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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

gle teaches the masses, says unani-
nifty of opinion is the only way
the world can progress and, since
there is such agreement by all
parties concerning the farm strike,
that it would be foolish to picket
and thus ALLEVIATE the help Of those
elements from which the farmer
expects aid, namely the middle
men. This tripe is Tapped up by
the business men and other fascist
high school kids, etc.
At present the roads around Ray,
Bonetraill and Grenora are being
picketed. Preparations are being
made by the farmers around VIII
liston to force a motion for pick
citing when Burdick speaks here
sometime in the future, no one
knows when.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
ARCHER

P. Greff, Robert Clark and Geo.
Morris called at J. M. Whitish'S Sun
day.
Mrs. r. A. Cook an dson Marvin
We're supper guests at the Joe Whit
ish home Wednesday.
Lloyd Whitish had quite an eX-
citing time while on his way home
from Poplar where he had been en-
ployed. About two miles out of
Poplar he ran into some loose gravel
and his car turned over, pinning
him beneath where he stayed for
over an hour, when a gentleman in
a truck came along and removed him.
Mr.. and Mrs Pete Whitish were
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Roy
Cook, last Sunday.
Mrs. Pat Greff was visiting with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Matt
Barge of Plentywood Monday.
Geo. Jackson accompanied Robert
Cook to Plentywood one day LAST
week
Fred Glaze and Billie Anderson OF
Antelope called at the p. Greff and
Joe Whitish homes Sunday
Bus Leeseburg called on Art Kaz-
eek Sunday.
The Misses Rose and Myrtle Gref1
and Alice Whitish accompanied Her
old Whitish and Gus Leasburg Il
the dance at the Wolf Creek hall OF
Saturday evening.
Joe Whitish was in Medinin'
Lake. Antelope and Plentywood OF
Monday.
Charley Drafts, Sr.. is staying a
III. NJ. Whitish's for a few weeks.
Pat Greff and Ed Boelens were II
Archer Sunday.
Vernice Nelson was seen In thi
VICINITY Wednesday.
Charley Bell Pat Greff and Gee
Jackson were at the county seat on
day last week.
Several from this vicinity attende
1the farmers meeting at Plentywoo
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Whitish wer
Sunday guests at Pat Greff's.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
County Library News

Within the last week two branch
es of the Sheridan County Library
have opened for the winter season.
They are the Reserve branch under
tn direction Of Mrs. Groskurth, and
a new branch at Outlook with Clara
E. Folsom in charge.
Mrs. Groskurth has the books
in her home as she did last year,
and will take care Of requests for
books in the vicinity of Reserve.
She also has some back numbers
of magazines for distribution 10
those who prefer them.
The Outlook. branch viii be
maintained in Prescott's store
Miss Folsom announces that books
viii be available on Saturday after
Moons and evenings. People in the
vicinity Of Outlook no doubt ap
preciate having the books avail
able in such a convenient location
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Ford Cut Wages One Thru

Detroit, Mich, September 3O-Tbe F., :.
tors company yesterday announced that A. S.u no.
mum wage has been cut from S. dov :. alAl
day. This is cut of 33 and oue-tb;rd y -
and fifty per cent below the rates maid :" oat
Thousands of Ford workers are workno - i'@
four days a week while thousands ~ - 'Ts or
workers are walking the streets jObless and ' 70
hungry. ~'e
General Motors Corporation has announced :,
$4,000 office workers will go on five dow -la'
with corresponding cut in wages. Tbi. !, veg
than q cut of ten per cent. 1''''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

and Miss Folsom is to be COM
mended for undertaking this work.
Teachers were much in evidence
at the library last week while the
county institute was in session.
Rural teachers may take out books
for their schools, so that through
this medium rural boys and girls
may secure books from the library
as well as those living in Plenty
wood. Many of the teachers took
their quota of books at this time.
A few recent additions In nom
fiction are as follows:
Allen, "Only Yesterday; Ear
hart, "The Fun of It"; Eaton,
What every Woman Should Know
About an Automobile; Jones,
Farm Gas Engines and Trac-
tors; Kaufman. "Of Thee I Sing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Two Executions In Indo-China

