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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
TOM AYRES RUNS FOR
CONGRESS

Tom Ayres, editor of The Dakota Free Press. of
Aberdeen, South Dakota, is contesting in the Re
publican primaries against Royal C. johnson, con-
gressman-at-large for South Dakota
Ayres is veteran battler-a hard-hitting cham
pion OF the interests of the producing classes He
is an old-timer the hustings; was an active
supporter of the Populist Party and participated
IN every minority movement on the political field.
IN the interest of the common people having been
a leader IN the Farmer-Labor Party a few wears
ago.This year, owing to the collapse of the Farm
er-Labor Party in South Dakota, Tom is fighting
for the Republican Party nomination against the
present incumbent whose record in congress Is
one OF unwavering support of the Hoover admin.
lstration-the administration of Wall Street.
Tom Ayres edits the most militant weekly pa.
per In South Dakota. He wields trenchant nen.
His style is pithy and he packs terrific WALTON.
bis letters to Hoover, flaying the president for
his reactionary policies and particularly Toms
lampooning of the prohibition farce make inter
estng and instructive reading.
While The Producers News would rather saA
Tom Ayres leading a fight for congress on the
platform of class party, nevertheless it sincere
ly hopes that the farmers of South Dakota viii
give him their enthusiastic support. because his
past record, his sincerity and his LOYALTY to the
farmers are guarantees that they viii have voice
IN congress that win always be raised in their be
half against the financial interests that have con-
trolled every administration since the DAYS of Lin
coin.
Tom Ayres has both the ability and the courage
to represent South Dakota in Congress as that
state has not been since the days of Senator Pet
tigrew.
Hers is Toms platform:
l. Drastic legislation to prevent a monopoly of
the food supplies of the nation by the chain store
system.
2 Government sale and distribution of pure
liquor at cost.
8. Repeal of the volstead Ae&
T. Outlaw gambling in grain and other food
stuffs on the Chicago Board of Trade.
s. constitutional amendment to permit con.
scrption of wealth in time of war.
The farmers of Montana hope that Ayres wins
in South Dakota
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

purpose of the bill. The department IN otner
words wants to help the great industrial concerns
to turn, overnight, the making OF automooiies'
typewriters, sewing machines and machine tools
into the making of munitions
But the war department and the Chamber OF
Commerce do not want 30 bother about the smaA
concerns with no capacity worth consideration In
war time" Only the larger autmobile manutac-
turers and machine makers are to be urged 20
turn over a corner to making munitions for lew
months at time. By spending S5OOO,OeO in five
years for this special educational purpose. as au
thorized by the bill, the Secretary of War can
thus help the capitalists prepare for future war
profits even if there is little present profit from
educational orders.
"Making munitions is much more difficult and
complicated than turning out trucks or tractors or
pleasure cars or typewriters," explains Nations
Business. Cannon must be quite as accurate as
watches. Shells must be perfect"
"War is now a fight of factories, battle OF
machines. -. The nation whose manufacturing
plants can most quickly be tuned up to quantity
production of cannon, shells, searchlghts, fuses,
gun carriages, and whatnot, will win victory"
But Government plants in the United States
have the capacity to fill only from five to ten per
cent of our munition needs in war against
other major power or combination of powers" Pri-
vate munitions plants do not add enough for
time needs. $50 the matter comes down to the
large, efficient, we'll managed Establishments that
in time of peace make automobiles typewriters,
sewing machines, multgraphs street cars, ma
chine tools and other articles of ordinary CONNER
cial usefulness. In war the victory viii go ac-
cording to the way such plants have been taught
beforehand their wartime jobs"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
capitalism and Individual liberty
on the other"


capitalism and individual liberty
on the other"
lIlllIl
Smell scratched his head, irving
to catch the drift, but gave it up.
And when Sirovich pleaded with
him, before the House, for an o.
K. from his rules committee for
the Sirovich old age pension bill,
Smells eyelids dropped again.
Give me liberty or give me
DEATH" shouted Sirovich, "No man
here loves his country more than
l. There never was a time wher
would not give my life for her
A new war is already knocking a
the door Of all industry. The mex
great conflagration will be tn,
world revolution. However, a
long as Soviet Russia is conten
to conduct its experiment within
its own borders and does not at
tempt to proselytize the rest o
the world, its overeignty should b
respected"
And in answer to a queStio
the wet Sirovich charged indig
nantly that the clergy are deniet
in Russia, the right to vote.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
REVOLUTION! WHATSA
MATTER, MIR. GREEN?

