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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Heroine Of ScOttsboro Trials
Lies Near Death In Hospital
DO All You Can For
Boys" Ruby Bates
Whispers

NEW YORK. - Ruby Bates,
white girl heroine of Scottsboro,
lies on a white hospital cot, fight
ing for life following a critical OPP
eraton, imperatively ordered by
physicians.
Ruby Bates, who was waiting
near New York for her deposition
to be taken by New York lawyer
for use in the Decatur trials, on
Thursday notified the Interna-
tional Labor Defense that hes
physical condition had become such
that she had been obliged to GO
to hospital. There, an examina-
ton by specialists, as well as the
physician who had been treating
her previously, made it evident
that an immediate operation was
a matter Of life and death.
RUBY Bates was operated on
early Friday morning. Physicians
in charge could not pronounce heI
out of danger, Friday night.
Thursday night, in the presence
of a representative of the Inter
national Labor Defense, Ruby
Bates told a reporter of her arriv-
al in the hospital and the opera
ton she expected.
"I knew about my condition, but
I didn't tell anybody just how bad
It was, until I was forced to come
to the hospital" she said. q
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Farmer-Labor Faker Ar
rives On Scene With
the Law

MARSHALL, Minn.-Ln a fast
and sharp fight with the sheriff,
deputies and emergency fire (riot)
squad, striking farmers of Lyons
and neighboring counties closed To-
cal market air-tight ON Nov. 10.
That action followed the stubborn
refusal of the business men OF that
town to voluntarily close their
markets for the duration of the
strike.
Shortly afternoon, the huge
crowd of striking farmers was
gathered in front of the Swift and
Company's plant awaiting peace
fully the results of their commit
tees meeting with the manager
Suddenly around the corner and up
the street straight for the crowd
came the city's fire truck and 9
black sedan. Sizing up the situa.
ton, the farmers instantly rushed
to meet them and as one GROUP
climbed the fire truck, another &C
commodated the car. The attack
ers were quickly overpowered anC
disarmed as the farmers enrage'
by this brutal attempt to spra!
them with chemicals and tear ga
practically ruined the city's ma
chine.
Farmers in Control !.
The striking farmers were !
! complete control. Then who shoui
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
1-ROUND SIMPSON
SOCKS BATTLING
KICKER AT OMAHA
Farmers Union Heads Tie
In at Annual Conven-
ton

OMAHA, Neb.@John A. Simp-
son, president of the Farmers
Union, and A. w. Kicker, editor of
the Farmers Union Herald, had a
tie-in in the lobby of local hotel
during the Farmers Union Con-
vention here.
Spectators reported that Simp-
son and a group of friends en-
tered. Kicker and Tom Howard,
Denver newspaper publisher, were
sitting in the lobby but rose as
Simpson & Co. advanced. Simp-
son struck out, shouting some
thing. Mrs. Simpson, grasping
John firmly by the arm, walked
him out of the room.
Kicker said that the whole
trouble was that Simpson was g
disappointed candidate for secre'
tary of agriculture.
While Kicker uses all the space
liz the Herald to pralSlng the
Roosevelt New Deal, Simpson
takes a more cautious attitude ant
criticizes certain policies of tn
New Deal. The vote of the con
vention, however, supported Simp
son and reelected him president.
The dispute between Kicker an'
Simpson is a dispute as to whicl
is the best way to mislead tn
masses of farmers. The conven
ton support of Simpson show
that the majority of farmers ar
so Disguised with the New De-
that anyone who supports tn
Roosevelt Administration whole
: heartedly, such as Kicker, get
let in the cold. Simpson being
good politician, will not put hin
self in this position. He knows h
must talk radical if he is to sta
, in the good graces of the farmer
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

wanted to keep on fighting for the
Scottsboro boys, actively.
"Then when / realized I'd have
to be operated on, I came here,
and notified Mr.. Patterson of the
l. L. D.
"You know l was forced to tes-
tify against the boys in the first
trial. l told the truth at the last
trial in Decatur, because I didn't
want these boys to die on account
of a lie I told. I have received
threats that / will be lynched if
I return and testify in Decatur. I
would be afraid, because I know
CONTINUED on page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
RENO CALLS TRUCE
In STRIKE TO GIVE
CONGRESS CHANCE
Next Strike Will Be Or
derby" Bosch Asserts

