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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-08

COTTAGE CHEESE AND NUT
 ROAST tsp minced onion 2 tbsps butter
 cup cottage cheese cup chopped walnut meats cup finely rolled iunch-style crackers
 2 tbsps lemon juice IA cup milk Gently cook onion in butter until tender. Stir n other ingredients Put into a creased shallow baking dish in hot over (425 degrees F) 25-30 minutes. Six portions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-08
Egg and Potato Salad

Cut cold boiled potatoes in half inch cubes. There should be l 1-2 cups. Add pimento cut in thin strips, and 2 slices onion. finely hcopped Mix with enough mayon- naise to moisten. Arrange In q mound on lettuce leaves and garn- ish with hard-eooked GEES. Chop whites and arrange on two of the fourths of the mound, placing them opposite each other. Force yolks through a potato ricer' and arrange on tho other sections, op- posite each other. Garnish top with a slice of hard-cooked egg and chopped parsley.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
FARMERS SAVE
PIONEER Home
Keep Sheriff in Courthouse
by United Action, Sale
Does Not Take Place

Finley, N. D., Feb. 21.-Braving
a blizzard, crowd estimated at
more than 700 stormed Steele
county courthouse yesterday and
prevented a mortgage foreclosure
sale of the farm of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lars Midstokke, about Is years
old, pioneer homesteaders.
Sheriff N. A. Anderson was pre-
vented from leaving his office to
read the sealed bid he had received
from the joint Stock Land Bank,
Minneapolis, which held the mort
gage.
FARMERS THERE EARLY
The sale was announced for 3
o. M, and the farmers started to
enter the courthouse about 2:3O.
At 3 o'clock they had so crowded
the place the sheriff was unable
to leave his office for the court
house steps.
The farmers remained until
after A D. M, when they dispersed
peacefully.
The foreclosure was sought on 9
quarter section. of land which tie
Midstokkes homesteaded about Al
years ago.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
SPUDS, BEANS, PORK
DAKOTA FARM MENU

stolen three horses from the First
National Bank he would have
been railroaded to Bismarck, to
the 'pen" for 5 to 20 years for
horse stealing. But since they are
bankers they can get away with
anything.
Nov this is the kind of men
they put at the head of the Red
C,oss board of Williams county
to lcok after the interest of the
poor people.
These dirty, low down, rotten
misleaders of our city and county
have the nerve to have printed
that mo one is starving or freez-
ing"
Then there's Bill Raymond, our
Wheelock banker and R.d Crss
keyman who said everyone out
his way is doing "iust fine Cause
old Billy is able to put 3 squares
a day under his belt.
My opinion is that THESE damn
bankers, the head of cur Red
Cross board are looking after
their own interests much more
than looking after the interest of
the poor, ragged, hailed-out starv-
ing and drouth stricke., people Of
Williams cOuntv
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
FORECLOSURES IN
S. OAK. CONTINUE.
DESPITE LENIENCY''

Just what 'leniency" means to
state officials can be seen from
the action that has been taken by
the Rural Credits Bureau in South
Dakota. Governor Barry has re-
ceived many complaints stating
that the Bureau has been foreclos-
ing on farmers after the governor
had made a public request for
"leniency."
In reply to these charges C. l..
Chase, rural credit director, stated
that foreclosures have been car :
ried thru "only where loans were
delinquent four to eight years,
where such action was requested
by debtors, or il. a few other
cases chow many he does not say)
where foreclosure was necessary
to protect the States interests"
The state is willing to be Glen
lent" except where its interests as
robber are concerned. The
Estates interests" are the inter
ests of the bondholders in Wall
Street and Minneapolis owning the
Rural Credit bonds.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
FRAME MURDER
CHARGE INS.D.
Nile Cochran, Iowa Farmer,
Is Extradited on Charge
of Picket Line Murder

Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 24.-Nile
Cochran, Neville, Iowa, farmer,
has been extradited from Iowa to
South Dakota to answer charge
of murder for the death Of Roy
Markell, booze and milk runner,
Markell was killed from wounds
received III battle with pickets
near Sioux City on Feb. 8. AL
though it is generally known that
Markets. sons first opened fire on
the pickets from the rear of the
truck i'll which they were hauling
milk neither IF them was ever
questioned by the police.
The extradition of Cochran is an
attempt to crush The militant
strike movement of the farmers
around Sioux City by a murder
frameup.
All farmers should protest this
vicious frame up to the Union
County South Dakota authorities.
Mass protests should be arranged
particularly by the farmers in the
Sioux City area.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
DELEGATES TO
MEET ELECTED
Palisade, Mimi, Sends a
to St. Paul Con-
ference
(BY B. IT,

