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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
Mrs. Skov Nielsen,
Prominent Dagmar Lady,
Died Last Friday Mite

Mrs. SlOv Nielsen, prominent
Dagmar pioneer lady, died at her
home in the Dagmar community,
located four miles west of the
Dagmar church, last Friday mite,
August 18th, age AZ years last
May, the 18th.
Mrs Nielsen was born in Den
mark, where she lived until she
was thirty years of age, when she
was married to Skov Nielsen sew
enteen years ago, and left imme-
diately after marriage for Ameri-
ca, and the Dagmar community,
where they located on a homestead
and where they have resided con-
tinuously ever since.
Mrs. Nielsen was born in Den
from the Minot clinic in June,
somewhat improved in health af-
ter treatment, but being a large
and fleshy woman, suffering from
high blood pressure and kidney
trouble, the hot weather of the
past several weeks was more than
she could endure, tho she was un-
der the care of trained nurse the
last weeks of her life.
The pioneer wife and mother
was a very pleasant person and
very popular lady. She left be-
sides her husband, Skov Nielsen,
three sons and one daughter, the
youngest, son of eight years. her
Oldest child, a son, died in infan-
cy, to mourn her untimely death.
She also leaves her aged mother,
a lady of SO years, and a brother,
in Denmark. Her father died
when she was very young.
The funeral, which was one of
the largest ever held in the Dag
mar community, was held Sunday
at the beautiful family residence
of the Neilsens at 200 o'clock and
at the Danish Lutheran church of
which she was a member, at 800
o'clock, Rev. Larsen, the local
pastor officiated.
The pail bearers were all old
nelgnDors as roIIows. Henrik Hem
riksen, Nels Malgaard, Knute
Spaabeck, Claus Jensen, Hjomdal
Madsen, and Emil CHRISTENSEN.
Interment was made at the
Dagmar cemetery.
The funeral was arranged and
directed by the Fulkerson-N Nelson
Mortuary of Plentywood.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
Washington Senator
Denies He's Author of
Five and Ten" Law

Seattle, Aug. 31.-Denial of the
authorship of the ''five and ten"
law, providing severe penalties for
liquor law violations, was made
by United States Senator Wesley
L. Jones today.
The senator said he introduced
the measure into congress at the
request of the department of JUS
tice. "The idea did not originate
with me-" he declared. "The bill
was drawn by and came from the
department of Justice"
The states senior senator ex-
pressed his views on his return
from his vacation at his summer
home near Wenatchee.
Declaring his pronounced drv
views had not been changed. SEN
ator Jones said if the state should
ask through its legislature for a
constitutional amendment. he
would vote to submit it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
Professional Blackleg
Gets Ride to Pen

Kenosa, Wis.-FP-Jimmy Bis
cardi, former Allen-A gunman-
strikebreaker, will spend the next
four to seven years in the peniten-
tiary for robbery.
When Jimmy finished his SER
vices for Allen-A, he shipped to
Gloucester, Mass, to strongarm
strikers there and then tried to
inject himself into the Aberle ho-
siery strike in Philadelphia. Lat
er he returned to Kenosha to en-
ter an allied avocation, that of
beating up robbery prospects while
confederates picked the unfortun-
atcs pockets. Before his trial he
tried to sell to union officials a
confession duplicating Allen-A Of
ficials in direct order to beat up
hosiery workers organizers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05

ne eth Annual Sheridan County Farmers picnic will
occur at Brush Lake Sunday Septenber oh bL Ill
be the closing big day at the famous Brush Lake Resort
his farmers picnic has been annual affair in Sheridan
county since the of l9l8 and outside of two
sons has always been staged Brush Lake The biggest
crowds ever congregated in Northeastern Montana or
northwestern North Dakota have gathered at these an
nua picnics in the past at some Of which there has be
between seven and eight thousand people Some of the
figures which have appeared the platform at these pic
mes are men of national reputation such as Sen LYNN
Frazier, Sen B. K. Wheeler Wellington D. Rankin lean
nette Rankin VIM. F. Dunno, Sen. j. W. Anderson,
Stanley Clark, Robert Burns Martin and manv others
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
Bv KARI, PRETSHOLD