OMAHA, Neb.-The executive
committee of the National Farm
Holiday Assn. meeting here with
Reno during the Farmers Union
convention voted a truce" in the
farm strike until after congress
convenes in. January"
When the last strike was called
off, Reno stated that the purpose
was ITO give Roosevelt a chance"
This time, on recommendation of
Farmer-Labor Gov. Floyd Olson
of Minnesota, it is ito give Con-
gress a chance" Authority was
given to Reno to decide the strike
question.
The Holiday officials have called
a meeting of farmers in Omaha
Dec. to demand higher land ap-
praisals from the Omaha Fedora
Land bank, so that more farmers
can get refinancing.
John Bosch, president of The
Holiday, declared that he was OF
his way to see Gov. Olson in ref
erence to a proposed meeting of L
mid-western governors early il
December to lay plans for anothe
lobby at Washington.
The next understanding Their
is one-"will be orderly, believ
me-" said Bosch. This remark i
taken as definite indication tina
the Holiday officials are planning
to prevent picketing, in co-Opera
ton with the government authori
ties. ts.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Delegates From Pacific
Coast Ride Freights
to Chicago

CHICAGO. - They rode 2,400
miles by freight. half the time in
refrigerator cars in freezing
weather-so eager were three farm
delegates from Washington State
to get to the Second National
Farmers Conference in Chicago.
Wearing overalls. heavy boots
and sheepskin coats, Matt Pakkala
of Kalama, Wash; William Hop
kinson. of Spanaway, Wash; and
Jack Kirgsbury, of Toledo, Wash,
walked into the Peoples Audi
torium ready to Join more than
700 otter farmers in the formula
ton of fighting program.
Works With Father
Pakkala, the youngest of the
three delegates, works with his
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
FARMERS BRING IN
FOOD FOR STRIKING
ARMOUR employees
clearinghouse Workers in
Swift Plant Vote
Demands

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Mimi
Farmers in this section are send
ing food for relief to the striking
clearinghouse workers in this city.
Unemployed workers are helping
On the picket lines, and it is ex-
pected that Swift and Cudahy
workers will join the striking Ar
mour workers in a fight for short
er hours and decent wages.
A mass melting of 1000 Swift
workers voted unanimously Il
present demands similar to those
of the Armour workers to the
Swift bosses and elected a strik'
committee which is empowered tc
call strike. should the Swift
bosses refuse to accede to their
, demands.
Twenty-four hour picket line
bar entrances to the Armour plant
Two Armour trucks were dam
aged attempting to break through
the lines.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Farmers Overcome Riot Squad
In Strike at Marshall, MINI.

appear on the scene but the pro-
fessional farmers friend and ex-
pert Farmer-Labor politician, SEN
ator Regnier. He had arrived, not
in the company of his farmer
friends" but with the chief Of po-
lice and was roughly handled be-
fore he could make his identity
known. Then some strikers still
under his spell allowed him to
mount a car and speak. He tried
to play himself off as a hero, by
pleading that there be no violence.
He then started one of his arti-
ficial and meaningless flights OF
oratory filled with phrases such
as "My heart is with you" and y
am with you 100 per cent" He
was interrupted time and again
and told to come to the point. HI
was forced to quit. He then mos
graciously offered to accompany
the committee who were leaving
to deliver their final ultimatum Il
Swift and Company.
The end was a complete victor!
for the farmers who celebrated Dy
marching up and down Main street
The temper of the crowd was ven!
determined and the opinion was
freely expressed in the crowd tina
it would have been just too bad TO
Marshall if they had gotten thel
tear gas and chemical attack start
ed. For the crowd would no
have left the town until the las
bit of damage and injury to thei
members had been redressed-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
SCOTTSBORO'S
HIRY LIST ISA
IFRAUD,CHARCE
Names of Negroes Placed
On Jury Rolls After
List Drawn
Defense SEES TRICK
II D. Lawyers Send for
+ Expert on Hand
writing