Washington - FTP - William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, came before
the unemployment subcommittee
of the Senate commerce commit
tee, April l, TO endorse the gen
eral principles of the Wagner bills
for securing better unemployment
statistics, better employment Of
fees and an emergency reserve
for construction of public works
IN time of unemployment crisis.
He began by showing that unem-
ployment had cost American
workers S1,OOO,OOO,OOO in loss of
wages and purchasing power in
the past three months. He ended
by warning the committee that
unless American employers show
ed a more helpful attitude the
government would finally be faced
by the alternative of unemploy-
ment insurance or revolution"
This last ominous expression of
opinion was not made until Sen
Hiram Johnson, presiding, had in
vited it by numerous suggestive
questions as to what ultimate So
luton Green found for the plight
OF men thrown out of jobs and in
dustries. 1t became evident that
Johnson had been studying the
question of unemployment insur-
ance and hoped that Green would
venture to endorse that social pol.
icy. Green was not eager to sug.
gest solution. But when johnson
had assured him that mere gath,
ering of statistics, or re-distribut
ing of work with shop or indus
try, would not save jobs tina
modern machinery had taken ava,
"a statement which Green hat
first made-Green declared that
was up to the employers or to tn
government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
friday: April is. 1870

don't know" Now !; *n a to 5l
an organization 18th ! the head a.
aOOG Tsn sixty per cent T-t 81 ., eontnais
do towards G Temedvi6mDo know " What ss' 2
4 fin1e wrongs I think i tne2e sc@-
take notice. mass 70 sit Up -
Now. Charlie. # :.
me writing you ' a Al rs no 9S.l need Of
because you know fbs 1ese Ines
better than I do. We snSse things
TINS last one and also E especially
mussen's letters. All Az mans mans Rs
nave a tendency to MALI SEoSe ), things
pie class conscious and ' - ne pa
we we vii Tdao, never get anywhere he oo Ss
we become class conscious l1S'e Td
sending out my heartfsTitt an
TINS to those drouth-stri5cEss!s Tn'
mer s, OF Daniels and Va1 ,sAs n "a.
as Sheridan. Knowins -'s 3 as vel
t!ce meeted out to them =" s Mus
! seed Loan Bill which had y q
with them little hone e4a al. pace
> 1t would be just Temporary 'n0Os
Yours truly.
JAMES N. 0STpv
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

world market. Thereby it would
upset the commerce of capitalist
countries, and the world would go
to war and crush the Soviet state,
and the Soviets would be duly
crushed. Simple. But waitl
There was a catch in that predic-
ton. because DR.. Sirovich also
declared that the idea of Commu-
nism could not be suppressed by
force. Indeed, he opposed the i'm
prisonment of Communists in this
country. He would deport al
their paid imported propagandists
but he warned the House that
America itself would be rapidly
undermined by Communism unles:
it "set its own house in order" By
granting social insurance, SOLVING
the problem of unemployment
abolishing employment of children
and checking the tendency of cap
italism to form big business mer
gers.
"The mergers of big business,
he cried, "are false to the funda
mental philosophy of economi,
capitalism. They tend to concen
trate the functions of production
distribution, exchange and con
sumption of wealth in a few hand
and usurp all those powers b,
completely destroying all compe
tition and reducing the middl
class to perjury and want. Tn
best friends of Communism in thi
country are the promoters of thes
giant mergers. They are prepa1
ing fertile soil for Soviet propa
ganda. They are weakening on
national resistance in the inevi
table conflict that will come be
tween Communism and Sovietisr
on the one side, and democracy
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
Ostby Denounces Fake
Cooperative Leaders
z McCabe, Mint.
April Is, 1880.

