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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16

Dakota; Floyd B. Olson, governor
of Minnesota; Dan w. Turner,
governor Of Iowa; George Shafer,
governor of North Dakota; T. S.
Allen, representing Gov. Charles
w. Bryan of Nebraska; Carl H.
director of agriculture of
Ohio and representing Gov. George
White of Ohio; Ira Mitchell, rep
resenting Gov. William H. Murray
of Oklahoma; L. T. Oldroyd, COM
missioner of agriculture of Wyo-
ming, representing Gov. A. M.
Clark, of Wyoming, and Alvin C.
Refs, representing Gov. Philip La
Toilette of Wisconsin.
SAVE FAKE SLOGANS
1t opened up with the familiar
story of the dependence of pros
perity in the nation on the pros
perity of the farmers-a story all
of the capitalist politicians know
by heart.
Then came a list of recommen-
dations to Hoover-by which each
of these takers tried to pass the
buck to the White House where
they know the farmers will get no
relief. They suggest a revision
of the tariff system, a sound ex-
pansion of the currency, refinanc-
ing of the American farmer at a
lower rate of interest (the Frazier
billy and surplus control legisla-
tion." They also recommended the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton "extend its credit facilities to
the American farmers"
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FILA of Woodbury. County, Iowa,
Pushed by Farmers

The Farmers Holiday association of Woodbury.
county, whose leaders have tried to rush the
strike movement, brought forth a program which
was response to the mass demand for a broad
ening of the striking farmers demands The pro-
gram asked among other things, that
Farm mortgage holders be prevented
from dispOssessing tenants Of chatteIs or
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
OMITTED

Due to lack of space we have
been forced to omit the fina
chapter of ''The Truth About
Roosevelt" and the "DOings of
the Advance Guard" Both will
be published next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
SHARP 1dS DECLINE IN
COTTON q I PRICES ON
U. S. CROP REP TIU

Cotton crashed 50 to 81 IN :,
minutes Of the widest trading - ~, 10
witnessed on the New OrIans ever
change on Sept. 8 followira aS e e
suance of a government ing s k'
mate of 100000 bales Op eStr'
An estimate of not NOR
lO,75O,OOO bales had been "a, t9an
pated. W." anFlei-
October contracts crashed g.,
a high. of 9.12 today to So rom q
1920 a. m. 1t was a Ioss go 20 BY Oy
points. December was ot e. C %
points at 8.44. vi Do
In New York cotton
broke vigorously when the rd priees.
reopened on Sept. 8 after ra S,as!
of the government crop reUs.,
Losses ranged to more than "a y |"
bale. ~
Huge blocks of cotton u,.
dumped on the market bv +ro were
who had looked for an est;u usiS
below 100000 bales 0n.DI
broke to 8.25 cents a pound 'O oss
81 points. December to 805 ~ ~.
81, and January to 8.S5 off 70 vi
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
TELL FARMERS TO ASK
HOOVER FOR RELIEF

Not one of these recommends
tons but what has been shouted
to the farmers by every variety of
political faker for years. And the
political takers find these slogans
useful now to crush the strike of
the Iowa dairy farmers.
On the vital question of foreclos-
ures by federal agencies and the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
fake Moratorium

