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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

whether he had signed bill of
sale or mortgage, although he
had supposedly signed a M rtgage.
All he knew was that some one
had come and taken all of his
stock but a calf and a chicken. His
machinery was also gone.
About 20 or so of us drove from
his place to a bankers farm to
take it up with him as he was
supposed to be the one behind the
works. He told US to get to hell
off his place. l don't know the
outcome of this affair, but do
know if this poor farmer hasn't
got his machinery back he soon
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

ceedings against a couple who
have lived on the same farm for
80 years and are now threatened
with foreclosure. The farm con-
tains 100 acres and has a $4,000
mortgage against it. Neighbors
say they win fight militantly to
help the farmer retain his home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
INSIST ON KEEPING
COUNTY AGENT THO
FARMERS OBJECT

Hancock, Mich, Dee. 6.-The
Board of Supervisors insists on
maintaining the office Of county
agent here, although through pc
titions and mass dtmonst atoms
under the leadership of the United
Farmers League, the farmers
have definitely shown they do not
and cannot bear the useless ex-
pense of supporting a county
agent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
KIDNAP WORKERS

Yesterday, six arrested strikers
were taken from jail by band of
IS unidentified men and driven to
the country. They were badly
beaten and painted red and warned
to leave the county. The chief of
police said he didn't know any
thing about the kidnapping nor
how the armed band obtained the
kew to the jail. Workers strongly
suspect that he aided and abetted
the kidnappers. He was conven-
ientlv absent at the time the
raiding occurred.
No scabs outside of a few fore
men are working on the ranches.
The picket patrols of the Agricul-
tural Workers Industrial Union
which is leading the strike are on
the job and make the rounds of
the ranches every day on trucks.
COMMITTEE VISITS TOWN
Saturday representatives of the
Committee for the Protection of
Political Prisoners visited the pris-
oners. Donald Bingham, young
strike leader, is still in Jail held
on the exhorbitant bail IF $4,000
cash or $4,000 property bond.
Although workers raised prop
ety bond to the value of 100000
based on tax assessments, the
Judge has refused to accept it, say
ing that the value of the property
was only $68O0. There is grave
darper thet Bingham is being hello
for lyrching.
The committee also visited sew
eral townspeople who have beer
attempting to terrorize the strik-
eTs
Ore. w. N. Goodman, a Demo
cratic boss, said "I am not in favor
Of lyrchirg except in extreme nee
eSsity," ard added that it was nee
essary in Vacaville.
MINISTER FOR LYNCHING
The Rev. A. F. Fruhling, loca
minister, was most vicious TOWARD
the ST. Ting farm workers who ar,
Wagirg their struggle to get tn,
melest subsistence level of wages
Shouting in Anita Whitney's face
a member Of the visiting commit
tee. ne said, cit would be a goo,
thing if half dozen of them wer
lynched."
The committee was greeted en-
Enthusiastically by the workers VIII
were erheartened by the sclidarit,
Of workers from other parts o
the state. Truckloads of relic
which have arrived have ais
helped the strikers to keep on tn
picket lines and determined
fight to the end.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
CORN AND
WOOD FOR FUEL.
S. d. Farmer Uses Russian
Thistles to Keep
Warm

Canton, S. D., Dec. 1O.-With
the best grades of corn command
ing a bottom price and poorer
grades ranging still were, many
farmers have found that the sales
of their corn will not buy enough
coal to keep them over the whit r.
They, therefore, have been forced
to use the results of their sum-
mer's labor as fuel.
One independent school district
in the state has advertised for bids
on 485 bushels of corn to be used
to heat the school house.
CHEAPEST FUEL
While the heat value of corn
is only about half that of coal,
yet it is the cheapest fuel that
farmers can use. r. L. Patty,
professor of agricultural engineer
ing at the South Dakota State
College, has found after a series
of tests that it takes 571a bushels
Of corn to equal in heating power
one ton Of good grade soft coal.
Corn as it comes from the field
will give off 6,367 B. T. UPS &c
the pound, while soft coal pro
duces 12,767. Figured on a cost
basis, corn worth 10 cents bushe
or $2.86 a ton, will produce as fue
4,452,6O0 B. T. US for each dollar
of cost. Coal will bring only 2,
837,170 B. 7. Us for each dolla,
of cost.
USES THISTLES IN STOVE
Fred Gilbert, a farmer Living
near DeSmet, has been forced t,
gather Russian and Canadian thist
les to use as fuel. He has devise,
a blazer with which he compresse
them into three pound bricks.
brick lasts half an hour ana pro
puces a hot fire. However, a
enormous amount of time and en-
ergy is consumed in getting thu
half hour of heat.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

