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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL

Glenn Frank, who has name liberal and
Who functions as head of the University of Wis
onsin, has given the farmers the hopeless pros
,ect of being exterminated.
Consider your problem apart from the
six great revolutions now in progress-poli-
teal, industrial, financial, scientific, psyche
logical and SCOTLAND you are doomed,
Mr. Farmer" That was the advice given
members of the National Creamery and
r Buttermilk Association, Glenn Frank
"The agricultural part of America in this
corporate age must organize or the farmer
will be permanently lost in the shuttle. We
are at the point in economic evolution where
the old individualism is doomed, and in the
future American life is going to act in
terms of highly organized groups" he
said.
Agriculture, the most stubborn strong
hold of the dying individualism, must adopt
the combination form of business. The
farmer must hang together or he will hang
separately. The one thing left to US is to
decide the question of the type of control
that is going to be exercised over this group
action. Shall it be feudal or federalized?"
Agriculture must adopt the combination form
of business" "It must act as highly organized
group" This liberal tells the farmers that they
can expect something by joining cooperative mar
keting outfits. This is the advice given by the
bankers, and by their agents in the national anC
state government. The bankers want centralized
marketing so that the robbery of the farmers cal
be centralized.
"The agricultural part of America IN this cor
porate age must organize or the farmer will b
permanently lost in the stuffle" The toiling far
nners must organize for immediate demand
against the capitalist class which exploits then
But it is in militant mass organization that thei
demands must be made known not in the racketeel
ing eooperatives controlled by the bankers Q
their capitalist state
AS a long time proposition the capitalist systel
offers the toiling farmers worse degree of miser
and horror than they have even now. AS lon
time proposition agriculture under the capitali
system is in state of decay and the toiling ia,
mers must bear the burden of it thru physical .,
termination of farmers
1t is only under a workers and farmers po
eminent that life is assured the toiling mass
of country and city. 1t is only under a worlxe,
and farmers government that the misery fore
on the tens of millions of exploited will be abe
ished
It is to prevent the farmers from realizing Ii
that the Mr.. Glenn Frank, President of the IJr
versity of Wisconsin gives his deceptive advice.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

on the State Police In cars took
the command. We ha6 the right
of way and all traffic was stop
ped until we got by. People won
.dering what it was all abOut-had
lost banners in battle yesterday.
Everybody feeling fine but look
with suspicion on anything in uni
form. Want to hurry us through
and get rid Of US
Stopped IN little town and had
coffee with lunch fronT, supply
truck. Weather cloudy and damp.
Quite chilly but not freezing.
Grass is green. Some apples still
on7trees and farmers stand by the
road trying to sell fruit and eggs
as We go by.
At .Detroit city limit. motor cops
escort US through citySto Ukarani-
ann hall-aTrfved about four. Big
supper had been prepared, swell
meal and how we enjoyed it. These
people are not what is known as
1OBC per cent Americans-they are
Ukaranians-bu we like them bet
ter than the 100 percenters we
met sinr Hammond yesterday. These
people who feed US are the ones
we]will fight for in Washington.
Can't forget the bastaris from
yesterday. One woman said to
one of the big brutes: ooh, you
dirty coward!" God bless that
woman, it come from the bottom
of her heart. And they couldn'i
even shoot, shot at my tires anc
couldn't hit them.
Speaks to Packed Nesting In
Detroit.
| At eight we met in packed hall
SGhmies: from Detroit was one o.
the speakers, forcefHL His tria
comes UP tomorrow. Delegates
from every state represented
spoke. Speakers are getting bet
| ter and more of them as we go
Crowd interested, applaudmg, col
Electton taken. We all sleep in tn
hall, This time we sleep on mat
tresseS laid on floor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
FINK SHOWN AS.
MANUFACTURER
OF RED PLOTS
1
Handing Graft Collector Used By
Fish Committee In Attack
On Workers