Palisade, Mimi, Feb. 49, The
United Farmers League called
mass meetings at Finn Hall and
at Hebron School House to select
delegates to the State Relief Con-
ference at st. Paul.
Suio Libeck volunteered the use
of his car. The following dele
gates were selected f45ln pa1is..s.e
to represent the League-Sulc
Libeck, Mrs. o. M. Olsen and Roy
Anderson ard Ale Mailena was
elected to attend the conference
by the Hebron. U. F. L.
DEMAND $3.50 A DAY
Both Mass meetings passed reso-
lutions demanding $3.50 a day for
eight hours work (instead of Is
cents nhour for seven hours, as
at presently on county relief work.
They also stipulated that each
needy person should be allotted a
minimum of five days work q
month and the work should be ad.
ministered by a committee selected
at mass meeting. The meetings
also demanded a free county doc.
tor.
Committees from each place
will meet with the county commits
Sioners at their March meeting.
Comrade Mallema secured two
applications for membership in the
United Farmers League at tbs
Hebron meeting.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
SINGER CALLS
OFF STRIKE OF
DAIRY FARMERS
Makes Agreement With
Gov. to Call off Strike
by '"Truce"
TRUCE is SElL-OUT
Governor Schnedman Tells
Farmers of His Sympathy
VIII Tell Roosevelt

Walter M. Singler, president of
the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk
Pool, and self appointed leader of
the Wisconsin milk strike, sold out
and called off the strike ON Feb.
22nd.
He ordered the striking farmers
to clear the highways of barri-
cade and to meter on a truce with
the milk trust until May 1.
Singler's 'truce" is another YER
SION "truce" with which Milo Reno
helped to smash the milk strike
around Sioux City last summer.
Singler called off the strike aft
er he reached an agreement with
Governor Schmedeman bfeore a
mass meeting of 1900 farmers in
Madison. Schmedeman told the
farmers that he favored the strike
for $1.40 a hundred for milk but
that they should not use radical
methods, such as the strike to at
tain their ends.
In order to soft soap the farm
ers he promised them that he
would take up the situation with
Roosevelt after March 4.
Schmedeman is a Democrat and
had the support of the LaFollette
"progressives' in the November
elections.
On the day that hte strike was
called off SO farmers were arrest
ed by ITO deputies at Marvilled.
They were TAKEN IA miles to Ju-
neau. Their friends followed them
to the Jail. threatening the depu-
ties, and then threatened to get
them out of Jail by force, if need
be. They were released four hours
after their arrest.
At Waukesha farmers entered
the interurban station where car;
were being loaded with milk fol
Milwaukee. Firemen were sem
out to disperse the farmers witt
water.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

Sergwick county unit of the Farm
ers Holiday association, asked the
farmers what they wanted to do
about it.
Get that machinery back on
this farm" one man cried out. The
crowd agreed.
The farmers marched back to
town, one mile, to get the ma
chinery. The representatives Of
the company could not be found,
and the farmers met no opposition
from the local dealers handling
the implement line.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
AMERICAN FARMERS OUGHT TO BE
SATISFIED WITH HUNGER LEVELS
SAYS GOVERNOR HERRING OF IOWA

The American farmers and
workers should be satisfied with
the misery they are now ex-
periencing and should be pre-
pared to accept even worse iv-
ing conditions. This was the
message preached to them by
Governor Herring of Iowa at a
Lincoln memorial celebration In
Springfield, Illinois, on Feb. IL.
He recommended coolie standard
for the American farmers in the
following words:
Moderation and plain homely
living such as marked an earlier
age are preferable from any
standpoint to mountain of debt"
He wants the Iowa and other
farmers to give up everything
they have won thru a life time Of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
CROP LOANS TO
SLASH ACREAGE
Farmer Must Demand Own
Committees to Pass on
Loans