banking institutions they have
to say except to recon-
mend to Hoover that he direct the
that there be no foreclos-
ures until Congress meets and that
he then recommend to Congress a
moratorium on foreclosures for one
year.
They tell the farmers to go to
Bloody Hoover, the murderer of
the bonus veterans for relief
against foreclosures, by the fed
eral banking agencies of Wall
Street.
RECOMMEND "LENIENCY"
To the great mortgage com
panies, the life insurance com
panies, and banks they recommend
"leniency" to the impoverished
farmers. BUT 1T is A LIMITED
KIND OF LENIENCY THAT
THEY RECOMMEND.
'That the owners of mortgages
on farm property refrain from
foreclosure or eviction proceed
ings against distressed farmers
for non payment of interest or
taxes, unless the farmer fails or
refuses to pay what is equal to
landlords share of the produce
of the farm. In the event that
such owners of farm mortgages
fail to extend reasonable leniency
to distressed farmers, we recon-
mend appropriate state legisla-
tiOn for their protection be en-
acted"
The farmers must pay the land
lords share to the exDlOiters. sa,
these governors!
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enraged farmers. In the +bi,.,,
minute battle the deputies were y.
with rocks, clubs, etc. "
"They wont get thru" said n.
pickets, and they didn't.
After the struggle leaders Of A..
Farmers Holiday Association nro.
ceeded to the camp of the nic EIt
ing farmers to persuade them ~
end their picketing until the vov.
ernors had met.
The fifty deputies in four Hvbt
truck preceded the caravan ~
rs trucks. Railroad ties weyo
thrown into the road. The cattle
trucks waited some distance bo-
hind the deputies trucks. DesnitA
two leveled shot guns from the
deputies, the farmers shouted down
the sheriff, forced the four trucks
into a side road and bOmbarded #
with rocks.
A mile and half from the block
ade Sheriff Davenport and sixty
deputies waited to escort the
trucks if they got to the Wood
bury line. The trucks never got
there but turned back to LeMars.
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SUGGEST COOPERATIVES
SOLUTION

On the immediate demand which
brought about the strike of the
dairy farmers in Iowa they have
only the most hypOcritical state
ments to make. They recommend,
in their statement,
"That the farmers of the ag-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16

agencies of the monopolists are enemies of the
farmers, are and have been trying to break the
strike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
RENO'S TRUCE MEANS
SURRENDER

In Reno's office in Des Moines,
his secretary had told the writer
that '.The holiday association has
never called for picketing." A
week before Reno had called for
a "truce" in the holiday which
was actually a surrender, a sur
render by him of the interests of
the struggling farmers. But the
farmers themselves were not sur
rendering.
AS an answer to Reno's open
faced betrayal, hundreds of farm
ers were leaving the city early
yesterday afternoon to return to
the. picket lines. An all night
vigil awaited them on the road
side. At the call of struck truck
from the lookout, they would rush
to the road with logs and bales
of hay which they would hurl into
the wheels of the trucks that did
not halt at their call. And around
the campfires they were to speak
grimly of the events of Governors
Day. For they realized that the
solution to their problems did not
lie with the handful of represen-
tatives of capital, the governors.
1t lay here with them, in organi-
zation and action.
MOTHER BLOOR CALLS FOR
BROADENING OF STRIKE
This was the spirit which greet
ed Mother" Bloor, veteran work
ing class leader and North Dakota
organizer of the United Farmers
League, when she addressed about
1000 farmers in Riverside park
just before the mobilization of the
parade. Mother Bloor brought
them greetings from the North
Dakota farmers and the II. F. l..
When she exposed the betrayal of
Reno and the strike breaking gov
errors conference, the farmers
cheered her wildly. Standing on a
picnic table in the park, surround
ed by overalled figures, the gray
haired fighter told them to spread
the strike, to broaden it to include
a strike against the evicting sher-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-16
READY TO FIGHT
RENO SHOWED UP

