The producers news. [volume], May 29, 1936, Image 1

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

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Official Organ of Farmers Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, May 29, 1936
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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treat Western Sugar Company Imports Beet Workers
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INSTATE
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«1 Treatment Raises Pro
from 400 Barrels
,1 Montana-Dakota Utili
ty 'little Bear" Weil,
Proring New Oil Field
Auction
11 DEPTH 6900
tie Proving of the Baker
Field Renews and Intensi
ties Interest in Archer
Field Where Drilling Op
entions May Soon Re
sume
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BAKER, Mont., May 27.—Man- 1
;er Harry Schroth said the Mon- j
aa Dakota Utilities Co. "Little |
ever* oil well, southeast of
der, showed an open flow daily {
barreto in
Schroth and Dan Heigeson, of
( manager for the company, *
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■So f«r is is known here, this i
Nutiion would be by far the
-S in iirMontana^H eV * r I
eigeton said the we'll was un- !
control and shut down after ;
tanks and reservoirs !
wÄt"ro-!
by timing 1,000-barrel j
said Heigeson.
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mxd expectation
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^ excess of what had been j
drilled to a depth |
ÿ« 6900 feet before
•J* several weeks ago.
th said 2,000 gallons of
I PM into the deep test
the expecta
getting results» in about 24
oil was
I^ators
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jlU , spectators were pres
to tf J he .î e ? ts were made,
U !» i£ J^toight, except Tom
b VLn^ e< î ar Creek Co. and
Ipe^d. 'Several hun
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Hi gf was announced.
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Æto 8ee the Wel1 -
(cted ,, operations are
toon gjj/ 0 ow > Schroth and
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On the Defeat of the Frazier-Lemke Bill
By JOHN BOSCH
President, National Farm Holiday Association
There will be much disappointment among farmers be
cause of the defeat of the Frazier-Lemke Refinancing Bill.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers with debt burdens greater
than they can pay will lose the farm homes they struggled
so long to build.
It is difficult to offer encouragement to these farmers,
many of them old and unable to start again. Yet to give up
the struggle for lower rates of interest and adequate credit
facilities for farmers would be unthinkable. It would be un
fair to future farmers and unfair to those who have fought
so hard for these things.
The cause of failure lies not with these people or organiza
tions who tried so hard to win these measures but with
chose who are indifferent, who are willing and anxious to
accept the benefits made available by someone else's strug
gle yet who always withhold their help when it is so much
I needed.
Defeat now should only teach us that greater unity is
necessary to our battle to get fair legislation. Rather than
I give up let us unite our efforts and fight harder.
Let us not forget that the tremendous burden of debt
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that is ruining agriculture is the result of a marketing sys
{ em that gives to the farmer only a small fraction of the
value of the thing he produces. The farmer pays more in
costa in the production of farm products than he receives
* for them. He must bonow the difference in oidei to remain
i in the business of farming.
i While lower rates of interest are absolutely necessary, a
complete change in our speculative gambling farm market-
I in £ system is even more necessary.
! I don't belive that all farmers are wiilling to be peons or
; peasants. I believe that the defeat of the Frazier-Lemke
! Bip w ill se rve to make them understand that any benefits
th ey ar€ . to s ain 0011 come onl y through determined and
j united action.
BIASE S HIRED MAN OSCAR IS
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TORTURED BY FOUL FIENDS?
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TIED TO TREE
FIRE KINDLED
BUT NO BURNS
Madame Blase Hysterically
Sobs Blood Curdling Story
Over Wire Into Sheriff
Madsen's Ear Who Hastens
to Investigate
BULL BALONEY
On Thursday of last week,
namely. May 21, about 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, Mrs. Art Blase
came into Redstone and telephoned
to Sheriff Hans Madsen at his
office at the ocurt house at Plen
tywood, calling him to come at
once to the Callahan farm south
of Bedstone on which Mr. and Mrs.
Art Blase lives, since they broke
the locks and moved into the
house in the spring of 1935, where
something terrible had happened.
Mrs. Blase, excited and hys
terical, sobbed out to the sheriff
that the Blase hired man, Oscar
Andersen, had been burned at the
stake by fiends who had seized
him at his work back in a coulee,
bound and tied him to a tree and
built a fire under his feet, and that
the tortured man Svas in a pre
carious condition. The poor wo
man pitiously urged the sheriff to
come at once.
Mrs. Blase then went wringing
her hands and sobbing from place
to place in Redstone telling the
heartrending, blood curdling story,
of the torture four foul fiends had
administered to the poor hired
they were strangers, but she
inferred that they were either the
Callahans, or somebody associated
with the Holiday Association of
Montana, vicious and degenerated
radicals and reds, inspired by hell
in carrying out diabolical designs
against the Blase hired man. Many
people believed the story, especially
those who wanted to, and a high
feeling was formed for the time
against the Callahans.