DECATUR, Ala Samuel
9 Ieibowitz, chief counsel
e. for the defense in the Scots
M Soro case, asked Circuit
Tud0e W. w. Callahan today
t r. ouash the indictments
AGAINST his clients on the
Ground that the grand jury
which indicted them in the
Spring Of 1881 for attacking
two white girls was drawn
from a list fraudulently pre-
pared.
Although witnesses have testi-
fled at this hearing and the one
before Circuit Judge James, E,
Horton last Spring that they never
had heard of a Negro serving on
a Jackson county jury, the jury
roll produced in court yesterday
for the first time contained the
names of several Negro citizens,
It was the discovery of these
names which led Mr.. Leibowitz
10 charge today that the jury Tol,
was forged after indictmeNt of the
Negroes and after criticism of the
Alabama jury system had de-
velcped. A New York handwrit
ing expert is oil his way here will
microscopes and other parapher
MALTA to help the defense attorne!
to prove his contention.
When Judge Callahan set Thurs
cav for the trial of Clarence Nor
MS, Mr. Leibowitz protested be
cause he said he did not thin
Patterson's TRIAL would be owe
then.
"0h, yes it WILL" said Judg,
Callahan. Were going to max
speed in this case. We're going I
start making speed on Monda!
Well be through in three days
the Lord is willing"
When Mr.. Leibowitz asserted h
would have about fifty witnesse
and Attorney General Knight sal
he didn't know how many tt
State would have, Judge Callahs
remarked that it didn matte
much.
I'm fixing to conclude tlii
case in three days" he said. "
don't care if you have a thou
sand"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
PEASANTS JAILED FOR
TAX DEBTS SET FREE
BY GREEK VILLAGERS

ATHENS, Greece.-At Ithomi,
peasants were arrested for taxa
ton debts, but were liberated by
the other villagers. The same took
place in Iliolusto. Sixty peasants
of Afra in Macedonia, marched to
the mayor at Peili to demonstrate
for their demands. One hundred
and fifty peasants from the village
of Plajeri demonstrated before the
house of the governor general of
Macedonia.
At Krestena thousands of raisin
planters held a meeting for their
demands. Another such meeting
was held by 1900 peasants from
Nissi, who sent delegation to the
cultural ministry in Athens.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
RoIph, JaiIer Of Mooney,
FreesLynchM Mob Leaders

zens." Rolph said he postponed
trip to Boise, Idaho, because he
was afraid that in his absence
scm6 one would call out the Ma
tio' al Guard to prevent the lynch
ings.
By these statements Rolph re-
veals himself as a lyncher, hold
ing in contempt the court system
of his state and quick to act in
the interests of the wealthy. Hypo-
critic that he is, he has praised that
same court system when it SEN
tenced Tom Mooney to a living
death in a California prison.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Governor
James Rolph, Jr., who refused to
pardon Tom Mooney, workingclass
leader in Jail for almost II years,
in the face of indisputable proof
of his innocence, has just an
nounced that he would give full
pardon to the leaders of the lynch
mob which hanged the two kid
nappere Of Brooke, Hart, son of a
wealthy department store owner.
"They did a good job" Cover
nor Rolph said, referring to the
lynch mob as cline, patriotic citi-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
NEBR. FARMERS UNION
MAY LEAVE NAT. F. u.

OMAHA.-Prospects of the Ne
braska Farmers Union boiling
from the national organization ap-
peared likely here as H. G. Keeney
president of the state organization,
failed to be reelected as vice
president of the national Farmers
Union.
The decision in reference to the
split will be made at the state con.
vention here in, January, Keeney
said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
CROP PRICES DOWN
Commodity Prices F all
When Measured in
Gold
IMITATION GROWING
Economic War Leading to
Open Military
Conflict

Wholesale prices last week
stood at the lowest point
since August, following a de-
cline of two points. These
figures have just been re-
leased by the Annalist, semi
official Wall Street magazine
intended for the eyes primar-
lily of bankers and big in
dustrialists.
At the same time these figures
were being released. Isador Lubin,
commissioner of Labor Statistics
in the U. S. Dept. of Labor, was
giving out figures designed to
prove that wholesale prices had
risen in this period. To enable
him to make tbs statement, Lubin
purposelv ignored the gold value
of the dollar which had fallen
sharply.
Fake Figures
Present wholesale prices" sale
Mr.. Lubin. reached the highest
level since August. 1881, when the
index number reached 72.1. They
are more than 20 per cent above
the low of the year, which was
reached during the week of Marcel
a. when the index number was
500. Compared with the CORE
spending week of a year ago whel
the index number stood at 64.2. tn
| present index shows an increase
of nearly IL per cent during tn
twelve months
A survey in the bureau gave tn
following information:
} "a sharp increase of more tina
| 8 per cent in grains and lesser bU
marked advances in wholesal
, prices of livestock. cotton. egg
and tobacco caused the index nun
Der of wholesale market prices G
farm products as a whole to ris
nearly 6 per cent.
. For Popular Consumption
Lubin has resorted here to
trick which doesn't fool anyor
: when they are in possession of
: few more facts. His statement
intended for popular cornsumptiol
to help the ballyhoo and New De
propaganda machine along. In Il
bankers and industrialist oW
I paper, however. the Annalist. pul
= lished in New York. these figure
!. are shown in their proper rel
tions.
: The Annalist pointed out tn
2 wholesale prices had fallen tv
/. points during the week and tn
: they stood at the lowest poi
, since August. "Lower prices (
H. wheat. eggs. hogs and beef. ar
e pasoline. accounted for most
IS the loss" said the Analist.
The difference between Mr.. L
le bins figures and the figures ,
J. the Annalist lies in the fact tn
v the Annalist takes into consider
CONTINUED on last page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
Young Washington Farmer Won
High Honors, Makes $40 In Year