And even if they had not known
him, the newspapers carried two
stories which revealed the man
for what he is, representative of
the capitalist class, a promoter
and demagogue. AS head of 8
Farmers Union Mutual Life insur-
ance companies, Reno receives a
salary including travelling expens-
es, of $500 a month. To keep
Reno's companies out of receiver
ship, Congressman Campbell had
secured for him a loan of $175,-
600 from the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation. A former di-
rector of Farmers Union under
Reno charged that Reno, to cover
up deficit, for 1929 and 1880,
had purchased a building in Des
Moines for $4,000 and carried it
on his books as as asset of $780,
600. AS manager of the Farmers
Union Livestock Commission, it is
charged that he dissipated $751;
600 and piled up a deficit of $45,-
600, for which he was ousted by
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine.
The $175,O00 favor from the R.
F. c. explains, perhaps, the later
statement of Reno: "The distur-
Dances are over now, we do not
expect any more. If the holiday
movement should stop right now
if it were never heard of again
the main part of its purpose has
been accomplished"
Even while Reno was issuing his
statements to the press, one fight
ing brigade of pickets was repell'
ing with fists and clubs, an at
tack of armed deputies, wounding
four deputies and scattering the
rest.
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III, the TAX collector, the mortgage
holding bankers. The farmers
She told them how the
committees of action formed in
Montana and North Dakota had
saved the farms of impoverished
farmers, how mass demands had
wrung relief for poor farmers
from the Golfers of the Red Cross
and the business men.
MOTHER BLOOR LEADS
PARADE
The farmers elected Mother
Bloor to ride in the truck which
led the parade and arranged for a
meeting that night. Where was
Reno, the nominal leader of the
holiday parade? He was nowhere
in sight. The newspapers reported
him out of the city, but the writer
was informed that he was seen in
the hotel early that morning.
Fifteen thousand farmers par
ticipated in the parade, riding in
trucks, automobiles, and on horse
back. Thousands of workers and
farmers cheered them from the
sidewalks. They answered with
triumphant shouts. The governors
looking down on the parade from
the hotel windows saw their worst
dreams coming true, the masses
riding triumphantly together, de-
flying the handpicked leaders from
the ranks of the capitalists. and
demonstrating the ability of the
rank and file to organize their
numbers into an overpowering
strength. The governors made the
tactical error of showing their
anxiety.
CALL FOR NATIONAL
STRIKE CONFERENCE
In the afternoon, following the
parade, the farmers prepared to
follow Mother BlOOr's advice.
A rank and file conference met
with w. w. MOrphew, Nebraska
farmer as chairman, and resolved
to spread the strike thruont the
country with call for a Ma
tiOnal Strike Conference for Ac-
ton in Washington on Dec. /.
They resolved to broaden the
strike to include a strike against
evictiOns, foreclosures, and tax
sales. They demanded a holiday
on debts, rents, taxes and mort
cages. They declared that the
farmers must receive higher
prices for their commodities an0
that these higher prices must
not come through increased
prices to the workers Of the city.
but from the profits of the mid
dlemen. They concluded that
I'VE realize tina this cannot
bring us permanent results un-
less all farmers and workers
unite with u.s."
The resolution was formulated
and passed by rs farmers repre-
senting the rank and file delega-
tons of IL states.
PRESENT DEMANDS TO
GOVERNORS
In the meantime delegation
from the conference had gone to
the governors to present the de-
mands of the rank and file. The
farmer delegates were heckled and
grilled by the governors. To one
of these Nebraska delegates, the
governor of Iowa turned and asked
care you faced with immediate
eviction ?" "Well," drawled the
rank and file delegate, 81 don't
know what you'd call immediate
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In every instance the demands are however,
a concessions to the capitalist class and devia-
ton from the real demands of the toiling farm
ers AGAINST EvICTIONS AND FORECLOS-
UREs, AGAINST FORCED COLLECTIONS OR
RENTS AND DEBTS.
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deputies waited to escort the
trucks if they got to the Wood
bury line. The trucks never got
there but turned back to LeMars.
GREEN EXPLAINS
CONFERENCE
The governors conference was
planned to prevent the militant
farmers from presenting their de-
mands to the governors. Cover,
nor Green of South Dakota ex-
planned the conference arrange
ments as follows:
I'VE would welcome the OppOr-
tunity to hear everyone who
wants to talk to us. 1t obvious
ly would be impossible, however,
10 hear so many addresses so
we have decided to hold the con-
ference in private and call only
a very few outsiders into the
meeting. Those called will be
asked specific questions. They
will not be asked to PROFOUND
thei own theories on how we
may help the farmer"
They would like to hear every
one-but the wouldn't have time,
is Green's excuse. Therefore the
conference was to be held in PR
WAITE, so THAT NO ONE
COULD KNOW WHAT WAS
GOING ON, AND EVEN THOSE
CALLED IN WOULD ONLY BE
ALLOWED TO ANSWER THE
GOVERNORS QUESTIONS.
FARMERS DEMONSTRATE
Despite these we'll laid plans the
farmers told the governors what
their demands were-out on the
streets where they marched thou
sands strong, against foreclosures
and evictions, for the right to pickf
ct, and for higher prices for their
products, the increase to be taken
from the milk and other mOnopO-
lies and not from the picketS OF
the workers.
The farmers showed during the
course of the parade that they had
no use for the capitalist press re-
porters. The windows of the car
belonging to J. S. Russell, farmer
editor of the Des Moines Register
were broken and Russell himself
was slapped. Maurice HOrner'
photographer of the Dies MONIES
Register had his camera taken
away from him. Several other out
of town newspapermen reported W
the police that they had been slap
ped. (The antagonism of the strlK
ing farmers was told in the last
weeks report of our special CORE
spondent in Sioux Sity. "The farm
ers" wrote our special correspond
ent, "have had some experience
with newspaper reporters OF tne
capitalist press who have twisted
the situation to suit the mix
trust.")
TIGHTER PICKET LINES
In order to show the governors
that they meant to continue Iiio-
struggle the farmers around SIOUX
City frightened their lines In n-
day before the conference. Hem
forcements to the picket lines On
Primary 20 and Primary l4l p
vented all produce from gO my
thru. They carried thru all s tI,s
reinforcing of the lines agalns,s. ~. Wv
orders of the Farmers Holiday y
leaders who told the farmers ~
greet the governors with a 'ruS y.
Milo Reno said on the DAY y
fore the governors conIeis .ayt
opened that the most mihtan. 20 :
of the farm strike movement
over now. eff the holiday NOV !.
ment should stop right now 4 ~
were never heard Of again. ,aSn
main part of its purpose mas Vs
accomplished" This accOnp .hot
ment, according to Reno Is s
"the public conscience has OV ne
awakened to the condition OF "a. =.
farmers of the nation" Reno TO 70
this phrase mongering in orus . .bs
make the farmers believe tna' vel
need for militant struggle = ~, ~
I l. rnnnnf LlC
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.Of their farms through appointment of re-
ceivers; that the rent collected on land
be no greater than a fair share of the
value of crops, and that farm mortgage
holders be compelled ito accept as interest
on loans, an amount equal In purchasing
power to the purchasing power of the in
terest money at the time the loan is
made"
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Thousands Parade
In Sioux City, Iowa
Continued from Front Page)

