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The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-11
Boy Scouts Hold Meeting

Garfield and Dixie districts held
a Joint court of honor for Boy
Scouts at the Garfield shelter house
Thursday night. Leonard Smith
of Troop SIS was made life scout.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-11

You'll find the new spring details care
fully copied in these dresses of fine
quality silks and rayons, small prints,
solid colors, bolero and Eton jackets.
High priced style at low cost. Sizes
IA to ST.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-11

Dress and sport coats The fl, ever offered
at these low prices. Wide revers, lots of but
tons, novel sleeves, tailored or fur trimmed.
Black and all fashionable colors in all sizes for
women and misses, Il to 48.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
FARMERS PREVENT ATTEMPT
OF 100 TRUCKERS TO SMASH THROUGH
PICKETS DESPITE MILO RENO ORDERS
FarnQerS!!
Pay Your Sub with WheatM
Only Organized Support of Farmers VIII Save the Pro
ducers News-Famers Organize Behind
Your Paper .....
(BY CHARLES E. TAYLOR)

Farmers pay your subscription 9Th wheat Set aside
much of your wheat to your subscription and help the
paper-yOur paper.
The business eIement-he ignorant small town peddIers
hate the farmers fact they believe them Inferior they hold
the Producers News because it's the farmers paper be-
fights the battles of the farmers yet be-
it's the champion of the farmer If the Producers
News just pretended to be the farmers pretended fight
soda squrts and the nail merchants contemplate tribe Of
little then these parasites would be friendly and would
parOnize help support being the paper
the producers the workers. they it, they fight it, they boy
colt it All those who live off from other people, hate those
set up for their protection.
Producers gets revenae advertising
Frs NEWS the farmers paper is from the farmers them
selves the working class The only the farmers
support their OSn paper by subscription money and by such
other business which they control printing and advertising and
be because the farmers organize their behind it.
There ways the farmers their support
for their CAD By paying their subscriptions and send
@ BY bOyeOttg those who boycott the paper by not spend
ing cent with those that their attitude show that they are
your enemies. that hate and despise you.
The PRODUCERS NEWS has bridged the last immediate
but is not yet of the boys of difficulty Hans Ras
James Oltby BlOdeett McCabe and
gathered number subscriptions; several farmers
money came in from T. F. l. sources from the outside The
most pressing bills paid But the situation viii
unless subscription money keeps coming nthee must
be Eet up.
When Rasmussen out he found a fine sentiment
man for the paperthey are saving wheat or turkeys
something definitely for their and that thresh
ing of the they going to organize committees
put drives for hepaper; collections subscriptions and
getting subscribers and readers for the I'VE
get along without the patronage of the business and keep
paper the farmers to Hans when ne
"We'n show them"
Farmers who have money but farm products pay
their subscriptions with those products if they chick
turkeys other fowls by meat potatoes vegetables
butter be taken Things that
sumed by the workers the money.
The county is being cut up into districts and collection
organized those districts.
pay their subscriptions wheat other products well
money Farmers cooperate with these committee: have
money ready when they Those who can, will
help lot in the meantime by calling at the office and
ing their subscriptions possible.
Remember farmers If the PRODUCERS NEWS is to con-
te will be because make possible by organized
support If the support is organized Will be easy and it
will be a great burden 30 any one single person.
Farmers, get behind your paper in organized
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09

talking Of the matter and sneering
about it, holding the court up to
contempt of everybody by his be-
havior.
Don't Tell Why
Stong just held for the Williston
faker without excuse or explana-
ton. He did not bother in telling
what he thot of Folks admitted
violations of the law of the state
of Montana, he did not state how
the Sheridan county board had
acted Illegally and beyond its
power, he did not state that he
thought that the misdemeanol
punishment provided in the 1925
printing statute provided only re-
dress of county against violation
of contract, or that If printer vio-
lated contract persistently, coun-
ty must submit to it, arrest printer
for misdemeanor, and sue the
bondsmen, he did not state thai
the commissioners had proceeded
Illegally, that the Board should
apply to the court for an order
cancelling the contract. No, Judg.
Stong did nothing of this sort The
q Judge usually does this, Away,
does it, except in unusual cases
like this when he does not want Il
do it, and which thing in itselt
proves the lack Of faith and com
mon honesty Of this importes
Billings Judge. And the de-
cision is what can be expected
from a Judge imported into the dis
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
HOLIDAY ASSOC.
LEADERS IN S, D.
ARE. MISLEADERS