Z McOaDe, mnI.
April 13, 1880.
Dear Charlie:
l am sorry that l am not able
to be present at the protest meet
ing today. 1 am having a bad
attack of the grippe that has
nearly done me up. l found it al
most impossible to make the trip
in my condition. l hope you had
good meeting and accomplished
some good. Personally l feel that
we are just making beggars of
the labor and farming classes by
unfolding such men as Wheeler
and the leaders of these farm or
CARNATIONS. For instance the
leadership of The Farmers Union
and The Wheat Pool come out in
practically every issue of their pa
pers upholding the action of the
farm board which you can readily
see has a tendency to mislead all
the farmers and workers, ia
soothe their minds from the &C.
tual problems they have to face
Delaying for years the building Dt
real militant organization. How.
ever it seems to me we lack lead
ership to build a real militant or
ganizatiDn. So far our leader
have been lead astray over littl,
petty things and others have turn
ed out to be nothing but oppor
tunists, although 1 am still i
hopes some time in the near fut
ure we will be able to build a rea
farm organization, one that won
: camouflage and fool around wit
/ capitalistic politicians and fax
. farm leaders. Until such a farr
organization is built am savin
' what little energy and ability
5 have, as / can see nothing to b
Y gained by continually fooling tn
? mass. You will remember whe
!. you launched the Farmer-Labc
|, Party how it was lambasted in I'll
; capitalistic press. The same thin
: happened to the Progressive Fa-
mers when it was launched. l ca
{" remember reading in the Congre
: siOnal Record, some congressma
c took up half a day pointing oil
! the dangers of this newly launcl
/, ed organization that was launche
+ in Minneapolis. That is some col
IS trast to what we find now, ever
Y capitalistic organization in Il
: country including the farm boal
e are boosting for these fake COO
lie eratives.
is A short time ago l was liste
;e ing to McFadden, president of Il
r Canadian Wheat Pool, speaking
A. the radio just shortly after h
II return from Europe. He said
l. part, at is a deplorable conditit
E when actually there are million
m of people starving in the wor
=, when there is plenty of food f
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

Washington-(FP) = Rep Siro-
vich of the 14th New York dis
trict, which lies east of 7th Ave
nue. between 4th and 18th Streets.
approaching a hot campaign
against his predecessor, Nathan
Perlman, delivered a catch-all pa.
triotic speech, with a few sugges-
tons Of reform thrown in, to some
80 members of the House, April 8.
Applause fro mthe dozen Demo-
Gratis came when he mentione,
Woodrow Wilson and the Ameri-
can home. Applause from Repub-
lcan front-bench listeners came
when he declared that democracy
was a guardian of capitalism, and
that communism was the enemy of
religion. Nobody applauded very
loudly, however, when Sirovich.
who formerly was the head of a
hospital, pleaded for old age pen
sions, unemployment insurance.
abolition of child labor and the
stopping of big business domino
ton.
This had been advertised as a
speech exposing the menace of
communism. Pastor Eaton of
New Jersey and the General
Electric was on hand. Chairman
Smell of the rules committee sat
at ease, waiting for revelations
Mrs. Oldfield of Arkansas gazed
anxiously at the orator and an
plauded when he spoke of God
| and country. Two Tammanv
members waited to ask questions
about religious persecution. A bic
scarlet flower in Sirovich's lane
seemed to portend a sensation
But the event was disappointing
| All that Sirovich revealed was
that he had read carelessly a loi
of newspaper dispatches from Rms.
STA. SKINNED through a schoo'
history of the ancient and rnoderr
world, and then planted a uolitic.
al program on this foundation
However, he predicted a worIs
war bv 1910.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

HIS DOLE" is
| $4,000 A YEAR

This bitterness of big capital to-
ward organized labor in its con-
servative Federation, Green ar
gued, places the responsibility for
solving the problem of unemnlov-
ment upon the industries and On
the government. Since EMPLOYERS
have not planned their production
to avoid seasonal shut-downs and
consequent dismissal of greet
masses of workers, no prneress
toward stabilizing employment bss
been made. The shocks of rec -rr,'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
SUCCOR FOR THE UNEMPLO DYED
SUCKER

