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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

Committees of Action, United
Front Committees, local groups,
etc. The delegates brought with
them a total of $4,000 signatures
of beet workers who signed against
the wage cut and supported the
demands of the United Front Com
mittee.
The Conference held on Febru-
airy 1914 had 81 delegates present
from % centers, representing 1920
workers. This conference adopted
a program of four central, vital
demands and outlined policy of
intensive organizational work to
be done between then and April
Is, when another conference was
scheduled to take action on the
wage cut. During this period
scores of local organizations were
established, demands held and the
demands of the Conference widely
popularized.
The powerful sugar companies
cut wages in 1880 from $23 per
acre to $18 in 1881. Then this
year they cut to SIS per acre. Ev-
en- when receiving $23 per acre,
the workers were living in con-
dition of peonage and know that
SIS per acre will mean mass star
walton. This year whole commu-
mites were on charity and existed
on a starvation basis.
On the morning of the Confer
ence committee of ten was sent
by the Conference to the offices
of the Great Western Sugar Com
pany, the most powerful of all the
companies and the leader in the
wage cut, to present the demands
of the beet workers. The Commit
tee was accompanied by 1000 beet
workers. Maddux, industrial COM
missioner of the company, met the
committee at the door with Is po-
icemen and said, you'll get ir
only over my dead body" This
enraged the delegates and determ-
med them to fight more bitterly.
The Conference Immediately
took to discussion of the present
situation. It ratified the demands
of the previous Conference and de
clared a fight for their realization
These demands are ~ for Z
standard rate of $23 per acre thru
out the beet fields, (2) for the IS
Establishment of a guarantee of pay
(Si for cash instead of credits, ans
(4) for recognition of the United
Front Committees as spokesman o
the workers.
! The Conferences elected q Pro
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

Torrington, Wyo., April 49, A
meeting of the Beet Growers As
ISOLATION was held here a few days
ago. After a number of useless
speeches, supervised by a banker
and an official of the Holly Sugar
Company, the growers rejected the
company's contract which Offered
a $3.50 price on sugar. This %
so proposition did not include the
beet pulp and molasses, all OF
which goes to the company. VI
course rejection of the contract cid
not mean a thing because the
growers must accept what the SUI
gar interests offer them; at least
until they become strongly organ
lied in the right kind of an organ
ization.
What struck me most strongly
at the meeting was the utter use
lessness of such organizations as
the Beet Growers Assn. During
high price sugar years. when the
sugar companies made twice as
much per ton of beets as they &c
now. what concessions did tht
growers get? They got hand
out and felt lucky if the price K
them was raised one or two dol
liars. During such times the com
panies paid stockholders huge div
| idends while the average farmer
was just getting by and perhaps
paying some of the debts contract
ed during years when he operate'
at loss.
Many times during the meetln'
| I thought of the difference be
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29
FARMERS ORGANIZE.
in WHITEFACE.
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
FORMS NEW LOCAL

Whiteface, Mimi, April 49, A
United Farmers League local was
organized here and FL farmers
joined. The prospects for build
ing the UFL in this farming COM
munity into a mass organization
are very good because of the fact
that there is not any kind Of out
side work. The timber has all
been logged off and so the farm
ers cannot get any work from that
source as they used to before. The
farmers in this locality realize
that there is only one way they
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29
BEET GROWERS ASSN. Is TOOL
OF WYOMING SUGAR COMPANIES
Heads Draw High Salaries but Farmers Must Accept
Wretched Company Terms

tween this capitalist organization
and the United Farmers League.
The forme rhas number of high
salaried parasites at the head of it
who try to make the farmer be-
lieve they can get concessions
from powerful capitalist sugar
companies when in reality they
fall into the clutches of the COM
panies and actually aid them in
the exploitation of the grower.
The latter organization, the UFL,
aims not at aiding the capitalist
system of which the sugar COM
panies are a part, but at winning
better living conditions for the
masses of small and middle farm
ers. How can farmers expect to get
the full results of their labor while
a system backed by money taken
from their pockets stands over
them with a club. All capitalists
live off the workers toll.
ORGANIZED Not as beet growers
but as farmers. Organize WITH
Labor instead of against Labor
Other workers use the farmers
products just as farmers use the
workers products. Only by organ
lization can the workers and farm
ers hope to get the total results
of their labor.
Farmersl Form a U.F.L. or
ganization in your township anC
persuade other farmers in othel
townships to do the same. Coul'
not the workers and farmers ruiz
liz they could get together in or
CARNATIONS of their own?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29
MAY DAY WILL BE-
HELD In PHILLIPS
ORPRICECO., WIS.
ALL YOUTH URGED TO COME
OUT AND DEMONSTRATE FOR
DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION

Brentwood, Wis, Apr. 22-Farm
youth in this vicinity are bccom-
ing more militant as the crisis
grows deeper. Tive years ago, the
farm youth were care-free, al
though they did not get what they
really deserved.
The most important thing that
makes them militant is the wal
situation. They realize that they
will be doing the fighting in case
of war, but still dc not derive any
benefits from it.
A couple of years ago the farm
youth could go outside to earn a
few dollars. They went mostly to
lumber camps, but now the lum-
Der camps are so far away that it
is impossible to get jobs there and
if you did get a job, you would get
the high salary of $500 a month
for your hard work.
Some vicinities have prospects
of getting some road work, but
here we even haven't hopes for
that, so the future looks pretty
dark for the youth if they do not
start fighting for their rights.
The youth of Brentwood have
not organized a youth committee
into the United Farmers League
unit, but the Young Communist
League is bringing forth the youth
demands to the best of their abili-
ty.
These organizations and the
Communist Party are preparing
for an anti-war demonstration al
Phillips on May LIST. This is tc
consist of the whole of Price coun-
ty.
HUGO HENDERSON,
Circle No. 1.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

at one and one-half per cent in
terest and one and one-half per
cent amortization payment annual
ly. William Lemke, the author of
the Frazier bill, indicated in his
speech before the convention the
real reason for the bill and the
Farmer Labor support for it. He
said in part:
'"There have been 81 ,348 fore
closures in North Dakota alone.
Hundreds and thousands of
farmers and small home own
ers are losing the things they
toiled for. They have waited
patiently. They have hoped a
gainst hope that Mr.. Hoover,
who created the two billion
dollar refinancing corporation
for the benefit of the big In
surance companies, the big
banks and trust corporations
and the railroads, would do
something for them. And all
he has done is 10 ask the peo-
pie to quit boarding and put
their money back into the
banks"
The hopes that thousands Of
farmers had in Hoover have beer
shattered and foreclosures and ta1
sales continue on a wholesal,
scale. What do Lemke, the Fra
zier bill, the Farmer Labor party
propose. That the farmers VIII.
have lost hope in Hoover shoult
now rest their hopes on the "pro
gressives" in Congress. THE FAR
MER LABORTTES WANT TIL
FARMERS TO WAIT UNTIL
NOVEMBER OR UNTIL SUFFI
GENT "PROGRESSIVES" Arr
ELECTED TO CONGRESS. THE
WANT TO MAINTAIN TIL
FARMERS HOPES THAT TIL
"PROGRESSIVES" WILL Dt
SOMETHING FOR THEM AM
TO PREVENT THE FARMER.
FROM ORGANIZING MASS RE
i. SISTANCE TO THE AGENT
OF THE MORTGAGE HOLDERS
, THE SHERIFFS AND THEIl
, DEPUTIES.
The Farmer Labor platforr
: comes out for unemployment il
; surance. The wording of this pal
of the platform is rather genera
, eve demand laws that will pr
: vide adequate federal and stat
: unemployment insurance" The
{ ONLY neglect to state who is g
: ing to pay for this insurance, no
: much it should be, and by whom
. should be disbursed. This is dor
5 purposely because the unemplo!
ment insurance the Farmer Il
borites stand for is relief paid fl
by the workers, relief at starv
ton levels, to be distributed
CONTINUED on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29
POLICE ARREST 200
JOBLESS WORKERS

BERLIN, April 20.-During and
following yesterdays Lustgarten
mass meeting against unemploy-
ment the police arrested two hun
dred workers. Many columns Of
workers returning to their dis
tricts were attacked.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

DENVER, Colo.-The two-day
conference of agricultural workers,
the second to be held in two
months, adjourned April 18th af-
ter adopting fighting call to ac-
ton and deciding to strike thru
out the beet fields on May LIST I'M
less the companies withdraw the
wage cut and accept the confer
ence demands.
The Conference had 116 dele
gates present from Sc important
beet centers, representing q total
of $3.50 organized beet workers in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

can continue to exist on their
farms and that they must unite
themselves in the UFL to fight a.
gainst evictiens from their farms,
to demand that the county start
work Immediately which will pro-
vide work for the poor farmers in
this locality. AS the UFL speaker
pci0ted out only thru militant
class struggle can the poor farm.
ers get anything from the capital
list class.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