ity are the most hospitable ard
friendly of any we have met. We
have been treated as part IF them
and given every comfort possible
Thanksgiving dinners CT chicken
and all the Atkins" sure did taste
good after two days Of baIonsy
and bread.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
ATTACK RETURNING
MARCHERS

Marchers are making the return
trip in orderly columns. However.
police Of Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Virginia attempted to dispense
the Western delegation, attacked
them brutality and attempted to
force them, in some cases, out of
their trucks to journey over the
mountains on foot.
They were at first barred from
Pittsburgh but mass protest Of
workers inside the city won them
the right o enter and get lodging
the right to enter and get lodeinS
continue westward through Cieve.
land. Large mass meetings are
planned for them wherever Eh@v
make their stops.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
STOPPED 100 EvICTIONs

The first speaker Lux of Nebraska, big stocky,
soldier the army of occupation in Germany after the
He revealed the role of the mortgage sharks and bankers and
companies He showed the how the
Madison Cuny Plan his state fight evctons
They stopped hundred evons with their militant action
He called for united front of American farmers Amer
lean SOIL The Nebraska delegation suggestion sang
songs the chief of which had its chorus the cry of
"Soidarity solidarity"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
TENANTS LIVE
ON CORN PONE
Never Get Enough to Eat;
Work for 81 Per
Day

Browns Cove, Va, Dec. 6.-I
am in the foothills of the Blue
Ridge. Conditions among tenants
and sharecroppers are terrible.
Here, there is not even a whisper
of the farmers organization that
is making the proletariat of the
West into a solid mass to fight the
starvation policy of the wealthy
landowners and bankers.
HEAR OF FARM STRIKE
read about the farm strike to
a share cropper. He couldn't read
and his children are too ragged
and poor to go to school. He sat
On the porch and pulled at his
beard.
His cabin was implanted and the
yard was worn smooth and caught
the rain and became muddy.
We sat there, and he said the
rich were taking everything, and
it was no use to farm because the
price you get for crops was too
low to pay for the labor of raising
them. He said the farmers would
have to get together and not send
anything to the cities and starve
the city people so prices would be
/ higher. told him he couldn't get
anywhere unless the city workers
would help the farmers, and fight
against the rich with him. He got
hp and shook his fist at the noun
tain and sad:
LIVE ON CORN PoNE
"You're a-trying to starve u:
poor folks, and you amt never
laid a hand to help us make oul
crops. and we gotta live on corr
,pone and mouldy meat while yol
rich run around IN them big car
and don't want to give US nothln
for our work. You got the law
and the guns, and the jails, blu
bv gawd we amt a-goin to stan'
this being dogs much longer"
The tenants and share-cropper
never get enough to eat, and whe,
thew worked in the orchards al
they got was 81 day for te.
hours work and some of them ar
willing to do work just for thel
meals. When they get sick the
don't have any money to pay bill:
and some doctors take away thel
hogs and crops for payment.
People are losing their farms
and the share cropper and tenant
are nothing but slaves and the ye
low Socialists go about preacnllnl
their slop about making friend
, with the rich and cooperating
.. until it makes you sick.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
lBY A. H. EusTIsl

Omaha, Nebr., Nov. Isl took
a few notes on our way from Idaho
to the Farmers National Relief
Conference in Washington, D. c.,
and here they are:
Now and then / would fall asleep
as We relied through the cornfields
of Nebraska, wake up only to see
more corn-a sort of endless sea
of corn, something like seasick-
ness would come over me ard l
would again fall asleep, only to.
awake and see rnOse co-n-corn
from hell to breakfast-then fields
of waving grass you've read about.
FRIENDLY TREATMENT
When we arrived at Newman
Grove a reception committee met
US One of the delegates knew Of
a farmers coop garage and for
tunateiV we ran into t he first
thing. There was a large group
of people sitting around the fire
talking about US when we drove
no. Jones and / had the good
fortune of getting a house in
town. The people of this commun-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
FARMERS REPORT ON =
MTOLERABLE PLIGHT
Conference Delegates Tell of Wide Suffering
(BY NJ. 3D.

