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state, Minnesota and North Dakota.
This group is organized both for econ
Omic and political action It's num-
bers and membership lists are kept
secret and when it endorses a candi-
date for office the fact is kept secret
so that if perchance it takes a poll
tical licking the fact remains un-
known. Meanwhile, it arranges with
local merchants to give all card-carry-
ing members a discount when they
come to town for purchases.
Stores in Plentywood, the county
seat, are said to grant such a dis
count. In this way, members are
guaranteed savings amounting to
more than the membership dues. Of
ten the council steps in and persuades
a banker to hold off on a mortgage
foreclosure against a farmer.
Oscar Collins Party
When a court ruled that a Sheri-
dan county mOrtgage-holder was en-
titled to portion of the debtors CROP,
crowd of the boys went right out
to he debtors farm, threshed his crop
and hauled it away and sold it before
the court could enforce the decree. An
ex-sheriff, sent by a court with pa
pers containing bad tiding to a strait
ened farmer, was seized and threaten
ed with a moose. After a promise not
to return, a pint of castor oil was
poured down his throat as a "lesson." !"
He has since been known as Castor
Oil Collins"
''They raise hell with bankers who
try to foreclose on farmers" says a
man who knows Sheridan county and
admires its people.
The Sheriff
The county sheriff has a splendid
reputation for catching border rum
runners, but he is hard on would-be
farm hands who don't carry the red
card of the l. w. w. Incidentally,
some of the big farmers in Montana
prefer /. w. w. workers, insisting that
although they demand reasonable
hours and wages they aren's as shift
less as the ordinary nOn-union hand.
In Plentywood they have erected a
Farmer-Labor Temple, which is a
community affair where are held all
county events from dances and ladies'
aid meetings to prize fights The
KraZy Kats Can orchestral plays for
heAiANAlASs 1A1N Ll1C DOl0itCNlhO VI MUS
COW elated when Chinese peasant
communists win military victory?
The "News"
Not bit more than the good folks
of Sheridan county. The Producers
News of PlentywOod which "goes in
to every home in the county," ban
ners the report in an eight-column
headline and you can't find in that
weekly more than two or three other
items of outside news. The Producers
News receives the services of the
Federated Press, which serves radical
labor news to socialist or communist
or labor papers. 1t delivers horren-
dous blasts at Montana's two "reac-
tlonary" senators, Wheeler and Tom
Walsh, accusing Wheeler of being the
hireling of the Anaconda Copper Co.,
and Walsh the servant of Standard
Oil
That 'Walrus" Mustache
1t prints an old photo of Walsh
withthe caption, "The famous Walrus
mustache, worn by the senior senator
before he met Mrs. Borden Hartman,
is shown in the above picture. Sena-
tor Walsh, like Samson of old, has
lost much Of his political virility since
its edges were shOrn."
What Majority Wheeler in 1922
Sheridan divides its vote in the
primaries between the republican con-
servative ticket and the farmer-labor
radical ticket. 1t knows its political
onions, and wastes no time when
democratic candidates up for state
wide vote appear on the ticket
Wheeler, for instance, got II votes in
the last senatorial primary and then
carried the county by a majority of
more than 800 votes!
Next November it probably will
vote against Wheeler, the reaction
ary." Radicals in Butte, Great Falls
and elsewhere may join in the anti
Wheeler movement, but many of
Wheeler's friends believe that this
will be much more than offset by the
attraction of reassured conservatives
to his banner. Mere progressives will
all vote for Wheeler.