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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

70 he anything but pleasant. They
might be the last straws that go 10
break the camepS back IL VIII not
be pleasant to think or.
The Sheridan County Taxpayers
Association has been working earn
estly and consistently the past TWO
/ years and a quarter trying IN tne
face of tremendous odds to erect
some solution of our taxing problem,
or at least effect some real tangible
/ reductions in this ever increasing
I burden. Great things were looked
for. high hopes were held, and
great deal of interest has been
raised But, so far, results have
been disappointing. Perhaps we
have expected too much The 1oo
has been too big.
But we have achieved results. We
lhave also maintained our non-po-
litfcaI status, set good precedent.
Results to the taxpayers Of Sherf-
dan county have not been spectacu-
lar, we admit. Nor have we Sc
cured due credit for certain efforts
the honor for which we must re-
linquish to others for their taking
part. What we aim at and want is
results. A steady pressure on our
part has brought a considerable re-
Spouse. Our association has amply
Justified its existence. IT must con-
tinue.
On Wednesday. November %. the
annual meeting of our Taxpayers
Association will be held at Antelope.
This will be an opportunity for in
creased activity and a more deter
mined effort to find some real pro-
gressive solution Of our tax pro.
blem. All interested taxpayers
should be there, drastic possibilities
are imminent.
We hear of Farm Holidays, Farm
Strikes. and Tax Strikes. Is Sheri.
dan county to stage a Tax strike
The possibilities are strongly fl
there is such a thing right now II
effect. Shall 1t be mad an orga
J nized tax strike? Is that our fina
solution. our final mover?
: Like another condition 1t would
seem to be the only effective meth
cd. Political. educational. and per
suasional methods have been trieC
and seemingly failed. Here we ar
rive finally at the stage where on
taxes are higher than ever. VIVA
are we going to do about it?
Before ma'Gng any drastic move
will be well to, study and conside
our present problem a little deeper
Why has our taxes increased? Wher
: have they gone or will they go?
2 Who is responsible? These point
5 are well worth while looking into
s Next week a brief outline discussion
will be made along this line in a
: endeavor to analyze and make som
of the points clear. Some of tn
: taxes this year seem entirely en-
5 justified under present conditions.
When you get your Invitation,
: make a study Of it. It's interesting
CONTINUED next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

Todd Downey visited at the r. o.
Nelson home Saturday evening.
Mrs. Ole Garrick and Montana
Cosper visited school Thursdya.
Arnold Fredrickson was a visitor
at the o. A. Selvig home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander and Miss
Folsom were supper guests at the
Deck home Saturday evening.
Miss Ethel Sel,ig, who is teaching
at the Snuggins school. gave q bas-
ket social at her school Saturday
evening. Quite a large crowd at
tended and a good time was had.
Verona Goodlaxon. Violet Boyd.
and Roy Homme attended the show
| in Plentywood Sunday evening.
visited at the Took home on We'd
] E. E. Garrick and his son Cecil
/ motored to Plentywood on Friday
where Cecil consulted the doctor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Cosper were
dinner guests at the William Weiss
home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Garrick at
/ tended the show in Plentywood on
/ Sunday evening.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Peterson and
children Wallace and Phemie were
visitors at the Albert Hullet home
/ Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Garrick spent
Saturday evening and Sunday al
the Bob Van Hee home in Plenty
wood.
Claude Mills went to Fargo. n
Oak. Tuesday where he visited his
father who was i'll in the hospital
He returned Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. J. Scott, Dolores
Meddlestat, and Mr.. and Mrs. Clin
ton Cosper were dinner guests al
the Deck home Sunday.
Saturday evening the Rhythm Ra9
Gals played for the dance. A fan
crowd attended and a goo time wal
ha by all attending.
Mr.. and Mrs. Len Tooke and dau
. ghter Patricia, and Mr.. and Mrs
Sven Rydberg motored to Antler. n
D.. Sunday where they will attend
the golden anniversary of the par
ents of Mrs. Ryberg and her brothe
Leonard.
Fred Christianson went to hi
home in Daleview Saturday wher,
, he will spend the week end will
, his parents.
Ole Garrick motored to his rancl
north of Outlook. where he viii
spend a few days.
The Communists held a campa'g
rally at the Stivers hall Friday eve
ming. The meeting was well at
tended AFTER the speaking ana Tn
singing. Henry Walders and job
Lefn entertained the candidates an
, party members at the Clinton Cos
per home.
Mr. and Mrs. William Goodlaxo
+, visited at the home Of Mr.. and Mr.:
Tony Gaines, south OF Redston
lover Friday and Saturday.
r Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rooster wer
visitors in Plentywood Friday.
Mrs. o. M Lutnes from near Nj
!, Elroy was a guest at the ArthU
UeIand home Friday night.
4 Laua Cosper was a supper CUES
: at the Ole Garrick home Thursda
!, evening.
. Mrs. Andrew Iceland and "GranC
ma" West entertained the teacher
: at dinner.
!, Mrs. MAIDS Billet visited at II
u G. Cosper home Sunday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
COM. CARL HANSEN
LEAVING COUNTY