Washington, D. c., Dec 8.-COmng from &c states, $50
delegates joined in the demand for moratorium mort
cages taxes and interest payments evcons and fore
closures the National Farm Relief Conference which opened
he yeseda Additional famer-deegaes expected to
arrive TODAY.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

b;Ob although many have under der:
zone one much suffering on their TRIP 2
= washington, having endured
both hunger and cold.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
FOR MORTGAGE
MORATORIUM

After the sale farmers held
mass meeting at which resolutions
for repeal of mandatory laws and
a moratorium on farm mortgages
were unanimously passed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
INVESTIGATE CROOKED
DEAL

Thanksgiving afternoon we went
with a crowd of farmers to farm
II miles out to investigate an
apparently crooked deal against a
farmer. This farmer did not know
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

west and particularly in Montana
where Comrade Wright spent so
many active years are shocked at
the sudden loss of their veteran
leader.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
BIDS
In CO. TAX SALE
Iowa Farmers Also De-
nnand Moratorium on
Debts

Spencer, Iowa, Dec. L About
500 United Farmers members and
others crowded the county treas
urer's office and courthouse lobby
at the time set for the Clay coun-
ty tax sale last Monday.
Farmers successfully restrained
all bidders and no bids were Of
fered.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
Use TERROR AGAINST STRIKING
CALIFORNIA TREE PRIMERS. SIX
TAKEN FROM JAIL AND BEATEN
IS MEN KIDNAP ARRESTED WORKERS TELL
THEM TO LEAVE COUNTRY
Donald Bingham, Arrested Leader, Held on
Exhorbitant Bail
RANKS REMAIN SOLID AND NO SCARS ARE
ON THE JOB

yacaville, Calf, Dec. 6.-Strik-
ing tree primers who are fighting
> cut in day rates from $3.50 to
1925 are keeping their "a ks
solid. in spite of vicions terror in
stituted against them by the bust
nessmen. ranch owners and Amer
lean Legion.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
VETERANS FLOCK
TO WASHINGTON,
DEMANDING BONUS
Many Come on Freights;
Held Public Hearing and
Present Petition

Washington, D. c., Dec. 10.More
ex-soldiers, demanding immediate
payment of the bonus and no cuts
IN disability allowance, are con-
Imuallv Joining the 1000 already
at the capital.
TRY TO BAR VETERANS
Police are using every effort to
keep the war veterans out of the
city Many were hustled out of
the city when the Hunger March
cts left On their trip home. They
remained at Baltimore and plan
ued to return to Washington. A
contingent of Newark bonus
9archers were stopped at Hyatts-
vile Md, by so armed police.
a The California delegation stated
uat at least 1000 more veterans
are on their way to Washington
aboard freight trains.
O1 Monday, a public hearing will
oe held at which ex-servicemen
ano disabled veterans will give
Al testimony TO prove lnaI
;;ney are starving and must have
immediate payment Of the bonus.
DEMAND IMMEDIATE
PAYMENT
~. On Tuesday, a committee Of ex.
SSUldlers will present a petition Il
SSSngress demanding payment Of
NY Jle bonus and no cuts in disabilit,
aalowances. President Hoover hal
a. sLready shown his attitude toward
we veterans by his speech TO Con
siess in which he urged slashins
u mOre than $127,OO0,00O from tn,
compensation to disabled ex
servicemen.
in On Wednesday, a mass mem
S Tl will be held in Arlington
Semetarv in honor of the two vet
~rans' Hushka and Carlson, wh
July. :" "@S"'"s 'O'i '"4
The spirit Of the veterans Il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16

