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

Mrs. Carl Jensen was a business
visitor at the Melvin EvensOn home
last Thursday.
T-Bone Garrick and family Of Ray
mond were visitors at the Jacob
Zeitner home Thursday.
Several farmers took cattle to Out
look for shipment Thursday.
Erwin Nelson has been employed
at the NJ. Evenson home the last
week.
Percy and Blanche Rudke left for
parts of North Dakota Friday, where
they will visit with friends and rela-
tiveS.
The Y. CT. put on a large pro-
gram and dance at Stivers hall al
Outlook Saturday night. A large
crowd was present for the program
and many more for the dance.
Miss Ellen Taylor Of Plentywood
spent the week end visiting with
Alkaline EVenson.
Sophia Morstad and sons. Clifford
and Henry Umback LELAND Even
son, Wayne LAGRANGE. Simon Han
sen. Ted Thorstvedt. Jens JensOI
Westby and Mrs. Hansen of Westb!
and Jim King of Comertown wert
among the visitors of the Carl Mel
son home Sunday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
CONSTITUTION

OOhluS LaufSen, communist can
didate for the State Legislature,
said that he wanted more than our
constitutional rights. We have
them now and we have had them;
now We want to live and we've
got to fight TO do it.
Rodney Salisbury guaranteed the
backing of the United Farmers
League in the movement and Erik
Bert, editor of The News, warned
the farmers that they must keep
the leadership in their own hands;
otherwise they would wake up and
find that misleaders had led them
not into the promised land but into
the mire. He said, "What we need
is the united action and backing
of every impoverished farmer in
the county"
Nominations were made for a
resolutions committee to draw up
a plan of action to be followed by
the farmers present and all others
of the county as well as of Roose-
welt and Daniels county. The COM
mittee which was chosen consisted
of Hans Hardersen, Communist
candidate for sheriff, Thomas Sun
stad, president of the Taxpayers
Assn, Robert johnson Of McCabe,
and K. o. Brensdahl of McElroy.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
Their resolution which was voted
upon and adopted point by point
by the mass meeting reads as fol-
lows:
1. Farmers of Sheridan, Dan
ieAs and Roosevelt counties re-
solve to strike and picket against
all collectors and collections by
machine companies, Of govern
ment seed and feed loans. of
livestock and chattel mortgages
and any other, such as rents and
delinquent and current taxes Of
poor farmers and workers.
2. We demand moratorium on
all debts for at least two years
and at the end of that time, if
conditions have not placed the
farmers on equal footing with
other business, then we demand
total cancellation.
3. We demand and strike again
any renewal of mortgages, sign
ing notes or contracts and this
will be strictly enforced.
4. We demand and strike again
eviction of any farmer who has
been fOreclOsed and continues TO
live on his land, should stay
on his farm and take the full
value of his crops without inter-
ference of company or other
owners.
!, Another point was decided upo
by the mass meeting which wa
incorporated in the resolution a
, follows:
5. There win be a marketing
| day every other Wednesday for
grain and picketing will be un-
dertaken to prevent selling al
; any other time. There viii be
no strike on cream and eggs.
No livestock win be shipped out
of the county but it viii be sold
for local use. Cash only win b
accepted for grain.
1t was also decided to call loci
r meetings in each community t
: win the support of local farmer
{ for these demands. Since it VIZ
growing late, it was decided to a,
: journ the meeting until Saturda
r October s, when local strike con
mittees win be chosen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
ROADS TO STANLEY
PICKETED

Turnout Mountraill county, North
Dakota, picketing is being carried
on intensively. BY Thursday of
last week all roads leading into
Stanley were being picketed. The
pickets on a highway are divided
into three groups. The first group
approached by the truck merely
displays a large sign, STOP
Pickets Ahead" A little further
on another group holds a rope
across the road with a red flag
attached to it. If these two groups
are not effective in stopping the
trucks another group further on is
prepared to stop the trucks with
telephone pole. Perishable pro-
ducts are not being stopped.
FLA IN GRAND FORKS
At a meeting of 200 farmers al
Larimore on Friday, September sc
a nucleus of the Farmers Holiday
association was formed for Grand
Forks county, North Dakota. Nc
strike vote was taken, however.
Between 400 and 500 farmers
endorsed a pledge to withhold all
non-perishable farm products from
the market at a meeting called BY
the Griggs county Farmers Holt
day association in FOrman, NORTH
Dakota. Township organization i:
being carried on.
In the vicinity of Devils Lake
North Dakota, farmers are selline
only as much grain as is neces-
sary to pay their fall bills.
| All roads IN Mclean county, N
ID, were covered with pickets, be
ginning Wednesday, September Is
The picketing was supposed to b,
temporary in nature and to covel
only grain and livestock until fur
Their notice. Small deliveries o.
the picketed products would be
made on authorization of the town
Iship chairman to obtain money 70.
necessities.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07

