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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
PECULIAR LAW ENFORCEMENT
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR

Wednesday night of last week
Herschal "Sfm" Lee. George Sat
ter and Frank Barge, together
with two men, the names of whom
the sheriff, for reasons, does not
divulge, engaged in a cattle steal
ing enterprise.
The two strange men it seems
came in a Studebaker five-ton
truck. They had previously con-
tacted the Plentywood men. Before
embarking on their cattle stealing
activities, the strange men, it is
said, were appointed deputy sher-
ifs by Sheriff Hans Madsen. The
strange men, officers of the law,
properly and duly appointed, fur
nished with star each, the badge
of authority, then became cattle
thieves, and in their own truck,
having enlisted the aid if Barge,
Lee and Satter, started on their
felonious adventure. They went
to the farm of Mike Palubicki a
couple of miles north from Plen-
tywood and rounded up six head
of cattle, truck load. but decid-
ed that they were too thin and
not worth stealing so let them go,
and concluded they would go to
the w. w. Clark ranch ON the
Antelope road, about six miles
south of Plentywood where there
were choice and fat steers, the
next, or Thursday night, but they
failed, being unable to catch the
cattle and get them into tht
truck. Sunday night, they trieC
again.
They went to the Pete kislel
estate, southwest of PlentywooC
in the Welliver precinct, wherO
they got four fine white faces
Frank Barge, who lives in tina
section, had rounded them UP anC
had them i'll a corral ready TO,
the truck. The truck was to tax
the cattle south to farm nea
Sidney where they were to be hel,
until others were gathered suff;
! cient to make a couple of BIZ
truck loads, when they were TO b
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

Mass Slaughter Goes On
At Boulder Canyon Dam

Las Vegas, New. Many workers
fall into the river here working
on the Boulder dam and are not
discovered until the body is found
floating in California. Victims of
the dam are buried in three states
and in one foreign country.
Those killed on the Nevada side
are buried in Nevada, those killed
on the Arizona side are buried in
Arizona and those found floating
in CaClifornia are buried there
while occasionally a body may re-
main undiscovered until it floats
into Mexico.
The Six Companies. which has
the contract for the dam job here,
is called the greatest executioner
in America by the workers here,
No precaution is made for the
safety of the men and they are
aroused. 1t will only take a little
spark to set the workers in mo-
ton here. They will soon be
ready to enter into real mass ac-
ton against the Six Companies to
raise the wages and to demand
safety on the Job.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
WOMEN TO LOSE
JOBS In IDAHO

Boise, Idaho, Nov. 49, Gov. Z;
Rem ROSS has ordered dismissal
from all department sunder his
charge of married wemen whose
husbands have employment, his OF
flee disclosed today. The order
affected all departments except
those of elective officers, the state
land department, the industrial ac-
cident board, the board of educa-
ton and the supreme court.
The order was expected TO bring
about replacement of six to eight
women employees in his own de-
nartments and if the order Is
made general thruOut the state
house by heads Of departments
not under the executives control,
a similar additional number may
be affected.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
SUBSCRIBERS AND READERS OF
The PRODUCERS NEWS:

Last Saturday and Sunday a
meeting was held in MinOt,
North Dakota, where the Unit
ed Farmers League from sever
al states was represented by
live and wide awake farmers.
One of the important things
decided on at the meeting was
the making of the Producers
News the official paper of the
United Farmers League.
This change in the paper is
going to be made with the next
issue From then on the Pro-
ducers News will be a national
paper, supported net only by
the United Farmers League in
all the states but also by many
other organizations. AS soon
as this change is made thOus-
ands Of people are geing to get
busy and the Producers News
is going over with a bang.
This is no pipe dream. We
are going to put Sheridan cOun-
ty and PlentywOOd on the map
no matter II PlentywoOd de.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

serves it or not, and the Pro-
ducers News is going to do it.
A new editor, Erik Bert, has
arrived to take care of the edi-
tOrial part. Charles E. Taylor
is doing geOa work organizing
and will follow up that work in
other states fer some time to
come.
In order to put this over and
put it over quick some extra
money is needed and needed
right now. YOU SUBSCRIB-
ERS-if you have any way of
raising any money at all, we
want you to PAY UP YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION and pay it
right away. The Producers
News is your paper, it is fight
ing your battle and you must
help us make it a paper of ma
tional circulation and reputa-
ton.
DONE let fhis go till tOmOr-
rOw-dO il today.
HANS RASMUSSEN,
Business Manager.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
GREET STUDENTS
TO Y.C.L. SCHOOL