NEW YORK Graft collector
for President Harding, later as
cHsed of murder, admitted crook
and under-cover-man for any cap
italist who pays, him, CASTOR B.
Means, one of the many Shiny
sleuths OF the bosses. is now re-
vealed as a manufacturer of bomb
plots at the rate of $4,000 per
week, working with Matthew Vol
and Ralph M. Easley of the Civic
Federation.
The latest exposure of CASTOR
B. Means comes through the New
York "Daily Mirror" in connec-
ton with the manufactured
threat" against Mrs. Finley J.
Shepard, millionaire angel who
supplied the money for the Civic
Federation and a whole pack of
red-baiting blood-hounds gathered
by Means.
| Prepare Raids.
In order to prepare for raids
against the militant workers or
ganizationss and TO bring in great
er donations for protection
against the Reds" Means, accord
ing to the Mirror" engineered
the sending of threats" to Mrs.
Sheppard who is an officer in the
Daughters of the American Rexo-
luton.
Mrs. Shepard, who has a for
tune of over $85,000,00O has been
donating heavily to the Civic Fed
Grafton and to CASTOR B. Means
Means wanted to get more money
and decided TO push the "ReC
Scare" The Mirror explains the
receipt of a "death threat letter
by Mrs. Shepard as follows:
"An because CASTOR B. Means,
stormy petrol of political in
trigue, jail-bird, and about the
most plausible and unreliable
cOnspiratOr who ever wore a
false beard, happened to be out
of work and wanted to stir up
something hot"
The Mirror says that it appear
no accident that CASTOR B. Means
scheme seemed to work so we
with the appearance in the pres
: of several stories of alleged "Re
: bomb plots" as we'll as the Mean.
: inspired threat against Mr.
Shepard.
r "a suspicion that Means has
: played on society fears of tn,
Red menace and that Mrs. Shep
: ard is covering before nOthins
more dreadful than a word-pic
n ture of a bIOod-thirsty MuscO
Y vite painted by the talented Mr.
, Means seems at present allow
? able" says the Mirror.
: Means, it appears, when he g
out of jail after an unusually ric
Gus spree of grating, frame-u
and robberies, was hard up al
? got Mrs Shepard to kick in
IS working up "Red threats" for h
= benefit. Lately, Mrs. Shepard h
:, not been shelling out so handson
y ly and Means found it necessary
i stir up his imaginative Red thre
with the help, of course, of {
is Civic Federation.
j. Means, likewise, helped the r
COMMITTEE to manufacture sol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
WORKERS FIRED.
WHO REFUSE To
AID RED. CROSS
THIS is WHAT BOSSES GAIL
VOLUNTARY CONTRIB
BUTTONS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Two
workers on the new Red. Cross
building, one of them a Negro,
were fired on Nov. 18th, because
they refused to- contribute part of
their wages to- the annual Red
Cross roll CALI
A notice has been posted over
the pay window, calling for Red
Cross contributions. Unskilled
workers were. supposed to give
$1.00 and skilled workers $500
from their weekly pay. Those
who gave said they did so in or
der to keep their jobs. A stone
mason quit his job rather than
contribute the five dallars. Two
other workers who refused to con-
tribute to the graft fund were
fired at once, the hess, McClosky,
stating that the men had no right
TO a Job if they refused to eontri-
butte.
The Negro worker was the first
one to be fired. He was paid
$1,000 for the five day week
When he told the paymaster that
he had a large family and coulC
not afford to give part of his pay
he was told, "You haven't got I
job here"
Although it was reported tina
the workers were rehired after /;
considerable protest was mad
throughout Washington, thi
|, method Of bull-dozing workers an
/; robbing part of their wages t
: create a buddle fund for the Re
Cross to pay high salaried off
Gals, while they refused to fee
starving miners in Pennsylvani
and Kentucky because "they wer
not starving through an act Q
3 god," is being practiced nearly
E every industry in the country.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

The following is from the Manufacturer and IN
dustrial News Bureau of Portland, Oregon, under
the title of "SldH With Guns"
Frequently bandits are brought to grief
by armed civilians, notably the organized
Vigilantes in many mid-western states.
Citizens of Menomonie, Wisconsin,
Gently furnished a striking example of what
can be accomplished by armed preparedness.
The incident inspired the following com
ment in the Minneapolis Minnesota Joural:
Skill with CUTS on the part of the citi-
zenry made dead bandits out of two of the
four members of the gang that staged the
Menomonie, Wisconsin, bank robbery.
Skill with guns on the part of the citi-
zenry wrecked the formidable Jesse James
gang at Mortified, Minnesota, more than
half century ago.
Skill with guns on the part of the
citizenry wiped out the equally notorious
Dalto gang forty years ago.
And yet there are plenty Of FeformerS,
and they are forever Fostering legislatures,
who think that honest citizens should be
permitted neither to possess guns nor To-
know how to use Them
The capitalist press talks of bandits and the
iced Tor preparing Tor them. WHAT The CAP
ITAIIST PRESS MEANS BEHIND THIS TALK
OF BANDITS is VIGILANTES
Yeggs, stickup men, Al Capones, and such SINH
lar riff raft of capitalist society are bred in the
image of the capitalists themselves, the mass
plunderers, the thieves of billions. With These
the capitalists have no real issue at stake, except
as the small fry try to grab off some of the loot
1t is against the exploited that the capitalist!
intend to make the final use of their VigiIantes
It is with the exploited that the capitalist class
has the issue of exploitation. It is with the ex
plotted that the decision lies as to how long TIT
system of exploitation and plumber shall con
tinue.
1t is against the militant masses who fight cap
italist exploitation land consequently rock thu
very foundations of the system-that this clas
OF robbers and brutal CANCERS really intend to US
their Vigilantes
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
Enemy of Wild Ducks Is :.
Discovered By Scient'D

