Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-06-02
Leaders Take Part il
Red Demonstration at
Flaxton

A group OF Communist agIt-
ators attempting TO turn a
Memorial day program at Flax
tom, N. OAK. into a Red Rail
ly, was promptly dispersed by
a well-organized unit of the ma
tional guards from Minot-
The Memorial day program
was sponsored by she FIaxton
post of tho American Legion,
which organization had been
made aware of the intentions of
the Communists to attract the
crowd for a little get-together
of their own But the Legion
Post of FIaxton is one of the
most active patriotic organize
tions in North Dakota and pre-
ed it by combating the Red
menace in a commendable man
ner.
When the hour approached
for the program to begin, the
beautiful new World War Me
mortal building was quickly
filled to capacity and the city
streets and auditorium SUI
roundings were placed in the
hands of well uniformed sol
diers from Minot- Members of
the National guard unit
hundred strong-Were there to
dispense Soviet symlpatfHizers
who attempted to attract a
crowd so that they may instifl
in them the glories of the Soviet
regime.
What a disappointment it
must have been for the Commu-
nists to have their plans thwart-
ed by a young army of husky,
welI-trained s0ldiersl What a
surprise it must have been for
the Red who loudly exclaimed
ito He'll with the Unknown Sol
der to have the weII-deveIop-
ed hand of a six-fo0t-four sol
dier grab him by the nap of the
neck and handled i'm a%ppropri-
ate fashion!
Thus the well-laid plans of
the ring-Ieaders, Rodney Sails
bury you've heard of him) and
Erick Bert, editor of the Pr0du-
GERS News, both of Plentywood,
fell by the wayside. Their at
tempted street meeting, opening
with the singing of The Inter
national" was promptly and un-
tremendously cut short by a de-
tachment of soldiers. The ex-
ponents of Russian rule and
free love then moved their
trucks TO another site near the
Memorial Building, and were
again met by a group of Uncle
Sans defenders. Again they
retreated, this time making a
last stand ON the outskirts of
town.
Approximately a third of the
large crowd which had gathered
at Flaxton to attend the Memoir
ial day program found room in
the large building, and the cur
ions antics of the Communist
organizers and sympathizers
provided a bit of Entertainment
fer those who could not find
even standing room i'm the
building. Many iof these, out of
curiosity, followed the Reds TO
their last stand, but were dis
persed by the guardsmen and
legionaires. The Communist
group was then left to itself
a sorry looking lot of men, wo-
and children holding and
waving banners IN which were
inscribed such Soviet pr0pagan-
da as the poisoned minds of
such a group of harI0ts could
devise. What a sight of de-
lection it was to see this group
standing ON and near their
bright red trucks with no au-
dience-to see Erik Bert fran
tically waving his long arms and
cursing all the soldiers and Le-
gionaires which were ever brot
into ~existencei And finally the
withdrawal of the Communists
TO their tent camp On the Ralph
Ingerson farm-with a terrible
percentage for the days activ-
ities-no hits. no runs, but a
bunch of social errors!