For that reason they have in this their forgot
ten man. candidate to misead the impoverished farmers
away from the militant struggle that has been started and
in support of the second major party of Wall Street
The Sioux City Tribune which, during the struggle
of the farmers around Sioux City tried to break the mill
tant struggle while preaching that it the farmers
friend says that Roosevelt is the symbol of a new
hope
For that reason he was into the strike ea-to
the faith of the farmers capitalist politicians and
in capitalist democracy.
''The meeting of the farm problem is going to
be successful only if two factors are present.
'"The first is a sympathetic administration In
Washington and the second the hearty support and
patient cooperation of agriculture itself and its lead
A sympathetic administration is only hypo-
critical way of saying capitalist administration instead
of an administration of worker and farmer candidates.
During all the years of the agraran crisis the farmers
have had 'sympathy only from capitalist politicians
of all parties but from the insurance companies banks
land banks and joint stock and federal land banks.
The present terrible condition of the farm masses is
result of the robbery and oppression which has been
accompanied by sympathy.
But different spirit is spreading among the farm
masses spirit of militant struggle against evictons,
foreclosures, for higher prices, and for relief
gle has spread AND SO HE SPOKE AGAINST THE
STRUGGLE.
He asked for the hearty support and the patient
operation of agriculture and its leaders
The hearty support of agriculture" support
of the capitalist parties the parties of the bankers and of
the rich by the impoverished farm masses.
Patient cooperation means that the farmers should
not struggle but should wait the empty promises of
Roosevelt and his kind.
He and Wall Street have the patient cooperation
of the farm leaders. As long the crisis has lasted
the farm leaders have shown their than patient
cooperation. They have been the willing handmadens
of Wall Street. They have preached debenture pan
equalization fee and other relief schemes to the farm
ers urging them to be patient support the progress
sive farm bloc"
Roosevets speeches have been designed to keep the
farmers patient The two great purposes of my farm
policy said Roosevelt to seek relief for him (the
famer) from the burden of his expense account and
to try to restore the purchasing power of his dollar by
getting for him higher prices for the products of the
soil"
Under the first great purpose Roosevelt had moth
ing mention but taxes. Not word about lower raj
rates. word about reducing the burden of ineres
and mortgage payments. About these things Roosevelt
had nothing to say.
On the question of taxes he offered the impover-
ished farmers absolutely relief from the milestone
weight that brushes them His second great purpose
consists only In eliminating useless officehoders re
ducng taxing districts. reorganization of local govern
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
PICKETING IN N. D.

PicketirT started in Mckenzie
county, North Dakota, around
Watford City on Wednesday, Sept.
%. All trucks were stopped by
the farmers with ropes drawn
across the road. Some of the
trucks were allowed thru when the
farmers showed that they needed
money to pay labor, thresh bills,
or needed it for food or groceries.
The pickets warned everybody
that these restrictions would be
frightened. At a meeting on Tues
day night before picketing started
Mother Bloor, 70 year old militant
fighter in the ranks of the work
ing class, and state organizer of
the United Farmers League for
North Dakota urged on the farm
ers to picket.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
ROOSEVELT ADVISES
PATIENCE"

On September % Governor Roosevelt spoke IN
Sioux City, the of the most militant struggle that
the American farm masses have put up in many year.
The selection of this city is CHARACTERISTIC OF the entire
program of the Democratic candidate OF Wall Street as
far as the farm masses are concerned.
In reporting Roosevelts meeting the Sioux City
Tribune said
ellis selection of Sioux City-scene of the
opening battle in the agrarian revolt now sweeping
across the country-is considered by political OBJ
servers as definite indication of the importance
which may be attached to his talk here"
HIS Sci ECTION OF SIOUX CITY IS AN lNDl
CATION OF THE IMPORTANCE WHICH THE CAP
TTALIST CLASS PLACES ON THE STRUGGLE
WHICH WAS INAUGURATED BY THE IOWA
FARMERS AROUND THE CITY.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
HOLIDAY ASSN. STOPS
PICKETING