father On a 4C-acre farm near Ka-
lama, Wash.
"Mortgaged? He'll. yes. About
the whole limit-$2,0 O0."
"What was your total income in
money from your farm during the
past year?5" I asked Pakkala.
The young farmer laughed.
Gust about $20."
Just how much work did you and
your father put in to get this
$20," I asked.
"Well. we cultivate in March,
you have to hoe about every two
weeks. until June. and ther har-
vesting takes about three weeks.
During the rainy season. from
October to March, we clear the
stump land so that we can cult.
vate more Standardization which
we hardly get anything. What's
more, my friend, as soon as voU
clear the stump land you're ex
pected to paw more taxes, because
the land is supposed to be worth
more then" (''The more you worI
the more they fire you." inter
posed Hopkinson. the deleDat'
from Spanaway, Wash.)
Taxes. at the rate of 81 an acr
includes county, state. road, dis
trict. and school taxes.
Father Worked in Mine
In addition to the $40 realize,
! from the sale of the strawberU1es
the Pakkala income was supple
mented by some money earned b,
the young farm delegates father
now past 60, who, for the past fiv
months, dug coal for the OW
Creek Coal Company in GebC
Wyoming.
after the company deducte
all expenses, my dad had $50 left,
Pakkala reported.
"How did you and your fathe
dispose of the $80?" / asked him.
3 "Well, we paid $32 for a ha
:. bill. 500 for seed. and ] had t
9 pay the General Hospital in Ions
: view $40 on account of my Opera
g ton which cost me $219-$150 fl
: doctors bills and 500 for hospit'
expenses.
: The elder Pakkala struggle
hard to give his son an educatio,
t The som graduated from the Ca
% bon City High school in Montar
,e and later completed course in Il
q Montana State College in Boz
= man. Mont.
o Is Rhodes Scholar
Getting high honors in physi
and chemistry, the farm delega
won degree of Bachelor Of Scien
IS in 1929 and then was one of t
t. two graduates in Montana to W
D. a Rhodes scholarship for study
II Oxford University, England. II
scholarships were established son
wears ago by Cecil Rhodes, lea
ing British imperialist who accu1
ulated a fortune in exploiting Il
N colonial workers in Africa and
= munitions. The old gent died
!. 1902. after establishing the schC
arship in his name to promo
10 British-U. S. amity."
+ High scholarships. character, pG
n eminence in athletics are some
lg the requisites for winring Rhod
he scholarships.
70 The British "Who's Who" I
"a cords the fact that Cecil Rhod
: twas a millionaire at the age
1917. Pakkala. the Rhodes schol;
now &c. succeeded in earning.
r. gether with his father. the sum
K $50 after cultivating strawber
patch in Western Washington.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
HOG PRICES DECLINE.
SHARPLY TO LOWEST
FIGURE SINCE APRIL

CHICAGO.-Last week saw the
sharpeSt tall of this year in the
price of hogs, with the average
price down to 1910. The prevail
ing top figure is the lowest STAGE
April 20.
All farmers should take notice
that the packers put the blame on
the processing tax of so cents a
IN; d>ed pounds which has reduced
consumption Of pork drastically.
in spite of this fact, the tax IS to
be advanced to 81 on December 1
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
N. D. GOVERNOR
IGNORES PLEAS
OF The HUNGRY
Workers and Farmers Hold
Relief Meeting at
WiIliston
LANCER NOT THERE
Committee to Lead Fight
of Farmers and Workers
Set Up