To most people it will be a sur
prise to learn that our county COM
missioner Carl Hansen and family
are going to leave our county /.
the very near future. We have
known this for the last couple Of
months, but it was Mr.. Hansen's
wish that not until after the cleo
ton should it be given any pub
icitY.
On Thursday Carl Hansen is
going to have his sale, and as soon
as this is over with he will load
his family into the car and a few
belongings on a trailer and move
to the state of Oregon where they
came from. Carl Hansen has been
a good neighbor, a good friends,
and a county commissioner re-
spected by all, and we are sorry
TO see him go.
The result Of the election had
nothing to do with his leaving,
the plans were laid quite some
time ago and we knew all about
lit. Like so many others, Carl has
been fighting against odds. He
bought a farm on which he was
not able to meet the payments anC
pay the taxes, now he is giving il
up as a hopeless propohition, NOV
ing away from it all, moving K
some green pasture on the Othel
side of the mountains. The greer
pastures are always quite a way
off ana we sure hope Carl viii b.
able to find them. We wish Car
Hansen and family the best of
luck.
Petitions are now being circu
lated asking Judge Paul to appoin
Hans Hardersen to fill the vacan
office of county commissioner. A
the convention, where Carl Han
sen was nominated, Hans Harder
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
New York Mayor VIII Continue
Attacks on Workers Meetings

Surrogate John P. O'Brien, mayOr-elect of
New York on the Democratic ticket, stated at
dinner given him by group of publishers
November 1, that he would carry out the brutal
anti-wOrkng class program of his predecessors,
Jimmy Walker and Joseph Mckee.
O'Brien's pledge to Wall Street to carry on
the attacks against strikers and the unemployed
and other workers stated by i'm as follows:
"Are We going TO wait until the army
that gathers at Union Square has grown
into force that will turn America int
a SOviet?" he asked "I'n promise yoa
this: The Police Dept. and the other de-
partments of the city win wage a vfgOr-
GUS warfare against such activities.
You're going 30 have a mayor With chin
and fight in him and Police Departments
that's going to see that this Great metre
polls il preserved"
Union Square Is the scene Of most Of the
protest demonstrations of the New York workers
The pledge Of OBrien Is the pledge that president
elect Roosevelt has given 30 his wan strsss mas
tsrs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Hard Labor for Communist
Deputy

Berlin, October 19.-After a trial lasting L
hours the exceptional court in Koenigsberg sen
fenced the communist deputy Paulin to three yeau
hard labor. The remaining accused, q in mum
Der, received terms Of Imprisonment ranging from
SIX to nine months The charges were in cOnnee
ton with an eviction which took place on Sept
10 In Koenigsberg Paulin and the other accused
were charged with having obstructed the police
N the execution of their duty.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Alvin Jacobsen Now
Registered Pharmacist

Alvin Jacobsen just returned
from Helena where he successfully
passed the state board examina-
ton in pharmacy given at the
state capital. Word was received
from the board that he passed the
examination with honors and is
now a full fledged registered phar-
macist, having been congratulated
by members of the state board.
Mr.. Jacobsen graduated from
the university here last spring
with high honOrs in pharmacy. Re
is now employed by Peek's Drug
Store.-Missoula County Times.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Czech Unemployment
Is On the Increase

Prague, Oct. 11.-According to
official figures for September I'M
employment increased during the
month by 10000 and totalled $780,
600. An official admission CT the
Ministry of Public Welfare puts
the real unemployment figures al
double the number of registered
unemployed. In September 1881
the official unemployment figures
were 228,0OO.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Less Than Million Workers on
Class l Railroads