The Holiday Association of the
county is trying to stop picketing.
Many of the farmers who are
holding back their grain and live
stock are demanding picketing so
that truckers will not be able to
bring prouuce through.
The Farmers Holiday Associa-
ton has been organized in Dawson
county, Montana. Several local
units have been organized in the
county altho picketing is not going
to be encouraged by the county
officers.
A county wide organization of
the Holiday association is being
undertaken in Butte county, North
Dakota. Several meetings have al
ready been held.
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ment was making them sign on
the dotted line and he, for one,
had had enough of it. He said he
had lived in the county for 25
years and had paid for his farm
over and over again but now he
owed more than ever before. He
called for a moratorium on all the
debts. He said that he had been
called radical" but he wanted
only the constitutional rights that
had been guaranteed him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
ORGANIZATION
OF FARMERS

CONTINUED from Front Page
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tonyille and Clinton have agreed
not to ship or buy farm products.
Picketing began in Yellow Medi-
cine county, Minnesota, was start
ed On Monday, September &c. The
four chief highways leading into
Candy were picketed by lao farm
ers on Monday. BY Wednesday
this had increased to $50 farm
ers who had established day and
night pickets. Only non-perishable
products were being held up.
Boards with spikes and woven wire
were being used by the farmers In
order to stop trucks from going
thru.
PICKETS ARE PEACEFUL
The attitude of the pickets is
characterized by the words of one
of them who said:
1--WE are doing this business
peacefully, but WE AIM TO
STOP ALL THE HAULING OF
GRAIN AND POULTRY"
Picketing in Mcleod county
Minnesota, started on Tuesday
September 81 when farmers from
Kandiyohi and Renville countie
took up their posts at point tire
miles west of Glencoe. They ar
being aided by Mcleod farmers i
preventing trucks from going thru
The trucks tried to get thru Nc
Leod county highways when the
were stopped in the other countie.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-10-07
MONT. FARMERS
UNITE TO SAVE

CONTINUED from Front Pagel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
SELLING SENDS
PORKERS DOWN
5 TO Is CENTS
Cattle Undeveloped With
Weak Trend; Sheep
Steady.

Hogs dipped fractionally this
morning, prices at the city yards
declining 5 to Is cents on most
classes. The bulk, 100 to 325 pounds,
sold for 81 to $40, early top hold
inf at $40. Receipts were estimat-
ed at 1900; holdoverS we're 456.
In cattle the general trade was
slow, with a bearish undertone. Re
ceiptS were l 200. VealerS were I'M
changed to SO down. Calf receipts
numbered 600.
The market is sheep was unde-
veloped. Asking was higher at
around $6.75 to 81 for the best west
ern lambs. Receipts we're 5000.
Chicago hog market showed
mostly a lower trend, with few
early bids weak to 10 cents under
Mondays average. The bulk, 100
to 200 pounds we're bid $4.20 to
$3.50, while 280 to 290-pounders
were bid at $3.85 tc $3.50. Receipts
were 10000. including 5000 direct.
Holdovers, 1000. Cattle receipts
were estimated at 5000; calves,
1000; market, steady. Sheep re-
ceipts were quote dat $4,000; mar
ket, unchanged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

bulls (yearIingS eXcIudedl-
Good and choice beefs ~ 3O0m $50
Cutter, common and medium. 2001 800
CALVES AND VEALERS
Eeceipts, 600; market, steady.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

General Electric Company orders in
1881. total S252,02l, 400 against S34l .820.312
$40 1921 .48o against S74.26S. 48O in like 1880
quarter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
PROFIT-TAK|NG
FORCES Grain
FUTURES OFF
Most of Previous Advance
Wiped Out in Early
Decline.
BY HAROLD E. RAINVILLE
United Press Stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, Jan. Weakness in
stocks and an easing Liverpool
market stopped the advance in
wheat on the Board of Trade at
the opening today and encouraged
flood Of prof1t-ta taking orders that
wiped out a large fraction of Mon
days advance. Liverpool started
strong, but met profit taking and
found demand small.
The sharp advance of the past
two sessions left wheat in a poor
position to withstand a concerted
selling movement and the market
staggered back unevenly.
Corn Loses Ground
Corn also lost ground in an ir-
regular fashion. Oats was uneven.
but July showed f1rmnesS.
At the opening wheat was 4 to
4 cent lower, corn was unchanged
to e cent lower and oats 4 cent
lower to 4 cent higher. Provisions
suffered a sharp setback.
A drop in sterling was partially
accountable for the 4 to q pence
rise at Liverpool, equal to Is to IS
cent at mid-afternoon, which was
more than expected. Wheat
has advanced 5l5 cents from the
low of Saturday.
Trading Turns Dull
Corn was higher Monday, but
there was not the snap of the
trading that was present at times
last week. The country is selling
more corn than recently and local
handlers booked $4,000 bushels
Monday, the largest total in some
time.
Oats follow corn for the most part.
The, essential need, according to
pit followers, Is a strong cash de-
mand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
BRITISH PRESS REEVES
ANTI-D0LLAR CAMPAIGN
Attack Seen as Effort to Bolster
Pound for Debt Payments.
By United Press


