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La gaceta., 1932-04-12

Ell juez Robes, de la Corte del
Circuito, firm6 aver una senten-
ella declarando Unconstitutional
la ley que aprobara la Ultima le-
gislatura, con ell fin de regular
ell ejercicio de la profession de
dentista, imponiendo ademas
una licencia de $500 a cada
miembro. Hace dos semanas la
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
VIII Investigate" insult

In order 10 whitewash the other great r.v.
outfits that have been organized DURING tbo ~
ten years the Banking Committee of the II -
Senate is going to Investigate" the Insult fsu'.
when Congress meets again.
They are going to investigate" the I.t, :.
insiders whom Sam insult let in on the rrou0a
floor Of his various utility rackets.
Politicians, bankers, lawyers, business u..
professionals, opera stars constituted the ls,u..
part Of the persons who got in on the p,Ov,1
floor.
The names of Mayor Cermak of Chi.o.
Speaker David Shanahan of the Illinois Ievis.
ture and Frank l. Smith, Illinois Republican Ma.
tional Committeeman, who accepted $125OOO oD.
tribution from insult when running for Untoi
States Senator, are among the politicians on II,
list.
Edward N. Hurley and James Simpson. nav
receivers of the insult properties, were among Ii,
investors. Owen D. Young, John Hartz, Rufus c
Dawes, Gerald Swope and Joseph Tumulty are
among the big capitalists who put money into til
insult deals
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
(BY TIMOTHY SKORIKOV'

with some difficulty, to complete
our sowing by April %. When
the horses, carts and agricultural
implements were socialised, the
peasants thought that everybody
had joined the collective farm, but
it was found out later that we
were only 90 per cent. The re-
naming 8 per cent were allotted
land and then some members of
! the collective farm, who, from the
first, had not been keen on join
| ing, started making fuss and an
nounced that they wanted to leave.
There was even a joint request
signed by 81 people. But we tried
hard to keep the members and we
were able to hold them for the
sowing.
At harvest time things went
wrong again. The richer men and
part of the middle peasants still
had a store of grain and some
money. They thought they could
exist on that for two or three
years and waited for the collective
farm to go to pieces.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
A. E. C. and the Banks
Dismiss Workers

Berlin, Sept. ga. E. G. German Gen. Elec-
tric) has given notice to six hundred clerical en-
plOyees Since August 1881 the A. E. G. has dis
missed about 5000 clerical workers. The clerical
staff of the A. E. G. has fallen from 10000 to
$500 in quite a short space of time and further
dismissals are expected.
The big banks are also again Diminishing en-
pIoyees The Deutsche Bank has dismissed 500,
or rather, it has not dismissed them, but an
nounced that they are unnecessary" at the same
time the management announces that It is pre-
pared 10 refrain from dismissals Il the employees
are prepared to accept reduction In salaries.
The dismissals are thus in this case, nothing but
o new Vancouver to force thru wage cuts. The
Kcmmerx G. Privat Bank Is Diminishing $50 clerks.
The German Bank Clerks Association has sent q
telegram Of protest to Won Papen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
Commodity Prices Lower

With the continued deepening OF the 'i -
the level of wholesale commodity prices H'T a..
started on the downward tobaggon again. 80.
for the week ended October were at tne Wv :,
levels for all commodities, except ln0''lo
metal products, since the week ended Angus .sB
Wholesale prices are now only Ii p't I'm
above the low point reached in the week y a;at /
10, and are 81 per cent below the mgn ~ 4
the intervening period, reached in the "S''
September H. p,reau
For the week ended October the Dui'~a
Labor Statistics index stood at o4.' n
with 65.4 for the week ended OCTOBER IN :,
average prices for 1926 are used as Nv
standard for measuring the other prices
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
INFLAMMATION OF SOVIET
AGRICULTURE SPEEDED Up