For the first time since 1896 the number Of
workers on the Class l railroads in the country
in August of this year fell below one million. On
August Is total Of 996,S19 workers were EN-
ployed on the railroads compared with 1,O21,9 S7
on June Is and 1,047483 on June 10. In the
year ended August Is the number Of workers
declined by 2265 per cent. With the exception OF
a slight increase of 5000 in March as compared
with February the number of workers on the rail-
roads has been steadily declining.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Miss Crone Visits With
Plentywood Friends

Miss Emma Crone of Marathon,
Iowa, our former county superln-
tendent of schools, visited Plenty
wood the last part of the past.
week. She had spent couple OF
weeks looking after ter farming
interests in the Flaxville vicinity,
going thru here in her car on the
wav back to Iowa. She called on
several of her many friends here
and stopped over night at Hans
Rasmussen's place.
Miss Crone reported that farm
ers in Iowa are getting ready "a
fight as never before. Everywhere
they are having big meetings
where they decide not to pay tar
and protect one another against
foreclosure, sheriff sales and evic'
tions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
OUR SHOCK BRIGADE
(BY EWLAMPY FEDOROVICH SOLKOV
Red Partisan, Aged 80

We found that the chairman of
the village soviet lived in the
house of a kulak. He exempted
that kulak from his grain deliv-
cries and the other kulaks were
let off too, while pressure was
brought to bear on the poor peas
ants. We soon found out other
disagreeable things as well. The
village soviet did not tax the peo-
pie fairly and assisted the kulaks
in cOncealing their grain. In for
mer years the richer peasants
often planted four to five and a
half and even eight to nine and a
half acres, but in 1929 and 1880
the kulaks and richer peasants re-
duced their planted areas, while
the poor peasants extended theirs.
For this reason the village soviet
made each of the latter pay an in
dividual tax, without taking into
consideration that a peasant might
lhave a family of fifteen. We de-
manded to see a list Of those who
had not fulfilled their tasks. The
members of the village soviet
lclaimed that the poor peasants
lhad not, while the richer farmers
had.
Unjust TAXATION
| We started checking up the way
taxation was distributed. We fig
Inred a rich peasant must rear
1000 to 1850 pounds per acre
Ia middle peasant 865 pounds
land a poor peasant 465 pounds
since the land of the latter would
be cultivated worse and might bt
Expected to have but poor horse.
or oxen. The village soviet, CT
the other hand, calculated the har
vest on an equal basis for all Oh,
farms. We marked off the poo
peasants in the lists and reduces
their taxes, transferring the sur
iplus to the kulaks. Then we be
ban to realize why the kulaks an,
middle peasants were delivering
tthe amount of grain fixed as thei
Itax, while the poor peasants wer
mot. We changed all thst-but
was hard work.
Representatives of the Sovie
Regional Executive Committe
now came to our assistance and W
had a special meeting at which til
board of the collective farm an
the village soviet made their Il
port on the way they were collect
ing grain for delivery to the stat
CLRAN UP ON INEFFICIENT
OFFICIALS
We took al the msa In chars
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Seven Nicaraguan Rebels are
Killed

Aanagua, Nicaragua, October 26-Seven r.,..
were killed and many wounded in two hon, -
gagement with National Guard detaebua,. :
the vicinity of SOmOtillO Monday. Two pu,,s,
were wounded. The rebels used machine Ow. :.
bombs. The guards captured firearms. borsa, !;
various supplies.
The National Guard is the military rua.sD.
Of the Wall street bankers in Nicara0uo ~ ;
under control of the u. s. Marine Corns
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
DEMAND RELIEF
NOT PROMISES
Children of Impoverished
Washington Farmers go
to School Ragged
{ BY LECTIoNE SANDERSoN }

Sedro-WoOley, Wash, Oct. 12.--
The farmers of this community
are all small farmers and are very
hard up. Only five or six of them
that do not carry a heavy mort
gage and the rest have hard time
meeting the interest on them.
This is a dairy country and most
of the farmers have a few cows
and some of them keep poultry
too. Some of them raise potatoes
but could not sell any so far, mol
trade them for groceries. Eggs
sold way below cost, but have now
raised to an average of 25 cents
per dozen at the present time, SC
they just about break even. Mill
is so low it does not pay for the
labor or feed. The farmers get
around so cents per hundred fo1
40 per cent milk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
SHERIDAN COUNTY
TAX STRIKE
tBY EDGAR I. sYvERUp.
Sec.-TrRls. Sheridan County
Taxpayers Association