LONDON, Jan. 19-An "anti-
dollar campaign revived in Lon
don's Sunday newspapers, was be-
lieved prompted indirectly by the
desire to bolster the pound sterling
in view of payments due at the end
of the month on credits of ESQ, 000,-
600 par value in New York and
Paris.
Financial editors of the Sunday
press insisted that the United
States was headed for imitation, de-
spite assurances from New York
that the trend of business and leg
iSlation in the United States is in
exactly the opposite direction.
Curiously, the same newspapers
last December carefully pointed out
that if Britain was forced tempo
rarily" to increase her f1duciary
note issue to meet the Christmas
trade demands for currency, this
would not mean imitation.
1t therefore was believed that the
campaign was aimed to strengthen
sterling so that the Bank of Eng
land and the government might buy
dollars and francs cheaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

Proctor & Gamble Company and sub
salaries for six months ended Dec. 81,
1881, earned S137 share on 6410. 900
shares of common stock. against S1.S4 a
common share in like period of 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Births
Boys

Harry and Mary Danz s1s Church.
Howard and Frances Danforth, SIG
Trowbridge.
william and Greta Moore, 2s4 Bake
meyer.
Samuel and Iona Mahan. s0l River.
Floyd and Lucille Fykes, il0s West
Brook.
John and Mary DutIin, 4s North Glad
stone.
Tim and Mary Shea, st. Vincent hospital
Charles and Catherine Mason, st. Vim
cents hospital.
Raymond and Violet Phelps. 4s South
Kitley.
John and Thelma Lowell. 1885 West
Eighteenth.
Girls
James and Helen Mudd, 235 wisconsin
Charles and Anna CumminS, 2ls3 South
Delaware
Vernon and Frieda Orr. 1888 Alton.
Forrest and Caroline Bailey. 1867 South
California.
Rufus and Mollie Virgins. 1920 Ivondale
Place
Merle and Leota White. 5s7 North
perShing.
Frances and Margaret shaw. $50 South
Wyant and Mildred LaycOck. 1884 West
Thirty-frst
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
New York Bank Stocks

(By Thomson & McKinnonl
Ian. 10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Jan. 10
CHICAGO
NEW ORLEANS
NEW YORK
MARRIAGE Licenses
CBy James T. Hamill q CO..

Ray Cooper. "a. R. r. n, Box 81. pack
kajarni, 20. r. r. IL. BOX So. houseworke-.
Lelan Thomas Vaughn. 80. Of Detroit,
laborer. and Mabel Meek. As. Of loS East
Pratt street.
Charles o. Willis. AZ, Of sls East Ohio
street. foreman, and Elsie Cunningham.
a. of 9l9 East Ohio street. housekeeper.
West Thirteenth street. clerk. and Mary
Katherine Miller. Is. of Speedway City.
Frederick Hooker, 20. OF 2T43 Barth
avenue. machinist. and Edella johnson.
is. Of 2743 Barth avenue. cashier.
Edgar o. Logan. rs. OF 334 North Ar
linEton avenue. weather-strip mechanic.
and Nellie c. Horner. %. OF So South
Belleview place. stenogra pher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Cash Grain
18-