The leaders of the reac-
tionary farm organizations
are trying to get control of
the farmers Holiday move
ment-the strike movement
where ever possible. In
South Dakota four of the
eight members of the board
of directors of the Farmers
Holiday Association are such
leaders" They include: E.
H. Everson, president of
the South Dakota Farmers
Union; j.. ]. Martin, presi-
dent of the South Dakota
State Grange; Hugh Nash,
president of the South Da-
kota Crop Improvement As
ISOLATION; H. B. Test, presi-
dent of the South Dakota
State Farm Bureau. Other
members include M. Brisbane
president of the State Bank
ers Association, w. C. Lusk,
chairman of the S. D. Cham
Der of Commerce; E. N.
Hammerquist, vice president
of the National Farmers
Holiday Association, and B.
w. McVeigh, whose connec-
tons are unknown to us at
this time.
By these means the farm
leaders" are attempting to
keep the strike movement in
"safe" channels. Against
this attempt the farmers
must demand and put into
effect the election from the
rank and file Of their own
strike committees to organize
and lead the strike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
Billings Judge Enjoins Sheridan
County, OmmissiionersInBeha
WilistOn, North Dakota Crook
Finds for Brazen VoIator of the State Laws Without
Explanation of Any Sort-Printng Decision
Cooked up Scheme to Help Ku Kux Pal
People Indignant
County to Appeal to Supreme Court

Judge Robert C. StOng, elected
on the bench over at Billings be-
cause of his Ku Klux proclivities,
and who is imported into outside
districts when some loca judge
wants to "pass the buck rendered
decision per expectation on Aug.
81, in the printing contract case
when he issued a permanent IN
junction against the Sheridan coun-
ty commissioners restraining that
body permanently from cancelIing
the printing contract given by
Sheridan countr to one Harry Polk
famous Williston raper of little
girls, the man who taught for
years under pretended and fake
certificate, who compelled teachers
to submit to his vile desires and
pay him 10 per cent of their salary
each month to hold their jobs,
who was kicked out of the Masonic
lodge at Bowbells for his criminal
and degenerate activities, tho the
Williston crook had violated laws
of the state by his own admissions
in open court eight times, involv-
ing no less than rs per cent of the
sum total of the money he had re
ceived from the county IN the
carrying out of his contract.
When Judge Stong was in
Plentywood he 'hobnobbed" all OF
the time he was in town with the
attorney for Harry Polk, and with
Folks friends, going out to dinner
with him, and to their homes-sc
brazenly that the whole town wa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
ROOSEVELT FOR
FRAZIER BILL
Liquidation of Bankers
and Insurance Company
Holdings Provided

Many bills, known as farm re-
lief" legislation, were proposed ts
Congress during the recent session
but neither the Republican party
nor the Democratic party made
any serious efforts to secure their
passage. Now that Congress has
adjourned and the big political
campaign has begun, however, the
bills make their appearance as
campaign material with both par
ties.
In an Associated Press summary
of the platforms of the major
candidates august 12), Franklin
Roosevelt, the Democratic candi-
date for President, is quoted as
follows:
Vague Promises Meaningless
"The practical way to help the
farmer is by an arrangement tina.
will !. do something toward the
reduction of the SURPRISES of the
staple commodities. Farm mort
cages reach nearly ten billion dol
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09

bunch of people who are going to
work for their interest first last
and all the time.
The sheriff is going to be their
sheriff, he is elected by them and
is going to protect their interest
Elected by a party whose slogans
is "No more sheriffs sales and nc
more evictions.
No doubt the farmers and work
ers of Roosevelt county will rally
around this Communist ticket as
soon as they find out that one has
been created and what 1t stands
for.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09