Elkhorn, Wis, Dec. with
rifle fire puncturing his house
from all sides, Max Cichon, farmer
held off for over an hour 20 dep
uty sheriffs who wanted to fore
close his home.
FIRE 800 ROUNDS
Danger to his wife and two
children, Virginia, 10 and Max 5,
finally led to his surrender. SheT-
iff john Mason and his men fired
800 rounds of ammunition at the
house, blasting several windows,
and coming periously near injur-
ing the family. A piece of plaster
fell on the boys head and Cichon
was slightly grazed by glass.
/ Cichon and his wife had no de-
tense but an old shotgun.
HEROIC DEFENSE
Both Cichon and his wife put up
a heroic defense to keep them
selves and their children from be-
ing evicted from their home, but
they were finally defeated by the
sheriff and his gunner. Since
last April the sheriff has been
trying to force Cichop eff the land
The Bank of Elkhorn held a mort.
! gage on the Cichon farm and
when Cichon was unable to pay il
off because of ruinous farm prices
the bankers foreclosed.
REAL BATTLEFIELD
Several times the sheriff at thu
behest of the bank has ATTEMPTED
to evict the Cichon family from
the farm, but Cichon drove hin
away every time. This tool of tn
banks and enemy of the farmer
the last time set up a regular
battlefield outside Cichon's home.
Deputies surrounded the house
in the night and prepared to be
siege the house from behind tree
and automobiles. The sheriff Sc
up field telephone line and for
time directed his men from a clum
of trees on the hillside. After
telephoning three times to as
Cichon to SURF snder, the latter fir
4 ally did in order to save his fan
$ lily from death at the hands Q
q the sheriff.
Both Cichon and his wife wer
put in Jail and held under $3.50
bail which, of course, they wei
! unable to raise. The United Farm
. = ers League and the Information;
: Labor Defense are sending Law
lyer to defend them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
MARCHERS RETURN
HOME AFTER HUGE
PARADE IN CAPITAL
Attacked IN Three States
on HoHneward
Journey

After their triumphant march
through Washington, the 5000
Hunger Marchers left the capital
on December 6 to return home to
report to the tens of thousands of
delegates who elected them in the
cities all over the country.
1000 EX-SOLDIERS IN
MARCH
The Hunger Marchers were
joined in their parade by 1000 ex-
servicemen and some farmers who
were already at the capital for the
Farmers National Relief Confer
ence held December ITO. Thou
sands of Washington workers jam
med the sidewalks applauding the
marchers as they went by.
The marchers paraded to Penn
sylvania avenue where they halted
while their elected committees pre-
scented their demands for $50 win
ter relief and federal unemploy :
ment insurance to vice president
Curtis and Speaker Garner of the
House of Representatives. The
presiding officers of Congress gave
very evasive answers to the COM
mittees of the unemployed and il
is clear that only renewed strug-
giles on the part of the unemployed
will win relief.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
CHOP TREES

Many workers, unable to buy
coal, have had to chop down trees
for fuel. Many acres of woodlots
along streams and hills have been
stripped by workers in order to
keep themselves and their families
from freezinz to death this win
ter.
MINERS STARVING
At the same time the United
States has rich coal deposits and
thousands Of miners are out of a
job and starving fol lack of the
corn that is being burned.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
MOTHER BLOoR GIVEN OVATION

Mother Bloor, veteran fighter, well known especially
among the farmers cut West representative of the
United Farmers League She given rousng reception
by the farmers present She vivid picture of the two
Iowa likes.
Marshall of Ohio and Bauman of Minnesota delivered
fiery speeches about conditions in their respective states
They called for united action with unemployed workers in the
cities
This a revolutionary movement Noticeable
here there confusion right wing tendencies in the
of farmer who felt there too much criticism of
the government going The farmers have lot to
the experience of the farmers in Soviet Russia
The first days meeting full of eoquence fire. winged
phrases and branshng of fists The eyes of the workers
farmers of the United States this Conference in
Washington.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
NEGRO DELEGATE SPEAKS