Jan. ID
The bids for car lots of grain at the call
of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, f. o. b.
shipping point basis 4lHc New York rate.
were:
Wheat-Firm: No. red. 51@5sc: No. 2
red. 50@52c; No. 2 hard. 50052c.
Corn-Firm: No. 8 white, 30@31c: No. 4
white, 29030c; No. 8 yellow. 28h@29hc;
No. 4 yellow. 2212M2812c: No. mixed. 81
@28c; No. mixed. 26@27c.
Oats-Firm: No. 2 white. 22h@231ac;
No. white. 211A @22hc.
Hay #. o. b. country points taking 23Isc
or less rates to Cincinnati or LOUISVILLE
Steady; No: timothy. $2@25o; No. 2
Wheat~No. red. 6 cars; No. 3 red, 2
cars; No. 4 red, car; No. 2 mixed. /
car. Total: 10 cars. IT.,
white. cars; No 2 yellow. cars No 8
yellow. II cars No. 4 yellow. 10 cars: No.
yellow. 1 car: No. mixed. cars: No. 6
mixed. l car. Total. 80 cars.
Oats-No. 2 white. IL cars; No. white.
10 cars; No. white, car. Total. 81 cars
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

George A. Horned g. Company declared
a dividend of rs cents a share on common
stock and regular quarterly dividend of
$3.50 a share on class A preferred stock
both payable Feb. IS. of record Feb. l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
CONTINUE LIQUOR CASE
Sheaffer Grants Delay in $4,000
AIlxy, Whisky Seizure.

Blind tiger case against Chef
Fowler, 2400 block East Fifty-ninth
street, who was arrested last week
after police said they confiscated
$4,000 worth Of liquor at his home,
was continued until Wednesday by
Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer
today.
Police battered their way through
a concrete floor of a garage, in the
rear of Fowler's expensive home, to
find the booze cache. Alcohol and
numerous brands of noted whisky
and wine we're found by officers.
Fowler is an aviation enthusiast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Won HINDENBURG HIKES
GERMANY'S TARIFFS
Invokes Emergency Powers Against
Nations Off Gold Standard.

By United Press
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-President Paul
Won Hindenburg used his emery
ency powers today to increase tariffs
on goods from countries off the gold
standard and those not having
trade treaties with Germany.
Under Article 48 of the consti-
ution which grants the president
dictatorial powers, Won Hindenburg
authorized the following automatic
tariff increases effective today:
First, goods originating in coun-
tries off the gold standard are sub
ject to sliding equalization duty.
Second, goods originating in
countries which do not have trade
treaties with Germany, or which are
levying higher tariffs than other
nations on German goods, are sub
ject to straight increase in duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19

Auburn Automobile Company and sub
salaries for. year ended Nov. 30, 1881,
earned $I7;64 on 2o2:s o9 shares, AGAINST
quarter ended Nov 30. earned $1.l9 a
share. against net loss of $26,6l a COM
mon share in like period OF 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
BrightSpots
of Business


NEW YORK. Jan. 1e.-Associated Gas
and Electric systems power output for
domestic consumption increased IN aver
age SIS per cent per customer in 1881, 1t
was announced today.
SHARON, Pa.-SharOn Steel Hoop
Company increased operations at it's
local plant to per cent of capacity
compared with 50 per cent last week.
RICHMOND, va.-virginia Iron, Coal
and Coke Co. estimated its 1881 net profit
at sI10,353,. compared with net loss OF
S36,531 in 1880.
NEW YORK-Earnings of International
Business Machines Corporation in 1881
were the largest in its history, maintain
crease. Thomas j. Watson, president Of
the company, said
BOSTON-Improvem evident in the
cotton goods industry during the last
week to include the fine goods depart
ment. with quotations marked up "a to
u cent a yard in larger trading.
TIFFIN, O.-The United States Glass
Co. reopened It's plant with all depart
ments operating on a part-time basis
after having been closed down since
mid-December.
NEW YORK - Brooklyn Manhattan
Transit system reported for December,
1881, surplus Of S733.929 against SILL
17s in December, 1880, and $685. in De-
cember, 1929.
NEW YORK-North American Co. an
nounced a construction budget OF 1s,0OO.-
900 for 1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-19
Auburn Earnings Up

Auburn's strength was traced to
its earnings report for the year
Nov. 30, released today. 1t showed
$1764 a share earned on the 202,909
shares outstanding, against $5.43 a
share on 1888 shares outstanding
in the preceding year.
General Electric, which reported
a sharp decline in orders in 1881,
specially in the last quarter, was
depressed, dipping rs to 227s. Du
Pont rose u to 7415 on its prelimi-
nary earnings report showing 1929
a share earned on 11,OO8,512 aver
age shares outstanding in 931,
against $467 on 1O,783,555 shares in
$780,
Railroad bonds advanced after
early declines, while United States
and foreign issues declined. Cotton
and grains sold off.