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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
ETEARGAS
Boskaljon Third Degreed;
Handed Over to Lynch
Mob by Sheriff
POLICE AID GUNMEN
New Deal Uses Immigra-
ton Official in Attempt
to Crush League

About three months ago,
the State Committee of the
United Farmers League de-
cided to call a United Front
Conference of farmers. to be
held in Yakima, Aug. 27-28.
Calls were printed and the
fair grounds obtained. A $40
cash deposit was posted on
the grounds. State Secretary,
c. M. Boskaljon, and another
member of the UFL arrived
in Yakima on Aug. "a, to pre-
pare for the meeting. When
they arrived in the afternoon
they learned that there had
been a fight between the
farmers and the IWW strik-
ers. Neither of the U. F. L.
delegates had anything to do
with the fight.
The international Labor Defense
had one of its thrice weekly meet
ings scheduled for the night Of the
oath and a permit had been OBJ
tanned for a street meeting for
that night. When the meeting
started, nearly seven hundred
workers and farmers had gathered.
SPEAKS ON ROLE OF UFL :
Boskaljon was introduced as a
representative of the UFL and he
spoke for half an hour on the
farming situation in the United
States and in the State of Wash
ington. He pointed out the ne
ceseity of united action of work.
. ers and small farmers. Boskaljon
was of the opinion that none Of
the rich farmers who later kid
mapped him were present at this
, meeting for it was never men,
Sioned.
After speaking for half an hour
the meeting was broken up by the
) Natioral Guard in the presence Of
E +hn vakinna notice IN srita Of +he
rrotests of the members Of the
International labor Defense.
Tho eneal1e~e left tho ~oecti~ g
(Contin,1eS IT Pace Tr~oN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
SD. RELIEF AGENT
EFARMERS ENEMY
OSy Co. Attorney Favored
Use of Terror to Carry
Through Evictions

psSy Special Correspondent
81 sieffe' s. D., Sept. 4.-one of
- - members of Governor Berry's
i ~ ss relief commission, we notice,
Of I H Biclnell, states attorney
to,; lay county. He obtained mo-
a~. .ssy a while back by the charge
~. ~'Ist him for his constituents
terr c ne was advocating a reign Of
SolS0 ' i IN his county in order 70
o,,a. The impoverished Farmers
S Uo'Ss while they were being d dis
meas esse9 Of their farms and other
fsA 81 n. making a living.
lief me. me other members Of the re-
IN. commission are Of 4 the -" same n.
RsN Ran : : no wonder Di rec s~'p y
IL tur. ssles has to run this nu h
soa junction as a bAre ct o op,s pun
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08

The conference call throws
into sharp relief the question
Of national dairy strike
movement of dairy farmers.
Lem Harris, who is a mem
Der Of the strike committee
Of the Philadelphia Regional
Committee, which has called
a strike in the Philadelphia
milk shed in 80 days, empha- !
sizes in the call the import
ance Of this type of action if
the farmers ore to get relief.
DEMAND FOR CANCELLA-
TION OF DEBTS
The problem of debts is para
mount with the farmers today,
Just as It was last December when
the first Farmers National Relief
conference was held in Washing
ton, according to Harris. But
where the tanners demanded a
moratorium on their debts last
year, there is already talk among
ne farmers Of a campaign to win
cancellation of their back debts.
1t may be that cancellation is the
only way out" Harris said.
The conference call criticizes the
new Deal for the destruction Of
CO'tOn, corn and hogs, and for the
wheat reduction program, at a
ume when millions are unem-
pioyed and hungry. The National
committee complains that N. R.
a. mas not increased the purchas-
ing power Of the city consumers
Vu', partly because of initiation,
uas actually curtailed it. The call
stacks the processing tax as a
Saies tax which results in cutting
uO~n the markets of the farmer
UNITY WITH CITY WORKERS
The call declares that the farm
erS want higher prices at the ex.
snse o. the middIemen and pro-
n'eers, not at the expense of the
SOnSumers, most of whom are
Working people like u.s."
Inc National Committee. which
aus the Chicago Conference. is
Se same committee which wa,
SeC'ed last December when
iarmers' march" on Washington
Wontinued on rage Tvvo1
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
FARMER DRIVEN
TO HIS DEATH
Respected in Community,
He Turns to Robbery and
Is Murdered
(By a Farmer)

