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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
REGULAR REPORTS NECESSARY

We have had one very serious shortcoming in
our organization from the lowest committees up
to the highest and that is the insufficient atten
ton that has been given TO reporting about the
activities and the problems naturally arising in
the process of the work. All local, county and
state organizations and organizers must remedy
this situation by starting regular system of re-
ports from the lowest committee to the highest
functionary in the organizations.
In the foregoing we have brought to the at
tention of our organization some of the weak
points in our organizational work. It would be
incorrect to say that we have not progressed in
our work The fact remains that during the past
year our organization has made more progress
than during the entire previous history of our or
CARNATIONS. Up to date we have definitely es-
tablished our organization in Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, North and South Dakota and Mon
tana in the middle northwest states. But our main
task at this time, with the coming of the third
winter of the sharpening capitalist crisis is to
build and strengthen our organizatonal forms and
to develop struggles in every state and county,
PRODUCERS NEWS MUST BE SPREAD
The task is made very much easier at this
time because now have a weekly paper, which
| generally will give impetus to our movement and
through which our comrades can find means of
expression. And one of the prerequisites to over
coming the immediate problems of organization is
to build wide circulation for our Producers
News. Thousands of readers for the paper
must be gotten during the new few weeks.
The UFL local branches and the various COM
mittees of action and all sympathiser and sympa-
thetc organizations in the different parts of the
country must see to it the bundle orders are reg
ularly distributed and paid for to the office of the
paper. Also farmers correspondence groups must
be organized and developed in each locality We
must remember that the comrades in the editorial
and business offices of the Producers News are
helpless unless we all put our shoulder to the
wheel and push with all our might Our duty il
to become conscious of our responsibility TO oul
paper and to fulfill obligations in building fol
it mass basis in a manner that is becoming t.
ali true fighters for the cause of workers ant
poor farmers.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16
BOWERS BEACH

The fishing season of 1881 is over.
The early season fishing was good,
after the middle of July. The spring
was not so good, and the fishing fell
short through the months of May
and June the business done was
equal to former years. There should
be a law passed by the legislative
body of 1888 to prohibit purse nets
from fishing in the Delaware Bay, as
many as 20 fishing crews from the
state of New Jersey used the purse
nets on the Delaware side of the bal,
and II nets were working from Bow
ers. The fish are sold at a very low
price The crews sell the fish to
companies owning the boats and
nets, thereby the companies reaping
the most profit, and in most in
stances owners are not residents of
Delaware. The dragging of the nets
not only take thousands of fish out
of the waters, the nets are heavily
loaded no matter the depth of water
find bottom, thereby destroying the
feeding grounds. Hook and line
fishermen have spent many thou
sands of dollars in erecting wharves'
on the Murderkill River front, build
ing boats which some have a value
of $2,5O0, improved their properties,
some over 100 boats, trade out from
Bowers, and if the nets continue to
ruin the feeding grounds, the hook
and line fishing business will be
ruined. The industry out of Bowers
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16
HOLLYVILLE
Personals

Personals
Misses Cassie and Iva Prettyman
spent Saturday and Sunday with the
latter's aunt, Mrs. Emily Ricards, of
Greenwood
William Barnes, of Wilmington,
and Charles B. Stevenson, of George
town, visited relatives in this COM
munity on Friday last.
Mrs. Amanda l. Prettyman and
| family were the guests of her daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Joseph, on
Sunday last.
Stanley Marvel, of Philadelphia,
and sister, Mrs. Gertrude COrbitt, of
New York City, spent the weekend
with their sister, Mrs. William d.
Burton, of this place.
Miss Doris Steele, of near Oak
Orchard, was the guest of Miss Grace
Johnson, on Sunday last.
Mrs. Eunice Stockley is spending
some time with her cousin, Mrs. Will
liam F. Blackstone, of Georgetown.
Hog Cholera In Indian
River District
Many farmers in this section are
losing their hogs from a disease be-
lieved to be hog cholera. This is
disease that the State Department
of Agriculture has been trying hard
to eradicate for several years while
has not entirely succeeded in doing
so yet has accomplished much in fur
nishing free cholera serum for that
purpose.
Cheap Corn Being Stolen
Some unknown person entered a
large field of corn belonging to AL
fred McIlvaine, husked and carried
away several baskets of corn one
night last week.
Grange Items
The next meeting of CoOlspring
Grange will be this coming Friday
evening, October 10th. An interest
ing program is being prepared.
Wolsey Hopkins, one of the Oldest
members of this Grange, who has
been very sick at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. E. T. Vaughn, is
much improved at this time.
Farmer Takes Bankrupt Course
William Wertz, who occupies the
large farm belonging to G. Benja-
min Warrington, has petitioned the
U. S. District Court for voluntary
proceedings. Charles Gull
len, attorney of Georgetown, has
been appointed referee, and Ralph
Baker, trustee, in the proceedings.
Unity NJ. f. Church
Founded In 1910
Unity M. f. Church will in short
time celebrate its one hundred and
,wenty-first anniversary. The exact
late has not been decided upon.
ministers and Methodist
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