Paris, September 1.-TWO executions which
took place last July in IndO- China have just be-
come known. Two native revolutionaries Nguen-
duk Trong and Chongkok Lang were sentenced
to death and executed on a charge of 'participat-
ing in a murder for political motives" Details
Of the are not known. Immediately before
their execution the two steadfast revolutionaries
shouted: "DOwn with the capitalist French repub-
lie! Down with imperialism! Long live Commun-
ism"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

poor workers and farmers. Surely
they do not give a damn for any
one who does not vote.
The workers and farmers should
see through this program of the
boss. They are going to rally
themselves around the program of
struggle against the boss and the
banker. They are going to rally
themselves around the program Of
the Communist party. They ar
going to rally themselves around
the program that comes out clean
with six basic points that mean
something to the workers and the
farmers. They will rally them
selves around.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
LUTHERAN CHURCH
o. M. Simundson, Pastor
CrnnAnz nn&nHnn q


Services at Plentywood at 1880 a.
m. Miss Nellie Dahl, a missionary
to Madagascar will be with US. She
will speak at the Sunday school pro-
gram and also at the morning SER
vice. In the evening the l.. d. r.
and the Federation will have a can
die light service. An offering will
be taken up for the budget.
Services will also be - held at
Archer at 2:30 p. m. and at Outlook
at D. m.
The Luther League convention
which will be held at Plentywood
this year will begin on Friday eve
ming, Oct. IA at p. m. Rev. Norris
Halvorson of Bainville will give the
keynote address. The convention
will continue on Saturday. The con-
, vention service will begin Sunday
morning at 1890 a. m. and in the
afternoon the choral union concert
will be given.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

vanced by the American Legion
last year, ga million jobs for a
million men," 1t this writing the
crisis is much deeper than it was
a year ago.
REPUBLICAN BLATHER
Work not words is only a
means to an end. It is the lad
der by which Mr.. Monaghan can
climb to a seat in congress, bought
by fooling the workers and farm
ers, and once there wiring his
pound of flesh from people who
are faced with starvation.
The candidates Of the Republi-
can party displayed at best, utter
imbecility. In the face of a de-
preston that has effected the peO-
pie of this state possibly more than
in any other state, they seemed to
take it for granted that the crisis
was something trivial, something
that could be wiggled out of. They
made some blather about the taxes
paid by the Montana Power Co.,
some about the corruption in Hele-
ma, but they failed to in any way
show the stand that has been taker
against the entire population by
their standard bearer, Mr.. Hoover
CLASSES ELIMINATED"
Mr.. Fitsgearly the candidate fol
. congressman on the republica.
, ticket stated ave have eliminated
autocracy in religion, autocracy u
politics, and now we have elimi-
! mated classes" Such a statement
, when millions Of workers and th
farmers see themselves poor ant
: faced with starvation on the on
J hand, and on the other can sc
J hundreds Of the rich enjoyinI
5 everything Is to as the mooing 0
: a cow, the rsving Of a maniac.
! In the camp Of both parties wa
D a slight fear Of a progressive spht
split toward the program Of III
: Taxpayers League Of Montana,
: reaesiona<y organisation that reg
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Heavy Sentences Against Workers
In .atavia

Riga, September 19.-The trial of group of
workers charged with being members of the Illegal
Communist party of Latvia has just concluded.
Four of the accused were sentenced to six years
hard labor each and further sentence to one
years Imprisonment. The Seym deputy Ruty1
was also charged together with the other accused,
but since then he has been elected member of
the Seym. Special proceedings will be taken
against him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
|. C. c. Gives Loans to Ra;Ir0.I

Washington, September 3O-Another To-,
s12,461, $50 to the Chicago and Northwestern P.a
way was approved by the Interstate Comrn0...
Commission. Of this loan $5,OOO,OOO will h. ~
to pay off fifty per cent of the bank loans ma,
through Kuhn, Loeb and Co., big Wall STR,
bankers. The remainder will be used to nav :,
interest and principal on other loans
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Hoover Wants to Hush up 20
Per Cent Cut

