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Producers News
Official Organ of Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
Plentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, July 10 th, 1936.
XIX. NO. 16.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
VOL.
Big Drouth Relief
Meeting
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County Commissioners Sabotage WPA Work
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Farmer-labor Temple
Wednesday, July 15 th
Relief Department State Heads Will Be Present To Ex
plain Program And Answer Questions—All With
Complaints Should Attend.
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There will be a three county
Drought Relief Mass Meeting un
der the auspices of the Holiday
Association and the Farmers
Union at the Farmer Labor Tem
ple. Plentywood, 3 o'clock p. m.
Wednesday, July 15, to consider!
and take necessary positive action
to meet the serious famine situa
tion existing in this area result
ing from the drouth.
When the meeting was called,
A. N. Wankel, State Secretary of
the Holiday Association, after
Henry Smith of the county execu
tive committee of the Farmers
Union had been consulted, wired
James E. Murray, inviting and
urging him to attend this import
ant meeting in person to consider
the situation with the people here.
This wire was printed in last
reeks issue of the Producers
N'ewg. Murray answered as fol
lows: *.
WIRE
. Gf eat Falls, Mon., July €, 1936.
A. N. Wankel
Farmers Holiday Assn.
Pkntywood, Mont.
Thanks for the invitation. Ap
;* c ] ate serious condition. Have
J?® of prior engagements but
J 1 .{P to £et to Plentywood if
Will also endeavor to
some representative of Fed
Agencies in connection with
Mef Program
intact
attend.
my secretary Regnier,
you soon.
; James E. Murray,
J 0 .*? 1, if 0 ]® 8 E. Murray maybe
S ? ederaI Relief function
Vt i . Present to make
«tu a til nd .'"yestiftation of the
n existing in this section
«xplain l Ut lne new reli ef setup,
Program, answer questions
riiot, C0 " 1 P la ints. All those
it . JJF* c °mplaints should make
% tiW 1 m? Posent and take
^ omrl W1 i! 36 considered, and
BesjL^ re J/ e f administrator,
matter * r , e l e ^ complaints, the
Jctivitip °* wholesale foreclosure
W n A °T the Federal Land
if durin £ these try
neie apfL W1 - considered, and
taken «? ° n in re & ard thereto be
f- y Ce - Also the tax fore
^Ä°. f the
SÄ«" of Sheridan
• fanner, ' oL hom ^r of the P°°r
an d workers of the
tarin,./ fbe unpaid taxes
? irnored ^ nch speculators
if some definite ac
'"deWi-'i 1 ®, • WI b be formulated
it &L thls poboy
Si 0 f» d that Tom Horse
SW 6 -n°. w > ad of the
^frWon, J. C.
m dup , bead of the
&CY» Department,
ÎJÿ of thp Û D uffy of Havre,
other~w V I e District WPA,
l Present f. ^ functionaries will
*hich th* e *P^ ain the activit
ies y dlrec t and to help
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SOIL CONSERVATION
The Sheridan County Soil Con
servation Association received a
copy of the telegram from Mr.
George E. Farrell, Director, Wes
tern Region, relative to cutting
hay and pasturing certain crop
acreages in various emergency
drought counties, which includes
the County of Sheridan. Said tele
2 -ram reads as follows
g am s as follows.
* d 1 ?? specified section 1, part
4, Bulletin one revised, except
corn, harvested hay or pasture
regarded neutral crops specified
sections 2 A. B. C, D. part four
bulletin one revised. Nurse crop
cut for hay conserving. Lrop
land not reclassified it seeded
emergency, forage crop when
cut for hay or pasture. All pro
vided soil building allowance
does not exceed one dollar
times acreage equal 15 percent
soil depleting base all provided
written request by each farmer
filed County Committee request
ing these provisions."
A more definite interpretation
would be; all crops, except com,
harvested for hay 0 r pastured will
be classified as neutral, therefore,
overseeded acres may be cut for
hay or pastured.
Nurse crops may now be cut
for hay and will be classed as soil
conserving
Hay CANNOT be cut from the
ss-äj; it s» sür«£
age be pastured.
Crop land on which emergency
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EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF THE FARMERS UNION
Convention at Brush Lake,
Monday July 6; About 200
Delegates And Visiting
Members From Several Lo
cals And Counties Attend.
FINE CHIEF SPEAKER
fhe Eighth Annual Convention
of the Sheridan County Farmers
Unionoccurred at the Brush Lake
Pavilion on Monday, July 6.
About 200 delegates and visiting
members represented the several
Farmers Union Locals of the coun
ty were present and participating.
Senator C. W. fine of
County North Dakota, was
principle speaker. r ^?5 re * ^fp nnr ,
business session in the *
presided over byCounty Ch ,
KTÄrS
BO Report« of the condition of the
her
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Political Pot
Now Bubbles
Polk Picks Candidates Busy
In The Hustings — Pros
pects Not So Bright—Polk
Somewhat Worried.
CLEAN COURTHOUSE
MOVEMENT GROWING
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Although the surface
seems
f" 10 ®* an . d '? lm . underneath
-J ew ln P 0 ^ 1 ??}. pot mu n
Shcndan county is bubbling. Ihe
situation that seems to be gener
bodes Harry Polk and his
pwk candidates disaster,
ab sentee political boss
,^k eri <ian c ju nt y> 18 disturbed
T^ S * lot f
time ln Plentywood. He seems to
sense his doom in the primaries
July 2 l and in the ides of the
coming November.
His nicely laid plans seem to
have gone awry.
