £ 0ur * a * the behest of
LJ*" toW Life Insurance
R 7, .i 0r ! )1(idin ? ^ lem in
LcÄto Baise's possession
rTL* 118 * arm an d home.
Lj, Ätf 8 ^ ave been served on
B °ulds, P. W.
KTSJv j8 ebretson > Art Ha
Ca BnLFl etc ber Calla
Pcfi» 1 Callahan » jr., Will
L ^ ,®?» Herman Callahan
Ssburfl 61 ? allaha *. Rodney
I* ^ 88 also noticed, but not
' r n 6re ^ ate d May 6, and
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EXTRA
LOST
Billfold Containing $140 in
Bills, Four $20's and Six
$10*8 and Some Small Sil
ver at the Ingvoldstad Lec
ture at the Farmer-Labor
Temple, Monday Night
The billfold and the money was
lost by Chris Johansen, farmer,
who resides east of, and gets
his mail at Antelope. On the
billfold, stamped in gold leaf, is
the name, Christian Johansen.
Mr. Johansen had been saving
this money to pay his taxes. Its
loss is very painful and a great
hardship at this time. Mr. Jo
hansen is willing to pay a lib
eral reward for the return of
this billfold with the money.
Mr. Johansen says that he and
Mrs. Johansen were sitting in
about the third or fourth seat
from the back, on the righthand
tier next to the aisle, when he
took the billfold out of his pocket
to get a nickel to buy a Daily
Worker from Mrs. Herron. He
believed that he had replaced it
carefully in his pants pocket.
Shortly he left his seat and went
to about the middle of the center
row to talk with Gonius Lajur
( Continued on page four)
As I See It
BY JEROME G. LOCKE
Another monument to the in
sanity involved in an attempt
to preserve decaying capitalism
is now being erected at Miles
City. As a symbol of such stu
pidity, Governor Hojt and the
Federal Surplus Commodity Cor
poration, seek to hoist the flag
of failure over »the Miles City
tannery. Humans may starve,
but profit must keep flowing to
private hands. That is the edict
of the Democratic administra
tion, state and national. Here
is the set up—a tale of tragedy
amidst a comedy of errors.
After two years of a valiant
fight the Workers Protective
Union induced the government
to take over an abandoned pack
ing plant at Miles City. About
$60,000 of federal Binds was in
vested in the purchase, remodel
ing and equipping the plant as a
modern tannery. It was finally
started into operation last
March, as the only manufactur
ing plant in Eastern Montana
and one of but two tanneries in
Hansen of Butte
the state,
owns the other.
From sheep slaugtcred by the
governmental "Drought Relief
Program" of 1934 some three
hundred and fifty thousand pelts
were brought to, and st or€ *J T
the tannery. Under the WPA
indes, which alloW not more than
nine days per month to each
worker, three crews totaling
about one hundred men were put
to work. These still inexperienc.
ed and haphazzard crews have
been tanning and turning out
450 felts per day.
The total coat of pelt plus
processing, is about 70 ««its.
The value of the finished product
is estimated at $2.25 each. The
plant ia making a net profit «
than $400 daily, which
WV into Montana relief
more
goes
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CALLAHAN CUED
FOR CONTEMPT
H. H. Callahan of Redstone has
been cited for contempt of court,
at the instance of the Union Cen
tral life Insurance Company's at
torney, who was here from Billings
last week, for entering upon and
farming his own place, in alleged
violation of a temporary injunc
tion issued by Judge Paul at the
behest of the mortgage sharks
without hearing as to the merits,
last fall.
The citation to show cause was
served upon Callahan by Sheriff
Hang Madsen at Redstone in the
middle pf last week and the date
of hearing set for Tuesday, May
19, at the court house at Plenty
wood.
Judge Paul disqualified himself,
and called in Judge Felts of Miles
City to hear the case, and the
hearing date re-set for Thursday,
May 21.
The farmers are trying to get
Attorney L. P. Donovan of Shelby
to represent Callahan, but Dono
van, because of trial work, cannot
come next week, so Attorney Ver
non Hoven, Callahan's local lawyer
and Callahan, have asked that the
hearing be set over for the first
week in June, so that he may be
prepared to properly defend him
self.
Judge Paul is now in Helena on
business.
funds. This takes no account of
the wool which has accumulated
as a by-product,
By installing another three
thousand dollars worth of ma
chinery the tanned pelts can be
made into mittens, jackets, moc
assins and oither apparel. Wool,
the by-product, can be used in
quilts. Another hundred idle
persons can have jobs, clothing
can be furnished to relief clients
and plant profit can he boosted
(to seven or eight hundred dol
lars per day, with a correspond
ing lift of the load from the
backs of taxpayers
Further extension of the pro
ject has all been worked out,
planned and made ready. Two
hundred idle workers may have
employment, thousands of desti
tute persons may have clothing
and quilts, taxpayers may have
some relief from hack breaking
burdens. Everything is lovely;
it can he more lovely—except for
one little fly that infests the
ointment.
