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Official Organ of Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, June 26, 1936
NO. 14
VOL. XIX
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ÄSSFUL FARMER-LABOR MEET
PROMISED AT BILLINGS SUNDAY
I
legates Representing Many Sections of Organized La
* r the General Farmers Organization, and Organ
. |L ns of the Unemployed, and Other Political Party
10 Will Attend the Convention
Groups
many distinguished speakers
BY ANNA JOLENK »
0 f Publicity Committee
STo Producer» New».
BILLINGS, June 24. Final ar
ri eSnts have been completed
'or the state convention of the
Famer-babor Party slated here
Sunday and Monday, June 28
The following speakers have
, contacted who will be here
on the program:
C W. Fine, State Senator of
Jth Dakota and president of
Parmer; Union Livestock Commis
ion Co. of South St. Paul, sub
ject, "Cooperation.
H 1). Rolph, state president of
Montana Farmers Union, will open
the convention and speak on ''The
Pmpose of Conference."
Rodney Salisbury, president of
Montana Holiday Assn., will speak
on "Holiday Activities."
L G. DeNayer, president Yel
lowatone Trades and Labor Assem
will extend the Welcome to the
for
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delegates.
S. E. Mojs, member advisory
M of Townsend Plan and vice
president of Montana Workers
Protective Union, "The Townsend
J. L Kramlick, representative of
Central Montana Taxpayers Asso
ciation, "Our Breakdown."
Leverne Hamilton, member of
executive board of United Mine
Workers of America, "What we
% Expect from Our Old Par
J. McGuire, state president of
Mont. Workers Protective Union,
, «Peak on "Organization."
The Hon. Chas. A. Hansworth,
S*f Butt®» will speak on "The
"Sr*"
P.7 8 - E. Taylor, editor of the
reducers News, "The Press."
G. Locke, author and lec
v 1 s P®ak on "Production
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Ro S ers » mayor of
u™ Object to be announced
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U ? T V1 , 8 .' representative of
Holiday and Workers
%v? e Union, will speak on
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, J® Education in a Ma
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M * our Brotherhoods will
* speaker and a delegate.
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RELIEF OFFICIALS
PURSUE WORKERS
Cahoots With Infamous
Citizens Alliance to Re
duce Wages by Abolish
ing Relief
PROTEST MEETINGS
BY ARTHUR W'. HOPKINS
MINNEAPOLIS, June 19. —
Since the new relief superinten
dent, Ole Pearson, former alder
man of a laboring class ward, of
Minneapolis has been in charge
there has been in progress a cam
paign of persecution against the
relief clients which takes the form
of prying into the affairs of the
clients to determine whether they
have been earning a few dollars
in addition to the meagre allow
ance doled out to them by the
powers that be. If a man has
earned extra money which serves
to maintain his family in a some
what better scale than the relief
authorities consider "adequate"
for a poor man, he is now obliged
to make "restitution" to the city,
In wide and active snoopings, the
authorities have uncovered "chls
eling" to the extent of about
$4,000 since May 1. Considering
the fact that there are around ten j
thousand families on relief while
the money expended runs into the
hundreds of thousands each month
it i s seen that the "chiseling
which the capitalist press makes
guc h an ado is only a bagatelle
compared to the sum expended on
genuine relief needs.
An example of what is called a
relief "chiseler" will be revealing,
Last Wednesday a man pleaded
guiltv of receiving a $6.50 fuel or
§ er and two rent orders for $11
each while employed as a painter.
It is not stated how much he
earned as a painter or whether
the work was steady—and paint
ing is not as a rule steady work.
The fact that the s um he earned
i s not stated is significant to all
persons aware of the solitude of
the capitalist press for the ones
who apparently pay the freight.
The reason behind the relief
"chiselers" drive will be discussed
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MIDNIGHT RADIO BROADCAST TO OPEN
SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN
CHICAGO.— Hundreds of banquets and house
Leatherings are planned throughout the country for
midnight Julv 10 to hear Norman Thomas, Socialist
"sÄ £?ÄÄ.t of the United States^wood;
cast over the blue network of the National Broadca.
ing company.