70 the caplCa1st press, along the
Chinese Eastern Railway. The
Japanese have been attempting to
instigate the world imperialist at
tack on the Soviet Union thru vi
cious provocations on the Chinese
Eastern Railway which is owned
jointly by the Soviet Union and
the Chinese.
From Annoy the capitalist press
reports that the Chinese masses
within the city are preparing to
rise in revolt in sympathy with
the army of General Sun LANG
Chen, who is reputed to be the
leader of the Red Army in FuHen
province. The foreign imperial
lists are supporting the local ex-
ploiters and have strengthened
their warships in the harbor a.
gainst the attack Of the Red Ar
my. T.
Additional war ships of the
United States, japan and France
have taken up positions in the
harbor. The Wall Street imperial
lists stand here united with their
antagonists in the world imperial
list struggle, Japan and France.
against the Chinese masses. The
United States navy contingent in
Annoy now includes three gun
boats, and four submarines and
submarine mother ship is enroute
from Chefoo. All told there are
"a war ships of the imperialist
powers threatening to lombard
the city, in the attack OH the re-
voting Chinese masses.
! Against this attack on the Chi
nese masses led by their Red Ar
my, against the intensified prepa-
rations for the attack on the So
Wet Union by the Japanese in-
perialist soldiery the workers Of
the world will demonstrate OH May
first.
While japanese troops are being
rushed in ever greater numbers to
the Soviet border, the japanese
Bourgeois newspapers continue
their war-inciting campaign of
lies and ISLANDERS against the So
Wet Union. A Shanghai dispatch
to the New York Times reporting
the dispatch of three fresh divi-
Isions of Japanese troops to the
Soviet border peddles the lie that
the Soviet authorities have arrest
led 200 japanese merchants 'tin re-
taliation" for the wholesale arrests
of Soviet citizens in Manchuria by
the japanese and their White
Guard allies.
The dispatch quotes japanese
sources in Hardin, Manchuria, to
the effect that the relations be-
tween the Soviet Union and Japan
are at crisis. 1t says that the
news from Manchuria "serve to
substantiate the general fear pre-
vailing here that relations between
Soviet Russia and Japan in the
Far East are being strained to the
breaking point" It pretends that
Soviet forces are concentrated in
Siberia for an eventual Soviet in
vasion of northern Manchuria. ("
This, in face of the general adj
mission even in imperialist circles
that the Soviet forces in Siberia
were strengthened only after the
Japanese had concentrated large
numbers of troops on the Soviet
border.
Significantly, with the arrival
! in Manchuria of the League of
! Nations Commission, fresh out
bursts of fighting between Japan
/ ese and insurgent Chinese troops
. are occurring in the Imienpo and
| other districts on the Soviet from
tier. In addition, eleven Japanese
j subjects were reported killed OF
fCOmkamuad a., Pea @wwnN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

;. Inc Frazier bill, one of the main
, S;sa OF the "progressives" pro-
ss. s 1or the refinancing of the
"erS debts by the government
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-29

EVERY UFL MEMBER
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Evening star., 1932-02-19

Unlike alcohol, DR.. Sarton points out,
the use Of gunpowder spread very slowly
with the invention of firearms suitable
for its use. These remained so inef1-
cient, he says, that during the American
Revolution, centuries afterwards, Benja-
min Franklin seriously proposed that
the Colonial soldiers be armed with bows
and arrows instead Of guns, since they
could do more damage to the enemy
with the former.
DR.. Sartons researches on the be-
ginnings of alcohol and gunpowder are
part Of a monumental research project
undertaken under the auspices of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington into
the whole background Of modern
science in ancient and medieval times.
The report on this study during the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries has
just been issued.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
JOBLESS MARCH LEADER
STUNNED IN NORTHWEST
Portland Tells Father Cox No Out
side Aid Is Necessary to I'm
press Present Conditions.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Oreg., February 1s.-
The City Council has denied the
free use of the civic auditorium to
Rev. James Cox, pastor Of Old St.
Patrick's Church in Pittsburgh, who re-
Gently led an army Of unemployed to
Washington.
H. H. Stallard, officer Of the Farmer
Labor party in Oregon, asked the city
to permit use of the auditorium with
out charge. Stallard said Father Cox
lis not a radical" and that he Is
financed on his tour by the people Of
Pittsburgh, who realize 1t will impress
upon Congress the necessity for relief" :"
Commissioner Barbur said: 1T is
not necessary to bring in outsiders to
stir up the people Of Portland. as they
realize their own problems and are un-
dertaking to do their best to remedy
them"
Evening star., 1932-02-19
U. S. Economy Defed
To Assure Tobacco
Money for Veterans
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Government economy nothwith-
standing, the boys sirnply must
ge. their tobacco money.
Representative Byrns Of Ten
nessee, chairman of the Appro-
priations Committee, who is lead
ing the Democratic economy
drive. has introduced . bill to
make any veterans hospital ap-
preparation, past, present or fu-
ture, available to furnish smokes
for the ex-service patients.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
FIREMEN TO PARADE
Special Dispatch to The Star