In order to still the growing revolt among
the railroad workers against the new proposed %
per cent wage cut Hoover issued statement on
September 81 asking that further discussion Of
The wage cut be deferred until the end of the
year." AS the wage cut would not go into effect
until February anyway, when the present wage
agreement expires, Hoover's move is designed 70
keep as many votes as possible until after cleo
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Corn Cheaper Than Coal

Corn is now selling at the lowest point in IS
years. Current bids for new No. grades Of
cash corn, not allowing for husEing or hauling
make the grain in western Iowa at present worth
$2.15 ton.
A big Chicago Grain house stated on Sep.
TENDER 80 that it was likely that many farmers
would use corn for fuel this winter instead Of
coal since it is at present prices cheaper than the
latter
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

The state conventions of the
Democrat and Republican parties
were held in Helena September Is.
This year the conventions were
held on the same day-they might
have been held in the same hall
they were held on the same day it
Is supposed because the Anaconda
company is now practicing econo-
my in politics, they did not want
TO send their henchmen over from
Butte twice.
The conventions of both of the
two parties of Wall street showed
to all, even the delegates, the abb
solute political, moral and spiritual
bankruptcy of the system that they
are a part of.
NOTHING FOR WORKERS
OR FARMERS
Neither of the two had one con
structive idea, nor one construc
tive point in either of their plat
forms. There was not a mention
in any of the rubber stampet
speeches of the, candidates of tn
poor farmers who are being evict
ed from their places because the,
can not pay the taxes. There wa
not a word about the thousands o
workers who are faced with tn
fourth year of this depression
There was not a word about an
decent relief for either the work
ers or the impoverished farmer
Yet demagogy was resorted
more than once.
Chief among the demagogs wa
Roy Ayres, the Democrat cand
date for congressman from th
eastern part Of the state. q
bawled about the administrator I
Hoover. He stated, hypOeritieail
enough, that money must now l
poured in from below. He al
tempted to- show the dire condi
lions Of the telling farmers
Montana.
WHAT HAS FLAT HEAD
joins DONE
Wo1id Il be unfair TO as&s @wh
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Justice Thaver's Home Wrecked

Part of the, home of Justice Thayer who sen
fenced Sacco and Vanzetti to death on April ,,
1927, was wrecked by bomb on Sept q. Hs
wife and a maid in the house were slightly in.
jured.
This may have been an action of agent pro-
vocateurs in order to turn public sentiment against
the nine ScottsborO boys whose case is to be re
viewed by the u S. Supreme Court on October 10
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Workers Sentenced

Stockholm, September 1.-THE court in Seed
erham has sentenced eight workers to a total of
rs months hard labor for charges in connection
with demonstration against strike breakers on
the 20 of July. Even the bourgeois press admitted
that the police 'batoned and shot at running per-
sons without reason"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Told In Brief
City Council Approve. w.. =

Rochester, New York, Sept 8O-Citv S ~
c. A. Poole and the City Council have ~ 1aOassss
slash of five TO fifteen per cent in th sppfO'sd
city employees. School teachers are to b" ages
wages siashed by voluntary cOptrib~t 'e sAer
100000. This and the wage cut toostSS u
unemployment for more workers will er'Ier With
ings of $6300O0. "e~A say.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
International
News
Fascists and Socialists FIGHT

Vienna, September 30.-Thirty-six persons were
injured in street fights between National Socialists
fascists) and Socialist and other workers on the
second day of the fascist convention. One police
man was also injured. Later fight occurred be-
tween fascist and Socialist deputies in the NUM-
cipal council
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
MTSLEADS MASSES

Moody is a little more danger
Gus, pirates about his experience
with strikes, concludes that they
are never successful, asserts that
reason rules this world and force
can't change it, denied that strug-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