Harry, for the past several
years has been making himself a
bag of money saving Sheridan
count from the reds and securing
f or himself a juicy printing con
tract, the profits from which he
exports to North Dakota. But this
old g a g now thread bare and
transparent. It won't stand the
strain again, so Harry is minus an
effective slogan this political cam
paign—his only hope now is to
win again by smart and slick me
thods. But prospects are not prom
ising.
Harry, who is a Republican ov
er in North Dakota, is a Democrat
in Montana. He aims to be a Re
publican Boss in Williams coun
ty and the Democrat Boss in
Sheridan County. This requires
flexibility, but Harry i s the char
ming young man on the flying
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opines
wmmn
that the democrat is the
ig ticket in Sheridan coun
( Continued on Page 6)
»Farmers Union and its progress
and accomplishments of the last
year were made. Officers were
elected for the ensuing year and
vital resolutions were adopted.
The educational program was
furnished by the Juniors, consist
ing of songs, recitation and di
logues involving activities. It was
splendid program reflecting
credit to Mrs. Andrew Dahl,
Mrs.
a
great m I
the county Junior leader.
Dahl, herself delivered a talk on
cooperation stressing the fact that
is almost impossible to build ef
ficient cooperatives under the ca
italistic system. ^
Gonius Laursen speaking in the
business session upon the issue of
one of the resolutions also pointed
out the fact of the existing anta
gonism between the vooperative
idea and private business conduc
ted for profits. He stated that co
operatives cannot function well or
be secure under the capitalist sys
tem.
the best
The convention was
Farmers Union County Convention
(Continued on Page 7
Play Political Football
with Misery of Citizens
Refuse To Co-operate With W. P. A. Administrator And
Engineers In Supervising And Directing Work Oq
Projects—Insist On Designating Workers And Using
Heavy Machinery.
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W. P. A. REQUIRES I
MUCH EQUIPMENT
L. S. Olson, County WPA Ad
ministrator reports from the WPA
office that work relief will be a
vailable for many more farmers
than was originally anticipated,
The chief difficulty however, he
states, is lack of equipment,
There will be many fresnoes and
slips needed and many of these
instruments are, in the hands of
farmer? throughout the county,
Mr. Olson calls upon all farmers
to check up on such equipment and
report to him at once at the WPA
office. Such cooperation hp says
will aid in allaying the distress
of the farmers in Sheridan ooun
Administrator Says Work
Handiacpped For Want of
Slips and Fresnoes—
Calls For All Available.
ty.
INVESTIGATION
OF FORT PECK
Fort Peck Federal Union 20192,
July 2, 1936.
A committee consisting of two
army officers, two Washington la
bor union officials and one dele
gate, elected by the State Feder
ation of Labor. (B. I. Steinmetz,
Great Falls, President Cascades
Trades and Labor Assembly) will
investigate Fort Peck. Efforts will
probably be made to stall off the
investigation until after the pri
maries. Senator Murray's secre
tary said to Tryon, our delegate to
the State Federation convention.
For God's sake let us get elected
before you raise all this hell."
The Federal union will propose
to the mass meetings and to the
Valley County Trades and Labor
Council that we all demand that:
1. The investigating committee
hold its hearings in the Recreation
Hall.
2. That some hearings be at
night when the largest number of
workers is off.
3. That delegates (elected) wit
nesses be allowed to testify for
workers who are afraid to expose
themselves. Such elected witness
es to swear in each case that they
took the facts personally from a
worker on the project.
4. That at least one hearing be
held in Glasgow so that workers
who have been beaten up by the
Fort Peck police or otherwise run
off the project may testify in safe
ty
5. That the committee ..demand
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MAY LOSE W. P. A.
APPROPRIATIONS
The Board of County Commis
sioners is sabotaging WPA work
in Sheridan County by refusal to
cooperate with the WPA Admin
istrator and Engineers. While the
famine situation in the county
grows more desperate, while the
misery of the workers worsen the
County Comimssioners play cheap
and petty politics and devote their
energy to gratify personal spite on
the one hand, and to securing the
control of WPA jobs for political
purposes of the other.
It appears that the WPA work
in each county is based upon pro
jects sponsored by the Board of
County Commissioners; that is the
| county proposes certain projects to
the WPA and if accepted by the
WPA the county appropriates 20
per cent of the cost and the WPA
provides federal relief funds for
the remaining. The WPA manages
the work and the workers on the
projects must be taken from the
relief list. The designation of the
project and the acceptance of the
same is based upon the recom
mendation and sponsoring of the
county board, the surveying and
recommending of the same by the
j county surveyor, and upon the
general local supervision of the
work on the projects by the coun
ty surveyor. The requirements are
the same everywhere.
Commissioners May Call Wheeler
County
Foard has sponsored some jobs
and made the necessary levy to
inance the 20 per cent charge
able to the county, it has refused
to put county surveyor Robert
Wheeler on the job to do the work
required of the county surveyor by
the WPA ,nor to appropriate the
money to pay his salary. Also, the
board insist upon having the work
done by heavy machinery using
the county equipment,
by man and horse power as re
quired by the WPA in order to
furnish work for the needy. The
be: rd stubbornly refuses * to co
operate in these matters and thus,
it is said, is jeopardizing the en
tire PWA work program in Sheri
drn County.
Admimstrtors Demand Wheeler
rather than
The WPA Administrators and
E 1 gineers demand that County
surveyor Robert Wheeler be order
ed to work doing the things that
the WPA administrators require
to le done by the county survey
or, Lut this the county board
reasons of its own, refuses to do,
and this refusal constitutes a a
botage and delay of the WPA
work in this county. It means that
work that now should be under
way is not, and that workers
that should be employed are not,
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