The following piece of Saline on the unemploy-
ment problem is taken from the Mclean County
Indepedent North Dakota) of which ]. P. l.. Kelly
is editor There is more food for thot in this
short editorial than in three thousand-word hon.
lily by Calvin Coolidge or a lengthy bromide by
Dr. Hoover on prosperity" When the capitalist
system throws the workers on the streets to
starve, the next order of business is to have the
police club them to death. Mr. Kelley's excellent
contribution reads:
zone CLEAN of hope arises out of the
gloom surrounding the unemployment sit
uation. When too many people begin to
hear their stomachs flap against their
backs, they will then be convinced that
they actually are hungry. Desperation
and revolution will ensue, and forces of
deprivation and justice will find it neces-
sary to employ a veritable army of po-
hcemen and strike breakers, equipped
with the necessary CUTS and instruments
of warfare and torture to successfully
break into the bread lines and beat and
terrify the strikers into subjectiUn
"In order to accomplish this demand of
Justice, it will be necessary to be well
equipped, and there seems to be demand
at this time for preparedness campaign
which will open manufactures for the
making of pOicemen's billies Especially
adapted for use women and girls)
badges of authority, sawed-off shotguns
with bayonet attachments double-dealing
repeating revolvers, iron-toed boots, brass
knuckles, ar1nored tanks, policeman size,
adapted for use in crowded industrial dis
tricts, steel-tpped shovels for grave dig
gers, and many other devices that viii be
absolutely necessary to quell the insurrec-
tons
"a school for policemen and manufac-
turtles for their equipment. What a bright
outlook for many of unemployed"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
Hot From the Manure pa.

Outlook, Mortan.
The Producers News, '''A
brentwood, Montana.
To the Editor:
overcome by the spectacle =.
the Producers News apnTS.;...1
decency, l am unable to v Tria'
long a letter as l ought 10 e
this week, but shall mereIv s ..ls
YOU a small sample of the necS ~
type Of decency which Won =.
able to appreciate. Ycu IN
probably accept my apology =.
the brevity of this note aloTTS; v ~
my thanks for the excelle1, :
somewhat limited. publicity wbit5
you are giving me.
You Saw 1t, John
Some time ago one of row
scrlbblers made the remark re-
out in the country Omevbs-.
someone was finding things rstbs,
dull and complaining that an l.
had with which to pass the tina
was castor oil and the Plentyvoo5
Herald. The point of the joke is
little obscure.
Hasn't Worked Much Since
You will be glad to Learn thst
l have finally found a reasonable
use for the Producers News Wbn
l was a boy down on the al
homestead, my father, who rsised
! dairy cows, used to keep a larve
) black-and-white Holstein sire sS5
if l remember correctly this Srs
sometimes had to be kept in tie
!: barn. This necessitated a period
I ic cleaning of the stall which h
: occupied, and l remember distne
: ly receiving orders from Dad /,
: take the stuff out to the gzrda
s as it made splendid fertilizer. !,
e If can procure enough Oh
/ copies of the Producers News
= expect to raise a record garlg
n this year.
t Should Be COngenial AtmOsphGs
Il Unless the darned stuff sprOgh
t to many stink weeds.
n If l were a cartooniSt | sh0lE
re draw a picture of you as 70
m would appear if caught in The q
g of approaching decency. It vsIs
J represent you proving around, !
d the dead Of night, among Wa
As Captain Billy would call II
II smokehouses of PlentywOOd, b
Or gering lovingly over each ne
ne smell. But l am not a cartoons
lg This letter is short. A copy
r it goes to the Herald.
an Very truly yours,
s. JOHN A. STAHLBERG
an Editors Note: We have s1
ut extra copies of the issues in WI;
h your letters appeared, and sh'a
ed be especially good for fertllu
n purposes. We shall be glad
~ let YOU have some if You shcS
he your avowed purpose to penor
I'd useful labor. We are prepared
p 90 to great lengths to help y
become an asset to society inSa
n of a liability
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
Very truly yours,

Helena-UP - Montana Sc!
men have received over SNeN
in pre-shearing advances, TO esN
from the Montana Wool COUPE
ative association. Largest on
was made to the Manger COMPANY
for s1S,700.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
ANOTHER LEGGE BUG

ANOTHER LEGGE BUG
Then Chairman Legge turned loose another bug.
Just listen:
"Diversification of crops is one of the
solutions for Dverproduction, and Legge
Thursday recognized this fact by Sug-
costing that many farmers can profitably
turn their wheat fields into pastures for
several years.
"Plant grass" he proposed, "and raise
stock. The stockmen are the men who
are making money nowadays"
Fine, isn't it?
Let everybody go into the cattle business, ant
thus make sure that, in a few years. there shoulC
be so great supply of cattle that the packfn,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
SOME BUGS UNDER CHIPS