Oklahoma City-FP-Under the
leadership of the Farmers Union
of Oklahoma and Kansas, thDus-
ands of landowners in Oklahoma,
Texas, New Mexico and Kansas
are practicing a new form of CO.
operation. Those four states COM
prise the Mid Continent oil area.
Every farmer in those states hopes
that under his land lies an undis-
covered pool of oil that will mean
riches, ease and security for him
self and his family.
But under the hope lies the
knowledge each farmer has that
the finding of a new oil pool
means wealth for a few landown-
ers-it also always means con-
tinued poverty and bitter dlsap-
pointment for scores of others.
When the great Seminole oil pool
was discovered near the town OF
that name in Oklahoma seventeen
land owners made fortunes; thous,
ands of others not only continued
in poverty-they had their hopes
of security and ease smashed.
Indians Showed the Way.
But in Oklahoma there was one
group of landowners steadily gam
ing in wealth from oil although
they never drilled a well or tooR
any other form of risk. They
were members of the Usage In
dian tribe who co-operated because
Uncle Sam forced cooperation OF
them. All mineral rights undel
the lands owned by the Osages arr
held in common by the tribe
Money coming from leases, mon
lease bonuses and oil royalty !
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
NOTICE
CALL FOR A MASS STATE CON-
vENTToN OF THE FARMER-LA-
Dor PARTY IN AND FOR THE
STATE OF MONTANA.

Call for Mass State Convention
of the Members of the Farmer-Labor
Party of the State of Montana, to
convene at the Farmer-Labor Tenn
pie, at Plentywood, Montana, Satur-
day, September 18th, 1880, at noon
sharp, for the purpose of drafting a
program and nominating candidates
for National, state and District Of
fices, to be filed on the ballot for
the General Election in Montana, oc-
curing Tuesday, November 4th,
1880. pursuant to Section .612, Re
vised Code of the State of Montana
for 1921. and Chapter Z. Session
Laws of 1927.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
FARMER-LABOR PARTY OF
THE STATE AND DISTRICTS OF
MONTANA:
We, the provisional Executive
Committee of the Farmer-Labor Par
ty of the State and Districts of
Montana, responsive to the wishes-
90 sene adnereuts t1af-a-4 Political
party within the State and Districts
of Montana as expressed at the
mass meeting of the members of the
party held at Plentywood, Montana,
in June, 1880, and under and by au-
thority duly conferred upon us at
said meeting of the members
of the party, by esoIuti IN
duly moved ana adopted, do hereby
call a Mass Convention of the men,
bers of the Farmer-Labor Party of
the State and Districts of Montana,
to convene at the Farmer-Labor
Temple at Plentywood, Montana, on
Saturday, September 13, 1880, noon
sharp, for the purpose of perfecting
the organization of the F,armer-La-
Dor Party of the State of Montana,
drafting and adopting a Platform
and Program, nominating candidates
for the offices of United States SEN
ator, Representatives in Congress.
and such state offices as are elected
this year. namely, 1880. to be filed
as candidates to appear on the bal
lot at the General Election occur
ring in Montana, Tuesday, Novem-
Der 4th, 1880, which convention is
called under and persuant to the
provisions of Section 612 of the Re-
vised Code of the State of Montana,
1921, and Chapter z. of the Session
Laws of 1927, and to further do any
and all things necessary and which
may be done as such a mass conven-
ton called under the said provision
of the law.
All members of the Farmer-Labor
Party, and those subscribing to the
principles of the Farmer-Labor Par
ty, who intend to promulgate and
advance the principles and program
and platform of the Farmer-Labor
Party adopted and support the can.
didates nominated by this duly call
ed Mass Convention OF the Farmer
Labor Party, are qualified to at.
tend and participate in the deliber-
atoms and actions of this Mass
Convention.
Dated at Plentywood, this goth
day of August, 1880.
Signed by the Provisional ,Execu.
tive Committee of the Farmer-Labol
Party Of the State and Districts OF
Montana, by
CHARLES JOSLYN, Chairman
A. N. WANKLE, Secretary
CHARLES e. TAYLOR
JAMES OSTBY
4
HANS RASMUSSEN,
Committeeman.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05

The farmers of Northeast
ern Montana look forward
to this picnic each year as
one outing they want to at
tend, The picnic this year
will be the equal of any of
the past in the way of
speeches and entertainment.
1t was delayed this season
on account of the adverse
economic situation. 1t was
thot by the committee it
would be better to postpone
the event until after the har-
vest when the farmers
could afford the expense as
well as the time.
There will be a program well
worth hearing. A galaxy of
speakers, well worth hearing will
appear to discuss the questions of
the day. Nothing will be left un-
done TO guarantee good time.
After the program there will be
dancing at the pavilion to the best
music the country affords. 1t will
be the big event of the season, the
one affair that every farmer will
want to attend. Harvest will be
practically over by the time of the
picnic and everybody will enjoy a
picnic at that time: a well earned
recreation.
So make preparations now to
attend this event.
All farm organizations are urg-
ed to attend in body.
William Lemke, noted Fargo
lawyer and former attorney-gen-
eral of North Dakota in the DAYS
when the Nonpartisan League was
militant organization of farmers
and workers, will be the principal
speaker of the day.
Lemke has been an outstanding
progressive in North Dakota poll
Continued on page Three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
SOUTHWESTERN FARMERS POOL LANDS
And BID FOR LUCK In OIL RACKET