Sheriff Madsen rushed over to
County Attorney Vem JHoven, and
the two* with others rushed out to
the Callahan farm occupied by
Blase, where they found the tor
tured hired man in his agony.
The officials conducted a pre
liminary examination. Oscar An
derson told his story. Mrs. Blase
told her story. Others told their
story. Mrs. Blase soon admitted
that the whole matter did sound
and smell pretty fishy, and did not
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To Beat Down Wages
of Beet Field Tillers
Ten Carloads of Sugar Beet Workers Brought Into Mon*
tana Fields by Sugar Company in Drive to Reduce
Price Contract of $21.50 to $13 Per Acre
GOV. HOLT AIDS SUGAR COMPANY
BY JEROME LOCKE
BILLINGS, May 8.—To again
beat down the price of labor in
sugar beet fields, Mexican and
Filipino workers are being ship
ped in by the Great Western
Sugar company. Ten coach loads
arrived here last night. For two
weeks small groups Hlvc been
coming by train and auto. More
are reported enroute. C opies of
handbills, circulated Ly the
Sugar company in California let
tuce fields, show that 1500 for
eign workers are being mobilized
to invade the Yellowstone Valley
in Montana.
Official government records
show upwards of 53,000 beet
workers already listed in the
state. Total acreage
will not employ more thin half
of these on the regulation basis
of one worker for ccc!i ten
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is year
acres.
The present wage scale is
$21.50 Per acre for a season's
work. The imported workers
have been induced to sip i up for
about $13 per acre. On this
basis each worker will earn $130
for a seven month seaton.
The Montana Federation of
Labor, Beet Workers Union, the
Farm Holiday and Worke.s Pro-
tective Union have all entered
vigorous proteats against he im-
portation of labor but Governor
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PROPOSALS FOR
POST OFFICE SPACE
CALLED FOR
Post Office Department Asks
for Bid on Floor Space of
1347 Square Feet by June
10, 1936
, The Post Office Department of
the United States government has
asked for proposals for suitable
quarters for post office purposes
at Plentywood, fftcluding heat,
light, power, water, toilet facilities,
plumbing, heating and lighting fix
tures. safe or vault, and all nec
essary furniture and «fjuipment,
for a term of five to ten years
.from July 1, 1936.
Important considerations are a
reasonably central location, good
daylight, and accessibility to rear
or side entrance for mail. Pro
ponents may Be required to show
whether the property offered is
mortgaged and to furnish a con
curing agreement by the mort
gagee. All bids must be in by
June 10.
Detailed information may be se
cured by writing Post Office In
spector P. L. Neil, Box 217, at
Seattle, Wash.
Billings, Montana
May 7-8-9
By Special Correspondent
The sun ig not making the only
heat down in Billings these days. :
There is a lot of good rod hot :
news emanating from there at the
present time. Significant incidents
are multifarious. However, the
situation in Billings at present is .
the result of the climax of a series : -
of incidents extending over a long
period of about three years. The
outstanding industry in the com
munity is the Sugar Beet industry.
Conditions in that industry are un
bearable. Experienced resident
beet workers know this condition
and they have been taking consid
erable measures to protect them
selves in the past three years.
Affairs in tie Sugar Beet indus
try came to a startling climax this
BEET WORKERS UNION
APPEALS TO FARMER THRU
COLUMNS OP THE
PRODUCERS NEWS
Billings, Mont.
May 9» 1936
To the Producers News
Plentywood, Mont.
Special correspondence:
You no doubt have a copy of
the Governor's telegram by
Jerome Lodce!
For four or five weeks we
. have kept the wires busy ap
pealing to every government de
partment. Gov. Holt of Montana,
Congress and Senate, and even
the keyman for the sugar trust.
Henry A. Wallace, in Washing
ton, D. C.—to employ local la
bor in the beet fields with decent
wage scale.
In spite of all our efforts, train
loads of outside labor
stantly pouring in.
Local beet workers are being
put off the WPA projects penni
less, and no provisions have
far been made to take care of
them.
Outside labor Is brought in
guarded by the sugar company
labor agents until placed in cars
and tracks and taken out to the
farms to take on scab beet
tracts.
The 1936 contracts put out by
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Friends Give Brensdal
Surprise Birthday Parly
The friends of J. O; Brensdal,
pioneer farmer, who lives on a.
farm east of Antelope, honored
him Wednesday, May 27, with a
surprise birthday party upon the
occassion of his 64th birthday, pre
senting him with cakes and guts.
Mrs. Simonson and Mrs. P. Brens
dal made the cakes..
Mr Brensdal wag greatly moved ■
by the friendship which inspired ....
the party .> '