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Producers News
Official Organ of Farmers Holida y Association
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana,
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of Montana
Friday, July 3, 1936
XIX. NO. 15.
VOL
PUBLISHED
Irff JUSTICE SANDS PROTESTS OF
IgM POWER SITE SWINDLE
liiSES MONTANA'S SENATORS
LEITERS
REPLY
Wheeler Says Indians
ke Protected by Royal
ty Such as Never- Befor
Paid . :
BLAME JOE DIXON
a toupie of weeks ago, the Pro
ucert News published an article
Chief Justice Sands of the Su
m c ou rt of Montana, under
C f "The Rape of the Ni
prt of the West", in which the
Sf Justice charged that not only
re people of the United States,
ni the people of Montana, were
Kne separated from a priceless
(jural resourse for a mere pit
Ecc of what it is worth for the
oefit of" that section of the
jurer monopoly of the nation
as the Montana Power Co.
it that the Indians are being de
rided of their royalty as well,
he great justice also pointed out
at the renewal of the defaulted
tse of defunct New Jersey or
iriied phoney development com
iny, known as the Rocky Moun
i a Power Co., was an obstacle in
I way ot the Columbia River
«hority, in favor of the
w trust which rules Montana,
iief Justice Sands and Hon.
B. Edwards wired the Mon
aa Senators, both Wheeler and
May, sharp protests against
■is "teapot dome" of the huge re
w=es of this state and nation.
v, hen the letters and wires of
istice Sands and the Hon. Frank
arrived in Washington,
e senators went into a confer
^ m Senator Wheeler's office,
% in Frederic L. Kergis, act
1 SOllcl Jor of the Department of
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«n
s
who wrote a letter to
J*nators, copies of which were
«by Sen. Wheeler to Chief
,/Sands, the Hon. Frank Ed
Uormer mayor of Butte, the
News and others, along
" of Sen. Wheeler's re
L'°. Justice Sands, along
. rT e ex Planatory letter" from
apartment of the Interior.
S reply of Sen. Wheeler to
.J^ce ^ an( L i s published
™ while the letter from the
(Continued
on page two)
AND DOOR
ENDS
CL2. Queers News.
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THOMAS TO OPEN
THE SOCIALIST
CAMPAIGN JULY 10
CHICAGO.— Norman Thomas,
Socialist candidate for President,
will oven the 1936 $100,000 Social
ist campaign fund drive at mid
night, July 10, with a 15 minute
broadcast from New York City
over the blue network of the Na
tional Broadcasting empany.
Groups of Socialists and sympa
thizers all over the country will
meet together in halls and in the
homes to hear the speech that will
be the first shot fired in the com
ing campaign.
"It is a challenging task," said
Clarence Senior, executive secre
tary of the Socialist party, "this
task of raising $100,000 for our
campaign. This amount may
seem small to Republicans and the
Democrats, but to workers who
must raise it with their dimes, it
looks enormous. The money as it
is raised will be used for more
radio broadcast, organizers, speak
literature, a campaign paper and
sound trucks.
"We have an immediate pressing
need," said Senior, "for money to
get us on the ballot in Florida,
Louisiana, Nebraska, North Caro
lina, Nevada, Oregon, South Da
kota and Illinois. Discriminatory
laws in these states make it nec
essary to work desperately during
the next few weeks in getting the
signatures. Money for expenses
in this work is needed imme
diately.
Enthusiastic letters from all
over the country are coming into
national campaign headquarters
giving plans for radio parties on
July 10 and telling of pledges and
(Continued on Page 8)
>>
BIG BUSINESS IS CHIEF DONOR
TO DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
BY JOHN HERLING
WASHINGTON, D. €.— The
bread cast upon the waters by the
Roosevelt administration is being
returned in the form of cookies to
the Democratic National commit
tee. The cake is yet to come.
In the financial report submit
ted to the clerk of the House of
Representatives by the Democratic
party, a list of contributors shows
that $302,550 worth of advertisiiig
space has been bought in the big
Democratic "Souvenir Handbook."
The workers of Remington-Rand,
Inc., who have been waging a bit
ter strike against the officials of
that hard-shelled company, may be
pleased to learn that their bosses
contributed $5,000 to the re-elec
tion of Mr. Roosevelt. Rubber
workers bounce up and down in
ecstatic joy at the knowledge that
both the Goodyear and Firestone
companies crashed through with
$3,125 each. Swift, Armour and
Cudahy also came across with a
lot of ham for the Democratic re
election picnic.