The difficulty in mechanizing
cotton harvesting lies in the fact
that the cotton crop does not ripen
all at Once but must be harvested
at three different periods. The
need for a cotton harvesting ma
chine which could distinguish"
the ripe from the unripe pods was
met by the construction of new
types of harvesters, an achieve
ment which stands to the credit of
two Soviet factories-the "First of
May" in Belaya TserkOv and the
"Petrovsky" in Kherson. The first
cotton harvesting machine which
was built in the former plant, is
a massive, complicated pneumatic
machine which gathers the first
and second harvests. 1t sucks the
cotton out of the open pods anG
gathers it in containers. Attic
the manufacture of such machines
was quite new for the "First Of
May" plant, it surpassed its 1881
program, turning out 800 ma
chimes. This year the quota is
| set at 1000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
Soldiers Give Their Officers
a Lesson

Stockholm, Oct during musketry prac-
tice of the troops in BOden in North Sweden the
musketry officers caused one of the targets to be
made in the form of Red Army soldier with the
typical Red Army pointed cloth cap and with a
Soviet star, just as the parade grounds used Ger
man dummies during the world war. After the
shooting an examination of the targets revealed
the interesting fact that all of the targets
were ridded with bullet holes with the exception
of the Red Army man who showed not single
mark The Swedish working class press makes
much of this incident and declares that if the
setting up of such target shows the spirit of the
officers the refusal of the men to shoot at il
demonstrates their spirit equally pointedly.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
RESERVE

Mrs. viggo Strandskov entertainer
the ladies aid last Thursday AFTER
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Andersen drove
UP from Brockton and paid VISIT
to some old neighbors here iast
Thursday. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bornsted left last
Sunday morning for Portland Wnere
they will spend the winter.
Mrs. Lyngas entertained the Bridge
club on Tuesday afternoon.
Cliff Hansen and Norman Nelson
took a hunting trip to location
north of Westby last Sunday and
paid a short visit to Jim Randall
who is teaching in that locality.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Larsen and
Andrew drove TO Williston on .
shopping trip last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Petersen
have moved into the Ray kaliak
house for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. ole Jensen have Sc
cured the Paul Paulson house Tor
the winter.
A crew OF truck drivers on the
highway have leased the old -. y
Andersen house for q month or so
/ Bernhard Nielsen's faithful OLD
watch dog had to be shot on account
OF some incurable affliction las
Monday afternoon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

2. That the owner is: The Peoples
P publishing Company, Plentywood,
Montana; VIM. Haas, Outlook, Mont.
o. M. Lutnes, McElroy, Mont; Jens
Gronvold, Plentywood, Mont; Ollie
Worley, Oxford. Nebraska; Rodney
Salisbury, Plentywood, Mont. P. ].
Wallace, Butte, Mont; Charles E.
Taylor, Plentywood, Montana.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgages, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are:
Howard NJ Lewis, Plentywood,
Montana: John Lindblom, Raymond,
Montana; Selmer copeland, McElroy.
Montana.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of the own
ers, stockholders, and security hold
ers, if any, contain not only the list
of stockholders and security holders
as they appear upon the books of the
company but also in cases where the
stakeholder or security holder ap-
pears upon the books of the com
pany as trustee or in any other II
duciary relation, the name of the
person or corporation for whom such
trustee is acting, is given; also that
the said two paragraphs contain
statements embracing atlantis full
knowledge and belief as to the cir.
cumstances and conditions under
which stockholders and security
holders who do not appear unon the
books Of the company as trustees
hold stock and securities in a ca
pacity other than that of a bona
fide owner; and this affiant has n,
reason to believe that any other per
son, association, or corporation ha,
any interest direct or indirect in tn
said stock, bonds, or other securities
than as so stated by him.
HANS RASMUSSEN,
Business Manager
Sworn to and subscribed befor
me this 81 day of October, 1882.
(SEAL)
ARTHUR G. ERICKSON,
my commission expires 12-13-1933
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

Mrs. Anna U. Lutnes was born
in Calendar, Iowa. When seven
years old the family moved to
Edgely, N. D. After graduating
from the country school she then
went to the University of North
Dakota at Grand Forks. There
she completed the preparatory
course, which was equivalent to
high school. Afterwards gradu-
ated twice, first from the Normal
department, and later from the
College of Arts, receiving the
Bachelors Degree. Was in school
rooms either as student or teacher
up to the spring of 1910. Mostly
teaching in country schools.
Mrs. Lutnes came to Montana
In 1910 and homesteaded near
what is now McElroy, where hel
brothers also were located.
In 1914 she was postmistress il
the town of Outlook. In the fal
of the same year she was marries
10 Odin Lutnes and settled dow
on the homestead at McElroy
They have three children, all boys
two Of whom are now in higl
school and one in the grades.
| Mrs. Lutness In highly respects
by everybody who knows her. Sh
has acted in the capacity of schoc
clerk and trustee. and Ia locke
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
First Five-Year Plan" Collective
Farm peasants write Of their lives.