Continued from Front Page)
fluttering clerks and secretaries,
would answer their demands and
give them the relief which they
and their families needed. Blu
they held that hope family. The
years of experience with system
operated for the profits of bankers
md brokers had left them just 3
few illusions.
READY TO FIGHT
A young farmer with a bandaged
eye, wounded in a picket line fight
exclaimed, "well, let 'em send the
soldiers against US. I'd just as
soon war as go on like this" Yet
they were willing, some of them,
to give their governors another
chance. With Milo Reno, nominal
head of the holiday movement,
they seemed thoroughly disillusion-
ed. They had established a picket
line against his orders and they
had maintained them when he
urged them to stop. They knew
Reno. III
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the dates November l." The dele
gates left with the governors a set
of demands which startled them,
the announcement of nation wide
strike conference of farmers which
constituted threat to their plum
dering ways. Newspapers were
then on the streets carrying in
screaming headlines: Farmers
Demand Debt Holiday"
That night at Mother Bloors
meeting in the Central Park,
a farmer read the resolution, and
1000 farmers shouted eyes,.
GOVERNORS DAY REALLY
FARMERS DAY
Governors day closed thus, with
out ever having been Governors
day. The farmers had been mas
tiers, and the governors stalling in
the State Suite knew it well enuf
Only few illusions remained with
the farmers and these were drop
ping rapidly away from their eyes
But whatever illusions they re.
tanned about the ability of congress
and legislatures to give them re,
lief, they had none as to the will
ingness of these Representatives
to do so.
Leading the farmers thruout the
day was Mother Bloor who stood
forward as the only leader they
trusted, while Reno, nominal lead
er, was skulking in a hotel room
By the end of the day thousands
had acclaimed her. She had rid
den in the truck which carried the
Picket Brigade of Route 20
awarded first place for "never hav
ing let a truck get through" "Sht
is the kind of leader we need" &
farmer told this writer. "She is
worth her weight in gold" Wher
Pathe cameramen attempted tt
photograph her, the farmers lifted
the truck and turned it around
chasing the cameramen from the
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Continued from Front Page)
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GREEN EXPLAINS
CONFERENCE

The governors conference was
planned to prevent the militant
farmers from presenting their de-
mands to the governors. Cover,
nor Green Of South Dakota ex-
planned the conference arrange
ments as follows:
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On the Striking Front