Starbuck, Mimi, Aug. 20.-Last
winter the Minnesota State Legis-
latcre and Governor Olson, Farm
er-Labor passed a State Bank
Holiday Law. This law allows any
state bank to close up. 1t allows
them to reorganize. They get you
to sign away about so per cent Of
your money. The other so per
cent is SO tied up you can not get
all you need.
If you sign up or not, this new
law, signed by the Minnesota
Farmer-Babor governor forces you
to come in under the reorganiza-
ton. 1t is polite way to rob the
people. J. P. Morgan said 81 am
within the law"
FORCED ON ROCKS BY
OLSON
Many gray haired farmers and
workers, widows ard orphans have
been forced on the rocks through
this damn Farmer-Labor- Governor
Olson law. Farmer Kjornes of
Starbuck, Mime sofa is only one
case out of mary. Who is to
blame? Kjornes should have or
ganized a United Farmers League
and read the Producers News. His
family and neighbors should dc
that now. Write them, send them
copies Of cid Producers News,
Farmers get busy.
| Editors Note: Farmer KjorneS
was shot and killed when he at.
tempted 10 rob the First Nationa
Bank of Starbuck on Aug. Is
Kjornes has lorg been respected il
the community.
"He couldn't stand the strain,
was the unanimous opinion of hi'
motive. He had lost all Of his
savings in a bank which ROoseve
closed up and his crops had beel
ruined by drouth.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
PACKING COMPANY
GYTlf FARMERS IN
Tying OF HOGS
IEBY w. FL

Yakima, ,Tash-The Yakima
Herald publ hes the Seattle price
on hogs which at the time Of this
incident was $3.50. Farmers here
figured that IL would save money
and long trip If they could sen
to the Gibson Racking Company Of
Yakima. so they called up and
found that the local corcerr was
paying only $4.50. The Gibson
Co. had published in the paper a
price Of $4.75. This shows one OF
the ways the Farmer is being
gvued in the valley because Of lack
Of education and organization.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
TO CURTAH USE OF
FOREIGN WHEAT FOR
BREAD IN GERMANY

Berlin, Sept. Potato meal and
SKINNED milk are prescribed as
ingredients in German bread by a
government decree devised by
Richard Dare, Minister of Agri-
culture, and promulgated today. It
is to be effective until October,
1884.
Potato meal must constitute at
least A per cent of the wheat
flour used. And 10 per cent by
weight of the mixture must be
dried SKINNED milk. These ad-
ditions are not expected to i'm
prove t he quality of German
bread. They have been decreed to
reduce the demand for foreign
wheat.
RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
50 PER YEAR
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
FILA LEADER IS
OUT FOR A JOB
McVeigh, S. D. Farm Head
Is Building Fences to
Get Governor Job
(By Special Correspondent

Pierre, S. D., Sept. Among
those mentioned as possible can
didates for the Republican noni-
nation for governor is State Sen
ator Barney McVeigh of Marshall
county. 1t has been easy to see
for a long while that this Milo
Reno-A. C. Townly henchman who
is president of the state F. H. A.
had his eye on the governorship.
However, his hypocricy, his policy
of radical phrases and inaction
has thoroly exposed him to South
Dakota farmers. During tn e
Farmers State Relief Conference
in Pierre he Offended many farm
ers who previously had faith in
him by his callous attitude of In
difference to them while they were
in the capital.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
FURTHER CUTS IN
BRITISH IMPORTS
OF FOREIGN BEEF

Hawick, Scotland, Aug. %
Major Walter Elliot, the British
Minister of Agriculture, announced
announced in a speech that for the
last quarter Of 1888 imports OF
foreign frozen beef would be re-
duced Is per cent.
There also viii be a reduction Oh
about Is per cent in the Imports
of Argentine chilled beef. TheSe
two items, Major Elliot SAID ia
mean a drop Of more than zV:VvO
tons from the imports Of the last
quarter OF 1882.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
(RY M. H. P.l

Kalama, Wash. II have
just returned from Yakima,
or l should say that l have
just been DRIVEN from
Yakima, where we were to
have our state UFL confer
ence. Martial law was de-
clared in the entire Yakima
county the day before the
conference took place.
There had been a pitched
battle between some 800
farmers and 100 workers in
the pear and peach fields.
The atmosphere was very tense;
workers formed small groups in
the streets as helmeted guards and
their bulkier accomplices, the
State Patrol paraded the streets.
To increase the war like appear
ance scene, machine guns were
placed at the two extremeties of
the main street.
DISPERSE PEACEFUL
MEETING
On the oath, the day after the
struggle, C. Boskaljon, our State
UFL secretary, endeavored ia
speak before some 70O-S0O work
ers in a street meeting but it was
dispersed with the aid Of tear gas
bombs and bayonets.
On the 25th we arrived IN
Yakima and met Comrades Bos-
kaljon and Broclrway, who In
formed us that our arrangement:
were still going through. They
had a permit and had paid ter
dollars down for the use Of the
Fair grounds which were OUTSIDE
Of the CITY limits. However. mar
tfal law had been declared in, The
meantime.
On the 9th we went to the Fsil
grounds. ard found he h-ils +hArl
on EXHIBIT. Some IF our fellow
delegates had already been arrest
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
Martial Law IS Used to
Crush Working People;
Mob Beats Up Organizer
Farmers Will
Build United
Front in Wash.

