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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
Wales Wailingl

We often wondered what the Prince Of W.,
did when he wasn't traipsing around tbo .a
trying to stir up business for John Ruu al '"T
we've found out He's farmer We dOrn Nv INV
whether ne ever put spade in the soil hs INV
way ne owns big farm. On the basis of YI;'
IS telling the English farmers what b d. n,
says that the farmers are behind the times Sw.
farmers must study our markets." he said At +,
county talr IN Somerset. "A couple of outlets IA,
mother has replaced the great Joints Of basf a..
used to be eaten" The prince is leader n ~
movement to teach farmers how 30 pack thoir ~
duce to get top price.
The only trouble with all this advice ;s th.t
matter whether you put blue ribbon or 49,
one around sack of wheat, there's still too 1..,
wheat and you can't sell it. And when von ..Ds
sell joint of beef when unemployed worker, :.
starving, there's something wrong even /. =.
prince doesn't know it!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
Death to Enemies of Working Gas.

NOVOSIBIRSK, u S. s. R., May 27-Four en-
plOyes of the Consumers Cooperative Company Of
the city of BarnaIa, who were accused of sabot-
age by stealing 1,5OO bushels Of grain and other
fOOdstuffs, were sentence to be shot to death TO-
day by the lscal court.
The Consumers Cooperative is retail distri-
buting organization formed in each municipality
for distribution of foods and manufactured ar
ticles. Membership in the organization, held by
those in good standing among the populace. en-
titles the holder TO buy supplies at the lowest
prices.
This is the answer Of the Workers and Farmers
government to grating enemies of the wory;nO o
class. Under capitalism. grafters become cabinet
members, judges mayors, and presidents.
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By CLARA zETKIN

To All Members of the Interna-
tiOnal Red Aid!
To All Who Still Have a Human
C0nscienCel
Ts All Those in Whose Breast
Human Heart Still Beats!
Members and friends of the In
ternational Red Aid, and all of
you who still have a human con-
science and in whose breast a hu-
man heart still beats: unite to pre-
vent a most horrible legal crime,
SO horrible that it is hardly pos
sible even to imagine it. Unless
you act with speed and decision,
another murder will go down in
the annals of legal crime in the
United States, whose history is al
ready filled with horrors and
cruelty.
The indignation and wrath
aroused by the burning Of Sacco
and Vanzetti at the modern stake
the electric chair-has not vet
died down. Those two workers
were innocent, and would have
been acquitted even by bourgeoi:
class law, if they had been impair.
tally tried. Now the hangmer
stand ready to deliver up at one
blow, to horrible death by means
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
NORTHWEST YOUTH
AT FLAXTON, N. D.

A lively track meet was held at
Flaxton, N. D., May 20 as part of
the National Youth Rally held May
20 and 80. Entrants competed
from various parts of the north
west in the meet which opened at
300 p. m.
Winners of events were: BROAD
'JUMP-1st place, Irwin Nelson; I'd
place, Herbert Bulkey; BASE
BALL THROW-1st place, Helen
Stumprow; End place, Clara Nell
son; HIGH JUMP-1st place, Sa-
die Hill; End place, Della Negard;
60-YARD DASH-1st place, Sadie
Hill; End place, Carl Nelson.
These events were followed by q
baseball game between the Ray
mond Y. C. L. baseball team and q
Columbus team. The Raymond
players were badly trimmed by the
Columbus comrades in a score Oh
81 to Z.
/ After the field meet the com
rades went TO Ingerson's farm
house near Flaxton for big sup
per and an informal meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
German Workers Raid Food Stores