came SO weak they could hardly
stand up. Then the members OF
the collective farm owned up that
they had been wrong and that the
board was right in requesting
good care for the horses. The
workers demanded the punishment
of those who were guilty of this
lack of care and after that the
horses were better fed and tended.
When we began to work last
year, we had no definite plan.
The plan was altered three times
and was not ready until August.
In working out the plan, the mem
bers of the collective farm saw
that the revenue of our farm de-
pended on our work, and that we
must organize our labor and work
better,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

The Council of Pepole's Com
missars and the Central Committee
of the Communist party of the
Soviet Union have issued joint in
structions for the agricultural
work in 1888. The document also
points out that from 80 to 80 per
cent of the land in the most i'm
portant agricultural districts now
is in collective hands and that a
big network of Soviet farms exists
with 100000 tractors. Compared
with pre-war figures the cultivated
area is today rs million acres
larger than it was. In particular
the area under technical cultures
had been tremendously increased.
With these achievements the first
stage of the reconstruction of ag-
riculture had been completed. The
chief task for 1888 was therefore
to secure a radical improvement Of
the yield by means of improved
methods.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
CHAS. E. TAYLOR
Communist Candidate for
State Representative

Chas. E. Taylor needs no intro
duction to the people of Sheridan
county. In 1918 he came to Sheri-
dan county as an organizer for the
Nonpartisan League, and shortly
after was appointed editor of the
Producers News, which paper he
has edited most of the time ever
since.
In 1922 he was first elected by
the farmers to the State Senate
and was reelected again in 1926.
His record as a State Senator is
one that any man could be proud
of. Almost single handed he fought
the Anaconda Copper Co., and the
other big interests and stood up
for the interest of the farmers and
workers. He is regarded, even by
his enemies, as being one of the
best speakers and one of the best
posted politicians in the state OF
Montana.
In 1880 Chas. E. Taylor ran fol-
I06 Office Oh Ou1LGu OIdVCS OOll-
ator, but was defeated by the
money power behind his opponent
This year he was nominated by
the Communist convention togeth.
er with Gonius Laursen to repre-
sent the farmers and workers il
| Helena at the next legislature.
No man in Sheridan county ha'
stood the abuse and criticism tina
Chas. E. Taylor has in the four
teen years of fight he has put vi
in the interest of the farmers
And still Charley is taking tn
same stand he took fourteen year
ago. He never sold out to big
business, although man with hi
ability and education could hav
had many chances. He is one of tn
most able men of the northwest
and the farmers are lucky to b
represented at Helena by a man @
his ability, who is looked upon b
everybody as a political heav
weight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH
The Story of our Collective Farm
(BY TIMOTHY SKORKOV)
Middle
He the Collective Farm Candidate for the
Partyo of the Union

body began joining the collective
farm. The cooperative farming
associations had a great deal to
do with it, they were in the lead
all the time.
There was a great deal of OPP
position to socialisation of horses,
carts and agricultural implements.
The kulaks and richer peasants
were openly opposed to it. Part
of the poor peasants, who had
acquired some property under the
Soviet government, were also
against it.
All this took place before work
in the field began. There were
some who took their horses out of
the common stables TO cripple the
collective farm, but the nucleus OF
the Communist party (the basic
unit of the Communist party, com
prising all party members work
ing at a given enterprise.-Ed)
and the village soviet fought thai
and most of the horses and carts
remained. In some cases a few ot
the peasants refused to come out
for the spring sowing.
Still there were no attempts II
divide up the stock of seeds no.
was there any of the disorganiza
ton that marked the other collec
tive farms. Besides the perma
nent members of the former co
operative farming associations, w
had 78 partisans of the civil wa
who became active workers.
. Then one of these partisans be
gan to waver, we only had TO say
"What, you fought in the civil wa
, and now you are against us?"
: And we could depend upon hir
again.
:! In 1880 We were able, though
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST YEAR
OF COLLECTIVE FARMING