The farmers of Washing
ton more determined than
ever to struggle despite the
terror organized by the New
Deal for the capitalists, de-
Cided under the leadership of
the United Farmers League,
to hold their United Front
Conference in Seattle on Sep
TENDER IL. The conference
will take place at ITO Cherry
Street, Seattle.
All farmers are welcome to
this conference, organized or
unOrganiZed.
Only a comparatively short
time is available for the or
ganiZatiOn of this conference.
Not only the delegates to the
Yakima conference should at
tend but every farmer who
can possibly get there. IN
ORDER TO MAKE THIS
POSSIBLE NO CREDEN-
TAILS ARE BEING ISSUED
FOR THE CONFERENCE
- ALL IMPOVERISHED
FARMERS ARE WELCOME
! The Unietd Farmer League
is raIlying every available
force in order to make thu
conference a success. Casey
BOskaljOn, State Organizer o
the IT. F. L., has alread.
: started on a state tour t,
build the conference.
The conference will discus
all those immediate problem
of the impoverished farmer
of Washington which were {
have been taken up at tn
United Front Conference i
; Yakima, which was smashe
through the declaration o
, martial law. The cOnferenC
will also pay particular after
! ton to those problems whic
have been brought forth mos
: sharply as q result of tn
: terror organized in Yakim
: county.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
New Deal Bird of Prey
Uses Claws; Vigilantes
Are Organized
BUILD BULL PEN
Farmer Beginning to Learn
Real Meaning New Deal
as Result of Experience
(BY A. P.)

TietOn, Wash, Sept. A.,
The Blue Buzzard (some call
it the Blue Eagle, symbol of
rising Fascism in the United
States has raised it's ugly
head over the horizon of this
fair Yakima Valley. Since the
kidnapping and brutal beat
ing of c. M. Boskaljon, state
organizer of the United Farm
ers League, by seventy cow
ardly masked vigilantes, a
week ago, events have been
taking place quite rapidly.
Almost the entire Goold fam
lily, militant fighting, and
fearless leaders of the work.
ing class in. the city of Yaki-
ma, has been jailed,
Charles GoOld, gray-haired, So
year old leader of the Unem-
ployed Council, was the first to be
thrown in. Shortly afterwards he
was followed by his daughter and
son, Mary and Clifford Goold. The
International Labor Defense is
now working ON their case.
GUARDED BULL PEN
]
The construction of the stock
! ade, to hold workers has beer
completed. The "bull pen" is sit.
uated In the heart of Yakima
About 10 feet off the ground i
: has an elevated platform for gun
guards to walk on. Evidently i
4 is for the purpose of making tn,
: people think that those imprisonet
) workers are terrible people O
1 something of the sort.
We know that it is all for TIL
purpose of antagOnizing the work
ers against the farmers and vice
| versa
E We understand. that the official
4 have applied to the Reconstructio
r Finance Corporation, for loan O
f $4,000. Three thousand dollar
e to pay for the cost of building tn
o stockade and twenty thousand dol
: lars to cover the cost of trials.
VIGILANTES ORGANIZED
o Reports have come in that Wig
n lante committees have been orgs
:. nized In many different parts {
the valley, all for the purpose {
keeping farmers and workers frol
IS organizing. This valley has in II
: past been one of the richest farm
Il ing districts in the country. Man
5. of the farmers have acquired
n sort of petty bourgeois outloc
on life. This is rather difficu
thing to break down, but it is b.
Is ing done.
The farmers that do understaI
et the situation are not afraid, al
N many are beginning to open the
eyes now, and are getting inte
ested. This is proven by the ev
increasing number of subscription
to the Producers News. We e1
= pect to see some strong Unite
,e Farmers League locals aroul
" here very soon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
LORIKS SUPPORTED
GOV. BERRY OF Sd.
Shadow Boxing in Special
Session Showed His Lack
Of Sincerity
lBy Special Correspondent