HAMBURG, May 26-BlOOdy collisions between
police and unemployed occurred here yesterday be-
tween police and unemployed. Several thousand
unemployed workers marched through the fashion
able streets, shouting eve hungry. Give US
bread" They smashed windows of elegant shops,
cafes, and overturned automobiles.
The police attack with clubs and revolvers, in
juring and arresting many. However, they were
unable to clear the streets.
A number of food stores were raided and food
stuffs seized Today the demonstrations con-
tinued. The police fired a hail of shots womding
Is workers and hitting an oil truck, causing fire
and destruction. One policeman was killed and
many workers were arrested.
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strong, firm masses forces must
be organized everywherel
All of you who still have con-
science, and in whose breast a
human heart still beats: to the
rescue of these eight youths, whom
the executioners are preparing to
drag 30 the electric chair! Whose
only guilt is that they were born
with black skins! Speak! Actl In
your front ranks will be uncount-
ed human beings from the United
States. You have not forgotten
that in the United States, men and
women of lofty minds, courage
and character, staked their names
their social status, their health,
their whole personality, and often
their very lives-for the abolition
of Negro slavery, for liberation
and equality for their black broth
ers and sisters. Do not let the
great example of these heroes re-
main dead facts in school text
booksl Let them now exert their
influence as a living force. The
great deeds of those heroic men
and women who, in the struggle
Of the masses for human right:
against prejudice and hatred, fear.
lessly unfurled and carried high
the banner of complete equality
and liberation for all those Ge.
prived of their rights, for the des
pissed and the oppressed-the
deeds are indelibly inscribed 81
the pages Of historyl
Do not allow a dark crime, tn,
murder of eight young Negroes. I.
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of this murderous instrument,
eight mere innocent workers.
In the state of Alabama, eight
young Negroes-mere boys the
oldest of them hardly 2O-have
been condemned to death.
And this, although it has been
proved that they did not commit
the crime of which they were &C
cused of having raped" two
white prostitutes. The accusation
is a deliberate lie, which was
made in order to serve the dark
ends of property owners and man.
ufacturers. These people want to
have the young Negroes burned
alive, in order 10 terrorize the
toiling Negro masses who are ris-
ing against exploitation and who.
together with their white brothers
and sisters, are building a united
front against hunger. imperialist
war and the bloody white terror.
The serious charge of which the
boys are accused showed itelf from
the very beginning to be ground.
less. and does not stand serious
examination. One of the prosti
tutes later definitely repudiatec
her testimony. The judges pro
ceeded TO ignore this fact as L
they had been deaf and blind. Tn,
most debasing race hatred o.
whites against blacks, the expires
sion of race arrogance and a low
standard of humanity and cultur'
awakened and dashed the bruta
instincts of the lynchers, and
was IN this atmosphere that tn,
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red squad appeared in the hall,
the fifteen thousand rose in their
chairs and in a storm of Kisses and
cat-calls, the squad withdrew.
Speaking in the name of thous-
ands of suffering poor farmers,
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor seconded
the nominations of Foster and
Ford
'The imperialist powers with
Japan in the lead, are rapidly de-
veloping their war against the
Soviet Union" Foster declared in
his speech of acceptance. They
think they can turn back the clock
of history by wiping out the be-
ginnings of the new world order
iof Socialism in the Soviet Union.
Foster explained the six points OF
the Communist Party's platform,
unemployment and social insur-
ance, the fight against wage cuts
emergency relief for farmers anG
exemption from taxes, equal rights
for Negroes and self-determina-
ton for the black belt, the srrug-
gle against terror, and the fight
against imperialist war.
In his speech of acceptance
Ford cited the danger of war a.
gainst the Soviet Union, the treat
ment of Negro soldiers in th<
last war, and called for a common
struggle for Negro and whit'
workers as the only way out o!
the crisis.
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be added, next to these illustrious
pages, TO the dark, bloody record
of lynching and legal crime. Pic
ture the inexpressible suffering of
the long period of imprisonment
before the final decision, when
the prisoners are daily and hourly
tortured by the terrible thought
that tomorrow or the day after
ward, the eKecutioners may come
to their cells in order to lead the
eight victims as sacrifices to the
altar of race hatred. The cry of
the countless masses must be
clenched into one giant fist, that
will tear to pieces the sentence OF
death and will hurl away the cleo
trio chair!
Every man or woman who is
silent, passive or Indifferent dur
ing the struggle for the freedom
OF the eight young Negroes, will
De an accomplice to this unpard-
enable crime. This crime viii be
an indelible, shameful stain on the
history of the United States and
on the history of humanity.
The struggle to save the eight
young lives from suffering and
from murder in the electric chat,
becomes historical struggle Of
enormous significance between I'm.
prejudiced humanity and high cul.
ture, against brutal, blood-thirst
race hatred.
In this struggle, humanity mus
be triumphant. It's triumph is as.
sured If every man and woman
will conscientiously and bravel,
fulfill his or her duty to the verv
end. All for the causel Into ~,
fight!
And fight for strong Red Aid
hardened in the battle against tn,
white terror and for the interna
tional solidarity Of all races an,
nationalitiesl
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without a fight?" twelve hundred
voices roared mo"
Kentucky Gunmen Slug Delega-
ton
In attacking the prevailing ter
ror, BrOwder announced that the
Kentucky delegation of fifteen to
the Communist Nominating Con-
vention, was halted by a band of
gunner in the pay of coal opera
tors and beaten up. Three of the
delegation managed to escape and
appear at the Convention. One of
them, Bige Wilson, appeared on
the platform in a thunder of ap-
plause.
Fifteen Thousand at Coliseum
Meeting
At the Coliseum meeting in the
evening, at which Is thousand at
tended, B. D. Ami, Negro work.
er and Ohio District Organizer Of
the Communist Party, proposed
VIM. 2. Foster as president; C. A
Hathaway nominated J. w. Ford
Alabama Negro workers as vice
president. The Communist Part,
proposes to destroy the Solo
South" Hathaway said, "as wei
as Hooverism's Lily Whitism'. w,
propose to do this by establishing
the fighting solidarity of the Ne
gro and white toilers-the work
ers and tenant farmers" Bot
candidates receivd ovations il
which hundreds of red banner
waved throughout the huge hall
women, men, and children. Negr
and white, joined in the fifteel
: minute parade around the hal
singing the Party's fighting song
. the International.
When the Chicago police forces
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
Starvation Faces Mexican Workers