Robertson, COLLECTED Poems q
Elinor Wylie"; Hobbs, practice
Mathematics; Besier, "Barrs'S
of Wimpole Street.; DouglS
''Health and Home Nursing; 40
bott, Montana in the Making; !.
New rental fiction includes nc
following books:
Bailey, "Case for Mr.. FOTSunss ;
Biggers, "Keeper of the Keys /, !
Bromfield, GA Modern HefT =. ,
Deeping, "Old Wine and New b.. =
la Roche, clark Ascending; E TiI.
man, benefits Received; =, W.
loughby, "Spawn of the North
II
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
ANOTHER IDAHO
BANK GOES UP
Charity Squad In Boise
Ships Unemployed Out
of the State
(BY BOB STEELE)

i
Meridian, Idaho, Sept. 22.-The
enclosed clipping will verify what
recently appeared in the PrOduc-
ers News about the Liberty party |
in Idaho.
Since the second bank went up
in Boise the farmers market mas
been smashed some more.
Leaning money on high priced
sheep years ago is what has put
the crinp in the banks at present
The banks have been carrying
sheepmen's paper for years In the
hopes of a price that would make
it possible for the paper to be PAID
off.
LOSSES, IN SHEEP RAISING
One sheepman stated at wool
growers convention that he had
made a profit of ten cents a head
over a period Of 10 years. Another
large sheepman recently made the
statement at a Woolgrowers con-
vention at Salt Lake City that the
sheepmen are netting a loss OF
$3.50 a head.
Local papers are putting out the
news that the banks will be re-
opened soon. cit is hoped" and
at is reported" and so and so Is
"of the opinion that another loan
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is coming up and will
save the depositors of the bank.
All of this does not put sheepmen
and other debtors in position to
pay the banks, however
ONE BANK, LEFT IN
BOISE
The remaining bank in Boise Is
a link in a chain of fifty three
banks. Poor fish around here are
of the opinion that this chain is
stronger than the one that recently
went up. Time will tell.
This bank is connected with a
parent bank at Salt Lake City and
the Salt Lake banks, heard reds
whispering" before the Boise
: banks went up.
It is criminal offense in Idaht
}, to be of the opinion that a bank
is shaky before the bank has col
, lapsed. The Idaho statute on thu
L subject was passed shortly aftel
= the Overland National bank of
Boise went up some IL years ago
as a result of loaning money OIL
high priced sheep.
= HOOvERCRHTS
:, We refer here to people that
% howl down Hoover and boost 70
= Roosevelt as Hoovercrats.
. There are now over 1000 regis
A. tered unemployed in Boise. Their
l. are about twice that many unree
= istered jobless. This is out of
10 population Of 25,OOO.
I'd A certain period of residence j
I'd Idaho during which time the work
er has been self supporting en-
ne titles him to some relief. As
tn result of this the charity squa
er considers a floater a foreigner an
IS. starts him for another state. II
" other states do the same thing
None of the states want to clail
the unemployed. 1dahoans SCI
here from other states are r
r. turned from whence they come ,
&c are moved on to some other stat
ey The charity squads of this city al
lat other cities keep, each other in
zee formed about the hungry floater
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
MONAGHAN'S PHRASE
THRESHING

Mr.. Joseph Monaghan the demo-
cratic candidate for congress from
the western part of the state made
the pure and simple speech of a
high school boy-a backward high
school boy. Mr.. Monaghan, It
might be added, and not without
some degree of logic, attempted to
prove that he really loved the IN
employed workers that vote, bat
still, displayed a high school boys
knowledge Of economies. He came
forward with the demagogic, and
meaningless phrase mongering Of
"Work-not words for the
jobless.
Most anyone with ordinary In
telligence knows that this crisis L
one Of over production, that It Il
precisely work and too many hour,
Of wsrk and not enough remunera
ton for this work that has swelles
the ranks Of the jobless and Ia,
totally impoverished the farmers
This slogan Of DR.. Monaghans re
minds ~ Of shs eTisis breaAsT I'd
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
Republican, Democrat Parties Offer Nothing In Montan;
ROGER S. MURRAY
for sin the District