trict to do the work of the man
elected by the people to do at a
great expense to the taxpayers of
the district and the state.
To EnjOin the County Board in
the Printing Matter
The case come TO trial Aug. 81,
brought by Charles Grant, one of
the Polk tribe of the Outlook
country. What interest he had in
the matter that would allow him
to intervene was not shown. Evi-
dence was taken, and violation of
contrace by Polk was proven and
admitted. The issues were then
argued and briefs submitted-the
decision was renered without re-
gard to law in the case, arbitrarily
and without foundation and con-
trary to clear intent of the law
and in spite of the facts as proven.
In the case attorney Paul Bah
cock and T. w. Greer appeared fol
: the commissioners, while Howard
M. Lewis appeared for Grant who
went to the front for Polk as 9
taxpayer because Polk, conscious
of his shady record did not want
his name to appear in the proceed
ings.
The permanent injunction was
served upon the Board last Tues
day by Sheriff Madsen. Tht
Board has appealed the case to the
Supreme Court and it is said war
rants will be issued for Polk fol
the violation of the printing law
and he will be arrested the frs
time he comes into Montana, ant
action will be brought in court b
stop payment on the warrants
issued to pay for the jobs don'
outside the state, and no warrant
will be issued for any work done
under the existing contract unit
the whole matter has been thresh
ed out by the supreme court.
Attorney Babcock has been re
tanned by the commissioners t,
appeal the Stong decision if thi
faker findings can be called that.
i The Stong finding Of fact an,
conclusion Of laws, which pape
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
Crawling Of Highway
Is Started this Week

Crawling of the twelve miles of
state highway from Medicine Lake
north, contract for which was let
to a South Dakota firm, was
started last week. The gravel is
at the present time being taken
from a pit south of Medicine Lake.
The gravel is moved by horses
and fresnos from the pit to the
gravel crusher, where it is crushed
and screened and run into trucks
which distribute it long the road.
The trucks are paid IL cents per
cubic yard per mile. Twenty-Five
cents per hour for each team of
horses, they ar expected to work
10 hours out of every "a. The men
only work five hours out Of the
"a and are paid 80 cents per hour,
out of this they must pay for their
own board and lodging. Only being
able to make $3.50 per day at the
very best there will be very little
left for the rainy day after they
pay for their room and board.
Many people had looked forward
to this work with great hope Of
being able to make few dollar.
and many have been sadly disap
pointed.
A bunch of men and horses lef-
Plentywood. They had been hiret
by the contractor. The con-
tractor had been taken round By
Judge Paul and had PERSONAL,
! hired them and had been told tn,
job was there waiting for them
These people got busy, work wa
what they wanted, bought repair
for their horses harnesses, an,
bedding and grub for themselves
Started out on the 20 mile tri1
; and drove all night in order to b
there bright and early in the morn
ing and start on the work that
had been promised them.
And there was no work fol
them. These people with thei
horses hung around the camp fo
three days and nights before the
were finally told to go back. Tha
the people after making this wilC
goose chase, and after they ha
been hired, are feeling sore is quit
easily understood.
We have always taken the stan
that contracts of that kind coul
be handled much more satisfat
torily by the county. And tina
school houses should be built b
local people, but as long as thes
things are left in the hands {
E grafters and would-be-grafters tn
working people will have to tax
their medicine. Cussing alone doe
not change conditions
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
CANADIAN MONEY
is NOW 81 CENTS

Canadian money on which the
local hi-jackers for the past fort
night have been taking a 20 per
cent discount after filling the
town up with it at par has now
raised from 88 cents to 81 cents
on the dollar. While these hi
jackers sell the money for 81
cents they only allow 80 cents
on the dollar for it. In this way
if there were $4,000 worth of
Canadian money In the county,
they only allow $4,000 for it in
trade, send the money to Canada
and exchange it for $1,000 in
United States money, making
$1,1O0 on the transaction at the
expense of the people here. This
Is just one of the many ways,
businessmen rob the producers;
the way business men live off
the workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
O'NEkL ATTACK !.
ON IOWASTRIKE
Strikebreaker Head of Natl.
Farm Bureau Tries to Get
Votes for Democrats