Continued from Front Psge)
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iff, the tax collector. the mortgage
holding bankers. The farmers
applauded. She told them how the
committees of action formed in
Montana and North Dakota had
saved the farms of impoverished
farmers, how mass demands had
wrung relief for poor farmers
from the Golfers of the Red Cross
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15
N-YEAR-0[D
MAN TRACE FOUND
Charred Flint With Fossil in
Sussex to Be Exhibited
by AnthropoIogist.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated PreS.
LONDON, June 15.-Evidence OF q
human-built FIRE in England 100000
years ago will be exhibited by Sir Arthur
Smith Woodward, famous anthropolo-
gist, at the Prehistoric Congress in OK
ford in August.
The evidence is flint, a manmade
implement of Clipped stone. found in
the gravel in Sussex along with fossil
bones of the Piltdown man. The age
of both the flint and the bones is fixed
by the geological layer Of stone and
earth in which they rested.
This charred flint Is further proof
that men lived in at least two widely
separated regions, England and China,
about a million years ago. The Oriental
was the Pekin woman" found near
Pekin and identified by part Of her
skull and some bones.
Possibly Contemporaries.
These two human types were possibly
contemporaneous," Sir Arthur said.
1.-THE interesting thing about the Pekin
skull is that it seems to be link be-
tween the types of Heidelberg, Java
and Piltdown.
1T is another example, though
variant, Of types We already know, and
in my opinion Pekin man is no older
than his English counterpart. They
both appear to belong to the lower
PleistoCene age.
From these reports from China it ap-
pears that charcoal from wood fires oc-
ours abundantly in old hearths in the
Pekin cave, and amongst the charred
remains are numerous burnt bones and
stones including implements
In China deer antlerS were cut into
short lengths by flakes of stone, aided
by burning at the lines of section. while
the bases of the antlers seem to have
been used as hammers.
Rude Stone Implements.
1.-THE stone implements are rudely
made of flakes which have been taken
from stones found in the river below
and from the fakes and cores found it
appears that they were made on the
spot
"All this activity, however, was known
to Piltdown man. Charles Dawson and
myself found long ago that he made
both stone and bone implements, and
split bones, doubtless for extracting the
marrow.
More recently burnt flints have been
noticed in the Piltdown gravel and not
long ago I found one such flint which
is indistinguishable from the pot boil
ers Of later periods. This extremely
interesting find will be exhibited for
the first time at the Prehistoric Con-
gress at oxford in August
The use of fire was undoubtedly
known to Pekin man, and the Begin
ming of human arts indeed, dates back
to immense antiquity. before man had
assumed his present form"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15

builder. an appraisal filed here yester-
day in the State transfer tax depart
ment revealed.
Mrs. Elsie Cameron, 1889 Massachu-
sets avenue, the widow, receives $4,000,
with the explanation that she Is amply
provided for and the suggestion that
she invest the bequest in pearls. She
vas the millionaire clubmans third
wife. They were married March l, 1925.
Mr. Cameron died May IL, 1927. His
estate was appraised at $l30,700.
Mrs. Mary M. Mayer is listed In the
social register as 0 resident OF Long
Island. Her former home was at 1918
Sixteenth street here. Mrs. Mayer Is
the wife Of Juan r. Mayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15

station, said the bandit entered the
place at 2 an, carrying . sawed-on
shotgun. A companion, he said, took
$12 from the cash register. As Keegan
resisted, the man fired one charge from
the gun, inflicting q slight flesh wound
in Keegan's side.
The man attempted to fire again. but
the gun damned and as he tried to
repair it . charge struck him in the
abdomen. He died flve minutes later.
hours later with two women, said by
police to be the wives Of Gray and
Turner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15

The low price will make
you want several of these
sturdy chairs. They are
spacious and comfortable
with arm rests-and the
bark left on to give them
a rustic appearance.
Kann's-Fourth Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15
$122,371 ESTATE LEFT
TO MRS. MARY MAYER
Gets Largest Share Under Fathers
Will-Mrs. Elsie Cameron
Receives IS, 1000.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Mrs. Mary
Mcleod Mayer, 1918 Sixteenth street,
Washington, receives the residue, valued
at $l22,371. of the estate Of her late
father. Duncan Even Cameron, son of
Sir Roderic Cameron, famous Ship