Crop production loans for the
coming year will be used by the
federal government in an attempt
to put thru a crop production
slash of 80 per cent. This slash
in the acreage of all cash crops
is required Of farmers receiving
government loans for putting in
their crops.
The law by which $4,000, 900 was
made available for crop produc-
ton purposes permitted the Sec
rotary of Agriculture to require
such cuts in acreage.
BUSINESSMEN COMMITTEES
The farmers will be required to
deal with the same gang of main
streeters this year as they dealt
with last year in order TO get the
loans. The Secretary of Agricul-
ture has decided that agents of
the Crop Production Loan Office
designate the advisory committees
in each farming county. These
individuals viii also pass on the
farmers requests for loans.
Turnout the country the de-
mand must be raised that only
impoverished farmers be appoint
ed to these committees. They
are the ones who know the con-
ditiOns OF their neighbors and
can treat them justly. From the
committees of stOrekeepers the
farmers can expect Just what
they have had in the past-dis-
elimination and buIhOzing.
The limit of the loans has been
reduced to $500, as compared with
$400 last year. Since the average
Of 507, 1892 production loans in 1882
was SIPS, the average loan this
year will be far less.
WORSE FOR RUINED
FARMERS
Those farmers who have been
CONTINUED en- Ps.@s Twol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

right on the heels of many other
victories gained by the Small
Home and Land Owners Fedora
ton.
5000 MEMBERS
The Small Home and Land
Owners Federation is carrying ON
extensive organizaticnal work in
the city Of Cleveland as well as
the state. Already 5000 members
have been organized into 18
branches. 10000.
The demands Of the organiza
ton are moratorium on all mort
cages and contracts, against fore
closures, so per cent cut IN realty
taxes, water rates, gas and light
rates. They propose a fighting
unity with the unemployed work
ers in the neighborhood.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
OLD MONT. FARMER
Is FOUND DEAD OF
HUNGER AND COLD

Joliet, Feb, 12.-Exposure and
hunger are believed to have been
the cause of the death of an aged
Joliet recluse, Herman Fisher,
whose frozen body was found Sun
day afternoon in his little shack
one-half mile northwest of Joliet
by William Cruel and Bob Wink
Ter. The aged man, who was about
rs years old and a German by
birth, had been familiar and
lonely figure around Joliet for 30
years or more.
He was last seen Friday when
he had been a dinner guest at the
nearby Cruel home. He has no
known survivors. Funeral ser
vices were held in Red Lodge on
Tuesday afternoon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
ESQ Farmer Delegates
Participate In MINI.
Conference and March
SUPPORT MARCH TO
ST. PAUL IN DODGE
CO., MINNESOTA

Mantonville, Minn.-A meeting
of S5 farmers here elected a dele
gate to represent them at the
Farmers and Workers State Re-
lief March to St. Paul on February
20.
They also decided to organize
more meetings in Dodge county to
elect delegates to the State Relief
March and to organize Commit
tees of Action to prevent any
forced sales or evictions and to
demand relief for the farmer and
not legislation which is designed
to relieve the farmer-relieve him
of all he has.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
Property Of Rich Land Owners IS
Confiscated by Spanish Peasants
GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO CURB PEASANT DEMANDS BY GRANTING
j EMPTY REL lEF" MEASURES; MA1EDTTAE RELIEF WON
BY REVOLUTIONARY ACTION

Madrid, Spain, Feb. 2.-The
movement of the peasants and the
workers in Spain for the seizure
of the estates of the rich landown-
ers is developing militantly despite
all the efforts of the authorities
and the socialists to prevent it.
The m oyement is particularly
strong in the province of Caceres
where many estates have already
been seized. During the past few
days further estates were seized
in Torrequemada, Aldea del Cano,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

communists and publishes a pa
thetic appeal against violence and
for the maintenance of law and
order"
On Jan. 16 fifteen estates were
seized and divided in southern
Spain On Jan. II more than 20
estates were seized and on Jan. 10
81 were taken.
The invasion Of Lands owned by
the great landowners began last
year. In beginning estates were
invaded in the vicinity Of the town
Cf Escurial, Granadilla, Ceclavin,
Anotnio Madronera, Robledillo de
Trujilli, and Mata. The proprie-
tors made legal demands for the
expulsion of those who were
moreyless and for payment by the
peasants who had money, but lost
it in many cases.
EMPTY RELIEF" MEASURES
In order to stave off the rebel
lion of the peasantry the Cortes
(Congress) passed some "relief"
measures for the peasants. These
measures however, meant no real
relief for the masses Of down.
trodden peasants who 90 lot have
enough land to live off of. The
peasants have therefore gone
ahead and have won their own re-
lief by forcibly taking the land
from the robbing big landowners.
The Civil Guards have been sent
against the revolving peasants by
the rich landowners and the state
officials but have been defeated
bv them on many occasions. The
Communist party of Spain, in a
recent proclamation, demanded the
disarming and dissolution of the
Civil Guards and the formation OF
a workers and peasants militia.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

