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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
By Casey M. Boskaljon
Washington State Organizer of the
United Farmers League

ABOUT three months ago the State Com
"A mittee of the United Farmers League
decided on the necessity for a united
front conference of farmers to be held at
Yakima August q and %. Calls were
printed. The State Fair grounds were
obtained and $40 cash deposit was posted
for security of leaving the grounds in a
clean condition. AS secretary of the
League, in the State of Washington,
arrived at Yakima August "a in the
afternoon. | learned there had been a
strong fight between farmers and farm
workers striking under the leadership of
the /. w. w. However, | had no part in
this strike whatsoever.
The international Labor Defense at
Yakima had permit to speak three
nights per week on the street corner.
The question was brought up if it was
safe holding the usual meeting as the
farmers were very prejudiced against
the workers. 1t was decided to drive in
by car and look over the situation. On
one corner the Salvation Army was hold
ing it's usual meeting, unmolested, with
about dozen listeners. On the other
corner hundreds of workers and farmers
had gathered to hear the LID speakers.
We decided it would be safe to hold the
meeting.
Some of the comrades piled out, the
others and myself went and got litera-
ture and papers Later, was introduced
as a delegate to the United Front Farm
ers Conference and spoke to very inter-
ested crowd of about 700 people, My
tonic was Omitted Action of Workers
and Small Farmers" spoke of con-
ditions in the United States and par
ticularly the State of Washington, how
the Unemployed Councils and the United
Farmers League struggle together
against starvation and eviction.
Half an hour later, without word of
warning, the National Guard broke up
the meeting. The city authorities were
present. The LID representatives pro
tested to them, but were ordered to get
out of the way. We left before arrests
were made. Later tear gas and stencil
bombs were used to spread more terror.
By now the rowd was over LOO
strong. Automobiles were drawing vi
to this corner from all four sides for sew
eral hours. and several arrests wer'
made. Had the National Guard stages
| away, no trouble would have been de
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
WHY BOTH UFL AND
MERCHANTS FIGHT
N. D. SALES TAX

A letter has been written to the
PRODUCERS NEWS asking for
an explanation of how it occurs
that the United Farmers League
ard the North Dlkota Retail
Merchants Association are both
bitterly fighting the Sales Tax.
The question is entitled to a
pbain answer.
The two organizations fight the
proposal for two entirely different
reasons. The Merchants Associa-
ton is against the measure, a.
because it gives advantage to mail
order houses outside of the state
on whose sales the tax is not col
lected. b. because of the nuisance
the tax causes and the annoyance
in making the collection of the
tax. 1t is figured on the amount
of each sale and added to the cost
price. Everytime this is done the
customer is going to protest.
The UFL opposes the measure
"a because it is a tax levied upor
the cost of the food and clothing
and fuel and everything the farm
er and workers buy, taking tn
burden IRON rlle rich aIFd I0zuIHj
it upon the poor; b. because thi
sales tax is for the special bere
| fit of bondholders whose paymer
were provided for by law md con
! tract when the bonds which the
were bought were issued.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

The United States Congress
Against War which will convene in
New York Sept. 20, with at least
1000 delegates from every section
of the country to deliberate on a
united front program against war
pointed out that economic ma
tionalism, which aims at the
maximum degree of self-suffi-
cheney, requires that the United
Stltes control the rich tropical re-
sources of Cuba"
The statement follows:
"The United States Congress
Against War converting Sept. 20 is
now confronted with a situation II
! Cuba which calls for immediate
and aggressive action. The United
| States Government is preparing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
The Blue Buzzard's Claws In Yakima Valley