laymen have promised to take part
in the celebration.
Jurors From Indian River District
Frank P. Johnson and Daniel T.
Joseph. of this place, are attending
the October term of Court at George
town as jurors, according to the
news coming from the court session.
The most of the cases being tried
are what is known as liquor cases.
This is entirely a different picture
than the one painted by the friends
of the dry cause, when they claimed
there would be Onl va small session
of court, the Jail would be practical
ly empty, everybody would be happy
and have more money tina never
in fact such things as hard times
would never be known. This ia great
life if you don't weaken, and a great
country if you don't laugh.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

draws thousands of people from
other states, which nearly all Of
those people purchase farm prod
ucts from the farmer stands along
the dupont Highway. Much cOnsid-
Grafton should be given by the peO-
pie living in Kent county to help the
farmers as well as the fishermen, the
passing of law prohibiting purse
nets in the Delaware Bay would
mean many more dollars to farm
ers and fishermen of Kent county.
The oyster houses have opened and
many men are working in the hOus-
es. It gives work to shuckers, truck
men and laborers. The Delaware
Bay Oyster Co., situated on st.
Jones River, The Bowers Oyster Co.,
situated on the Murderkill River,
are being operated, not to a full ca
pacity, on account of unusual warm
October weather. The VIM. David
son Oyster Co. expects to start in a
few days. All of the houses are
modern and up-tO-date oyster hOus-
es. These houses are inspected
monthly and must be up to lawful
requirements. The quality of this
seasons oysters are reported to be
good. A number of Bowers resi-
dents are longing oysters in the
Broadkill River and meeting with
success. The cost of tOngers Ii
cense are $500 for longing in
Broadkill, and the oysters must be
consumed in Delaware, as the Fed
eral law prohibits the shipping of
elaware Bay tributaries oyster ont
of Delaware.
Tribbitt G Flack, boat builders,
owners Bowers Railway on north
side, have started to haul out the
fishing boats and place them in win
ter quarters. They have erected a
boat building, house So feet by 100
feet, and have contracts to build Z
boats, ranging between 40 to so feet.
They expect to place 80 boats in
winter quarters. Lock & Son, own
ers of railway on south side, will
place about 35 boats in winter quar-
ters. Both boat yards are fully
equipped for taking care of the fish
ing boats.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16
BETHEL

The fifty-eighth annual session of
B. of A. was held in the Bethel Home
Lodge room, October Z, 1881. Ses-
sion was called to order by Grand
Guardian, Laura Williams. The Of
ficers were installed by Supreme
Washington, Bro. Held and Deputy
G. Herald, c. A. Levy, of Philadel-
phia: p. G. g.. Bessie Phillips; G..
G., Nina Williams; G. N, Lillian
Messick; G. W., Agnes S. Quillin;
G. w. of ~, Willie Cordrey; G. w.
of D., Effie Quillin; G. IT,. Fanny
( Cordrey; G. S. K, Alverda S. Elzley.
1 Mrs. Florence Furniss returned
home on Sunday after spending sew
eral weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
Raymond Mabrey.
Mrs, Bertha Eggens, of Philadel-
phia, spent part of last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Smith.
Mrs. Lulu Massey spent the week.
end in Sharptown with her sister,
Mrs. Nora Twilley.
The third quarterly meeting will
be held in the M. E. church here on
October oath. A full attendance is
desired
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips, Jr,
Mrs. Laura Wheatley spent the
weekend in Wilmington with Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Cain.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Short, of Will
mington, spent the weekend with
the latters parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Moore.
Jacob M. GrotOes, Mrs. Ida f.
Adams were quietly married on Sat
urday morning at 10 o'clock at the
Bethel M. E. parsonage by Rev. j.
r. Jester. After spending a week
in Norfolk, Va, they will make their
home here.
Mrs, Annie Galloway, of Whining
ton, is spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. Laura Wheatley.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Bell entertain
ed over the weekend Mr.. and Mrs.
Harlan Owens, Mrs. Emory Owens,
of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Beers enter
tanned friends from Trenton, N. j.,
over the weekend.
Mrs. Ella Spicer spent a part of
last week with relatives in Laurel.
The Count On Me Club" was en-
tertained on Tuesday night at the
home of Mrs. Willie Cordrey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Eskridge and
son Wilbur, Mrs. Rhoda Garrett mo-
tored to Wilmington last week and
was guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
Garrett
Mrs. Martha Pritchard, of Sharp
town, is visiting at the home of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Howard Furness.
Obid Moore, of Chester, Pa, is
visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Vickers.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