Rv Sam Teagarden, Editor Denton, Mont. Recorder
BUGS IN LEGGES HAT
Chairman Legge has been carrying quite an as
sortment of bugs under his hat as is indicated Dy
his interview in the daily papers of Friday morn
ing last. Hear him:
acreage is being reduced and farmers
are Joining the co-operatives" he asserted.
It is to grin, broadly!
Intention to plant statistics, already given out
bv the department of agriculture at Washington,
show Just the contrary to the whole wheat crop,
winter and spring. The combined acreage bids
fair to show an increase, although small one.
Legge's statement about farmers joining the
co-operatives would have been true month earl-
er. The payment to co-operatives of a higher
price than the milling trust was paying for wheat,
caused nationwide impulse among farmers to
get into the band wagon" In addition, private
owners of small lines of elevators began hastily
organizing farmer co-operatives and selling out to
them. Even in Montana this plan was being
worked.
Then suddenly the whole movement check
ed and given a decided setback, by the withdraw
al of the special price, for cooperative wheat.
The general market went swiftly to lower levels,
until a point was reached that was satisfactory to
the milling trust.
Then the Farm Board gave the cooperative
movement another kick in its stomach by sharply
reducing the loan values, previously pledged by
the board to continue until June 80, next.
And again, very naturally, the milling trust SET
the price pegs few notches lower!
So that keeping out of arms reach by the Farm
Board is precisely what grain growers are "doine
nothing else but"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18
I I I I I I I

This world war, as DR.. Sirovich
explained, would be due 30 the
success of the Soviet Union in pro-
ducing and exporting a huge sur-
plus of industrial goods, within
the next 5 TO 10 years, 10 the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

Editors Communications for
publication in this column must
be not longer than 500 words.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-18

trust could buy at its own low prices, just the
millers' trust is now buying wheat at IT'S own
low prices!
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-29
Indians Fond of Water

The bureau of American ethnol-
ogy says that the Indians were re-
markable swimmers, and some of
the tribes were in the water as
much as the primitive Polynesians.
They swan six or seven different
ways, including treading water, and
would dive to the bottom of deep
water. A common institution among
the Indians was the sweat BATH
They would sweat in a spe-
cially constructed sweat house
which was closed up to keep the
heat in, and, when they thought
they had sweated enough, would
suddenly run outdoors, giving war
whoops, throw themselves into the
cold water, and after a while re-
enter the sweat house to dry off,
since they had no towels.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-29
What Money Really Is

Farran Zerbe, collector of the
Chase National banks collection of
the monies of the world, received
the best definition of money he
ever heard years ago from street
urchin.
II was lecturing at a school one
day." he said, land as I was leav-
ing, one of the small boys who had
listened to me was accompanying
me out of the building. AS he
seemed a bright little fellow,
asked him what money was.
"His quick response was this !:
Money is what the other duffer
takes for what you want There
it is in a NUTSHELL
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-29
Early Recreation Grounds

The earliest form of public pre-
serve devoted to outdoor recreation
in the territory of the present
United States was a city park, Bos-
ton common, acquired in 1854. The
next example of public action of
this kind covered a field related
to that at present usually held by
state agencies-the reservation to
the people for Fishing and fowling"
by an ordinance of the Massachu-
sets Bay colony in 1641 of great
ponds" water surfaces of ten acres
or more The first state park of
larger size set apart primarily for
recreation was one which is now
a famous national park-Yosemite
Congress coded the valley and
mile wide border around it to Cal
ifornia as state park in 1865. It
was later returned to federal con-
troll.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-29
Bit of Old New York

Thirty or forty years ago what
was popularity known as 'The Ten
derloin" centered about Herald
square. 1t was the part Of the
town where the night life reached
its climax and burned most fierce
ly. Everybody Of any account WIS.,
tied the square, if only to see the
two mechanical workmen atop the
Herald building strike the hour of
midnight on the faithful old clock
that suddenly became illuminated
in weird red glow. Not far away
was the West Thirteenth street po-
lice station, quite the busiest pre-
cinct in the city. From sunset to
sunrise a thin, steady stream of
humanity flowed into the station
house.-New York Times.