the sheriff. While | was explaining this
to the other delegates one or two blocks
away, motorcycle cops arrested the first
car in which Brockway was riding. An
other motorcycle cop asked if I were the
Secretary. | stated that was. We were
told, Might as well go to the sheriffs
office and have it over with"
We were under arrest.
There were, think, three cars. At
the Sheriffs office l counted fifteen of
us. ] was the first to be called and ques-
toned. There were three policemen. l
don't remember if the sheriff was in the
room, but there were lots of policemen in
other rooms.
I was asked:
''Your. name?" C. M. Boskaljon.
Homer EatonviIIe.
GAGE" Al.
''Where born?" hesltated, and said,
'Tll tell it to the Judge" Two big state
police said, mo, you tell it here to us,
we are the police" where were you
bom?" "Pll tell it to the Judge"
/ was Immediately beaten up. I felt
dizzy. They yelled, care you satisfied
Are you going to talk now?"
"ln tell it to the Judge"
Again I was beaten care you go
ing to talk now?"
| did not answer Again beating.
The blood was flowing from my face and
nose The booking officer said, That's
enough; we'll keep him for investiga-
ton"
was ordered to take off my coat
shirt, shoes and finally / was stripped.
| thought they would give me beating
ON my mixed back. Every stitch of cloth
ing was examined.
They began questioning me again.
'sWhen were you in Wenatchee?" l did
not answer. They noticed birth mark
on my back, and marked it down. was
ordered to dress and was taken to jail
| In jail with me was some one had met
before. In our talk we discussed the
possibility of night riders told OF my
beating.
After a few hours in jail Sunday
was questioned by the immigration off
GER I told my name, age, home, wher'
I had farmed, birth, place of citizenship
where and when, and again sent .odch
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because the Roosevelt Administra-
ton has not made good its pro-
misses of relief to the farmers.
The New Deal has cut the farm
ers' acreage but it has put moth
ing in the pockets of the farmers.
1t has restricted his market by
placing sales tax on his pro-
ducts which make them harder to
sell to the workers in the city.
And in the meantime, the prices
on things which the farmers must
buy have risen out of reach. The
problems of debts, rents, and taxes
are still unsolved, and the socalled
refinancing provisions of the New
Deal agricultural act have failed
to prevent foreclosures and evic-
lions.
What shall the farmers do about
the pillow under, butchering, de-
struction campaign of the New
Deal? What about the actual
hunger, the needs for vitll ne
cessities which exist on hundreds
of thousands of farms? What OF
foreclosures and evictions which
have made many farm families
homeless and which threaten count
less more? What about the tire
mendous pressure of the credito
Glass, the banks, the irTsurune
companies, the money sharks. l
cancellation Of back debts the mex
step for the farmers?
These are some Of the question
which the farmers will answer q
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

for large scale Intervention in
Cuba; it has already dispatched 80
war ships to Cuban waters. The
right of the overwhelming ma
jority of the Cuban people-work-
ers and peasants-to determine
their own form of government Is
being usurped by Washington and
the American financial interests
which dominate Cuba. American
battleships ard marines stationed
in Cilhsn waters are forcing the
will of American business inter-
este on the Cuban people.
Wall Streets Stake
american financial interests
have approximately $1,000, OOO, OOt
Continued on Page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

NATIONAL conference 10 De
held at Chicago Nov. 1913. {
Fully 1000 farmers are ex-
pected to take part in this
Conference which will be one
of the greatest gatherings of
farmers in the history of the
country. At this huge meet
ing farmer-delegates will take
steps to build a united front
of all busted, mortgaged, dis
possessed, ruined and almost
ruined farmers, for a national
fight for real relief.
Farmers of every political par
ty, of every faith and every creed,
regardless of race or color, re-
CARELESS Of whether they are men,
bers of farm organizations or not,
are called upon to elect delegates
to this great conference. The
TURNER'S National Committee for
Action set up at the First Farm
ers National Relief Conference
consisting of farmers belonging tC
the Grange, the Fnrmers Union,
the Farm Holiday Association, the
United Farmers League and Of
various state protective associa.
tons nnd cooperatives are back
ing this conference and viii senC
dnles~+Aa. f-A.-.- -,.Aass meetings %
well as from school house meet
irgs. ard from picnics.
There is only one limitation.
: every delegate must be a
farmer, a real working farm
er, who derives his income
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
WISCONSIN LOCAL
OF UFL DEMANDS
"HANDS OFF CUBA"

To the President Of the
United States,
Commander in Chief of the
Army and Navy,
Washington, D. c.
Honorable President:
We the farmers and workers
of Greenwood, Wisconsin, in
mass meeting assembled, this
eighth day of September 1888,
realizing that in 1917 then i'm
perialist war lords of the
United States, spent twenty six
billion dollars of the peoples
money, sacrificed sixty five
thOnussnd young mens's lives,
and crippled and wrecked the
health of five hundred thousand
more, in the so-called war to
end war, whose sole accOmp-
lishment WINS the creation of
twenty-five thousand new mil
lionaires and total impoverish-
men of the masses of the
American people.
| Therefore be it resolved: that
we demand the immediate with.
drawal of the armed forces that
have been sent to Cuba, and the
wrrkers md farmers of Cubs
be allowed 20 set up any kline
Of government they see fit. 1
you must eerd armed force
somewhere serd them to Wis
CO. sin to protect the farmers
AMI workers from mortgag,
sharks md tax collectors.
Signed: w. E. BROKER,
Chairman
0Iga~ ization, U. F. L.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
My Children Sleep IN
Old Cars and My Wife
and Sleep Outdoors !"

