The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-10
BUY MANY NEWS"
Workers can Get Adequate
Relief Only by Making
Militant Demands
MINOT PAPER LIES
Jail Other Agent of Produc-
ers News on Vag Charge
to Prevent Sales
By ]. C. ACHTZENER

(Who has been selling the Produc-
ers News and the Daily Worker.)
Minot, N. D., June L. l would
like TO inform you of how the au-
thorities treat a worker in this
town for selling the Producers
News.
l started yesterday morning and
after selling a few copies / was
ushered to the police station and
the chief told me that l wouldn't
be allowed TO sell this paper unless
l quit hollering out what was in
it. 1t was alright to just give the
name of the paper he said.
went back on the street and
resumed selling the paper In the
same manner / had sold it previ-
ously. l was told by another flat
foot that l had better do as the
chief said or he would arrest me.
1 just ignored this collector of
graft and continued to sell. The
people showed very much interest
and in spite of the rain 1 sold AZ
papers.
That same evening an mem-
ployed meeting was taking place
and we, Comrades Omholt, Allen
and myself, attended. This meet
ing was organized by police
stool pigeon. After telling the
workers (who were getting a lit
tie relief that they ought to go
to the city commissioners and tell
them that they would feel better
if they were allowed TO work for
this relief as they had been doing
until several weeks ago, I asked
the speaker (stool pigeon) if I
could say a few words, which he
granted me.
; l explained how the workers
were getting relief in other parts
of the country by going to the
court houses in large masses and
. demanding that relief which they
| themselves had produced and pay
ed for a hundred times.
4
This man, Compton, Of course
didn't Like that and finally asked
if / were a Communist. Of course
1 answered in the affirmative.
tried to gc on explaining that the
Communists were the only ones
who tried to do anything for the
masses of the workers. Of course
this police stool pigeon who had
the workers on his side refused to
/, allow me to say any more and the
meeting adjourned right away.
, The next day l went down to
) sell more copies of the Producers
News. I had no sooner started
; when I was arrested and charged
> with disorderly conduct. Bail was
> set at $25. They tried to make it
! appear as though was arrested
for the talk / made at the meet
, ing the night before.
This yellow stool pigeon told the
l authorities that / had denounced
the constitution of the United
States, that l wanted to down the
American flag. The Minot Daily
News. a yellow capitalist sheet
and the publishers of the worst
: kind of lies received this lie with
the enthusiasm of any other of its
sister papers published by the in
human capitalist system, which is
today doing all it can to suppress
: militant working class papers such
: as the Producers News the Daily
!. Workers, etc. I was released on a
l bond of $25 and the hearing set
!, for June 10.
p Jim Allen was also arrested on
3 vagrancy charge. He was al
: rested for calling this stool pigeon
damned liar after these lies were
( published. These cases are both
t to be heard on the same day.
II The same bunch of American
: Legionnaires who tried to stop the
3 meeting at Flaxton have threaten
o ed to hang me if I didn't leave
town Immediately.