Thomas will speak from New York where the na
tional eSutiw committee of the Socialist party will
JÄÄ Z to pla» a»
Thomas and his running-mate, George A. Nelson,
farmer from Wisconsin.
time, and 9 o'clock Mountain Standard time.
LANGER DEFEATED
In thé North Dakota pri- *
* maries which occurred Wed* *
* nesday, Wm. Langer, and the 568
* most of the Langer factions *
* of the Nonpartisan League *
* candidates, were defeated by *
* Acting Governor Walter Wei- *
* tord and his faction candidates *
* for nominations on the Re- *
* publican ticket. •
With most all of the pre- *
* cincts reporting, Welford beat *
* Langer for the Republican *
* nomination for governor, by *
* about 600 votes. *
The IVA's voted solidly for *
* Welford, who had the support *
* of all the big business papers *
* in North Dakota, and most of *
* the main street papers. *
Moses defeated Ole Olson, *
* former prominent Leaguer, •
* for the Democratic nomina- *
* tion for governor, by a large *
* majority. •
* The remarkable and signif- *
* leant feature of the election *
* was the light primary vote in *
* the face of the acrimonious *
* election campaign. *
Farmers Must Qualify
for Soil Payments
Farmers who fill out the work
sheets in the 1936 agricultural
conservation program should make
certain that-their farming opera
tions will qualify them for pay
ments under the progrm, County
Agent Peterson says,
Later on in the season each
farmer will have an opportunity
to make a formal application for
a grant under the program and
then his farming operations will
be checked to see if he is entitled
to the grant,
The most important thing farm
ers can do now is to check up on
their soil-conserving acreage, Mr,
Peterson says. The requirements
are that the farmer has his mini
mun acreage in soil-conserving
crops or land devoted to approved
soil-conserving uses and that he
divert, the acreage from his soil
depleting base.
The minimum acreages which
the farmer must show in soil-con
serving crops or in approved soil
building practices which may be
substituted for soil conserving
crops are 15 per cent of the gen
eral soil-depleting base. For flax
it is necessary to have an accom
panying acreage equal to 20 per
cent of the acreage in flax. If
farmers have this qualifying acre
age, they will then be eligible for
payments for the acreage they di
vert from their soil-depleting
bases up to the limits as provided
in the program.
From the general soil-depleting
base, a farmer may divert 15 per
cent of the acreage and receive
the soil-conserving (class 1) pay
ment. —
Miss Ethel Singleton returned
from Lincoln, Mont., where she
has been teaching the past ten
years, Friday. She plans to spend
the summer months on her farm
near Reserve.
GRASSHOPPER CAMPAIGN DECLARED
A WPA EMERGENCY WORK PROJECT
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PLENTYWOOD BOY
TO WEST POINT
Samuel Richard Peterson, son of
Clerk of the District C urt and
Mrs. Carl B. Peterson, ox Plenty
wood, has been appointed as the
senatorial cadet at the United
States military academy at West
Point, New York, for which school
the young man will leave Satur
day.
Carl Peterson received a wire
to the effect that his son had been
officially designated as a cadet by
the war department, Tuesday from
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. The
news came as a surprise, although
he had previously been named as
an alternative after examination.
But for some reason the principle
failed to qualify so the appoint
ment came to "Dick" Peterson,
much to the pride and joy of his
parents, and the gratification of
his numerous friends here, where
the young man has grown from
infancy to young manhood.
Cadet Peterson received his
grade and high school education in
Plentywood, graduating with hon
ors with the Class of 1935,. of
which he was the salutatorian.
After graduation here the young
man entered the school of journa
lism at the Montana university
at Missoula where he was an honor
student.
Comertown Farmer:.
Demand Work Relief
A delegation of farmers from
Comertown was in Plentywood on
Thursday, meeting with the Sheri
dan county relief officials, and
consulting with county officials,
and other farmers in ref rence to
the situation caused by the de
vastating drouth, which i destroy
ing the crops, gardens i ..i pas
tures in this section of the county,
with the idea of securing work for
the winter whereby they can live
and support their families.