Dear Editor:
! have family of Z children
S i,u COST know where the next
t"n Is coming from. Yet. they
eel Us to DlOw up wheat fields
u',I nelp the new dead. We Only
-, SIX poor grade cows and
ny kn To- what that amounts 70
f brSn the low prices paid the
,,a nOur Of my children have "a
SON = schOOl, and what's a per.
As tS = send them to school on
M S .a, Is nothing to eat ant
no 81 clothes to wear. "'''
SAL mere was a personal "a,
q S'1 not far from here conduct
Es, ~ the sheriff. The nice "a
sIe So cows were sold 70 70
cOmw NJ one of our rich count,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

1 have been trying for four
years to build a house, but had
no success as ytt. My children
sleep in old cars that cannot be
used and my wife and ! sleep
outdoors as our dugout is no
earthly good. l am going 70
try and build a sod house but
don't know where the money Is
coming from for a roof. floors
doors and windows The dug-
out we have has no floor only
two windows, and the wnOe
west side of it caved IN last
spring in a hard rain, SO we
covered ID with hay
Our q. F. L. local Is gong 70
elect a delegate to the National
Conference at Chicago.
r. A. G.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

Hav,0a Cuba-While the different political groups Of
tho aDitalsts and landlords Of Cuba struggling among
themselves for control of the island the revolutionary work
ors soldiers, and peasants carrying in tremendous
rogle against armed intervention by United States ma
zines This struggle is also directed toward the oustng of
American sugar barons and bankers from Cuba.
As result of the increasing instability of President
Grau Martins regime he has issued decree dssovng
All political parties. In high government quarters it is ad-
mitted his regime out-and-out dictatorship
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
Congress
Protests Against US.
Intervention IN Cuba
Calls on Workers and Farmers to Demand Withdrawal
of u S. Armed Warships From Cuban Waters

New York.-Condemnng the government for dispatch
ing w2rshp into Cuban waters and charging the Roosevelt
administration with preparing for large scale intervention
in Cuba to protect the financial interests who have
proxmatey $1,5OOO0OOOO invested in Cuba the United
States Congress Against War with affiaes of 100 organ
cations representing 100000 people calls AL the
workers and farmers to picket and demonstrate before all
governmental offices demanding the withdrawal of United
States warships from Cuban waters"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
ALARM BELL ROUSES
GREEK PEASANTS TO
EXPEL GOVT AGENTS

Athens, Greece, Sept. ia de-
tachment of mounted police was
sent to the village of Chadji to
enforce the payment of taxes. The
alarm bell of the village was rung
and all the peasant inhabitants,
with their wives and children,
gathered and drove out the police
Oy shOwering them with stones.
At the village of Chasteni. the
PEASANTS beat up a tax collector
and drove him out of the village
In Virginia over 100 peasants
assembled !. in the market place to
us0en to speaker from the Com
niuhist party, who spoke on Ger.
man fascism. A large sum was
collected TO aid the victims Of
German fascism.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

