The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-22

10y IhA0 Alu4ISCI means the
PlentywOod Herald tells the farm
ers of the county, and in particu-
lar those who appeared before the
county commissioners ID demand
that the county agent be fired,
that all of their arguments about
the uselessness and viciousness of
the county agent were lies. To
the Plentywood Herald, the farm
ers of the county are Just plain
liars. Or the Herald thinks, like
Jack Bennett, that they are so
stupid to fall for this hypocrisy
weeks after they had already de-
mOnstrated what they thought of
the mainstreet arguments for Fer
guson.
There is, however, another les
son to be learned from the depart
ure of Ferguson. That is, that
stool pigeons are well taken care
of. After the farmers of the
county had Gin no uncertain
terms" demonstrated their feelings
toward Ferguson and the county
agent office, after Ferguson had
been forced to quit thru the de-
mands of the farmers, the Hoover
government takes Ferguson to 9TH
er parts of the state to use him
as a stool pigeon against those
farmers.
Ferguson is now employed by
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, with headquarters al
Bozeman, as "field supervisor" In
seven counties. We have some &C.
quaintance with one "field super.
visor" (pOlite for stool pigeon), BY
name Oscar Johnson. Oscar hand,
ed in a confidential report" OF
Rodney Salisbury, when Rodney
was applying for a feed loan las
fall. Oscars confidential re-
port" read in part as follows:
: "Mr, Salisbury is State Or
ganizer for the United Farm
ers League Cred Society o.
Sheridan County,. l feel tina
if Mr.. Salisbury bought fee,
with money used in GOVERNS
this county, think he wOul
get along nicely.
81 recommend that Loan b
disapprOved for full amount
/ Oscar T. johnson"
Enough of Oscar. This is tn
job that Ferguson now has anon,
the farmers in seven counties i
the central part of the state. H
will supervise" the use of tn
seed loans in order to discriminat
against any militant farmers an
in order to keep these farmer
from organizing in order to pre-
tect their own interests.
The PlentywoOd Herald and il
: big brothers in the capitalist pres
forgot" one of the main parts G
the departure of Ferguson. The
wrote in their stories as follow
1--WE quote the Herald):
) "E. G. Ferguson, county az
ent of Sheridan county for tt
/, past five years, has resigne
that position to become fiel
: supervisor of the RecOnstru,
. ton Finance corporation. I'll
: appointment to the new pos
tiOn was announced following
conference with the finan,
I group at Minneapolis last wee,
l. and he resigned his local pO,
/ upon his return to Plent,
wood"
l There are several lies in Il
| Herald story. Let US start wit
the last of them. Ferguson d
not resign his "local post" on h
return from Minneapolis. Ferg
son offered his resignation to Il
| county commissioners on Feb.
and it was accepted, effective M;
= 1. The Herald could have learn,
\ this from the commissioners pr
! ceedings. The Herald is, howeve
not interested in so troubleson
matter as the truth.
This lie of the Herald is us,
= to support the main lie of the a
; ticle to the effect that Fergus,
resigned" his position. On t
face of it that is true. That
not, however, the reason that t
Herald uses it. The Herald us
the word resigned" with ma
cious discrimination--IN ORDF
] TO HIDE THE FACT THAT TE
COUNTY AGENT WAS FORCE
I OUT OF HIS OFFICE BY TIE
MASS DEMAND ON THE PAL
OF THE FARMERS OF TE
| COUNTY UNDER THE NH
| TANT LEADERSHIP OF TE
| UNITED FARMERS LEAGU
They want to make the farme
forget this most important less
= from the history of the strugl
around the county agent off
They want to make them fore
that it was only thru mass pre-
ure that the office was abolish
and that this mass pressure v
organized and lead by the Unit
Farmers League.
This is precisely the lessons Il
= the farmers of the county mi
. not forget. Ferguson is gone,
the farmers will have to repel o