MEXICO CITY, May 27.-The important min
ing company of Col BoleO in Santa Rosalia, Low
er California, is likely in the near future to close
down, throwing more than 1920 men out of work,
according TO rumors reported geographically to
Mexico City.
The families of the workers number approxim-
ately 10000 persons and shutdown would mean
starvation in the nearby region which depends
economically entirely on the wages paid by the
company.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
HOLD NATIONAL YOUTH DAY In
FLAXTON, N. D. DESPITE SHERIFF
American Legion Boy Scouts, and National Guard Fail
to Prevent Meeting

Despite the united attempt of
the sheriff, the American Legion,
Boy Scouts and National Guard
the National Youth Day Meeting
for North Dakota and eastern
Montana was held May 30 in Flax
ton, North Dakota. These anti
working class organizations did
everything possible to prevent the
meeting from taking place.
The American Legion had called
in about 20 posts to attend the
Memorial Day celebration and a
company of National Guardsmen
came from Minot, as much In or
der to terrorize the farmers and
workers in and around Flaxton as
to celebrate Memorial Day.
! The National Youth Day meet
started at 4:30 p. m. on one of the
streets near the edge of town. The
chairman, Russell Jensen, of Flax
ton, introduced the first speaker
Sadie Hill of Belden, North pGko-
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Ia, who spoke for the Young Com
munist League.
Comrade Hill pointed out the
differences between the conditions
of the youth in capitalist America
and in the Soviet Union and call
ed on the workers and farmers
to defend the Soviet Union in case
of am imperialist attack.
After the next speaker, Rodney
Salisbury, had started, the sheriff
appeared with some mainstreeter
Legionnaires and declared that no
street meetings could be held in
the streets of Flaxton. He threat
ened the SPEAKERS with physical
violence if they did not move inn
mediately. When called on this he
denied having said so. The speak
ers pointed out to the audience
the kind of democracy" that was
being handed out in Flaxton, with
the constitutional rights OF free
speech, and free assemblage de-
MED to those who are organizing
the farmers for struggle.
The meeting was moved TO va
can't lot which had been promised
for National Youth Day on the
previous day. No sooner had the
speaker, Salisbury, started again
than the sheriff showed up with
the owner of the lot who told the
speakers that they could not have
their meeting there. When re-
minded of his promise of tbs day
before that they could use the lot
he denied having made any sucn
promise. The sheriff had helped
him to forget"
A sympathiser then offered a
pasture on the edge of town for
the use of the speakers. BY the
time the meeting opened up In
this pasture there were severa:
hundred present.
Erik Bert, speaking for the
Communist party, pointed out the
reason for the police measures.
The capitalist class is afraid of the
militant organization of the farm
ers. When he had started to point
out the present existence of the
working class youth in the United
States and had pointed out that
under capitalism the future of the
youth is one of misery and hard
ship a company of National
Guardsmen, in uniform, marched
into the pasture. The Guardsmen
PLANTED themselves, at the orders
of their officers In front of the
truck from which the speaker was
addressing the crowd.
1t did not suit the officers al
all that the guardsmen should
hear the picture of the conditions
of the working class youth that
the speaker was describing. The
Guardsmen were ordered to clear
the pasture. The speaker announc-
ed that the owner of the pasture
Mrs. Fred Christensen, invited
everyone to stay who wanted to
Nobody moved.
After this failure to break vi
the meeting the National Guard
! together with the Legion heads
: consulted a while and then order
: ed the National Guard to fall int
; line and marched them off Whel
2 the Guardsmen left some of tn,
Legionnaires and Boy Scouts ais
i left, as well as town folks VIII,
: were terrorized into leaving.
a The meeting continued with3u
interruption to the end. Der
9 pointed out that the tactics use,
against the farmers and worker
at the meeting was the same a
: that used by the capitalist elias
a all thru the country to prevent tn
: masses from organizing for strug
gle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
COPS BEAT FRANK JACKSON
LEADER OF TAMPA PIONEERS
Arrested May Is At Anti-War Demonstration Beaten
and Told Not to Return to Tampa