what the nation needs to
feel today more than anything
else is that extravagahce is no
fit measure of a peoples life.
That, after all, human happiness
is to be found not in indulgence
but in the fundamentals of af-
lection, cOmradeship, the bless
ing of work, the thrill of cour-
ageOus effort and kindly service
to our brother man."
That living that Herring preach
es to them is the worst misery
that the American farmers have
ever known. They are not going
to see their children go ragged anC
naked or succumb to disease be
cause of lack of decent food, de.
80 e happy picture that Gov.
En- staIerring of Iowa paints O
this misery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
SMALL OWNERS
STOP EVICTION
Land and Home Owners
Fed. of Ohio Carries on
Militant Fight

Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 16.-One
thousand workers have defeated
an attempt to evict John Sparonga,
of 114413 Lardet Avenue. Sheriff
Saltzman of Cuyahogo county was
present to evict the family, but,
as a result of the mass mobiliza-
ton of workers by both the I'm
employed Council and the Small
Home Owners Federation, John
Sparonga was granted an indefi-
mite postponement on the foreclos-
ure of the mortgage. This follows
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
FARMERS GUST
HOLIDAY FAKER
Cheyenne County Holiday
Assn. Rejects Plan TO
Drop Militancy

The mikleaders of the farmers
Of the Milo Reno variety suffered
another reverse in Nebraska in the
elections of the Cheyenne County
Holiday Association which took
place on Feb. %. A week pre-
No0Sly the forces Of Harry Par
menter president of the Nebraska
inoiiday Assn, were put to rOut in
snelr attempts to disrupt the Ne
Oraska State Relief Conference.
Henry Blome, chairman of the
county Holiday Association, at
tempted to have the Madison
county Plan dropped from the
program of the organization and
70 have substituted IN it's place the
program of Parmenter.
ATTACKS CONFERENCE
he also attacked the state CON
ference as a Communist" move
ne made little Roadway with the
more than 1000 farmers anC
members of their families who
packed the city auditorium in Sid
and was voted out of office
AIe new chairman is Walter Hap
pei Henry Hargens was electe;
vice chairman.
on. one Of the most energetic mill
S sIltS IN Ousting the fake leader
SSnnp Of BlOme was Mrs. I. A
e~lSOn' who has been carryin,
Tas ene struggle for the militan
madison County Plan.
We 1ns association :: voted to boycott
b h. T;ae coming through oma
~ m Lincoln or Grand Island.
thu e resolution adopted said tn
No. e cities repeatedly have or
In seu legislation 10 exempt case
ta~ r used IN farm machinery fro,
fOsa ion and that members "r,
which 70 buy goods of any kin
IOnS come through those cities !
paw a.. = the farmers are forced
"ral purposes SS0''ne lot agrlcu
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
Children go to School With
Ragged Clothes, Rotten
Overshoes
(BY MRS. H. G.

Wheelock, N. D., Feb. PPM
from the east end of Truax town
ship, and l read in the "back
scratching" Williston Herald that
no one in Williams county was
starving or freezing" knew this
to be a damned lie, for there are
families in our neighbo1hood with
children going to school in ragged
summer underwear, wornout shoes
and overshoes that should have
been in the junk heap last spring.
Their stockings won't even hold
patches. Many of our neighbors
and ourselves have been out of cot
fee and sugar for weeks. Our
everyday menus consist chiefly Of
scrawny potatoes, bread and pork,
and some Of cur children are GO
ing to school with lard CREASED en-
their bread.
Do the big businessmen and the
bankers live on this kind of daily
diet? Nc!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

Madrielyo, Brozas, Torremacho,
and Puzuealo de Zarzon.
The peasants are forming revo-
lutionary committees to organize
the distribution Of the seized land
and to oganize the defense against
possible armed and punitive expe-
6itions on the part of the Civil
guard.
SOCIALISTS ALARMED
The central rogan CT the Social
list party, Gel Socialism," is now
alarmed at the rapid spread of the
movement for which it blames the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
MAKE DEMANDS
Cash Relief for Ruined
Farmers and Moratorium
On Debts, Taxes, etc.
GUN THUGS THERE
Farmers VIII Organize for
Struggle Despite
Legislature