. In Il wildly enthusiastic Demon
stration at Marzanillo, supporting
the strike of the workers in the
Maybay sugar central, u boycott
Of American products was ordered.
! This action followed demonstra-
tons in HAVANA over the last
weekend in which thousands of !
workers and soldiers shouted:
"Down with Yankee imperialism"
and denounced Ambassador Welles.
An incomplete tabuLation indi-
Gates at least 10000 workers on
strike. In one province alone,
Camaguey, $4,000 sugar workers
are out. Only four sugar mills
ard plantations are working, and
in these all the strikers demands
have been won. Workers are
holding seven sugar centrals in
this province and have set up
workers and peasants councils in
two of them.
Twenty of Cuba's $50 sugar
mills are in the hands of workers
who have elected their own COM
mittees to run them.
The government is feverishly
trying to settle all strikes. Army
sergeants are ordered to intervene
in all strikes. When rank ord file
soldiers intervene, they force the
settlements in favor of the work.
ers.
II Members of womsn's revolution
airy groups led an anti-interventior
demonstration in Havana Sunday
In an attempt to halt the partici-
patton of working women in the
revolutionary struggles of the
Cuban masses, there were vague
rumors circulated that President
Grau SIM Martin was considering
extending voting power to women
Censorship of all telegraphiC
communications has been clampe'
down.
! A demonstration against Amer
lean Imperialism of 10000, Gale
in Havana by the Anti-Imperialis
\ League and the Communist Part
- of Cuba, produced a sensation.
> Negro soldier pledged the help G
the soldiers in the fight agains
the landing of American marine
le- The Communist Party and til
Tas Young Communist League of Cub
to have issued an appeal to Unite
he States mlrises asking them to r.
ng fuse to fight the Cuban worker
is, and peas ants. It is posted IN a
On, conspicuous places in Havana.
ice
?. Washington, D. C.-Secretary
.ne State Cordell Hull stated last wet
0Oi that the United States will new
&c give up its right to intervene wi
s0 armed forces in the affairs of u
" Cuban people. This so-called rig
M is secured by the Plat Amend
ment to the Cuban constitutio
vas % It's min provisions state that t
VI u. S. claims the right to GorEr
Cuban internal affairs, to mai
tain naw1l and military bases
IN, Cuba, and to control the forei
loans of the Cuban government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
1000 Delegates Expected at
End National Farm Conference
In Chicago, November 1918
DESTRUCTION CAMPAIGN DEAL HUNGER, EVICTIONS AM
FORECLOSURES CANCELLATION OF DEBTS TO BE
QUESTIONS WHICH FARMER WILL ANSWER
DELEGATES TO BE PUT UP IN CHICAGO WITH COOPERATION
OF WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS

Washington D. c. Sept by 10000 farmers and "a affiliated farm
the Pacific the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
FRANK MURTLAND'S
CHILDREN TAKEN
AWAY BY STATE

Crosby, Minn.-In order to
check the growing influence of
the United Farmers League in
Minnesota, the bosses are re-
sorting to all sorts of tricks.
in BiltmOre county the State
Control Board has taken away
the three children of Frank
Murtland, county u. F. L. or
ganizer, and put them in the
state Orphanage. They intend
In that way to intimidate him
and get him out Of active or
ganizing work for the u. F. L.
Protests should be sent TO
Governor Floyd B. Olson. State
Capital ST. Paul, Mimi, and to
the County Board of Commits
siOners, Bemidji, MIMI, de-
manding that the children be
returned to the parents imme.
1iateIy, and that this form Of
terror be stopped.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22
STRUGGLES OF CUBAN
MASSES AGAINST j. S.
INTERVENTION RISING

Gigantic Wave of Strikes and Demonstrations Against
American Imperialism and for Ousting of u S.
Bankers and Sugar Barons From Island
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

at the fair grounds, and the deposit was
refunded by Human, who was in charge
of the fair grounds. When Comrade
Brockway asked why we were not allowed
to hold the meeting he was told to ask
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

from his work on the farm,
= earnn- u0-~an- a farm Enalkh-
a farm worker, or a dispOs-
sessed farmer. Gentlemen
farmers" big landlords or
merchants and bankers who
own farms, are not welcome.
The Conference has been Gale
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

3OU S Waships in Cuban Fiarbors With Guns Trained
Ready for Instant Duty to Drown in Blood Revolu-
ton of Cuban Workers and Peasants
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

These pictures show the
brutal tOrtures inflicted on
Casey BOskaliOn by the
vigilantes in Washington.
All of the pictures show the
wells which reduced his
body to a bloody pulp. The
hair on his head was torn
out in the figure of a fas-
-cist swaztika cross by these
American Hitlerites. The
picture diressay above shows
the letters U. s. s. r.
painted on his back with the
same paint which covered
his head. Each Of the dark
lines on his arms and body
is a bloody welt.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

The date of the Farmers
Second National Confer
ence has been advanced
one week. 1t will be held
from Nov. Is to Is.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

uold meetings everywhere.
I Tloct delegates to the
T r,, Second National
ra,forence in Chicago.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-22

HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF MONTANA
HELENA
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-08
Popular Young
Couple Marry
BEATRICE ROSE WILLIAMS BE-
COMES BRIDE OF JAMES IVES
LEY SLEMMONS AT HOME
CEREMONY

Simply gowned in white rough crepe
modelled after Chanel with three-quar-
ter length sleeves, and wearing white
yelled turban of matching material
Beatrice Rose Williams became the
bride of James Wesley Slemmons at a
home ceremony at the residence of
the bridegroom's aunt, Mrs. Mcclure,
2813 Chicago Avenue, Thursday eve
ming, June 20. The bride, carrying
an arm bouquet of roses and sweet
peas, was attended by Mrs. Oscar
Gates, Mrs. Geraldine Marty, and a
sister, Mrs. Pearl Jackson. Mrs. Gates
and Mrs. Marty, also carrying arm
bouquets, were attired in pink with
hats of the same color. Mr.. John
Carter was best man. Father E. A,
James of St. Thomas church per-
formed the ceremony before an altar
of palms.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-08
Scottsboro Boys
Mother To Speak
Here Sunday

Mrs. jamie Patterson, mother of
Haywood Patterson, one of the SCOTS
boro Boys, who was recently granted
a new trial, will speak in Minneapolis,
Sunday afternoon, July 9th, at 2:3O
P. NJ, at Zion Baptist church, corner
Eleventh Street at Lyndale North. She
is accompanied by Lester Carter,
white, who testified at the second trial
of Patterson that the nine youths
are innocent. Carter was on the
freight train which carried the nine
Negro boys, the two white girls and
number of white youths.
Besides Mrs. Patterson and Carter
Richard B. Moore of New York will
also speak. Moore is member of the
national committee of the Information
al Labor Defense which has handled
the defense of the Scottsboro Boys
The Minneapolis meeting is being ar
ranged by the Ernest McDuffey and
Danny Roxas branches of the I. L. D.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-08
ORGANIZED MINORITY CAN WIN
RACE BATTLES, SAYS
PICKENS

Chicago, June 30.-A plea for the
closer organization of Negroes, for
the sloughing off of "slave psycholo-
gy" and for the training of Negro
youth in fighting the cause of the
Colored race was made Thursday
night by William Pickens, field secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
at the opening mass meeting of the
oath annual conference of the asso-
citation in Pilgrim Baptist church,
33rd street and Indiana avenue.
Pickens, speaking on "The Power
of Minorities," declared society had
been originated, preserved and ad-
vanced by minorities and that minori-
ties now rule and direct it.
"The Negro must lose the feeling
of his old helplessness," the speaker
said, "and must realize that twelve
million people, over eighty per cent
of whom can read and write, are not
a weak force, in spite of their situa-
ton three generations ago, and that
they can command respect if they
are but so much as one-tenth organ
lied"
A welcome to the delegates, who
came from twenty-five states and the
district of Columbia, was extended by
Mayor Edward J. Kelly.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-08
Swiftly NORTON HOME ON
SHORT VISIT

Smithy Norton, son of Mrs. Nancy
Norton, 726 Dupont Ave. No., former
Minneapolis Art Institute school stu
dent, visited Minneapolis for few
days during the past week. For the
past year Norton has been attending
school in Chicago. In the Twin Cities
he was one of the most popular and
promising young men in the commu-
mites. He was especially active in
Baptist young peoples circles. In
Chicago, he has been a member
of the Y. M. C. A. boys work de-
partment staff. He was very active in
the International Negro Youth move
ment of which the newspapers have
printed much recently.
This summer Mr.. Norton is attend
ing summer school at the University
of Wisconsin. Mr.. Norton's poster
was the official 1888 Health Week
Poster for the Twin Cities.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-07-08
REV. BOYD AT ST. PETER
SUNDAY

Rev. n. c. Boyd of Quincy, Illinois,
former successful pastor of st. Peters,
will be the preacher Sunday morning
and evening. His many friends will
be glad to hear him and greet him and
his good wife.
Sunday, July 10th, at 7:45 P. NJ, the
formal installation of Boy Scout Troop
No. 108 will be conducted by Scout ex-
ecutives from headquarters and visit
ing troops.