The Producers News and the
United Farmers League greet |
with the working class solidarity |
the opening of the training school
of the Young Communist League
in this city. The training school
has been made possible by the sac
fifice of hundreds of militant
farmers thruout North and South
Dakota and Montana. who have
given, until it hurt, from their
miserable supply Of foodstuffs and
money.
The thirty or more students whe
have been selected to go to the
school are the sons and daughters
of poor farmers who have shown
by their enthusiasm and activity
that they will be leaders not only
m the struggles of the farming
youth against the misery that cap
italism brings to the youth on the
land but will become part of the
leadership of all the oppressed
masses against the present sys-
tenn of exploitation, hunger and
brutality.
/ The students will be given the
benefits of the experience and
training of instructors who are
leaders in the class struggle. The
training that the farm youth will
get at the school is the result of
the experiences gained by the rev.
dictionary masses thruout the en-
tire world under the leadership of
the Communist World Party and
the Young Communist information
al.
The need for trained leaders for
the struggle of the toiling farm
ers against the robber exploiters
] becomes greater day yday as
the capitalist class intensifies its
efforts to throw the burden OF
! this most terrible of all capitalist
crises onto the shoulders of the
| toiling masses on the land and IL
the cities. With the growing
I mass resistance of the farmer;
h and the city workers to the hun
4 ger program of the capitalist class
and to the imperialist attack OF
q the workers and farmers father
i land, the Union of Socialist Sow
/ ct Republics, there is the burning
1 necessity that trained, capable anc
4 unwavering eladers be trained il
ever greater numbers to lead tn,
i struggle of the toiling masses.
8 The leadership that must be de
d veloped is one which is not onl,
4 capable of leading the masses il
j resistance to the bloody onslaught
j of the robber class but one whicl
4 is capable of leading the exploit
i ed masses in the final accounting
i with this system of horror, an &C
& counting which will clean out tn
q blood suckers and oppressors an
j will establish in these Unite
i States a workers and farmers
8 government.
q We call on the toiling farmer
q of. Sheridan county to lend fal
q Their support to the training schot
4 of the Young Communist Leagu
81 during the next several weeks
s. which it will continue. We hail II
3 young fighters who are now wit
81 us and extend to them our mo-
- sincere proletarian greetings.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
NYE SAYS VOTING
BECOMES AUCTION


Cleveland, o., Nov. Is. - Sen.
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota
said today that political corrup-
tion in the high places of govern
ment is bringing the nations cleo
lions to the eve of an aution.
The chairman of the senate in
vestigating committee, addressing
the City Club, made a sweeping
denunciation of Selfish and
greedy interests that are buying
political parties and candidates"
Unless tn eAmerican people, he
said, stamp out the corrupt prac-
tees of these interest they need
not expect from their government
those things they should have in
time of financial depression.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
Wells Thinks England
May Turn Communist

Washington H. G. Wells, IA
nous British novelist and social
list, who talked with President
Hoover Oct. %, said afterwards
that the British people might
swing to communism if the ma
tional government, with it's over
whelming Tory majority, fails to
restore industrial prosperity.
He suggested that. if the Brit
ish workers become convinced that
the Tories fail to satisfy the cam
paign pledge of bringing back en-
ploYment and a good living, they
are likely to turn to the Labor
party and make that party a more
radical party than it ever has been
ir they will turn frankly TO COM
munism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
$4,000 CASSED
BY RED SQUAD