-Four hundred and sixty four
delegates participated in the Min
Eescta State Relief March and con-
ference which took place on Feb.
IS and 20. More than half oe the
delegates were farmers from the
various organizations including
the . oited Farmers League, the
Farm. ars Union, the Holiday Asso-
citation. Farm Bureau. local farm
ers clubs, etc.
Governor Olson had promised
that the state would house and
feed the delegates, but he refused
to provide for more than ESQ.
He also promised that there
would be no police at the state
capitol. He kept his promise by
having the state militia instead,
as well as host Of special depu-
ties.
From eight to ten thousand, In
Guiding many out of town farmers
participated In the march together
ssish ina workers from h1inneapo.
lis to st. Paul.
Use main demands of the farm
ers were: -.
Cash relief for the most ina
DOVerIShed farmers
Moratorium OH debts, taxes,
interest and rents.
The farmers also supported the
demand of the workers for unem-
ployment insurance, since they re-
alize that only if the city work
ers have a definite and sure in
come can they buy the farmers
products.
Alfred Tiala, member of the
Executive Council of the United
Farmers League, in presenting
these demands to the legislature
meeting in joint session as a re-
suit of mass pressure, called for
Simple and uncomplicated bills"
without ifs, why's, butts, and where
fores, stating that a law need not
be made a long complicated affair
unless it is meant to deceive.
1t was pointed out to the legis-
lators that the funds for farm re-
lief were to come fro mthe hoard
ed wealth of the rich and not by
further taxation of the lower
strata of the population.
In previous conferences with the
governor. when the workers and
farmers committee pressed Cover
nor Olson for action on their de
mands, he sought an alibi in the
state constitution. Aid to the
working population seems to be
against the constitution every
where except in the Soviet Union.
Knowing this, Tiala in conclu-
SION to ire legislatures in conclu-
sion:
'ST'he farmers of Minnesota
viii not let you hide belind Ie-
galistic formulas that may be
embodied in constitutions. In
our demands we are expounding
suman right that must be raised
to the first order of the day.
We are seeking legal enactment
for our demands: but to grant
us these, we do not propose to
starve Or to become degraded.
We will organize and fight"
Of course we are not waiting
for the legislature of Minnesota to
act. We are not waiting quietly
at home. We are organizing 50
that the United Farmers League
will become the leader Of the inn
poverished farmers in more de-
termined struggles for their lives
and homes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03

GET MACHINERY
Return $1,000 Property to
Farmer; Nebraska Farm
ers Also Participate

Julesburg, Colo, Feb. S.-F1ve
hundred farmers gathered at the
farm Of George A. Jones, one mile
north of here, today, and after
hearing Jones story of having SS'-
600 worth of machinery taken
from him, marched TO town, mill
tary fashion, and took possession
of the entire lot of the machinery
which they returned to the farm,
Eight Nebraska counties ana
three Colorado counties were rep
resented in the gathering of farm
ers, under leadership Of members
of the Farmers National Holiday
association.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
THERE is MISERY

We, the people in this end of
Truax would like to have the
bankers and your wives come into
any of our homes and get a meal
like they're used to having in
Williston, cooked from the things
you find in our homes anu cellars.
know there would be no rich
cakes and cookies, salads or fruit
salads or pies fixed from the
things you find in cur homes.
One of the leaders Of the Red
Gross in Williams county is Mr..
Shaw, who belongs to the First
National Bank. Seven years ago
his bank stole three horses from
us. They have admitted it but
have always given some excuse
for not paying US, so unto this
day we have not received soli-
tary cred cnet" for our horses.
THE RICH CAN STEAL
If a poor farmer or worker had
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
WILL ORGANIZE NORTH
WESTERN OHIO

AS a result of these two meet
ings I have been invited to orga-
nize the impoverished and middle
farmers there and l will conduct
a whole series of meetings in the
Northwestern Ohio.
Since l was there big protest
meeting was held at the Defiance
County court house, protesting a
foreclosure on a farm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-03
REPOSSESS FARMERS
MACHINERY

Jones told the group that MS
24O acre farm had recently been
taken from him and that ne hao
decided it to creditors to be allowed
to remain on it with lease. ne
said a company holding lien on
the machinery had repossessed II.
Earl Quinn, president Of the