Among the non-industrialist giv
ers to the campaign chest of the
Democratic party is the United
Mine Workers of America, which
came across with $5,000.
Distillers and brewers led all
the rest in contributing $73,000 for
space; manufacturers of auto parts
and airplane manufacturers $27,
500; oil companies $16,000; the
rest scattered.
100 PER CENT
COOPERATION
Reserve, Mont.
July 2, 1936.
Producers News:
The last article in the Producers
News on the grasshopper situation
might leave the impression that
we, at this time, had no coopera
tion from either the county com
missioners, county agent, or WPA
administrator. •
This
is not correct. had
lOO per cent cooperation from
them all for which I wish to thank
them. . •
GONIUS LAURSEN.
Socialists held that the most ef
fective way to build a third party
in the interests of labor and the
countryside is to roll up a large
vote for Norman Thomas in the
November elections. Thomas said
that some Republicans "may be
taking a flyer" in backing Lemke
candidacy in the hope of drawing
away Roosevelt support.
The Communist Daily Worker
cites the Republican New York
Sun's interview with Coughlin, in
which the radio priest is quoted as
admitting that there is a strong
possibility that the Lemke ticket
will split Democratic and "pro
gressive" ranks and result in the
election of Gov. Landon, and as
making it "quite clear" that he
would prefer Landon to Roosevelt.
The Communist organ calls the
Union ticket "a camouflaged move
NEW THIRD PARTY
NOT FAVORED BY
THE LEFT GROUPS
ment that will aid the pro-Fascist
forces of this country" and "aid
NEW YORK.—A lack of en
thusiasm for the Lemke- O'Brien
presidenital slate was shown by
Socialists, Communists and Farm
er-Labor Party advocates, on read
ing the announcement of the Union
Party candidacies, backed by the
Father Coughlin and Gerald L. K.
Smith.
(Continued on Page 5)
A partial list of the contribu
tors follows:
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, $2,
500; W. P. Chrysler, $7,500; United
Mine Workers of America, $5,000;
Anheuser-Busch, Inc., $6,000; Roy
al Typewriter Co. $2,000; Union
Carbide Co. $2,500; Sinclair Re
fining Co. $2,000; Sears, Roebuck
Co. $2,000; Chevrolet Motor $2,
000; Elizabeth Arden Sales, Corp.,
$2,500; General Electric Co. $3,
125; Hiram Walker, Inc., $3,125;
Olds Motor Works $2,000; Youngs
Sheet and Tube Co., $2,500;
town
Associated American Distilleries,
Inc., $10,000; American Tobacco,
$2,500; S. H. Kress Co. $1,250;
Armour & Co. $2,500; R. J. Reyn
olds Tobacco Co. $3,126; Charms
Co. $600.
Calvert-Maryland Distilling Co.,
$2,500; Schenley Products Co., $7,
500; Penn. Mutual Insurance Co.,
Phila., $2,500; U. S. Steel Corpora
tion, $5,000; Joseph Schlitz Brew
ery Co., $2,500; Remington-Rand,
Inc., $5,000; Goodyear Tire & Rub
$3,126; Addressograph
Multigraph Co., $2,500; Continent
al Distilling Corp., $2,000; York
Ice Machine Corp., $2,000; Holland
Furnace Co., $2,500; Firestone Tire
and Rubber Co., $3,125; Cudahy
Packing Co., $2,500; Standard Oil
Co. of N. J., $2,000; Loose-Wiles
Biscuit Co., $1,250; Ingersoll-Rand
Co., New York, $3,125; Wabash
Portland Cement Co., $2,500; Swift
and Co., $2,500; David A. Schulte
Co., $2,600; Eastman Kodak Com
pany, $ 626 .
ber Co
WEEKLY
DROUTH GRIPS THE LAND, TORRID
SUN WITHERS THE GRAIN-TRI-COUNTY
MASS MEETNG CALLED JULY 15
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Mass Meeting Protests
Chiselesr" Drive
u
Local Minneapolis
Socialist Party Press Committee
BY ARTHUR HOPKINS
Special to Producers Ne
MINNEAPOLIS, June 27.—A
crowd that filled the larg General
Drivers Hall met last night to
protest the drive on the part of
the city relief administration to
weed out the "chisel er s" from the
relief rolls.