pooled and divided equally among
the members of the tribe. The
man under whose land there is no
oil shares equally with the Indian
who sits on top of an allotment
spotted with oil derricks.
After watching the Osages prac-
tice cooperation for nearly TWEEN
ty-five years, group of farmers
in the Oklahoma Panhandle got
the idea of trying the same thing.
Since no one knows where oil will
be discovered any acre of land in
an INFESTED oil region is as good
as another. So the group of Pan
handle farmers decided they would
put part of their land in a coop
erative royalty pool Each farm
err would drop forty acres of his
land in the pool. Each farmer
would drop forty acres of his land
in the pool. Since nearly every
farm in this region consists OF
100 acres (few, indeed, go below
so acres) each would be party
with one quarter. of his gambling
chances that oil would make hin
rich. If. he was lucky and oil wa:
discovered on his place the othel
three quarters would enable hin
to satisfy any Rolls-Roycish de
sires he might be nursing.
Lease and Royalty Dough
In pooling one quarter of hi
land he would be assuring himself
of something Of an income from
oil even though not drop of OF
was ever brought up from hi
niece of property. AS the size o
the pool increased his chances TO
fCoHtinued on Last raseJ
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05

elements are lining up to
help put the county again
under the direction of the
farmers who for several
years gave Sheridan the best
administration of any coun-
ty in Montana.
Thoroly disguised with the man
agement of their affairs by the
Medicine Lake combination
French-Dolin- Powers-the support
ers of the Farmer-Labor Party
are going to pick candidates to-
morrow who will make the race
for the various offices on the pro-
gram adopted at the mass conven-
tion-a program that will stand
for genuine economy all along the
line; a program that will put the
interests of the farmers and work
ers above those who live on the
backs of the producers.
Pipe the Great Engineerl
From the Hoover administration
down, the Republican Party has
shown that it has nothing to offer
the workers and farmers in the
way of solution of their prob
lens. Hoover, alias The Great
Engineer, has failed to relieve &C.
onomic depression and the ire
mendous unemployment that fol-
lowed in it's wake. He made an
attempt to relieve" the million
aires by making large tax refunds
amounting to hundreds of millions
of dollars, following the stock
crash. This was supposed to be
for the purpose of letting those
plutes have money TO put labor to
work. But they did not put labor
to work; they put the money In
their jeans and took another vaca-
ton.
Hoover called the industrial
lords of the nation together early
this year, had his picture taken
with them and got them 30 say
for publication that they would
not reduce wages. They have been
reducing wages and laying off
workers ever since. Mergers and
the speeding up of those fortunate
enough to have work has intensi-
fled the unemployment caused BY
the general worldwide economic
depression due to the decline Of
capitalism.
Farm Board Failure.
The Farm Board has failed ut
] Continued on Page ThreeI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
By ROBERT F. ROBERTS

Seattle-FP-P Prosperity in Sc
attic is still a matter of reading
sign boards. One university stu
dent who is camping along the
road near Gle Elum in an hours
time counted about 100 men tramp
ing the highway. Trying to
catch up with Hoover's Prosperi-
ty" one of them put it.
Labor in saw mills in Seattle
and vicinity is reported as low as
$2.4O day. The writer found
men working in some lumber mills
as low as $3.40 a day. The Big
gest pay found for common labor
was 81 at the Balloon Lumber Co.
The Seattle Cedar Lumber Co. re-
ported laying off men; the Gould
Lumber Co. has closed down and
has no plans of opening up in the
near future. The yard foreman
there along with the few remain
ing mills employees has had. his
wages reduced. The foreman's nav
was cut from $3.50 to SIS day.
The Motor Single Mill Co. is
working one week out of three
and packers are making about SIS
a day, common labor receiving as
low as 1925 per day. Official re-
ports show lumber production 500
receiving pay so low that any
man who dares 10 tell the truth
about this is fired. This is a
statement made by the gatetender
to the Federated Press correspond
ent as he attempted to enter to
ask for a job. The storekeeper
who tries to make a living off
these workers states that thew
are making $3.50 a day. Five hun
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
Poplar Epidemic De-
termined to Be Meningitis