Another enemy of wild Ou. ~.
has been discovered. It is . =,
celled organism known as LeuS'i 1
tozoon anatis Wickware, anu .l,rt
the cause of a widely preV .Ssr'
disease from which large n nun. n
of young ducks die, according y a.
DR.. Earl C. O'Roke, scientist y .,r =
school of forestry and eOl sSf;,bI.
ton of the University OF n
gan, who has been studying
disease for two years. :. -, M
DIR. O'Roke reported tinGnts III
disease among wild mallaros'i Il "a.
ducks, pitfalls, widgeOns anu b
er species. It is transnltIsSua NAH
the bites of black flies or punt
gnats. Adult ducks are appSsiirr.
" little affected. but . VII
succumb in large NUMBERS, s.. mn.
their blood "almost literaH!
ed TO water"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
PRODUCERS NEWS
BUILDERS

Dr.. Robert KahIe, forms,. =.
Sheridan County, Montana. w..
he has a host of friends but 80
of Billings, Mont, upon READ.
the good news ah0ut the Pro5rS
ers News being designated as h,
official organ of the United Farm.
ers League, shot a hot one a
Hans. like this.
Killings, Mont
Nov. %, 1881
Friend Hans:
See by last issue, Producer
News that yOu are going 70
expand. Good for you! Maize
it red hot poker, for if there
ever was a time to put it Ov..
er, this is it.
Enclosed find a ten spot IA
help along good work.
Sincerely,
ROBERT r. KAHLE, D. c..
And now, who will be the nsYt
to- hit US in the same spOt-a few
more wallops like this in the sane
place will sure make US. Red am
hot. l dare somebody else to do
thiS--Hans.
&%ssss
And who comes next: no Other
than the Frederick (South Dakota
Cooperative store with a bundle
order for so per week-wish. Their
were other co-operatives like that
49, Gee
Arva Husa Of Belden sends
m a pOnderous hooking check for
100 copies for United Farmer
League anti-war- meeting, next
week. That's the systemI Moth
ing like the News to build The
u. F. L.
Is RyS&.
And the Tyomies, the FmniSl
Communist daily published at Su
perior with National circulation
iiprinted the story about the Pro
Educers News being designated
the official organ of the U. F.
in the Northwest, and Conrad
Bert, the editor. Since, there haV
been bundle orders and snbscrIr
lions from New York to CalbOl
MIA and Europe resulting Do
again, Tyomies. We need you
help and sure appreciate it :
5000 papers were printed u
this issne-nOt so bad for th'
first jump. Now every man e
his place-send in a SUBSCRIBE
or two, OF a dozen. and Han
may put your picture or you
name in this little column Q
fame. Hans does things like thaI
; Just try and see. II you can
send in a, years sub, send
one for. six months or tnre
mOnths-if 2 bits is all you hs''
send il along: and. your nam
: will be. put on the list for
weeks Just to see how you ".
! like IL That's fair enough
e start with. EVERY little bit hep
D az the teller says. This PrOE
e sitiOR is open only for those VI
: act quick. Try to get ~
e your neighbOrs TO join WnR y
n and save postage. see "
o quick we can get 10OVV e"
/ erz
:, Standing bundles orders :,
It about 1000 copies are alresa!
/ hurry yours along.
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of its evidence 1t. is with the.
help of such crooks as Means that
the Civic Federation. the Fish
Commission, the American Legion,
and all other patriotic societies
gather" their material with
which to persecute' militant work
ers and prepare for raids against
the Communist Party.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
BENEFIT FOR MARCHES

WEST WYOMING. Pa N .0lorsl
A hundred and sixty u l..or,ps q
workers of all language giv r.ss.3i
sembled here in a mass Nstisrl
for the benefit Of the ,.rs ago
Hunger March a few O sys shui
The mines around he Used tie
down. D'Antonio aooi'
meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

No. 1. Part of the Hunger
March Parade on the Miller Trunk
highway.
No. 2. The Hunger March ar
rixes in Duluth.
No. 8. Mesaba Range Cooper
alive Creamery Truck. which led
the parade, arrives before the
Court House.
No. 4. Another small section
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