Pierre, s. D., Sept. 4.-SenatOr
Emil Loriks, Reno-Townley boost
er in. this state is said to have
made the following statement in
regard to his manoeuvers in the
special session Of the legislature;
al was simply trying to save the
administration and keep Governor
Berry from. committing political
suicide"
He did not need to make this
confession as his lukewarm fight
for the repeal of the gross income
tax. Il was easy TO see, was just
shadow boxing" for the benefit
Of the rank and file Of the Farm.
ers Union of tire state. His role
as a fake leader in this organiza-
ton was thorolv EXPOSED In a re-
cent issue of the Producers News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
400 FARMERS WILL MEET IN MASS CONFER
ENCE IN CHICAGO SPREAD STRUGGLE
FOR REAL RELIEF
Militant Farmers Discussing Campaign to Force Can
collation. of Back Debts; $4,000 Farmers
Back Call for Conference

Washington D. c., Sept. "A conference of dirt farm
e be held in Chicago November Sill is being called by
the Farmers National Committee for Action according to
Lem Harris executive secretary The call will be issued to-
day The farmers conference is expected to bring together
approximately 1000 farmers from all parts of the country
who will lay down program of action in flight for real
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
Three Connecticut
Banks Close Doors

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Aug. 3d.
Three Bridgeport banks, with de-
posts of $6,65O,OOO were closed
today by the State Banking Com
missioner, Walter Perry.
The banks are the Commercial
Bank and Trust company with de-
posits of $4,000, 900; the American
Bank ard Trus+ company with de-
posits of 81, 450,0O0; the West
Side Bank with deposits of ST.
100000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08
Police Trap Incoming
Delegates In Yakima
CHIEF OF BULLS SAYS GRANGE HEADS ORGA-
NIZED ATTACK ON ALL "REDS"
INCLUDING u. F. L.

ed, and we were promptly taken
to the court house. 1t was i'm
mediately evident to US that the
bulls were stationed there to trap
all of our delegates and rush them
to the court house for investiga-
ton.
IMMIGRATION OFFICER
THERE
At the court house C. Boskaljon
was first Investigated by the sher-
Tiff, attorney, immigration officer
and bulls. His investigation lasted
for over an hour, and when he
came out saw that they had
given him the third degree.
We were then searched and
questioned. One of the bulls, a
big cheese evidently, tried to give
US a lecture on behavior. He said
that the Grange did not like US
there and were organized to fight
the IWW and other "reds." We
were then chased to the county
line to the south, and were still
watched by a jersey bull at Gold
endale, 72 miles from Yakima.
Boskaljon is now in solitary con-
finement and Broczway, suspect,
is also locked up. He told me
that he in going to give them a
piece of his mind, and he evident
ly did as the morning paper said
that two men had boone rough.
Il Is q great free country
this America; ask, the police
Il our meeting can be held
and then Immediately be given
the third degree-then to ex-
plain ahe bleeding. Roses the
police say that two men had
become violent. How bong
must we put up with this7
.
For other stories on the New .
Deal terror In WASHINGTON I"
turn TO page four. +"
A @
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50 PER YEAR
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p,s+oRtoAL SOCIETY," g
H'o u MONTANA
HELENA
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-08

} For other Stories on the New
) Deal terror In Washington
turn to page four.
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Kill the Ragweedi

Each year, with the beginning of
Summer, thousands of unfortunates
cursed with q tendency toward hay
fever 60 through the agony Of seeing
their enemy, the ubiquitous ragweed,
growing up in the fields and along the
roadways to plague them with its irri-
tating pollen. OF course, cooperation
is necessary If any effort to combat the
pest Is TO succeed. Single individuals,
working alone, cannot accomplish any
thing notable in the circumstances. A
general campaign is called for.
One suggestion is that q few bat
talions Of the army OF the unemployed
be recruited for the purpose. Another
is that each property owner undertake
to destroy the quota of weeds on his
own land Both devices have been tried
out in other communities Both are
worthy Of further consideration.
The hay-fever victim suffers genuine
torture at the season when the rag
weed dust is in the air. He may re-
ceive little personal sympathy at the
hands Of those OF his neighbors who
are immune to the afIiiction. But he
represents large portion of the popu-
lation and it follows that he Is entitled
to social assistance. Surely there must b.
ct least q few men and women who
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Bird's-Eye View of Journalistic Activity
At the London Economic Conference