HyattsV1IIe DeIeRatIOH VIII dr.
ticipate at Alexandria.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
EVANSVILLE. Md, February l9.-
A delegation from the Hyattsville
Volunteer Fire Department, headed by
Chief Noble Rushe, will participate IN
the parade at Alexandria Monday
afternoon The regular meeting Of the
department, scheduled Monday night,
has been postponed until Tuesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-01
State Open Golf Tourney
Is Awarded to Terre Haute

The Indiana Professional Golfers
Association open seventy-two-hole
championship will be held over the
TerTe Haute Country Club links
Tuesday and Wednesday, June Il
and Is. Neal Mcintyre, president
and Chuck G%arringer, secretary, an
nounced today.
Selection of the course came after
elaboration over several invitations,
the most prominent being Highland
of indianapolis and West Baden.
Because tournaments in recent
years have been held in both these
localities it was decided to take the
play to a new area.
Mcintyre 1881 Champ
The event is open to all amateurs
and to any professional who is a
member of the Indiana P. G. A. It
was held at Speedway last year and
Neal Mcintyre, Highland pro, won
the title after a fifty-four-hole
playoh with Ralph Stonehouse,
Pleasant Run pro.
The tournament viii be preceded
as usual with the eighteen-hole pro-
amateur meet On Monday, June Is.
The championship will be seventy
two holes with thirty-six on Tues
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-01

MANAA 12AA AaHkA
April the Fifth, owned by Tom
Walls and ridden by Fred Lane, was
100 to 6 in the betting. Dastur.
owned by the Aga Khan, was 10 TO
/. and Miracle was 100 to g.
The time for the distance Of ap-
proximately a mile and a half was
2 minute 43 seconds, compared with
the record Of 2:34 rs made by Call
Boy in 1927.
Walls. the proud owner Of April
the Fifth, is an actor and theatrical
producer. He not only owns April
the Fifth, but trained him as well.
A field Of twenty-one colts start
ed, Washington Singer, owner Of
Orwell, having withdrawn his other
starter, Leighton just before the
race. The victory was worth ap-
proximately s45, 900 to Walls.
The money was little. however, to
The achievement Of winning the
great race. especially against a colt
as highly regarded as Orwell, the
heaviest favorite in years. Walls,
beaming his delight. was greeted
with rolling cheers from the stands.
He was surrounded by all the
jockeys, congratulating him, and
shook hands with them.
The vast crowd was astounded by
the disappointing performance of
Orwell. It was a warm summer day,
cloudy, but without rain, and Or
well had been expected to perform
brilliantly on q good track. Millions
of dollG-s had been bet ON him, and
the bookmakers won fortunes.
April the Fifth's victory was
amazing. He finished sixth behind
Orwell in the Two Thousand Gui-
meas and was out of the money in
his only three starts as a 2~-year-old.
He is a brown colt by Craig An
Eran-Sold Again.
Orwell started at the short odds
of 5 TO 4. 1t was the shortest price
since 1918. when Gainsborough, his
sire, started odds-on at 8 TO Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-01

day and thirty-six on Wednesday.
The purse will be derived from the
entry fees and the gate as it was
last year when the pros held their
most successful tournament from
a financial standpoint.
Attractive Prizes
Many beautiful prizes will be
awarded amateurs with low scores
and a fitting award to the amateur
who might outdistance the pro field
and win the title of open champion.
The Terre Haute course is rolling.
difficult terrain and should afford a
fine test Of golf for the pros and
the best of the amateur field. Play
ers who plan to enter should send
their names to Chuck Garringer at
Speedway course. Indianapolis, at
once.