Of the March.
No. s.. A. part Of the huge
crowd CT Workers and Farmers
demonstrating at Court House
Square.
No. 6. Hunger March Parade
on the Duluth City Streets.
No. Z. A scene from the other
side of the Demonstration at Court
House Square,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

Detroit, Mich, Monday evening.
Left Kalamazoo early this morn
ing, cops on motorcycles escort
ing us to city limits. From there
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

Chicago, Sunday morning, Nov.
29.-Slept on floor last night. We
are up at 500. All had breakfast
together. We are getting our in
structions, signals and what to do
in case of trouble. Booze not al
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ON TO WASHINGTON
CONTINUED froa Front Page)
with arm bands, on which it said:
NATIONAL HUNGER
MARCH
TO WASHINGTON
DECEMBER z, 1881


UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Very interesting meeting, and
how they applauded. Looking at
that crowd we forgot about the
trouble we had in the snow drifts
of North Dakota. One delegate
from each state spoke. covered
the Dakotas and Montana and this
big crowd of city workers are
sending greetings back to the far
mers and workers in the three
states we represent. Detectives
present at meeting: crowd ready
! to jump at them at the word "go''
but leaders told them to be quiet
and there was no trouble. Three
Negroes were murdered here not
long ago and I could see it had
not been forgotten.
! Just had our midnight lunch
Well all stay here in Auditorium
over night as best we can. How
4 many there are of US now, l d.
not know, but we are many. Al
seven in the morning we start
! first stop is Gary, Indiana.
i Hard to get time to write. 81
s many want to get acquainted anC
talk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04

You need your own pa
per now more than ever
before. Pay up your sub
scription to The Produc-
ers News.
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pendent" prints an editorial hooking the yoiling
farmers of the entire country. The story IS sum-
married in the Helena" editorial reads as fol-
lows:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
CAPITALIST BLACK HUNDREDS

The following is from the Manufacturer and IN
dustrial News Bureau of Portland, Oregon, under
the title of "SldH With Guns"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-11
BY ELMER G. WALLER
United Press Financial Editor


NEW YORK, April 10.-Estimates
that March railroad figures would
be more favorable than in February
furnished the stimulus for a quick
turnaaout in the carrier group after
the rails had been carried down to a
new low for the bear market.
According to preliminary calcula-
tons the DoW-Jones Co. industrial
average advanced 1.24 points to
1901 and the railroad average %
points to 1924.
Sales totaled 100000 shares,
compared with 100000 shares on
Thursday
In the last hour the whole market
perked up in activity and practically
the whole list was carried to higher
levels.
Westinghouse Electric was an out
standing exception, dipping to new
low since 1927 on estimates the
first quarter report would show a
deficit of 100000.
Early selling brought new lows
for the year or longer in Atchison,
New York Central, New Haven,
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, New
York, Chicago & st. Louis, Mis-
souri, Texas preferred and
several other important railroad
shares. Prices in the group were
down fraction to more than 5
points. These losses were replaced
before the close by gains of frac-
tions to points on short cover
ing.
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DOW-JOneS
Summary

calitornis Pscking Company dsclaE e.
June IS. record May 29. placing stock on
So annual basis against 81 previously.
Associated Gas and Electric system elec-
trio output in March vas 30. l6s. 1874 XVIII.
an increase q 24.3o1. $50 Oyer y. Mar T 1890
increase e3.sss.5s7 over preceding twelve
months.
New York cables opened at 4.s5 1915
unchanged; Paris checks. 124, I22; Italy
1885: Berlin. so4i.
Nash Motors for quarter ended Feb. 20
earned 30 cents share against S. cents
a year ago. Declared regular quarterly
May /. record April 20.
Standard Of Indiana and Texas Corpora
ton cut gasoline / cent gallon to Il
cents in Chicago territory. effective sat
urday.
Grand Union Company sales thirteen
weeks to April 1. decreased 2 $40 per cent
from year ago to sS.5sl.93S.
Factory employment in New York
state increased ia per cent in March
over February.
Manhattan Company acquires substantial
stock interest in Corning Trust Company
and North Side State bank Of Corning,
New York.
Crown Cork and Seal and wholly owned
domestic subs. United States operations
only. 1890 net including profit from sale
mon shares against s5.74 share on 272.
752 shares in 1929 Excluding profit from
sale OF securities $40, against 1888.
President Herman of NovadeI-Agene
Corporation sales for first three months
were equal to like 1880 period and that
profits in first two months show slight
increase.
Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation 1880
operating income $40. 429,9l5 after ex-
penditure and taxes. against s4,s13,14s in
Gilchrist Company year Jan. 81, 1881,
taxes. inventory write-offs reserve for
doubtful accounts etc. equal to 35c a
share. In preceding fiscal year profit was
s235,936 after changes but before federal
tax.
During week ended April 7. Rock Island
handled 27,26S, revenue cars. against a.:
238 like period 1880 and Illinois Central
$3.50. against 41,20S.
Proceeds of st. Joseph Lead Company
6ahP oan 81 81 e 900 to pa provide VI 5s 6f
further development of properties and to
increase working capital. Bank loans at
end 1880 were 81. 600. 600.
Daily average volume of Federal Re-
serve bank credit outstanding during
week ended April 8, was S1,0O3, 0OO, 900
increase of $4,000. 900 oyer previous week
and s95,OOO,OO below 1880 week.
Federal Reserve bank of New York re-
ceptances 1s of / per cent to ~ per
cent. Other rates unchanged.
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Legal Notices
sHERIFFs NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL

E04A
gree issued to ne 6y the Clerk of the
SsSg aSs cogTs Of MsTio9 County IN
wherein Reserve Loan. Life Insurance
Company Is plaintiff and Edgar S. Joseph
e. a.. are DeI ,es nan requiring me to
Hundreo ElgnEy-Seven Dollars and Seven
ty-Nine Cents tSl3l87.T9l. with inter
fy the judgment rendered in said cause
in favor OF said plaintiff. and also re-
curing me to make the further sums OF
and Nnety Gents tsO S 9ne ,l I
Carlos w. Faulkner. and Three Thousand
seyenty-One Dollars and Ninety Cents
interest on said sums. costs ana $500 at
fIofTineys fees: la7gainss the Defendants
viii expose at pubic sale to the hishest
bidder on Saturday, the End day Of May.
1881. between the houvs of 10 O'Clock A.
County. Indiana. the rents and pTofits for
a term not exceeding, seven % years. Of
tie ioAowlng described real estate in
The east half of the east half of north
east quarter OF section 13. township IL
north. range east. 40 acres more or
Also the east half of east half Of south
east quarter OF section 10, township II
north. range east. 40 acres more or
Also the west half Of the southwest
quarter. section 49, township II north,
range 5 east. containing 80 acres more
or less.
Also northwest quarter Of northwest
quarter of section 49, township II north,
range 5 east. 40 acres more or less. In
all. 200 acres
II such rents and profits will not sell
for a sufficient sum to satisfy said de-
cree. interests and costs. will at the
same time and place expose to public
sale the fee simple of said real estate or
so much thereof as may be sufficient to
discharge said decree. interests and costs.
Said sale Will be made without any re-
ment laws.
CHARLES L. SUMNER,
Sheriff. Marion County. Indiana
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Legal Notices
sHERrFF,s SALE

SHERIFF'S SALE
to me i directed from the eO Clerk Of the
in cause No. 44292. wherein City Trust
Sr.. Dora Willis. Samuel c. Bevington,
zoa Pearl Beyington. Defendants, requir-
ing me to make the sum of Twenty-Three
Hundred Forty Dollars and Thirty
Eight Cents ($2,340.38), as provided for in
said decree. with interest and costs. /
will expose at public sale to the highest
May. 1881, between the hours Of 10 O'Clock
A. M. and O'Clock P. NJ. of said day. at
the door OF. the Court House OF, Marion
for q term not exceeding seven years. OF
the following real estate IN Marion
County. Indiana:
Il of section II. township 16 North. Range
5 East of the Second Principal Meridian
more. particularly described as , follows
tto-wit: Reginninryg at a point LOO fee feet
East half of the. Northeast quarter OF
section IT,. township l6 North. Range. 5
East. running thence South parallel with
9892l feet to a point: thence. West. on a
line parallel with the North line OF said
half quarter section, 220 feet to point;
East line of said half quarter section to
the North line of said half quarter 1921
feet: thence East on the North line OF
said half quarter section 22l. IL feet 10
the place of beginning. containing 5 acres.
more or less. in Marion County. Indiana,
If such rents and profits will not sell
for sufficient sum to satisfy said decree
with interest and costs. I will, at the
same time and place. expose to- pubic
sale the fee simple Of said real estate, or
discharge said decree. Said sale will be
made without relief from valuation or ap-
- "-'0'--'--' - CHARLES L. SUMNER,
Sheriff Of Marion County.
April 10. 1881.