WILLISTON, N. ID. - If
any doubt existed in the mind
of the destitute of Williams
county concerning the SINGER
ity of Governor Langer's in
tentions of relieving the dis
tress of the unemployed
workers and impoverished
farmers, that doubt was re-
moved Nov. %, when 700
workers and farmers with
their wives and children
crowded into the Armory at
Williston to take up the mat
ter of relief or lack of relief
to the needy. Lack of relief
is a more correct way of re-
ferring to the brutal indiffer-
ence of Governor LANCER.
The farmers and workers of
Williams county driven almost to
the point of desperation by cold
and hunger, had decided to hold g
mass meeting. TIE get a more
thorough understanding of Lang.
er's operations, kilograms were adj
dressed to him, requesting him tt
be present at this mass meeting
Because they remembered the
many promises LANCER had made
to the effect that not a man, wo
man or child would go ragged o:
hungry or shelterless while h
was governor, these destitute PEG
pie felt that LANCER would Civ
them an opportunity to state thei
I condition.
Misplaced Hope
) But any suchsexpectations wer
2 shattered. Governor LANCER, wit
i the hypocrisy of every capitalist
b tool, sent one wire stating that h
: would be very busy with some foe
S politicians appointment and coul
a not come. Then as an added ir
: suit to the people, he concluded
e his telegram with the significar
y word-"Sorry." Sorry for what
J. Not for the needy or he woul
have, because he could have, dor
something for them. No, Cove,
: nor Langer's expression of sorro
> was due to the fact that the dest
: tute had hs1 the impudence
, address him at all and he w;
telling them he couldn't oblie
i, them.
a The speakers at the meetin
y Rodney Salisbury and Pete
* Gallagher, representatives of Il
is United Farmers League, laid bal
to before the audience the treache1
te of Governor LANCER. o. M. Mat
ID ingly, representing the Une1
&c ployed Council of Williston, act
he as chairman.
OF Committee Set Up
A farmers and workers Reli
III Committee vAs set up to hand
III grievances of the destitute. II
g Committee represents the Unit
IN Farmers League, the Holiday A
Continued on page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01
1S Arrested in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Pa. = Eighteen
striking packing house workers
have been arrested and jailed here
as the strike reaches its second
week. The capitalist press COM
plains that cattle have been STAN
peded and that shops handling
scab meat have been wrecked. The
A. F. of L, burocrats are trying
to compromise the strike, and are
cooperating with the strike-break'
ing officials of the NRA.
Thugs recently raided headquar
tiers of the Packing House Work
ers Industrial Union.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

DECATUR, Ala.-That Judge
w. ". Callahan and Attorney-Ge
eral Thomas E. Knight have de-
termineG to rush through the
Trials of all the Scottsboro boys,
without waiting for an appeal in
The case of Haywood Patterson if
ne Is convicted, was indicated late
ms afternoon when Callahan noti-
NED Joseph R. Brodsky, Interna-
uOnal Labor Defense attorney de-
lending the boys, that Charlie
WeemS would be arraigned Thurs
cay morning, and his trial set for
sWeek from Monday.
Judge Callahan has also indi-
Gated that on Monday morning, be-
lOre the trial of Haywood Patter-
S0n opens, he will arraign two
more Of the Scottsboro boys. He
uo not announce which ones.
The determination of the lynch
@rus Of Alabama to railroad the
llhe Innocent Negro boys tt
oeath by the chair or the rope anC
laggOt is clearly indicated in thest
moves. Normally, when an appea
taken in a case, the trials o.
Ouier defendants accused at the
sNue time are put off until TIT
appeal Is decided. This saves tn,
s~te time and money. This time
however, the preparations are OBJ
uOusly going forward regardless
expense, which forces even tn
"spapermen to wonder wha
s,Sls the state has or knows Of
" prevent this expenditure.
Ruby Bates Threatened
NGoy Bates, threatened wit
uenmg, is somewhere in the VI
10y 10y OF New York and when sh
49,; Used to come to Decatur for til
@ Judge Callahan agreed t
S Ssrmit taking of her testimony b
DEPOSITION. ' :
SuGge Callahan has refused I
ne aSn the indictments on the SHOW
Of the defense that Negro,
49, ~ Systematically and illegally e,
S y from the juries. In spit
Nv. OvrWhelming evidence that N
S SDTes are barred from the iur
JnS. because of their colon. Il
risns has ruled that it is stuff
NM, ma. Il the Jury COMMISSIONS
~Sy consider" the Negro
AZ names appear on the roll
A1tornsy Liebowitz. I. L.
rons er discovered that the jur
Ss '' mad mad been tempered and tn
add. lanes of Negroes had be
used ! since !, these jury rolls we
IN the first trial last sprir
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

Does your u. F. L. local
get a regular bundle of the
Producers News every week?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-01

The striking farmers were IN
complete control. Then who should