Stephen Stafford of Florida Negro delegate spoke of
conditions tie flower garden state He described how diff
cult for the Negro group to get to the Conference He
told how Negro farmers starving Seven months of
every year and that didn't help the farmers making
living Farm hands make fifty cents day. They not
paid all that in cash Only onethrd of is paid Rest in
groceries when the crop sold by the landlord If frost
hits the crop ard makes worthless the farmland gets what
is left after the frost and landlord through-hch is
ncthrg dairy farmer of Pennsylvania showed that in spite
of the fact that the farmers he representing live
greatest markets the world they by the
crisis much the Dakota farmers who live thirty miles
away from a onehorse town
Farmers from Wyoming, New Jersey, Connecticut Mon
tsna ard Wash gon spoke Nathaie Kerachsky of Con-
neccut sa "Weve been told by politicians that Connecticut
is the only solvent state in the Union We didn't know it
until they told about it, Andy Ola Of Montana described
how his group of farmers passed Through Clinton Iowa.
their way the Corfeeree and there they saw the
lines children six old, eating that tasted
had soaked barrel of rain water And when
Ola remembered in flash that out west there thou
sands of beef sheep of undug potatoes which could be
used to fill the cheeks and bellies of these starving children
he than determined that something must be
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
WOMAN SPEAKS

The women are represented the Conference Mrs
Chase of New Hampshire spoke She is hard working
the last twenty has been able to buy only two
hats herself each than thyfive cents She
here at the Conference because she believes that good
things of life belng the consumer Also little Mary OhscO
from Pennsylvania spoke She heartrendng picture
of the suffering of farmers children
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
SHERIFF FIRES
ON FARMER IN
EVICTION CASE
20 Deputies Besiege Farm,
Firing 800 Rounds of
Shot
! FARMER JAILED
Puts UP Heroic Struggle
In Defense of His
Home
FARMER JAILED

Elkhorn, Wis, Dec. 6.-With
rifle fire puncturing his house
from all sides, Max Cichon, farmer
held off for over an hour 20 dep
uty sheriffs who wanted to fore
close his home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-16
NEBRASKA FARMERS ARE FOUND MILITANT
Idaho DELEGATE on W.. M,L.a =

E On Way 70 washington Participates in StruggIe
The Washington times., 1932-03-25
The Weather

For the District of Columbia-Cloudv
and warmer tonight and Saturday;
showers Saturday; lowest temperature
tonight about ~ degrees: colder sun
day; increasing southerly winds. becom-
ing moderate to fresh Saturday.
For Maryland-Cloudy and warmer
tonight and Saturday; showers Satur-
day; colder Sunday.
For Virginia - Mostly cloudy and
warmer tonight and Saturday. prob
ably showers Saturday in the interior.
Local Temperatures
YESTERDAY TODAY
D. m,.,.,.... 59,4 a. m........,. S5
D. m..,...... 57IS a. m.....,..,, 81
Midnight........ Az 2INoon........ 50
Departures from Normal
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January I. 1882. 537.
Deficiency of temperature since March
Accumulated excess of precipitation
since January !. 1882. 1.07.
Excess of precipitation since March 1,
1882. 50.
Today-High tides at 1911 a. m. and
1O:4O y. m. Low tides at 4:24 a. IN.
Tomorrow-High tides at 1903 a. m.
and l1:34 D. m. Low tides at 5:l3
a. IN. and 5;53 D. IN.
The Sun and Moon
The sun rises today at 6:O4 a. m. and
sets at 6:25 q. m.
The sun rises Saturday at 6:O3 a. m.
and sets at G;26 D. m.
The moon rises today at 10:49 D. m.
and sets al 1886 a. m.
The moon rises SATURDAY. at 1900 m.
and sets at S:16 a. IN.
The Washington times., 1932-03-25
HURT IN FIGHT,
HELD ON BOND

Charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon as the result of
an alteration during which he lost
his right eye, Robert Johnson, col,
ored, today was held on $1,000
bond after he had demanded a
jury trial when arraigned before
Police Court Judge Isaac r. Hit
Johnson is said to have en-
gagged in fight with Ernest E
Watkins, colored, 1074 Thirteenth
st. N. W., and Chester Cay, col.
ored, of 2716 N st. N. W., at the
home of the latter, March IA. The
two men said Johnson attempted
to shoot Cay and a scuffle ensued
during which johnson was cut
across the eye so that the ball
had to be removed.
Watkins and Cay have been
charged with assault and subse.
quently a warrant was issued for
Johnson on the weapon charge.