The battle is over. the storm is
passed. The big political skirmish
is over for another two years. AS
this is being written the outcome is
not yet known. And 1t won't make
much difference. as far as the tax
payer is concerned. He will pay
just the same. He will pay for this
racket, just the same as he always
does.
Pretty soon now we will be get
ting those annual invitations. no.
tees. They are usually delayed a
little in election years. and it may
be just as we'll, Politics are bad
enough anyway without those dis
tressing invitations. And it may
have been LUCKY they did not come
out before election. They are going
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
OUTLOOK

Miss Leone Deck spent a few days
in Plentywood the past week.
Mrs. John Ladd. ST., spent We'd
nesday in town at the Ole Garrick
home.
Miss Margaret JUL was In Plenty
wood Saturday having dental work
done.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Cosper motored
/ to Plentywood Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Cosper visited
/ at the John Ladd, ST.. home Tues
day.
/ Mrs Andrew Iceland was a sup
per guest at the NJ. A. Craig home
! Tuesday evening
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
Mother Kills Child, Takes Poison

BarnesborO, Pa, October 27.-Mrs. Dorothy
I.arock, SO poisoned 6-year-Vd laughter and
took poison herself shortly before her fifth child
was born at KinpOrt, near here, today. She and
the newborn infant in hospital and ara ex-
pected to live. The woman told hospital attend
ants her husband had been Die to find work
and the family was in poverty.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
France Orders New Battle

Paris, October 26-In preparation for a.
next imperiahst war the Minister of fine MsIn.
has signed an order for the beginning of work On
the battle cruiser Dunkerque. The vessel will h
of 26,5O9 tons with guns of $50 millimeters and +,
speed of about thirty knots Credits for couSu.
ton have already been voted by Parliament
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

Sydney, Australia, October 27.--Strugg,ss =
the unemployed with the police occurred today :
Glebe, an industrial suburb Of Sy'incy' "n, g..
mob Of unemployed gathered to protest Spt-
ton Of TIE "means test" for the dole FOn',. :.
charged the crowd, cleared the streets anu
rested many.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

Glasgow, Oct. 27.-Ten thousand unemp0 ~,
participated this afternoon in a march on ue ~
Hall as protest against the "means test =
vision of the dole system. The City COuneH
fused to receive a delegation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

sen was defeated only by a few
votes. He is one of the most able
men for the job and there should
be no objection to his appoint
ment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
CANNOT PAY TAXES

The farmers here have not been
able to pay their taxes, some of
them are several years behind, and
may be sold out for taxes at any
time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11
EVERYBODY WORKING
(BY VICTOR PETROVICH ZELENsKN
Member of the Collective Farm Board, Labor
Organizer, Aged q

The proper distribution Of labor
on a collective farm is a most
serious and difficult problem. The
collective work of hundreds and
thousands of people on a farm
must be organized on entirely
new lines.
When collectivization began, the
kulaks held in a collective farm
some would work well and some
not, yet all would be paid alike;
they also said that the large fami-
lies of the poor peasants, in which
there were old people, would live
at the expense of smaller families.
We have, for example, in our
first brigade, poor peasant
named Ivan Kikinev, who has a
family of eleven. "There you are"
said the kulaks to the middle farm
ers, "join the collective farm and
you will have to work in order to
support Kikinev."
The middle farmers were also
afraid that the idlers would not do
any work and get an equal share
Of the profit.
FIGHT EVIL RUMORS
We had to fight hard against
these evil rumors and show them
examples of good, organized work.
+ must say we had not many such
examples when we started ccliec-
Invitation in 1880 and that in most
who were guilty nf doing bad
cases it was the middle farmers
work. They failed to take the in
terests of the collective farm to
heart, saying this is not my prop
erty-it belongs to the collective
farm. Why should l work hard?
They thought the collective farm
would not last and everybody
: would go back to individual farm
ing. We had to convince them o.
the opposite and organize the col
: lective farm as one entire unit.
OUR BRIGADES
In the country everybody wa
: accustomed to live by himself an,
r every farm was run on differ
! ent system, while the board Of tn
{ collective farm undertook the tasl
4 of making everybody work joint
] according to one plan only.
We have now nine brigades an
2 each specializes in some branch j
: work; we have five brigades dc
s ing field work, one attends 20 th
stock raising, Dns to truck ga-dsr
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-11