The Poplar flu epidemic,
; which had aroused the people
of Northeastern Montana such
as nothing has since the flu
epidemic in the fall of 1918, at
the close Of the war. has sub
sided this week. as there has
been no further spread of the
disease.
The specialist from the State
Department of Health came
to Poplar, accompanied by a
number of nurses and took the
situation in hand, putting a
special nurse on every case.
Several doctors were called in
consultation and the trouble
was finally diagnosed as men,
nights.
DIR. Swanson is well on the
road to recovery, and NO new
cases have developed, The
cases at WillistOn and Wolf
Point and other towns along
the highline appear to have
been ordinary cases of infIu-
enza and all victims recovered
in due course of time.
1t seems that all of the
cases in Poplar are traceabIe
to one source. that of Gus
' Marquardt, who died of the
y disease and who was cared for
' by those who afterwards con-
' tracted the fatal malady.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
c. F. Peterson Held
For Embezzlement
From State B a N K

Stanley, N. DC. F. Peterson,
once banker at Ray, N. D., and
in recent years employed as a
collector for receivers of closed
banks, was arrested in Minot Tu-
esday night on a charge of en-
bezzlement filed in Mountrail
county.
Peterson, who was taken into
custody by Sheriff S. A. Warren
of Stanley, was taken to that city
Immediately where he appeared
before Justice T. N. Engdahl,
waived a preliminary hearing and
was bound over to the district
courts to await trial. He furnish
ed bonds of $4,000 and was at
once released.
The complaint against Peterson,
signed by B. w. Taylor of Stan
ley, charges him with the embez-
element which Peterson is alleged
to have of $500.
The charge arises out of collec-
lions made for the receiver of a
closed bank at Lostwood of which
Taylor was the former president
Peterson until recently had
made his home at Stanley but his
family is now reported to be ir
South Dakota.
J. P. Reeve, Burlington, district
receiver of closed banks, for whom
Peterson worked for a time, sale
that there will be no losses sus-
tanned, if there were embezzle.
ments, inasmuch as all collector:
are bonded.
States Attorney Cottingham sale
that Peterson's case will be placed
on the calendar for the October
term of district court at Stanley.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
PORTAL BANK is
FORCED TO CLOSE

: Information reached Bow
: BELLS, N. D., Saturday that
= the Union Bank of Portal has
been forced to close, owing to
: heavy Withdrawals of deposits.
The bank was opened SOM
years ago, after the last bank
+ had been closed, and it was
+ hoped that this institution
could be kept going. A num-
: Der of depositors left time de-
= posits in the bank at the time
it was opened and it is said
that those deposits were
drawn as they came due, de-
pleting the hank of ready
money.
= This again leaves the border
= city without baiissshg facilities.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05

fientywOOd chicken coon was
s again Saturday night.
= ~TT l! midnight Ted and a couple
0. us h,lackers, Chief of Police
s 49, collins, Sheriff Madsen, OPP
- r-''e BOD Smith, the undersheriff
-, - calVacade Of privates of one
s. n. VI another, marched down
- surrounded the place, emit
~. wSSf,WhOOp and stormed the
,sr r Ihey captured it with no
nj Captured lumpjaw Am
~ AnundsOn and John Olson
-. couple of hens. The males,
4 Gnu. stools, We're brought up
q, want = Blackwell, that Shining
,st d righteousness, and gave
,- ,II-Sl's that the coop was re-
Tss a place of i'll fame" Mig
Ss,,, y Town at the time, as the
S' ~rofs were aware. He was
isss y arrested as were the
Vsr ,' e sv gave bonds. The pullets
hSS, 'aken to a hotel for the
sys J, ana placed under the eagle
d. = s,' open faced Bob, who sat on
iutv Yep, -, ! all |, night, and did his
uns - ts:l,sn1ully. Next morning
oSer' tsa got bonds, and the
ojsv ' a say IS now in the Gus
Gran. y deputy sheriff Duggan
ant - 5 s.. sad to have issued a war.
tat ro ~ ms occasion. He learned
Grant ss at the Hass trial. Il
he viii lays lays IN office long enough
Which Nm %UT : how 10 sign his nam,
HOvs,, !lliit-
ssv, tSs ne c,, the swell coop at SEQ.
Ted and O ~ hotel, where Cor
Ssd s = tn. the bOOtlegger's lad lad
sluaen tb ,esld 6 until things got s,
i hat T SS C. Cor. Ted was hande,
te to re y The management in or
utsdon 'i;tRaOllitate the places rem
a'ort will p ~. that famou
etain an IN, not be bothered: onl,
a ''"Ces are disturbed
''nOed on Page Three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
!Farmer-Labor Party Convention Tomorrow
1aI Picnic At Brush Lake Septem1
James Wagner Resigns
AS Deputy Co. Attorney