In two months of intensive in
vestigation by a corps of detec
tives and special "investigators",
who are in plain English,, stool
pigeons, the administration has
uncovered chiseling to the extent
of some $4,000, and convicted less
than a do^en of the so-called chis
elers, who in all cases are found
to be persons who augment their
starvation relief budget by earn
ing a few dollars on the side,
Selma Seestrom, ousto:' Friday
by Mayor Latimer from the Board
of Public Relief, was a speaker,
and told of the difficulties in pro
viding adequate relief when the
Board is controlled by the Citizens
Alliance who owns both the mayor
and the Board. If she had her
way, she said, she would prosecute
the relief and city off. ials for
malfeasance of office fc. ehe poor
care provided to the persons on
city and county relief in Minne
apolis.
L. P. Zimmerman, Stile Relief
(Continued on Pago 6)
s
THE COURT HOUSE
AND ITS COS'!
I
tes, and
All over the United
in most every county an.I muni
cipality in the State of Montana,
public buildings are be ig con
structed with the aid ol federal
grants. The United States gov
ernment makes these grants as a
relief policy to promote building
that will provide work a. 3 a part
of the general relief program.
All of the money allocated for
this purpose is going to be used
somewhere, if none corner to Sheri
dan county it will not moan that
any the less money
but that more will
where, only SHERIDAN C OUNTY
WILL NOT GET IT.
When the paying of this money
occurs, by the way of paying
national debt, if it is ever paid, the
people of Sheridan county will pay
its share, just as much if it does
not get its share as th - /
it does—whether we bu
house or not.
Facing this fact, ia i
sible, that Sheridan county g«t its
share? It surely is.
So why not build now a court
house that is needed, and needed
badly, and which must be built in
the near future, and build it when
the federal aid is available, which
will not always be?
It will be a very foolish and cost
ly act for the taxpayers of this
county not to vote the authoriza
tion of the bond issue, July 21.
The court house will beautify
the county seat; it will be a con
venience for the people of the
county of which Plentywood is be
coming more and more the center;
it will supply work now when that
work is so badly needed; and it
be built now cheaper for the
taxpayers than it will be possible.
So let's build when it is the
easiest to build, lets get our share!
Mr. Taxpayer, vote "yes" on the
court house bond proposal!
wil: be used,
be V ed else
the
will if
a court
vl
ot sen
can
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FAMINE FUTURE
FACES FARMERS
Holiday Takes Lead in Call
ing Mass Meeting, Wed
nesday, July 15, to Con
sider Action for Feed and
Work Relief
SEN, MURRAY INVITED
Drouth grips the land! The worst
drouth the west has ever known,
worse even than the drouth of
1931 and 1934. At present it does
not look as if anything will be
raised in this section at all.
The last rain accurred about a
month ago. There was generous
precipitation, but there was not
subsoil moisture to reinforce it. If
it had been followed by others as
copious, and the weather had re
mained cool the fine promises of
a crop would have materialized.
But the rain failed and the days
grew hotter and hotter, while the
grass withered and seared, and the
grain turned yellow, and the
forced heads blighted white. Yet
there was no respite in the torrid
heat nor the burning rays of the
sun.
The ranges are brown, the grass
dry and brittle. The water holes
are drying up. There is no hay
crop. The gardens are withering.
In fact, in the memory of man
the conditions were never so bad
as they are right now.
The farmers face the summer,
the fall, the winter, without crops,
without feed, and with no means
of securing food and clothing for
themselves or feed for their cattle
without relief.
Relief for the most part has been
cut off. The policy all spring and
summer has been to take as many
off relief as possible and as fast
as could be done.
Every excuse available has been
resorted to in the cutting of farm
ers and workers off relief.
The county commissioners have
not taken steps to secure WPA
projects that could have been se
• (Continued on Page 7
TOWNSEND RALLY
OCCURS TUESDAY
AT PLENTYWOOD
Townsend clubs from all parts
of northeastern Montana will as
semble in Plentywood, next Tues
day, July 7, for a grand Townsend
rally at which state organizers and
prominent speakers will be pres
ent. A sports program is also
scheduled.
Carl A. West, of Plentywood, in
charge of arrangements, states
that extensive plans are being
made for the day.
"Abe" Weaver, state area man
ager of the Townsend organiza
tion, and Harrison J. Freebourn,
will be here as well as other high
officials in the Townsend organ
ization.
The rally will be helo at the
Farmer-Labor Temple at 3:30.
Endorsement of candidates for
state office will be made.
A Call was issued this week to
all Townsend members to be here
for the rally.
The Antelope and Plentywood
band will furnish music during
the day. The sports program
which will include races for all
will start at 1:30 on Main street.
Cash prizes will be given for th©
winners of the races and contests.
Everyone is cordially invited to
come to Plentywood Tuesday.