off their jobs; the chairman of the
village soviet, the secretary of the
Party nucleus and the chairman of
the board of the collective farm.
Three of the best men from our
regiment replaced them.
All this house cleaning took only
three days and we wound up our
work by forming a local regiment,
consisting of 70 active workers.
After that, our regiment was
sent at once to NoVorussky farm.
where 13 individual farmers still
held out. I had just formed a
battalion of rs Young Commun-
lists. On arriving at Novrorussky,
1 called a joint meeting of our
regiment and the whole popula-
ton of the farm and asked the in
dividual farmers to join the col
lective farm, to which they re-
piled ave will not join, We will
follow the kulaks."
LOSES TEMPER-REMOVED
FROM JOB
There was a great uproar. The
partisans took it as a personal Of
tense, and 1 lost my temper too
I'VE handed a black flag over to
the individual farmers and so we
drought them perforce to a meet
ling at Mashlykino. This was, Of
course, a serious blunder. Wher
1.-THE Regional Committee of the
Party heard of it, they sent OF
ders to disband the regiment, anC
relieved me of my duties. We haC
a general meeting and aclnowl
edged our mistake, but the regi
ment resolved that it was not
who was to blame, but the wMl
, regiment. We promised TO max
: amends for our error, the Regiona
Committee revoked its decision
and we went on with our work.
COMMUNISTS LEAD IN Full
FILLING TASKS
: The Nikanorovka village sovie
! was a blot on the region. The
t were 2,520,000 pounds short in tn
grain delivery. Their taxes ant
I insurance were not paid up, an
a they had not subscribed to til
q State loan. We called a meetin
! of the regiment and left for Niks
/ norovka at IL p. m. with flags an
; music. We drew up a joint pla
: of action and started the same wa
|. we had done at Mashlykino an
Nizhni- Kamishinsk. Only % farm
srs had joined the NikanOrovi
collective farm. and the rest Of Il
. farms were run By individual swl
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CHECK STATE AND COLLEC-
TIVE FARM WORK

We collected $4,000 pounds of
grain within three days. We also
checked the state and collective
farm work. We found the rich
peasants were at the head of both
and that they were back in their
grain deliveries.
After that we were instructed to
get after mass collectivization in
that district and started our task
then and there. We worked from
4 in the morning. He had men on
duty in every company; the mem
bers of the Party and the League
held conferences until late at mite,
and so did the commanders. We
read reports before each company
and each battalion and each one
was allotted some special work
The quota set each day was al
ways exceeded. We collected anC
transported $4,000 pounds Of
grain in the course of % days
had 95 per cent of the farmer!
join the collective farm and col
lected S33,5OO. We also orga
nized a shock regiment of lat PEG
pie in that village. The regimen
included a brigade Of % women
After that a new village soviet
collective farm board and bureau
of the party nucleus (the basi
unit of the Communist party, com
prising all party members, work
ing at given enterplise-Ed.) wer
elected. The best local shock bri
gaders tcck the place of the oil
members and Is men from on
regiment remained in that villag,
81 After that we went to Nagol
: noye, where we worked for fou
: days along the same lines; the
! we were sent to take a rest. Br
we did not rest, we went right o
working. We got no wages, an
paid for our keep.
: At the beginning of the sowin
= campaign, the men In the reg
c ment went back to their brigads
: and routine work.
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GROUPS AND GUARDS

Each group has a leader and is
divided into squads of 8 to II peo-
pie, with a squad leader at the
mead of each.
The repairing and building bri-
gade has rs members and is di-
vided into sections of smiths, fit
tiers, carpenters, tinsmiths, and
stone masons. There is one gen.
eral group of seven people which
includes carpenters and smiths for
jobs on which various trades are
needed at the same time. There
is a responsible foreman at the
head of every section.
Under this system every de
cision and instruction of the board
reaches everyone without DELAY
On the other hand the board is ii.
ways informed Of the work Of
every brigade, group and squad.