Edward A. O'Neal, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton has come out against the
strike of the Iowa farmers. He
has lined himself up with the enc
mics and robbers of the poor farm
ers.
O'Neal has written letters to Of
ficials and members of 100 Iowa
county farm bureaus urging them
to take no part in the movement.
In his letter he has used the same
argument that has been used by
the Chamber of Commerce, the
Farmers Holiday leaders, the sher-
ifs and the milk trust-the argu-
ment against "force." He, like
them, forgets that it is the dep
uties who have been using force
and that the farmers have used
strenuous methods only when they
have been forced to resist the at
:. tacks of the deputies and the dep
uty- guarded trucks.
Warns of Violence
His hypocritical statement II
. this connection was:
'sWhenever violence Occure. pub
lie sympathy for the righteous
! cause of agriculture is lost. We
recognize farm people are a
: minority group in this country
: and that fair play is going to be
assured us only as other groups
are brought to realize the JUS
tiCe of our cause"
e cit is my firm conviction" sal
d this strikebreaker, "that the meth
? DDS used in the present instance
I cannot meet with general success.
The methods to which he refers
. militant picketing.
lt O'Neal Is Pal Of Roosevelt
70 He is trying to use the farmer
strike in order to win votes TO
Roosevelt on the Democratic til
Il ket. He has recently been visitin
IN the Democratic candidate of Wa
,e Street. He, therefore, urged thu
r the farmers "battle with ballots
o. instead of by militant picketing.
rs This is the leadership of ii
IN Farm Bureau. It is just like Il
leadership of the other reactional
farm organizations-trying to kee
the farmers in line for the capita
N list class and to keep them lined !
with the capitalist parties.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
Communist Convention
In Roosevelt County
(Froid Tribune)


The convention of the Commun-
list party, as per call published in
these columns ed. Froid Tribune
of last weekly occurred at the
James Ostby farm last Saturday,
There were in spite of threshing,
about 40 delegates present. Erik
Bert and Hans Rasmussen of the
Producers News and Charles E,
Taylor were present as visitors
representing the Communist party,
The call of the convention was
read by the call committee. Robt
johnson was elected chairman ard
Mrs. James Ostby was chosen as
secretary of the convention.
Candidates for offices were nomi-
mated as follows.
Senator: ]. B. Welzenbach, of
Wolf Point.
Representatives: James M. Ost-
by. McCabe; Carl Hanson, Balm
vile.
County COMMISSIONS: Rober,
johnson, Froid.
County Supt. of Schools: Mrs
Harry johnson, Froid.
Clerk and Recorder: Hans Lar
sen, McCabe.
For sheriff, two name, both &C
ceptable, were presented to the
convention, and the convention in
structed by resolution made ant
adopted, the executive committe,
to interview these proposed candi
dates and report the nomination o.
one to the chairman and secretar,
of the convention. At this poin
a motion was adopted authorizin,
the executive committee, in orde.
to distribute candidates over tn,
county, to select candidates TO
county treasurer, assessor, clerk o
court, county surveyor, and cor
oner in the center and west en-,
of the county.
Convention Enthusiastic
The convention was very en-
thusiastic and moved along with
the usual Communistic precision
Hans Rasmussen, Erik Bert an
Charles E. Taylor spoke on tn
tasks of the party in the comm
election campaign and brougl
tidings of the tremendous an,
rapid growth of the party.
Marvkle Speaks
John Marckle. well known farm
er of the Bainville country, al
peared before the convention
reference to a program pertainin
to county problems, in support (
which he made an extended speecl
He also consulted with the pla
form committee extensively.
4 Adopt County Platform
+ The convention then adopted
4 county platform and program
after which the meeting was a
!, journed.
Mrs. Ostby and lady conrad
Ie served lunch to the crowd of del
gates at 5 o'clock.
The Communists are planning
very extensive and active car
paign in Roosevelt county tn
f election campaign.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
1000 FARMERS
In Wis. MEET
Harju, National Secretary of
UFL Pledges Full Aid
to Strike Move

