The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-08

speech given by Mr.. Donnelly, the
prosecuting attorney of Ontona
gon county, Michigan, at an Am
erican Legion banquet at bAnse.
The paper quotes Mr.. DOnnelly as
follows: "The people are looking
for some one to lead them In COM
batting these false doctrines and
I believe that is the duty of the
Legion to point the way" He al
so referred TO the use of the On
tonagon Memorial building for
"an alleged unemployment meet
ing which developed into a pure
communistic session which lasted
for two hours"
1t is true that there was an un-
employment meeting. at the On
ltonagon Memorial building on
Feb. 9Th. 1t is also true that it
was one of the biggest meetings
ever held in Ontonagon outside of
the two street meetings which
were held last summer.
Workers Heard Hunger March
Report
This meeting was organized by
a local unemployed committee for
the purpose of hearing Comrade
Ralph Olson report on the Nation
al Hunger March 10 Washington.
However, as luck would have it
we were fortunate to have anoth-
er speaker there also. A cOmrade
who had recently returned from the
Soviet Union gave a splendid re-
port OF the tour of the workers
delegation thru the USSR. Almost
400 workers received the reports
with great enthusiasm which nat
urally got under the skins" of the
! "city dads" of Ontonagon of which
several were present. Ralph o.
sons report contained facts about
, the police terror thruout the line
, of the Hunger March and the Gre
ception" given to the marchers in
Washington where thousands OF
! police and the national guardsmer
were modified for the reception. ,
"Our best people" in Ontonagon
as well as elsewhere, would glad
ly stop the workers meetings il
they dared. They tried to stop the
street meetings with the aid Of
fire hose in the summer Of 1881 il
OntOnagon, but it turned into Z
. boomerang which cost the "city
dads" over $4,000 for shootinf
water into the feed warehouse o.
the Mass Cooperative Co.
Farmers Militant
Turnout last fall the United
r Farmers League held several bis
: mass protest meetings at the coun
e ty courthouse without any inter
4 frence. These protest meeting,
O were organized by the UFL flo,
: the purpose of stopping farm fore
< closures and demanding relic
from the county to the poor
About $50 farmers damned tn,
courthouse at one supervisors
meeting which lasted over fiv
hours. These meetings put
scare into the county and town of
ficials to such an extent that the,
: do not dare to refuse the use O
d the public buildings for mas
e meetings.
Attic Mr.. DOnnelly urges tn
American Legion to start a mill
tant fight against "the tentacle O
Bolshevism which craps into on
own community and county, hold
J meetings where principles of Am
! erican government are causticall
lambasted, and seeks to capitaliz
) on temporary economic distress
S to spread the doctrines of Lenin
: ism and Stalinism, we believe
: is about time that citizens arouse
n themselves against this subversiv
G influence of an unfriendly nation.
) This a challenge to the worker
G and poor farmers of Ontonago
E county and upper Michigan. Tn
= Ontonagon Herald quotes the Bar
J. aga County Journal editorial
D ''The Legion is one of the fines
: organizations 80. representa-
= clean, militant patriotism" etc.
Farmers Will Struggle On
1t We know perfectly well whs
{ this challenge of the bosses mean
n and we also wish to tell Mr.. Dor
Re nelly and the rest of the hos
4 class of Ontonagon county that "
he will not back up one inch in tn
struggles of the working elias
N and the small farmers of Ontons
gon County. The editorial saS
u further: There is clear dividin
d line. We must be either on on
side or the other. There can /
m no sitting on the fence" No, "
r are not so naive as to Think ths
RS there is no dividing line in Il
vs. struggle Of working class and IL
Id capitalist class. We also kno
a whose rights we are defendin
is and we will continue defendin
in the rights of the working class
~ gainst all odds and against all tie
ror.
Temporary EcOnOmis Distress
III The boss class tries to "cloI
he the issue" by saying that the cri
We is is temporary. The actual ia
I'd about the farm crisis is that
70 started already in 1928 and ev,