with Mr.. SpCnccr's sister, Mrs. e
L. GuyeT at MifflintOwn, Pa.
Mrs. John Fisher Of Philadelphia
has been the guest of her sister
Mrs. Charles r. Vent.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Leon Black, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank B. Carey and Mrs
Alena Johnson spent Thursday in
Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve Reed of Cam
den, N. j.. spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Johnson.
Rev. Walter Ellingsworth of Phil
adelphia spent Monday with his bro
ther. John c. Ellingsworth.
Rev. and Mrs. Daniel GiVens were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Stephens on Monday. Rev. Givens is
former pastor of Milton NJ. E.
Church.
The first club shoot for the FoOrd
Trophy by the Milton Gun Club will
be held ON Thursday, October %.
Traps to open at l p. m. This tro-
ply was given the club by William
NJ. Foord, and is to be awarded the
member of Milton Club whose aver
age for the six monthly shoots is
the highest. None but members of
the club are eligible to enter the
contest, but other events, open to
the public, will be held at each
monthly shoot.
A branch of the Girls Friendly
Society of the U. S. of America, was
organized at the home of Miss Cath
crime Gray on Monday evening. The
Girls Friendly Society, sponsored by
the Episcopal Church, is for girls
of every age and creed. 1t provides
opportunities for character growth
and friendship through a flexible
program of recreation, worship,
work, and service adapted to COM
munity and group needs. Rev. Wood,
rector of Milton Episcopal Church,
is the organizer and leader of the
local chapter.
The following officers were elect
ed: Group Virginia Wilson, pres
ident; Jane Mathis, vice president;
Sarah Darby, ecretary-treasurer
Group marian King, pres sident;
Mary Wilkins, vice president; May
Ellingsworth, ecretary-treasurer
The chapter meets Monday evenings
of each week at the homes of var
ious members. A preparation of
three months is required of each
before they can become full
members.
William T. Collins, one of Mil
toms oldest citizens, died at his
home on Union street on Monday |
night after a short illness. Mr.. Col
Inns was 80 years of age, and had |
been a resident of this community |
all his long and active life. He re-
tired from the farm some years ago |
and has since resided in Milton. He |
is survived by a grandson, Wallace
w. Collins, and one brother, Eli L.
Collins. Funeral services were held |
at his late home on Thursday af-
Lernoon. Rev. L. c. Randall, pastor
Of Milton NJ. P. Church, officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dickerson,
Of Whitesboro, and Mrs. Williams,
Of Washington. D. c., visited Elsie
Short at Red Bank, n. j., over the
weekend.
William NJ. Crouch who has been
confined to his bed with illness, is
A bear hug" by a fellow employee
1t Draper's Cannery in Slaughter
Neck on Friday broke one of Chas.
Iackson's ribs. Mr.. Jackson felt a
slight pain at the time but later il
passed off, but on Monday his right
side became painful and an eXami-
nation by his physician revealed
ractured rib.
Merritt Hopkins has taken over
he management of the Milton ser
'ice and filling station, owing to i'll
lealth of the former manager, Dor
nan Porter.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

Myers Vessels and family. of
Chester, called on relatives here
over the weekend.
William Clifton and family called
on John Green and family Sunday
afternoon.
Several farmers around here are
employed in hauling sand on the
Easy street road.
1t is sure fall now as we are hav-
ing some frost.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