"It takes more than the police
of Tampa to scare me out of the
city"
That's what Frank Jackson, Pho
neer leader in Tampa, Florida,
says to- the cops and LegionnaireS
of the American Legion-whO
thought they could get rid of him.
And how they tried!
frankie is a real Pioneer and
he's trying to train all the work
ers' kids in Tampa to be real Pho
neers too. Just like he did in Red
Hook, Brooklyn. His Pioneer
troop there certainly showed some
real Pioneer work. They invited
all the kids in the neighborhood to
a meeting at their headquarters
You see, clubs in Red Hook had
been forced to pay for the use of
the school gym for meetings af-
ter school hours. The Pioneers
knew how wrong this was and how
hard it was. So at this meeting
they organized all the boys and
girls present into a parade and
they marched Though the streets
to the school shouting, eve want
a free gym-We demand a free
gym"
They stood in front of The
school for half an hour shouting
and shouting. Finally the princi-
pal had to let them in. And the
end of the story was that they did
get free gym.
Well, when frankie got to Tam
pa, he got busy on the job imme-
diately. The Young Communist
League called an Anti-War and
Scottsboro protest meeting a few
days ago. frankie was one of the
speakers. He was just in the mid
die of his speech when the Chief
of Police accompanied by cops anC
members of the American Legion
walked in and ordered him to stoE
speaking. He refused.
A gang of them jumped on hin
and dragged him off to Jail. There
they beat him up something awful
Both his eyes were blackened anC
his nose was broken. Then they
released him-into the hands O.
the American Legion. These thug'
took him outside the city wher,
they beat him on the back will
horse whips and left him uncon
scious, in the middle of the road
"Better stay out of Tampa" they
said to him.
Lucky for frankie there was
lake near by. When he came to
he crawled over to it and battle,
his wounds. He spent the rest o
the night in the woods and in tn
morning, battered up as he was
he walked the Is miles back t
Tampa.
Right now he's in bed recover
ing and getting ready to carry o,
the fight. Thee's plenty of fight
ing to do in Tampa where tn
Spanish speaking cigar worker
are Disseminated against like tn
Negroes in the South and wher
their every effort to better thei
condition is answered by wholesal
arrests and deportations.
So Frankie isn't listening to tn
police order to stay out of lamp
and his only worry is that tn
Pioneer work may go a little slow
er in his absence.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03
Communists Give Fascists Beating

BERLIN, May 26-Fierce collisions occurred be-
tween young Communists and fascists in various
parts of the city here today. The fascists were
seriously mauled. One sent to the hospital
Police dubbed energetically, making number Of
arrests.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03

The following appeal on behalf
of the nine framed Scottsboro boys
was written by Clara Zetkin, vet
eran of the labor movement, and
now over 70 years old. Zetkin has
taken active part in the revolution
airy movement for over so years,
and during the last quarter Of a
century has been most active in
the leadership of working class
women. She has been for a num-
Der of years a member of the Ger
man Reichstag.
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The Hunger Congress Approp,iat..l