resents the big land holder and
mortgage holder.
Is this split or talk of a split a
healthy sign? It is not. 1t is a
further sign of the bankruptcy of
the entire system. These pro-
gressives can no longer eat at the
masters trough in the old parties
so they attempt to form a trough
of their own, where they may fool.
rob and exploit the workers and
farmers of this state. Exploita-
ton, robbery and demagogy rep
resents the bosses and bankers no
matter what label it comes under.
DID NOT MENTION NEGRO
The workers and farmers of this
state should not be fooled by any
of this demagogy and trickery of
the two old parties or any other
party of the boss. They can see
that neither of the boss parties
have anything for them. They can
see that neither of the boss par
ties even mentioned the Negro,
and there are Negroes in Montana.
They did not mention the super ex-
ploitation of the Negro, the dis
elimination against them, the local
and national oppression that the
Negro is faced with. The Negro
is worker, he is a poor farmer,
they were not interested In either
workers or poor farmers. They
were interested only In the policy
Of Wall street.
NO MENTION OF FOREIGN
: BORN
There was no mention Of tn
foreign born in either Of the ole
. camps. Not one word about Ii.
policy Of deportation Doak. Not
word about the discrimination o.
relief that is praeticed on the Cor
8 eign born The foreign born 70,
!, the most part are workers ant
9 poor farmers, many Of them d
D not vote. The Democrats and tn
: Republicans are not interested b
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
REFUSES TO CALL
MEETING

Wegley has again refused to cali
a meeting to get the farmers
views on picketing, afraid that the
farmers would vote against his
and the State Associations wishes.
His tactics are to keep the farm
ers on the farm, to take all his
orders from above without consult
ing or giving a damn what the
farmers, who are the ones faced
with immediate pauperization and
starvation, think or want.
He hasn't farmed for some time
Lives in town and hobnobs with
the business people and newspaper
men constantly. He has no brains,
obviously a meek and willingly
slave of Burdick.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

have you done for these farmers
Mr.. Ayres? What has your broth
er democrat Flat Head John, the
governor done for these farmers ?
Is not be Of the same party as
yourself? Were you not instru-
mental in ousting labor candidates
that were elected by the people of
Butte some years ago?
This demagogic puppet went on
to state that the money that was
to be poured In from below, was to
be poured in to the Golfers 81 the
POOR mortgage holders. He did
not advocate pouring money insc
the hands of the poor farmers and
workers of the state of Montana
His party nor the bosses of his
party want such a thing advocated
Mr.. Ayres is the man picked TO
fool the farmers in the eastern
part of Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
FHALEADERS
BREAK STRIKE
Continued from Front Psge)

CONTINUED from Front Psge)
and so pickets showed up, the ma
jority Communists. The group was
divided and the picketing began.
1t was successful the first day.
Five loads of grain were turned
back, three ran the picket lines.
several snuck in by implicated
by-roads and a number of loads
came in after the picketing had
stopped that night. For the first
day we did quite well.
In the meantime Mr.. Wegley
and Mr.. Moody, editor of the Will
liston Herald, had begun their
scabbing activities. It was noted
that Communists turned out full
force to picket-that most of the
other farmers who had voted to
picket were absent for some un-
accountable reason. These strike
breakers then told it about town
that this picketing was Commun-
list venture to steal the show, thai
the Communists were using vio'
Eence on the picket lines, dumping
cream and eggs, all of which were
lies. It was charged that 1 wa
an outsider from Sioux City try
ing to breed trouble in Williams
county in spite of the fact that
several swore l had been a hireC
hand on Ole Aronsons farm fol
some time past.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
THREATEN ORGANIZER

This group got the papers be-
hind them, a special meeting OF
the Boy Scouts was held to aid in
case trouble occurred. Mr.. Moody
organized mob to run me out of
town if I continued my activities.
said mob composed of legionaires
and misguided cowboys. I had
neg alc 1 had never seen before ar
proach me on the street and eau
ton me to be careful, not to wan
der around alone, etc., because GER
tain elements in town were out to
get me. This, because l had out
lined at our two meetings the
methods Iowa farmers used and
suggested that since these had
been successful that they might b.
used here.
The second day, Thursday, only
about ten farmers showed up
this time all Communists but two
The non-Communist pickets of thu
day before had been talked to by
the business powers and warned
against further participation Hos
tility by this time was unconcealed
Even the high school boys wer'
being organized for use agains
the pickets if the need arose.
Evening star., 1932-03-16
Plan Public Hearing.

Fellows asserted that the county Is
now operating on borrowed money and
that it may be several months before
it is possible to learn It's nnanclai
status, hence the board desires 10 avoid