If you all want to see sweet po-
tatOes just call at Mrs. w. w. Cliff
tons store. They have some gold
skins that weigh over three pounds
each, Ond of course you can guess
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

The hay crop this year is going
to be huge one-if you include the
grass that is growing on the rail-
road tracks.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

how big the white ones and the
Nancy Halls are.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16

It takes a lot of sense to make a
dollar go as far as it should.
The daily worker., 1931-05-19
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party q. S. A.
p o. Box 81 Station D.
New York City.
Please send me more information on the COM
munist Party.
City ........................ State ...........
Mail this 70 the Central Once. Communist
Party, p. Q. Boz ssY station ., New FORK ctz
The daily worker., 1931-05-19
As Told To Sadie Van Yeen


"MY home is in Chattanooga. have five chill
ni dren, Roy, IA, Andy, II, Lucille, 10, and two
grown married daughters. Lucille is with me
in New York My two boys are in the Scotts-
boro jail.
L been having the hardest time in the world
making an honest living for my children. I
worked the skin clear off my hands scrubbing
and washing so as my children could have
something to eat. I been making five and some
times six dollars week and you know that
you can't feed a family on that. Why we paid
pretty near a dollar alone on car fare every
week My little girl is underweight because we
couldn't get only one or two quarts of milk
week You know we couldn't buy any more
than that. And I always worked matter
how sick or tired I was.
MY boys are good boys. I never brought
them up to have them hung They was always
good. to me and good to sister here. But they
couldn't find work no-how in Chattanooga, so
they asks me, if I would let them go to Mem
phis to seek work. Well you know I didn't
want them to leave u3 but saw as how they
couldn't get work and I says Well, boys, if you
must go, alright but don't get in any trouble
Andy was going first, but his little brother Roy
the fourteen year old, he said, if Andy goes he
goes too, cause them two boys they always been
crazy about each other and Just pals all the
time. So Roy who was always my baby boy
for all he is fourteen years he said, Mama
YOU let me go too, cause we can't get anything
TO do here and you don't earn enough and Just
as soon as we get any work we'll send you some
money
80 they starts off and I went TO work the
same morning and sent Lucille to school with
ten cents for her lunch that is all could ever
give has and you just know she couldn't get
very much for that.
THE next morning when starts off to work
my sister she came running over with the news
paper in her hand. She says "Aida, where are
your boys? And said Why my boys, they gone
to seek work in Memphis. And she says Aida
read this, and she hands me the paper just
looked long enough to see the names of my
children Roy and Andy and dropped the paper
felt SO sick just couldn't read any more You
just know how I felt. Here they started off
the day before, to seek work and now / see
this in the paper and it just made me clear
sick; but l just went off to work Just the same
and the lady that l works for she said Why
Aida are you sick or something? You look like
something terrible is the matter!'"
We'll / said there sure is something terrible
the matter. Just look at this and / gives her
The paper to read. She says Aida l sure am
sorry that your in such trouble and ! know
that yo.r e0x "a SenG6als AEa ghsa y !; hsr hlss.
The daily worker., 1931-05-19
Mr.. Pooh-Bah of Birghamton

The Son-in-law of the head of the Endcott-
johnson Shoe Corporation owns the Bingham
ton, N. Y, SUM-" which editorializes about the
Hunger Marches of the unemployed, in a way
that reminds me of the character Pooh-Bah in
Gilbert and SulliVan's ''Mikado'
Pooh-Bah boasted, readers may recall, that
he was born with a Sneer on his face"
So was the editor of the Binghamton suns
He sneers at the hunger marchers because they
are fed by sympathetic workers along the lines
OF march. Instead of seeing the significant So
ctal fact Of hungry men and women leaving
their homes (and what homesD to march hum
dreds of miles to dramatize the demand OF rnil4
lions of workers for Unemployment Insurance,
this pin-head reactionary sneers:
"The marehers to have good time
so well fed, by the time they reach their
destination, they may have forgotten what
they came for. Some red propagandists Some
plain buns"
And the editorial opens up with a cheap sneer
at the "bunion derbies" Concerning which an
unemployed worker of Bnghamton says "They
make joke out of the misery of the hungry
workers. but the time will come when the work
ers will make bunion racers out of the editors
of the yellow press and their masters"
The daily worker., 1931-05-19
Not a Bad Idea