for a moving picture place. we
had a reading room which was
open during the winter, but the
Librarians changed constantly and
the reading room is now closed al
together. We assigned $1,388 for
general education. The head OF
the school system made several re-
ports before our school board and
the presidium of the village soviet.
We concluded an agreement
with the school and undertook to
provide carts for bringing the
children to school and to let the
pupils work in our vegetable gar
dens, work shops, etc. The pupils
of the primary school helped US ii
getting subscriptions to the State
loan; each member of our collec
tive farm subscribes $3.50. The
school children insisted on theil
parents subscribing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

money were available only a fool
would build a house patterned
after that of hundred years ago
and leave out all the modern inn
provements now used to make a
home convenient. No one would
dream of using machine to- cut
grain patterned after the reaper
first built by Cyrus Mccormick.
Housekeepers would not go back
to the fireplace of early times
and do without the present day
cook stoves and heating plants. In
fact we insist on the newest and
best in all mechanical devices,
then why in the name of common
sense should we not insist on the
newest, the best that mortal mind
has worked out in regard to our
government as well. Why should
we tolerate an expensive school
system supposed to fit children for
useful citizenship, that teaches
narrow minded and obsolete ideas
of governments and their function
We cannot tolerate such institu,
tons longer. We must demand
that all our school from the low
est to the highest shall teach the
truth in regard to our economic
conditions, that they shall teach
the need of changing our govern
ment to fit the changed .econo
mic conditions. In short, TIT
schools shall cultivate the open
mind in regard to political ques
tions as well as all other ques
tions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

HOW WE. BEGAN

l organized the first cooperative
farming association here in 1924.
1t was called "Krasnaya Zarya"
(Red DAWN and included 13 indi-
vidual farms. When We made a
request for an allotment of land,
we were not very popular, l can
assure you. Wherever we went,
the kulaks and richer peasants
gathered around us, arguing loud
ly:
where's your eyes! Where is
your conscience ?"
They as much as spat in our
faces.
In 1927, about 100 farmers be-
longing to the Mashlykino land
association decided to get togeth-
er and farm jointly. But there
were many arguments between the
poor and middle peasants. The
latter did not want to farm joint
ly with the poor peasants because
they had to give up their horses
and the poor peasants were afraid
that the other members of the
group would not pay much atten'
ton to them. So the cooperative
farming associations were formed
''Trud Bednyaka," poor Peasants
Labour) which included most Of
the village proletarians, and the
"Krasny Partisan" (Red Partisan,
whose members were mostly mid
die peasants.
! We also had an association TO
market-gardening, which even ha'
its own tractor and saw mill. TIL
members were kulaks who ha
previously purchased land iron
the landlord and retained it unit
their farms were iquidated. The
took one middle peasant into thei
association for the sake of appear
ances. They sold their tractor i
1928.
Nobody controlled our wor
then. Once a year some mino.
official would come, collect stats
teal data and then go away again
So we lived. Most of the mic
die peasants were our enemies
they did not believe anythin
would ever come of collectiV
farming.
But in the spring of 1880 ever,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
No Parliamentary Majority
In Greece

Athens, Greece, Sept. 29-The official cleo
ton results now published differ considerably from
all previous reports and the suspicious that
the government has altered the figures to its own
benefit as far as possible. According to the Off
cial figures the Venizelists have 1O2 seats, the
ronarchists 90 representing big gains), the KAT
andaris group 16 (alsO big gains), the agrarians
Ii and the communists 9 seats. The Communist
party had no seats at all in the last parliament
The results offer none of the groups parliament
airy majority.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
TO INCREASE SOVIET
FARM YIELDS IN 1888