Wednesday, James Wagner
appeared before the Board of
= County Commissioners and
filled his resignation as deputy
4" County Attorney to take eff
y feet as of Sept. LIST.
Thus another economy goes
into effect until after election
anyway.
Besides his salary. Wagner
has his building rented to the
county for office for County
= Attorney for which he receives
> $35 per month.
Wagner's appointment was
= purely political and a result of
election combinations made
last year. His services have
: been of very questionable
' value to the county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
LEWIS HOLDS HARD
COAL DIGCERS FOR
BUM AGREE M ENT

Scranton-FP-Five and a half
years of industrial peace in the
anthracite were pledged by Pres.
John L. Lewis and other officers
of the United Mine Workers and
Richard F. Grant, mine financier
and other operators, when they
signed the new agreement cover
ing 100000 hard coal miners. The
document has been ratified by a
tridistrict convention by vote of
1877 TO LIT.
Delegates dissatisfied that the
new agreement does not abolish
contract mining, provide for equal
feed work among collieries of the
same company in slack periods
and seniority rights while one
clause calls for an improved cal
of coal" and suppression of the
general grievance committees pow.
er to call strikes, found no answer
to Pres. Lewis prediction that q
strike at this time would be ode
feated within one week" He de-
scribed wages of $1.50-2.25 a day
for non-union miners in Kentucky
and other open shop fields. A
strike would open the way for E
wage reduction, he warned. OPP,
orators during negotiations insist
ed at every turn on such reduc'
ton, according to Lewis.
The Great Confidence Man.
Reporting to frank criticism
Lewis replied that "there are me1
here who believe / have not tn,
interest of my people at heart. Fol
them / am sorry. We must hav'
confidence in each other. Am
an honorable man or a rascal 2"
i Pres. Edward McCrone of tn,
Scranton Central Labor Uniol
and secretary of the genera
grievance committee of the Hud
son Coal Co., an opposition leader
warned of the improved car O.
coal" clause. Operators had them
selves to blame for loss of mar
T, kets, he declared. Before substi
tute fuels came into general US
; operators used to fill pea coal or
. ders with 7016 bucl1wheat size
much smaller, he said. "Now the,
are shouting for an improved car
load of coal, and they are askinI
: the mine workers to go back t
! their working places and Suffe
, for the next 51k years." he added
/ Anthracite miners are entitled t
} a better deal than they get unde
+ this agreement. Loopholes appea
] IN the document. Let's stay ava
from the graveyard-the concila
ton board-because nine out o
every 10 decisions favor the oper
ators."
{ Oppressed by the black pictur
a OF miners low wages in soft coz
l fields, the general industrial de
$ preston and the operators eager
f ness to cut wages, as painted b
r Lewis, delegates ratified tn
agreement by an overwhelmin
NOSC.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-05
HOOVER PROSPERITY Is PSYCHOLOGICAL,
WAGES CUT AND UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS

bred employees is the normal Fish
er body working force.
Hundreds Laid Off
The Bell Telephone Co. recently
laid off HOO men in this vicinity.
Frederick and Nelson's, Seattle
largest department store, laid off
800 employees in June. The en-
ployment boards are empty ex-
cept for berry picking and wood
cutting jobs. Two flunkey jobs
were on the skidroad boards the
other day at $40 and board a
month. One uptown agency filled
a dishwashing job requiring nine
hours a day, seven days a week,
for SO per week and board.
The Youngstown steel mill gives
It's workers chance to get rich
by buying preferred stock out Of
their wages of $500 a day.. Every
morning at the. steel mill and al
so at the Ford plant there are
long lines of victims of Republi-
can prosperity standing in their
respective places, evidently hon
ing that some fellow worker ins:9e
Will drop dead or get fired. Over
50% of the workers of Boeinp,s
airplane factory were laid off in
the last few months.
One foreman of large building
loD states that carpenters and otE-
er skilled building labors come 10
nm every day asking for work at
80 or 81 day. 90
Auto statesmen are unable "a
sell enough cars to make a living
wage on commission basis. so
many of them are forced o,,t
while few of the more fortunate
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