The N. Y. Times is getting smart these days
III Is edltorlally suggesting that landlords print
or paste on their rent bills to apartment ten
ants, little notices saying something like this.
If your rent is $50 a month, 500 year OF
that goes to pay eXorbitant real estate taxes"
That, says the Times, would rally all the
tenants to help the poor and downtrodden land
lords to get tax reduction
Yeah, our heart lust bleeds for 1andordsl
Suppose they call a mass meeting of their ten
ants and call lis in to explain what we think
should be done about it, While it don't go far
enough, let us take even the suggestion of the
brilliant editor of the Times
The landlord puts note on the rent bill:
Your rent bill is high because I pay high
taxes. Out of every $50 get from you for rent,
1, alas, must pay $3.50 taxes. That's $50 a
year Don't you feel sorry for me? So? Then
protest about it! Your loving landlord"
To which the astonished and sympathetic
tenant might reply:
MY dearly beloved landlord: Your heartrend-
ing message is received. I am deeply touched
In fact I have been touched regularly every
month. How you can afford to pay 500 year
taxes out of $500 rent pay you is beyond my
imagination. That leaves you only $50 year
and the house live in when move out
Your tragic situation affected me so that went
from flat to flat in your whole apartment house
to see If something can be done about it, And
we organized Tenants League, connected with
the Unemployed Council, and have decided
Whereas: The landlord complains that Is
per cent of every dollar he collects from us in
rent goes to taxes;
Resolved, that, to stop this outrage we will
pay only 85 per cent Of the present rent And
be it further
Resolved that the House Committee exam
Inc the landlord on his other expenses with
view to our taking similar action, even if it
reduces our rent to zero. We refuse to be ac-
completes to the robbery of our loving land
lord"
The daily worker., 1931-05-19
BY ALrRED wAGENKNECHr
Secretary Trade Union Unity League Committee
on Work Among the Inempl0yed


Secretary Trade Union Unity League Committee
on Work Among the Unemployed
HIST at time when we could carry on more
effective struggles for immediate relief Tor the
unemployed and starving families and Tor un-
en,nlovrnent insurance, we are experiencing an
napermissible lull in our activities in the tleld
of work among the millions OF Jobess.
The starvation relief given by the city govern
ments and charity institutions has been prac-
ticallv cut down, in some cities as much as 40
nov cent BREAD lines and flop houses are being
discontinued,
II, Boston. New York, Newark and other cities
deen-poing exposures of graft in the charity Or
carnations and welfare boards of the city are
Going on. Money and relief collected for the
starving families has lined the pockets and
stouachs of capitalist politicians. In New York
60 cents out of every dollar collected was given
as collection commission to capitalist organlza-
tions that specialized in collecting funds Tor
charity
In New York $4,000 unemployed workers, who
had been given three days work week by the
Prosser charity committee, have been laid oil,
Seven thousand were laid off in Philadelphia
Additional thousands lost this ralef employ
ment in other cities.
CITY governments everywhere report that
charity funds have been exhausted and that they
do not know where to turn to meet the I'm
mense demands for food and relief for the I'M
employed.
Jobless thousands stormed the election board
employment bureaus in New York, where re-
gistrations we're conducted for only those who
had voted for two years in the city.
Five thousand unemployed men and women,
representing !, 500 poverty-stricken and starving
families threatened a food riot in Henryetta,
Oklahoma.
Capitalist charity organizations announce that
budgets must be increased as much as so per
cent if they are to continue relief work.
Capitalist experts on how little the unemployed
can eat and still remain alive are again issuing
charts on diets in profusion. Prof McCallum
of the John Hopkins University announces that
those unable to afford butter should eat leaf
food should consume in large quantities dried
alfalfa (hay) leaves and clover" The Bureau
of diet of the Hoover administration issued
chart which demands that a family of five
should live on S5 worth of food a week.
Hoovers national committee on employment
is engaging in a national advertising campaign
for Jobs under the slogan There are plenty of
horses if they'll all pull (the prosperity wagon
together" Paint, paper plumb your home and
fix the leak in the roof, sweep your sidewalk
and clean your back yard is, according to the
program, going to give jobs to the ten million
unemployed
Doak Green and other megaphone artists of
the pulng class are telling the country that
unemployment is decreasing prosperity is stag
ing a comeback, wait and have faith. A new
flood of capitalist demagogy is sweeping thru
the capitalist press.
In New Jersey, city constables entered the
home of a starving family of six, put chains