The project, program and pro
cedure constitutes PRODUC -
TION FOR USE. In it there is
profit to individuals. Such
threaten capitalism.
no
programs
They help provide abundance—
not scarcity. They demonstrate
what the common folks can do
when given access to the tools
of production. They point the
way to a better and fairer eco
nomic order that ALL might
well enjoy. Consequently such
.projects are of the devil, Un
American, socialistic, and suh
vertive. They are to be sabo
taged, sat upon, weeded out,
labeled "failure" and sent to ex
tinction.
Failure to furnish chemicals
and necessary supplies when
needed, joggling of funds, re
strictions on petty expenditures,
'
FLASH
The invoices for the last
of 1935 wheat allotment
checks, over 3,000 in num
ber, in the total sum of
$123,415.03, were received
by G. E. Fulkerson, treas
urer of the Sheridan Coun
ty Wheat Allotment Board
today. However, the checks
have not yet arrived, but
are expected shortly after
the first of the week.
The checks are larger
than anticipated by reason
of the fact that the Wheat
Administration has allowed
an extra 5 cents per bushel
because of the fact that the
administration expense was
not as large as estimated.
High School Band in
Street Concert Last Night
The Plentywood high school band
which returned Sunday from
Havre, where they participated in
the Musical Festival held there,
gave a concert Thursday night
Main street in front of the former
Riba State bank building at 7:30.
The very enjoyable event was
attended by a large audience.
The American Legion Post
sponsored the performance.
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drastic and senseless regulations
and a hundred other petty
noyances have failed to halt the
work of the Miles City plant.
The hoys kept turning out the
product and rolling up the pub
lic profit. They wanted it to
succeed.
Then by suggestion of Gover
nor Holt ithe Federal Surplus
Commodity Corporation decided
to ship all but fifty thousand of
the pelts to Boston. There they
may either rot—and create more
scarcity—or be processed by pri
vate plants and shipped back
with a »three, or four, or five
way conversion of the public pro
fit into private profits—all. of
which is according to Hoyle and
the much defended code of cap
italism.
In furtherance of such a plan
»the required cars were ordèred
and several officials came from
Helena and Washington to sup
ervise the pelt removal. Then
H - - - broke loose. The Work
ers Protective Union, Montana
Federation of Labor, Farm Holi
day and other organized groups
couldn't see it the capitalistic
way.
Two years of herculean effort,
with a hundred jobs in hand and
as many more all but created
meant something to them. Shiv
ering and thread-bare people
have real attachment to
common clothing. Some middle
class business people are be
ginning to look with favor
projects that reverse the drain
on public treasuries. By mass
action the loading and removal
of pelts was stopped temporarily
at least. The balance of the
story is to be written. It is the
kind of story that capitalistic
insanity and the stupidity of
public officials may easily write
in blood.
an
even
on
FARMERS DEBT
RE-HNANCE BILL
KILLED IN HOUSE
Finance Banking Mobilized
Force« Defeat Measure by
Vote of 235 to 142 After
Hottest Battle of Session
WALL ST. JUBILANT
SHERIDAN CO. FARMERS
ACTIVE FOR FRAZIER
LEMKE BILL
After the Frazier- Lemke Farm
Refinance Bill secured the
essar v 218 signatures of Con
gressmen to take it out of the
hands of the Committee on Rules
where it had been 'pigeonholed
for months, and force it to the
floor for consideration and
tion, last week, Sheridan coun
ty farmers became very active
in its support, and many tele
grams signed h y numerous
farmers were sent to the Mon
tana representatives in Congress,
Jff. Ayres and Mr. Monaghan.
The Dagmar and Coalridge
Farmers Union Local dispatched
wires also, as did the Producers
News.
nec
ae
The dispatches in the press
did not print the roll call on the
Frazier-Lemke Bill, but Cong.
Joseph P. Monaghan was an ar
dent supporter of the measure
so voted for it; how Ayres voted
not known, hut likely for the
measure.
is
Special to The Producers News.
WASHINGTON, May 13.—WaB
Street is jubilant here today. The
bankers faithful puppet in the
White House smiles his "chessy
cat" grin. The finance banker«,
the collegium that rules this na
tion, and ruthlessly exploits the
farmers and workers out of the
products of their toil, with back
to the wall, cracked their Whips,
and demonstrated to the world,
that they are absolutely in con
trol of all branches of tne United
States government, the President
and Congress of the United States
just as completely and effectively
(Continued on Page 7
Ehrmanntraut Called to
Bozeman Thursday for
Soil Conservation Meet
Harry Ehrmanntraut, secretary
of the Sheridan County Soil Con
servation Board, also a member of
the Montana State Board, was
called by wire, Thursday evening
to Bozeman to attend a meeting
of the State Board called at that
place for Saturday, for which
place he left immediately, where
ne will be occupied for the
two weeks.
Mr. Ehrmanntraut Was recently
appointed by the head office at
Washington. D. C., as a member
of the State Board to represent
the eastern Montana area. The
appointment was a very happy one
as Mr. Ehrmanntraut is very
versant with conditions in this
tion of the state.
R. G. Tyler of Homestead, presi
p 8t o / Sheridan County Soil
Conservation Board, come to
Plentywood this morning to act as
Secretary of the Board during the
absence of Secretary Ehrmann
traut.
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