Those coming in were. Jim Vin
cent, Robert Mangle, Avg. Olson,
Erik Olson, Jack Beamon, Clifford
Olsen, Peter Gjerde, Joe Olson,
Odin and Pete Lutness. Fred
Miller, Alfred Gjerde, Carl Hereim
and sons, Clarence, Howard, Clif
ford, and Lester,
Erickson and Neville
Attend Lion Conclave
Attorney Arthur C. Erickson
and Mayor Percy Neville, as dele
gates of the local Lions club, at
tended the International club con
vention held at Glacier Park over
the week end.
The convention was held at
Many Glaciers, where Montana and
Canadian chapters were repre
sented.
Erickson was one of he con
vention's "tail-twisters," ; nd it is
reported he made a hit v. ith his
"Empire Builder" stunt.
Mayor Percy Neville -s ac
companied by Mrs. Neville and
family to the convention, going
over to the park in the auto. After
the convention they went to White
fish for a shor visit.
MARTIN NELSON NOW
STANDARD OIL AGENT
Martin Nelson, of the Fulkerson
Nelson Mortuary, also hardware
clerk at the Peterson company
since 1925, took over the manage
ment of the Standard Oil bulk
plant in Plentywood Tuesday,
which means that he will be the
wholesale agent for Standard Oil
products in Plentywood and sur
roun ding a rea.
A. JTThunem, the retiring Stan
dard Oil representative, will de
vote his time to his fine service
station here, in which he will
handle Yale Oil company products.
SITUATION IS
VERY SERIOUS
Farmers Take Initiative in
Successful Effort and Se
cure Positive Action Over
Inertia of Officials
WORKERS C ALLED
The grasshopper situation in
Sheridan county is becoming very
menacing, reports coming in from
all parts of the county indicate. In
this regard this section is not
peculiar because grasshoppers, lo
custs and crickets are doing incal
culable damage in many sections
of the state. In Fergus county
they are destroying almost every
thing green.
Outside of Montana, in all the
states east of the Rocky Moun
tains, there are grasshoppers in
abundance, in some sections liter
ally devouring all vegetation in
their march. In fact hoppers are
said to be as numerous as in the
records years, over sixty years
years ago, when they devoured
nearly everything green in the
west.
A few days ago locusts flew
over Lincoln, Nebr., so thick they
clouded the sun for three or four
hours, coming from the southwest,
up over Kansas and Nebraska into
Iowa and where they landed every
thing green was devoured.
The grasshoppers in the county
are particularly bad in sections of
the Dagmar country. In some
places there are enough small
hoppers to destroy everything in
the county, if they are allowed to
mature, report farmers from that
community.
Over in Dagmar a few nights
ago, several farmers held a meet
ing to consider the situation which
is becoming very serious. This
meeting was attended by County
Agent Peterson. It was the con
census of opinion that something
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O'CONNOR HERE
Candidate for Congress Second
District, Visits Plentywood in
Interest of His Candidacy
James F. O'Connor, prominent
lawyer, farmer, stockman, of Liv
ingston, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Congress in
this, the Second Montana Congres
sional, dropped into Plentywood
today in the interest of his candi
dacy, calling on and shaking hands
with many Democrats and old
friends here.
Mr. O'Connor was a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
the United States Senate short
term, last year, being second in a
field of four or five, and only a
thousand votes behind the success
ful candidate, Sen. James E. Mur
ray. O'Connor ran high in all of
the industrial centers and high in
many agricultural areas. This year
with Roy Ayers running for the
nomination for governor, O'Con
nor decided to make the race for
Congress.
The Livingston attorney is op
posed for the nomination for Con
gress by Sen. James Sparling of
Flaxville, Daniels county and Mike
Holland of Cascade county. Spar
ling is being supported by the
Farmers Union progressive ele
ments, while Mike Holland has the
Townsend Old Age pensioners en
dowment.
The Producers News acknowl
edges a pleasant call from Mr.
O'Connor.