Los Angeles Fifty thousand
people were "gassed" with tear
gas bombs by the notorious "Red"
squad of the Los Angeles police
when they broke up a meeting to
raise money for the striking min
ers at Harlan, Kentucky, at Phil
harmonic auditorium last Friday
night.
Captain VIM. Hynes of the "Red
Squad" appeared at the hall just
before the meeting was to start
and told those coming TO "hike,
that there would be no meeting.
They charged the indignant crowd
throwing 125 bombs and smuggling
with their gun butts and clubs.
About 5000 persons had come
to attend the meeting which was
to be addressed by prominent lib
erals and radicals of the city. A
bout 1900 were said to be com
munists, the rests were not.
Three policemen were sluggeC
and badly hurt and an unknown
number of those coming to the
meeting. Policeman Carl Abbot
was hit on the head with rocl
and knocked unconscious by those
defending themselves against thu
police charge.
Motorists in the downtown sec
ton near Pershing Square wer
caught in a traffic jam when tn
wind blew the gas from the tea
bombs over the city. Some aban
doned their cars in the street an
! fled. Patrons were driven fror
movie houses, hotel Hobbies, an
cafes, sneezing and coughing.
/ After the riot, the notoriou
Hynes said he was going to star
a drive to clean out the city O
radicals.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
UNITED FARMER
LEAGUE DOINCS

Saturday evening the Conner
town local put on a very interest
ing program before a packed
house of four hundred people.
The meeting was held in the
school house where Art N. Wankel
of Dooley and ]. o. Brensdahl
gave interesting talks between
the several acts of a program but
on by the towns younger set.
After the meeting lunch was
served and a dance given in the
community hall.
Sunday evening a big anti-war
meeting will be held in the Farm
er-Babcr Temple in connection
with the opening of the Young
Communist school. Neither Bloor
Charles E. Taylor and others will
speak on War Danger which al
present is a subject in which ev-
erybody is very much interested
and a big crowd is expected.
The Young Communist School
which will start in Plentywood or
the 22nd and last for 80 days i:
another undertaking which the U
F. L. is getting behind and sup
porting. The farmers realize thai
a school of that kind is very i'm
portant in order to develop organ
Iizers and leaders for the farm
movement and they are sending
their boys and girls here to ge
this training.
Between thirty and forty pupil
from several states will be here
Sheridan county and Plentywoo'
should be proud Of this additions
undertaking and publicity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

Cedar Rapids, la. - Thousands
of workers families who left the
cities and industrial regions dur
ing the summer in old rattle-trap
wrecked automobiles and a camp
outfit to escape their plight at
home, are now finding themselves
in horrible circumstances upon the
highways of the United States.
Homeless, friendless, penniless,
and suffering from hunger and
want the cold snaps have added
more to their misery and with
hunger staring them in the face
fake local charity outfits refuse
them any aid because they have
not resided there for six months.
They are unable to beg any as
sistance from the citizens directly
because the people claim they have
donated to these takers for the
unemployed, begging is cornered
by these charity racketeers, and
those caught begging are forth
with run out of town-women and
children to boot.
Even camp grounds are closed
along the highways and admit
lance refused to workers fani-
lies. There is not a camp ground
to be found at Jefferson City, Mo-,
Columbia, Mo-, Ottumwa, Oska-
loosa, Fairfield, Cedar Rapids, Ie-
wa City,, Fairfield and Mt. Pleas
ant in Iowa and on north to the
Canadian border, the route cover
ed by your correspondent.
Many workers families have
headed south, begging their way
hoping to escape the coming win
ter in the north without food, fuel
and shelter, only to find conditions
there so bad that words cannot
? express the horrors. Workers,
those that have work, getting ten
/ cents per hour; cotton rotting In
the fields untouched; oil wells
idle; farms deserted; industry al
: a standstill, and the highways lin
I, ed with homeless and destitute
workers and farmers with thei1
q families as well. Begging, steal
{ ing or borrowing-it won't worl
in the south.
< The very best that can be go
y out of any of these local charity
u takers, who are all connected will
the police, is a couple gallons o.
k gas and orders to move on. Th'
lie writer speaks from experience.
& At Iowa City, Iowa, family o
D three children was stranded in tn
N Cabin Camps, East Iowa City, an,
r the social service bureau of tina
city having a hot time trying Il
)" shake the responsibility. The,
n didn't even have a car left to ge
rs out of town with They had t
a feed them or let them starve an
n. for the great university town o
re Iowa this wasn't such a good ad
TT vertisement-not after the peopl
give the charity racketeers thouf
N ands of dollars to care for the uI
ck employed. So they had to figure
e. way out. They popped on the ide
lg of having the husband arreste
70 for not having his children
ne school and threatened to put thel
in the state orphanage at Dave1
port. A sister in Wisconsin cam
- to the rescue and took the childre
and their mother away. The f;
Their went down the road alone an
is headed for st. Louis to join II
Reds, he said, and some Poop
that will get up and fight.
So it's no easy matter to kee
out of trouble for these worker
Continued on last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
Lidahl : Ersness