No considerable increase of the
Cultivated area will be aimed at in
1888. For the spring sowings an
area of 240 million acres will
be taken, representing an increase
of 100000 acres over 1892. How
ever, the grain area would be in
creased by 6,25O,00O million acres.
The work of the soviet, party and
economic organizations should be
concentrated on increasing the
yield. The Peoples Commissariat
for Agriculture receives various
instructions aimed at securing the
agrono mical technical imp rove
ments, whilst this commissariat
and the Peoples Commissariat fol
Heavy Industry are instructed to
work together to present prOpos'
ais for an increased mechanics
ton of the harvest work and fol
the increased production of arti-
ficial fertilizers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
OUR SCHOOLS.
THEIR ATTITUDE
(BY ANNA LUTNES,
Communist Candidate for Supt.
of Schools)

Our schools are moulding the
citizens of the future. At present
the instruction, as far as political
questions are concerned, is almost
entirely along conservative lines.
Children are impressed with the
idea that the men who founded the
nation and those who led during
the various wars were really sup
ermen, that every act of their
lives was something more wonder
full than the same acts performed
by an ordinary person. Histories
and other text books emphasize
the hero worship giving especial
prominence to wars and war lead
ers. Furthermore, teachers are
requested to teach patriotism. This
usually takes the form of more
lauding the dead and gone heroes
the wars they engaged in, the In
stitutions they founded and the
lauding of the u. s. of Americs
above all other nations.
The result of all this is con
servatism and prejudice against
all new ideas in politics or econo
mics, an intolerant attitude TO-
ward the leaders of the new ideas
an especial scorn Of those ideas o.
government which might happen
to come from some other nation.
All this must change. Th'
schools must teach that old idea
Of government are as much out o
date. as unsuited to present need
as the ox-cart would be now In tn
age Of motors. II the necessar.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21

The collective farm has 1920
acres of land, $50 cottages and
$500 people. We had to organize
our work so as to- make it profit
able to the state as well as to our
selves. The whole capital and the
stock of agricultural implements
were valued at $165,OO0 dollars
We have $50 horses and oxen, nc
tractors, six threshing machines
100 drill ploughs, 1S4 mowers, 14l
seed ploughs, 80 wedding hooks
and 312 carts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
Rail Workers Jobless, Wage
Totals Cut One-Third

For the year ended July II tn' ,rtrv S
workers on the ClassI railroads in the cOu sp
creased % per cent and the wages % railrosS
ployees fell "a per cent. The Class supp
are those with 81 100000 or more OF glO. s.Dot
revenue. These figures were given III ..te vb
the Interstate Commerce Commission D'
lie on October z. -...;on,s Nr
"class railways" the COnnrnls -, on 60
mary stated, reported total Of o - the SS
pioyes as of the middle Of July, 1907. 9TH =
compensation was $120, 65s,S27 Compare last ysG
turns for the corresponding month Oh aasrssss
the summary for July, 1892, shows : n@ r
the number Of employees of 2S7,SSS OF ,..rssss
cent. The total compensation shows . w
SIS, BOA 48, or S4.4S per cent
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
Pneumatic Cotton Combine
Designed

The "Petrovsky" factory in
Kherson has designed pneuma-
tic cotton combine particularly for
harvesting the third crop. This
machine, the first of which was
completed in June, plucks the
closed pods, opens and empties
them. The first experiments with
these machines achieved good re-
suits, and 500 are scheduled to be
produced this year. The plant has
undertaken the construction of a
cleaning machine for extracting
remnants of the pod or leaves
from the cotton. This work is pro-
ceeding satisfactorily and during
the course of the year it is ex-
pected to manufacture $50 such
machines. A machine for remov-
ing the bare cotton plants after
the harvest and preparing the
ground for the new cotton seed i;
also being worked out by this fac,
tory with a view to producing i
in 1888.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-21
500, 600, 900 Commodities C,.,:.
Pool Still Rorn

New York, Oct. 5-The cOmmodit;..
which was organized two months avo =, ?"
great deal of to-do, to finance the s.io % 4
materials to manufacturers has never Ioorn, Il"
cent. The money to be lOaaed was 70 ~ we
pished by the bankers and he chief conn.,, ~, I'
to be disposed of were the government bol SI.'
of wheat and cotton. The bankers wera ~.
anxious to lend any money in this fasbion -. V
have instead gone to the Reconstruction E.. NV
Corporation to line their own pockets. N'''