WASHINGTON, May 27-Busts of Nchla,
Longworth and Oscar Underwood will soon ioh
those OF four other past House leaders near vA
Capital rotunda. The House today allotted s25@
each Tor acquiring the busts. Those already stand
ing Just outside the House chamber are Of Cham
Clark, James R. Mann, Martin Madden and Clam,
Kitchen.
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LONDON, May Give are likely to have
complete economic collapse in Europe within the
merit few months" said L. S. Amery, member of
the House of Commons and former Secretary Of
State for DOminiOns, in addressing the Conserve
tive Association of Oxford University tonight.
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of the greatest crisis ever known
is Billions for the banks and
corporations; hunger, starvation,
oppression and imperialist war for
the workers and farmers"
To Browder's question "Will the
American workers submit to this
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Half of German Factories Closed

More than fifty per cent of the factories in
Germany idle at the present time, according to
speech of Stegerwald, German Minister of La
bor before the German Economic Society on May
q. He admitted also that more than half of the
population is dependent in one way or another on
the miserable relief the German capitalist class is
handing out.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-06-03

Waltersheusan, Germany, May "a rcs
icemen were wounded by bullets, knives 81. -. de-
in a struggle with unemployed workers WIN .0sn-
monstrated when the government cut 'H go int
ployment relief 10 per cent. The ponce vOrt
the crowd wounding three workers. Se''D
-rs were arrested.
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Attack War Veterans With Tear Gas

Police attacked crowd of 400 world war vet
Grams and sympathizers in New Orleans May
go with tear gas and threatened to shoot if they
did not disperse. The veterans plan
nng to go TO Washington to demand the soldiers
bonus from the Hunger Congress
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Summer school has began in the
German Lutheran church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold MikkeIson
are back from Iowa.
Evelyn. granddaughter of William
Mack. who has been staying with
her grandfather the past year, is
leaving with her father for Arizona
May 31st.
Everyone is feeling more hopeful
after the rain of the 30th and 31st
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They Must Not Die!

following behalf of Scottbo
by Clara Ze1n of the labor old
Zet1n taken
has number of of the Rchstag
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Postal Telegraph Cuts Wages Again

The Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation has
announced reductions in wages of approximately
10 per cent, effective on June /, applicable to all
employees except messengers.
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Unemployed and Police Clash

DORTMUND, May 26-ColIisions occurred be-
tween unemployed and police yesterday evening.
Many workers and two policemen were injured
Twenty-Five workers were arrested.
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Wall Street Rule in Nicaragua

One peasant was killed May 20 IN Se.a.rastJ
and a group of militant peasants a.
Nicaragua.
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TFIRESHINC'
1T OUT
All That GIitters

News item (MOnt. Sweet c..
Thousands in Montana will vo ro,, NeN9'
this year. with pans and rocker ~, 49, seeing
boxes, and if the seekers do 49, NO SuU
uncover an EaDOradO they will aC'uaHy
at least with some gold and A. e back
glow of health. the rdds
long time ago the ruling class fo,,u,
gold mining was no longer profitable -. 80 Nat
they filled their pockets and beat Il II ae's
the states of Montana and Colorado aro ea'"s's
lot of unemployed workers around 80 'uug
heavy on their hands. These unemnlo,,os 'Hs
might organize and fight for the broad ~ "Orkss
ing they need, and are therefore Do OOa
ruling class has hit upon the idea of 80. lie
unemployed out of the way by sett;ro. ing a. De
work washing sands for gold that w.. Sen
out % years ago. In Denver thew avor "'Snet
school to teach men how to look for gold 1--WE a
1t is plain that the ruling class Is viii.
everything for the unemployed excent .e
relief. The men who go gold seeEino IN ~sn
lucky to ct a few dollars for the sumros, p4' d
over the sand under the hot sun dav ;, Deuls
ly to give one painful sunburn and So IAS
than "the ruddy glow of health" Thu ~. Oaci
to get ruddy glow of health is to b.vo ~ way
meat and fresh vegetables to keen stron. 'HOugn
that's just what the ruling class refuses =, Ha'
the workers. give