Word has been received here Of
tne marriage of Palma Lidahl and
august Ersness both of this city.
They were married the 22nd of
october in the Lutheran parson-
age at Alexandria, Mimi, by Rev.
SuStafson. They are now living
IN Brandon, MINI. where they ex-
pect to stay for some time.
august Ersness grew up in the
antelope country and has been
nsre most of the time except the
s sme spent in Minneapolis learning
sle barber business. It is not
nnOWn if he is going to follow
.o mat line at his present location
p, Palma Lidahl is a graduate Of
or ,ssnstywood high school, having
, sv5adpated with the class of 1881
one On mad gone to Minnesota to take
Up hair dressing. y ''A'
Ssr Inc many friends of the couple
. oere and at Antelope with then
S0'O luck and happiness.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
NO UNEMPLOYMENT
IN SOVIET UNION

The 14th anniversary finds the
contrast between the capitalist
world and the socialist world OF
Soviet Russia greater than ever
before. Crisis, unemployment,
starvation, wage cuts, mass mis-
cry, economic and cultural decline
this is the picture of the dying
capitalist world. In the Soviet
Union no unemployment ION the
contrary a shortage of labor, a
steady increase of wages, introduce
ton of the 7-hour day and 5-day
week, tremendous strides in indus
trial construction and collectiviza-
ton of agriculture, the constant
raising of the material and cultur-
al level of the masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
FARMERS STARVING
IN u. S. A.

Eleven million unemployed in
the USA. Three millien workers
wanted in the USSR. Tens of
thousands of American farmers
pauperized and starving in the
USA. Thirteen million peasant
households (more than half col
lectivized and building up a new
| life in the USSR. Ten and mors
per cent wage cuts for steel work
ers in the USA. Thirty per cent
wage increases for steel workers
| in the USSR. All sorts of impos-
sible plans to save the tottering
structure of American capitalism;
in the Soviet Union the mighty B.
year plan of socialist construction
arousing the enthusiasm and crea.
tive initiative of the masses anc
being completed in four years anc
Continued On Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
Charity Agencies are
Vicious In Treatment
Of Miserable Tray' lers

People Without Homes Jobs Food or Raiment With No
Place to Go but Looking for More Comfortable Gil
mate of Southern States are Given Couple Gallons
of Gasoline and Ordered Out of Town - Tourists
Camps Closed to Weary and Destitute Wanderers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

vev +s ca A preliminary sur
hic,,alOr proposed Culbertson We
has st.I C1rldge across the Missouri
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
MANIFESTO OF THE I FRIENDS E']7,IE, OF
THE SOVIET UNION ON The WAR
ANDATTACKSON THE REPUBLIC

Thirteen years after the "war to
end all wars" world Imperialism is
once more threatening to plunge
the working masses into criminal
slaughter. Caught in the iron
wise of the economic crisis, threat
ened with the revolt of the toilers
at home, the imperialists are seek
ing solution of their difficulties
thru the only path imperialism
knows: Ward. The events in Man
churia, with the Japanese imperi-
alism, have sharpened the conflict
between the rival robber hordes
and have torn the mask from those
darlings of pacifists, liberals and
so-called socialists" the Kellogg
Peace" pact and the League of
Nations, revealing them as naked
instruments of imperialist aggres-
sion. American imperialism, leap
ing to defend its interests and
those of its vassal government at
Marking, has rushed warships and
is maneuvering against Japan and
Britain thru the League of Ma
tons. But most of all it is man
euvering against Soviet Russia
using for this purpose the League
of Nations (of which the USSR is
not member) and not the pre-
cious Kellogg "Peace" pact Col
which the USSR is a signatory.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
TS A GREAT
SYSTEM