an Office building. Very businesslike
Perhaps geology's business nowadays.
Same insincerities here as in a busi-
ness place. Stone front to the build
ing. Cheap brick sides. Nothing
really very lovely. But everything
really very efficient. Staircases of some
composite concrete material. Very mod
ernistic.
Third floor. What? Another lounge.
More tables. More chairs. Another
bar. What q bari Longest I ever
saw.
Hello, Charles"
How do you do, your excellency."
"vodka?"
mo, thank you"
"Aquavit9"
'No. thank you"
"Umbrianoso spumante7"
mo, thank you"
"Pilsener?"
mo, thank you. Haven't seen you
since the International Wages stand
ardization Conference at Lugano. What
have you heard?"
The English are crazy. They want
to have an artificial raising of prices.
They want to manipulate gold and
credit, SO that prices will 60 up. They
want to put arbitrary levers under
everything and push everything sky
ward. At the same time they say they
want to restore the international
monetary gold standard? But what is
the genus Of the international none
tary gold standard? It Is abso-
lutely the absence of artificiality. It
Is absolutely the leaving Of prices to
the free play Of the uncoerced inter-
national movements Of gold. The Eng
lish want natural gold exchanges and
artificial prices. They've lost their
minds"
Il perceive your notion, your excel
lency. I'm obliged to you extremely
I must hurry to write piece to my
paper"
But perhaps I'd better drop into the
main conference room first. I really
ought to do it every day.
Jeejeebhoy Chatterjee of India. He
represents the international labor ONCE
OF the League Of Nations at Geneva
What's he saying? Labor should re-
ceive high compensation all over the
world. He's very strong for labor
Splendid. Got to write my piece.
Back to the basement. Large room
with innumerable desks. Several hun
dred journalists writing at typewriters
and by hand. Never was in this room
before. Didn't know we had it, Must
start writing:
General opinion here all nations
on their heads. Not a bad thing to
nnd out. Sooner we discover that
everybody is as wild as we are and
we are as wild as everybody else is,
tne better. One mark-up for interna-
tional conferences.
(CopyriRht. 1q331
Evening star., 1933-06-25
The Optimistic Mr.. Davis.

Mr.. Norman H. Davis, President
Roosevelt's rowing European Ambas-
sador at large, is back home brimming
with optimism about the prospects Of
disarmament at Geneva, the subject
with which he has latterly been chiefly
concerned. He says peace Is a cold
blooded proposition and there is a
growing realization in Europe that an
agreement on armaments must be
reached
1t would be exceedingly useful, many
Americans think, if in this country
there were more lively readiness to
face the disarmament problem In a
spirit of "cold-blooded" realism. That
view has just been trenchantly ex-
pressed by Mr.. Frank H. simonds
whose distinguished comments on for
eign affairs are regular features of The
Sunday Star. In letter to the editor
Of the New York Herald Tribune Mr..
Simonds rather caustically calls for
orders which will keep Mr.. Davis at
home. instead Of returning him to the
scene Of futility at Geneva, and then
Mr.. Simonds points out why armed
Europe will not disarm as long as she
remains "a powder magazine" until,
without mincing words, the United
States gives the disarming countries
something to take the place of security
armaments, viz, either by alliance or
guaranty Of American aid In an emer-
gency. America won't guarantee:
Europe won't disarm." declares Mr..
Simonds, and he adds:
Why not face the facts and cease
to perpetuate the illusion that man
who has fallen in the water will aban-
don his life preserver on the advice Of
bystander on the shore who has no
intention of risking his own skin in
the flood? For that, after all. is the
fashion in which European peoples see
that American program which Mr..
Davis has promoted so long and ear
nestly and with such uniform insuc-
cess.
No one who really understands pres
ent-hour European politics can dispute
the accuracy Of this picture. discon-
certing as 1t is to contemplate it.
Evening star., 1933-06-25
Destination Unknown.

Capt. Bob Bartlett is off again. In
durable wanderer Of the Arctic seas, he
simply cannot stay at home. The North
keeps beckoning him. Just as the Pole
Star lures the needle in the compass
box. so the mystery Of the frozen zone
furnishes magnet for the soul Of the
veteran mariner The exploring fever
is in his blood, and he must obey its
commands.
Usually Capt. Bob announces q def
nate goal when he sets sail north
ward. This year, however, his ultimate
destination is a secret. "All we can
eel you," he says, lis that We hope to
penetrate an area about which virtually
nothing is known" A small matter OF
fifteen thousand miles is the distance
indicated for the voyage, and the Efie
II. Morrissey, Bartlett's schooner, has
been thoroughly overhauled for the
trip. because we get reports that ice
conditions are pretty bad up there thi,
year"
A glance at the map prompts curl
osity as TO where in the Arctic Capt
Bob may find AN area about which
virtually nothing Is known" The en-
tire Northern Hemisphere seems to hay