Plentywood herald., 1931-10-01
PROVIDE RELIEF.


The Northwest Division of the Farm
ers Union, composed of the States of Wis
consin. Minnesota, North Dakota and Mon
tana. at the conclusion of session attended
by Union officials of the four states named
and the Boards of Directors of the Union
business activities, which begun on Tuesday,
September I'D and ended Saturday. Sept
ember 26th took definite steps to provide
relief for the farmers Of the drouth area of
Montana and North Dakota
NJ W. Thatcher was made chairman OF
a permanent relief committee, which COM
mittee will function during the period of
time that relief must be provided, namely
until crop and subsistence are provided by
nature, which in the Northwest can not be
realized before June 1882.
Three definite relief measures will be
undertaken by this committee, as follows:
First, an application for loan from the
Federal Farm Board to buy sufficient wheat
to make maximum of 100000 barrels Of
flour, the flour and by-products to be turned
over to the Red Cross for distribution to
farmers exclusively in the drouth area of
Montana and North Dakota
We are asking for this loan on the same
terms given to China, namely five year re-
payment period and low interest rate. The
note to secure the repayment Of the loan will
be signed by the Farmers Union Terminal
Association, the Farmers Union Livestock
Commission Company, the Farmers Union
Central Exchange and the State Farmers
Union organizations of Montana North Da-
kota and Wisconsin,
The wheat would be brought up to the
mills by the Farmers Union From that point
the transportation and distribution will be
turned over to the Red Cross, with the stip-
ulation that the flour and by-products are to
be distributed free to farmers exclusively.
Second, the Farmers Union Terminal
Association by action of the Board of Direc-
tors, voted revolving fund of $4,000 to
provide turkey feed The feed is to be dis
tributed to farmers who have turkeys for
market but lack feed to fatten them. The
feed is being manufactured in the feed plant
of the Farmers Union Terminal Association
located at Minneapolis The feed will be sold
on a cost basis, consisting only of charges
for labor, material, sacks and freight No
charge will be made for overhead, office or
field expense.
Third, relief committee has been or
ganized to be known as the Northwestern
Drouth Relief Committee, with headquar-
ters in the Minnesota Building The Ameri-
can National Bank of ST. Paul has been made
custodian of all donated funds.
Employees of the Farmers Union at ST.
Paul and So. ST. Paul have undertaken to
raise an initial fund Of $4,000, the major
part of which was subscribed at one meeting
of the employees at which only heads Of de-
partments were present This fund will be
enlarged by popular subscriptions and used
to pay cost of moving donated vegetables,
fruits and clothing into the drouth area.
Committees to handle all details of the
above were selected at meetings on Saturday
and Sunday September 10Th and 9th, and
are in readiness to function.
The Municipa Warehouse on the
banks of the Mississippi River will be used
as an assembling plant for ST. Paul donations
and for articles brought in by truck through
out the St. Paul trucking, area.