SYSTEM
By JACK HEARTY
r,. farmers having sold their
, ln at 25 cents bushel, the
T9s S Goes UPON the wheat pit
Pr pIl' eoT cent in one month and is
S..napcted to top $1.OO What a
racket! w
rbis eolumnist sees another
In MI aid bolshevist plot in the re-
oseP wage rise granted Soviet
es a"I workers of 80 per cent at the
s s.'e the U. S. Steel trust was
hitting its slaves 10 per cent more.
ctsel workers in Pittsburgh and
CIV can see for themselves what
o1 -otten system bolshevism is. It
S.agides five days work every six
gay for Soviet steel workers, while
sSs American steel trust asks its
slaves 10 toll only one or two
days week. .srs
Rv their fruits We shall know
4ber Fascism cuts wages of
italian workers again.
A Great Mind Meets the
Starvation Issue.
@The great problem that con-
+ronts the world is to gear down
me productive machinery" -Silas
Strawn, pre-eminent American
banker
Among minor contradictions in
the news: with reduction of in
rome has come less food-stuffing,
Oyerindulgence and better health. "
DIR. Preston R. Hubbel.
widespread undernourishment
Of children and young mothers
has resulted from the last two
Years of financial depression and
unemployment, according to re-
mort of a nationwide survey made
BY the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing."- N. Y.
Times.
President Hoover recently as
mred the radio trust that free
speech on the air has been pre-
served. Sure! Anybody with ten
thousand dollars can hire a radio
hOOkup for 80 minutes.
And we have a free press too,
Anybody, for example. with five
million dollars can publish a news
psper in a second rate American
city.
The more we see of our alleged
civil liberties, the better we woulC
like to have some economic liber-
E.
Maybe it would be better to ow.
our Jobs and our country collec
lively, as workers and farmers
than to have the dubious right t.
speak on a street corner againS
the guys who own our jobs AM
their country.
Another Triumph for the System
First the American Tories re
jOiced that the British Tories ha'
swept the elections. And then the
read that the victory meant hig
tariff walls against American pro
ducts. What a headache!
1--WE Americans are the riches
nation in the world with the long
est breadlines."- Morris L. Ems
What King George Told the
American Colonies
President Advises Philippine
to Shun Hasty Independence
headline. Guess the Filipinos WI
have to begin reading America
history, preferably the period {
l776-1783.
Heating of Madrid Sidewalk
to Aid Homeless is Considered
Was it Anatole France who sa
that the rich will do anything II
the poor but get off their backs
M. Citreon, the French For
said that gloom in the Unit
States is unfounded. Have "
tried selling any Citreons heI
my friend?
Says the N. Y. Daily News Re
ord, apropos of the Hoover Hung
Commission appeal for old cloth
for the voorhees,. "This count
should have no difficulty in rai
ing the few measly millions nece
iary to equip every deserving Q
Jet of charity with new raime
and not DIRTY clothes.
The Daily News Record is t
organ of the clothing trades.
Lidahl Ersness
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

Nashua Nineteen cars of cat
tie and sheep were shipped from
here recently.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20
WAR AGAINST WORKERS
PLANNED

The events in Manchuria while
intensifying the danger of war
between two rival imperialisr
groups, constitute a particular war
threat against the soviet union.
Southern Siberia is within striking
distance of the scene of conflict.
With the United States taking
the lead, the imperialists are MAX
ing feverish efforts to effect a
temporary solution of their differ
ences and join for united action a.
gainst the Union of Socialist Sow
let Republics. This would have a
twofold purpose: To destroy the
fatherland of all the toilers and
crush the Chinese soviets as well
as the revolutionary movement in
all capitalist and colonial coull.
tries. On the 18th anniversary
of the Russian revolution, war a.
gainst the workers republic stands
on the order of the day of world
imperialism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

President Hoover recently as
mred the radio trust that free
speech on the air has been pre-
served. Sure! Anybody with ten
thousand dollars can hire a radio
hOOkup for 80 minutes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

widespread undernourishment
Of children and young mothers
has resulted from the last two
Years of financial depression and
unemployment, according to re-
port of a nationwide survey made
BY the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing."- N. Y.
Times.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20

And we have free press too.
Anybody, for example. with five
million dollars can publish a news
paper in a second rate American
city.