Marshfield, Wis, Sept. More
than 1900 farmers from all over
the state of Wisconsin came to a
statewide meeting to decide on q
Wisconsin farmers strike. Trucks
school buses and dilapidated cars
were pressed into service to pro-
vide transportation to the farmers
meeting.
''The United Farmers League
endorses the farmers strike"
said Rudolph Harju, speaking
for the United Farmers League.
''NOt only do we endorse the
strike, but we pledge ourselves
to help organize the poor farm
ers for this strike. 1t is a strug-
gle against the milk trusts the
bankers and mortgage holders"
s'There is one thing, however,
which we must bear in mind,
and that is this: the natural enc
mics of the workers and tOiling
farmers will not remain idle
during the course of this strike.
While we sit here and talk we
are entertained with a band.
When we go into action wen be
faced with the same situation as
the bonus marchers were in
| Washington and the farmers on
the picket lines in Iowa. We
will then be entertained with
tear gas bombs, police clubs and
bullets. We must recognize tins
4 fact and be prepared to resis
all attempts to break our fight
Broaden the Struggle, Form
Action Committees
We must widen this struggle
into a struggle, not only agafns'
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09

gathered for the purpose of hold
ing a duly advertised Communist
county convention.
At this convention Communist
county ticket was nominated which
will be filed in due time with the
Clerk and Recorder. For farmers
and workers in the county this is
a step of the greatest political i'm
portance. To them It means that
at the coming election they viii
have chance to put into offise q
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
SEEK ATTACKERS
Ia Wounded Pickets Were
Shot, Without Warning,
by Gun Thugs
S. D. FARMERS LOSE
Governor Agree to Demand
of Farmers Investigation
of Shooting be Made

Hundreds of farmers toured the
roads near Cherokee last week
after the shooting of IA piclOets
with the intention of seeing that
the attackers were given their due
if they appeared again. The county
attorney and the sheriff are still
Investigating but have not found
the thugs yet. If it had been a
deputy who was shot the sheriff
would soon have got some results
even if it would have to be a
frameup against the striking farm
ers.
The wounding of fourteen pick
cts at Cherokee won additional re-
cruits to the strikers. The shoot
ing started, according to one cap
italist press version when two
automobiles containing nine armed
men drove up to the picket line on
highway 81 south of Cherokee.
After throwing tear bombs into the
crowd of picketers the men in the
cars ordered the farmers to get
off the roads.
Open Fire Without Warning
1 When the farmers refused, the
men in the two cars opened fire
without warning. Several of the
farmers were hit.
The gunner then got into theil
cars and drove on to the picket
lines on highway 81. There they
. again threw tear gas bomb:
at the strikers and ordered then
to break up the picket lines. Tht
farmers refused and the gunner
shot again wounding several mor'
, of the pickets. The thugs shot thu
tires off of the cars Of six farm
| ers.
Many of the farmers in th,
: strike area believe that the gun
! men were deputies since it is yer.
difficult for anyone but a deput,
+ or a gangster to get hold of tea
! gas bombs. Sheriff Tilton whe1
e asked about it could not explain
S the very peculiar fact of the tea
Continued On P%gU rwO)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
Roosevelt County Held
Communist Convention

Many people who passed by the
lanes ian Ostby farm northwest OF
@cCabe, Saturday afternoon were
tNTOnaerlng what was going on al
IN .e place, with trucks and cars OF
Al ~ descriptions lined up all oven
many many of these people driving un-
StSnccerned by didn't know that or
r ,se DAY a new chapter was being
VIII wgltten into the history of Roose'
=. county at Jim's place. That
Arge crowd of intelligent people
'Om many parts Of the county haG
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09

contains neither, will be printed
next week.
The people Of the county are in
dignant at the decisions and are
wondering what they can do about
it next election.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09

We must widen this struggle
into a struggle, not only against
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