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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
FOOD TO WASTE; FATE OF WAR VETERANS;
CRITICISM AND SUGGESTIONS; NO HUNTING
ZONTNG RESTRICTS
FARMERS RIGHT TO
HUNT And TO FISH
Van Buskirk, Wise.

Dear Editor:
A good number of farmers
gathered at a meeting called by
United Front Committee Of Ac-
ton at the Oma Town Hall. Erik
Bert. former editor of the Produc-
ers News, and Alfred ITALIA, Ma
tional Secretary of the United
Farmers League, addressed the
farmers on the situation Of the
small dairy farmers, and also on
what the MIRA mean's to the far
mers and what we have to do to
save our homes.
The farmers were very inter-
ested and later the floor was OPP
ened for discussion.
! An important issue for discus
sion was the zoning of the town
Of Oma. The IDEA of zoning the
| township would mean that where
the border line in coming could be
situated those areas beyond 1t
would be under restriction, and the
farmers must keep off. This would
mean that the farmers and work.
ers could not hunt, fish, or secure
| fire wood for themselves as they
have been doing all along. Any
one venturing into those beautiful
lake frontage areas would be ar
rested.
The document also reads that
the large mining companies have
the first right to mine in those
grounds if there is vein OF ore
Or coal found, and the power
plants have right to baild dams
1t is also permissible to erect golt
courses. which of course the poo.
farmers and workers never cal
use. This is all due to the fac
that the farmers and workers ar
= all skinned to the hide.
= The farmers unanimously de
n cided that the town board call
le coming meeting on Oct. 26 to TAX
IS this matter up, ard notices D
posted to advertise it.
l. s.. M.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
SUGGESTIONS AND
CRITICISM HELP
PRODUCERS NEWS
Yakima. Wash.

Yakima. Wash.
Dear Editor:
Many farmers have their nose to |
the grindstone IL to 16 hours a
day in the attempt to hold on to
their farms and homes ard raise
and feed their children properly.
AS a consequence, most farmers
have never studied or even thought
of social economics.
The Producers News is a fine
paper perhaps it is alright in
every way for the person who has
studied, but to the person who has
absolutely no knowledge of the
class struggle as such, it is nec-
essary to have an educational
column. The present methods Of
child education, through compul-
sion, only on lines laid down by
the capitalist class, for the pur-
pose of keeping up the present
system, should be exposed at once.
l believe that farmers who are
already members of the United
Farmers League or other worker
organizations, should try to inter
est their own families in CORES
pondence. How would it be, If
some prize were offered to your
workers, for the greatest number
; of subs gotten in period of g
or 90 days.
! Another thing, why not try t.
) send bundle of papers to differ
ent Oranges. This would have t
5 be paid for by units of farmers n
the locality of the Grange.
: | certainly would like to see
I some suggestions by other farm
ers, perhaps we could start littl
competition along some specis
: line. Anyway we sure have t
, hustle and do something. We hav
< got to get busy and find way
" educate the farmers to the elias
Is struggle, or Roosevelt and h
II Wall Street pals will have We
all Matched up and all over US b
er fore we are ready to combat it..
8 w. F
Il,
a Editors Note: This criticism
ps of the Producers News and sug
10 gestiOns for improvements ART
40 just what we want to get. Til
IS trouble is that too few farmer
Is send us any suggestions. Nov
35 let us have some response to "
er F. when he says II certainl
would like to see some sugges
! tons by other farmers"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
UNEMPLOYED ARE
BROWBEATEN AND
ALSO NSULTED

Occur d'Alene. Idaho.
Dear Editor:
About 8 weeks ago, a worker
who was making wood on a coun-
ty wood job, had the misfortune
to cut his foot with an axe.
He went to the county doctor,
who by the way is also president
of the Chamber of Commerce and
is getting a salary as health Of
ficer amounting to about $400. per
month. One stitch was taken and
the wound dressed. When sew
eral days had passed, and the
wound was sufficiently healed,
he returned to the Doctors office
and asked to have the threads re-
moved.
This worker is a member Of the
Unemployed Council. He has
fought consistently for better
conditions for his class while al
the same time, he and his family
have been reduced to a miserable
standard, having TO job and de
pending solely on relief for an ex
istence.
Knowing this workers militan
cy, the doctor started his usua
line of browbeating by asking
when the bill would be paid, in
forming this comrade that he wa
not an INDECENT, but an able
bodied man, and therefore, coul
not be taken care of as a count
charge.
( AS to the class question, thi
: doctor is definitely on the "othe
: side of the fence" and his opinio
!, is very biased, particularly againi
a workers who join the Unemploye
: Council and fight for their right
e So the comrade was forced
o go to another doctor to have Il
t job finished which he would n,
finish without first being guara
s teed his pay.
Bill Parker.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
1T MAKES One
WANT TO BRING
ABOUT ACHANCE':
Rogers, Ark.

Rogers, Ark.
Dear Editor:
This week l will write about
what is raised and what goes to
waste here, not because these folks
won't sell, or because they hold
out for a big price, but because
we have this system where there
must be a big profit for those that
move and handle our produce. II
not, then the people living where
this fruit and vegetables can't be
raised, must starve for the want
of it while here it falls and rots
on the ground.
1t makes one that knows and sees
it, grieve and want to do some
thing to help bring about a change.
Now for instance, l can go out
here and pick the grapes, nice big
Concords and get them for 20
cents a bushel, green wrap TO-
matoes IL cents per pound. They
are hauling green wraps and pinl
tomatoes into town for 81 to $1.5C
per hundredweight. Green beam
and real nice ones two cents pc
pound.
They are peddling nice big waite
melons for from 10 to 25 cents
each on the curb, and they sell il
the stores here for ore cent
pound. Ice cold melons, canteloup
sell in the stores for a for 1
cents, the farmer gets about a
cents per hundredweight. Apples
are selling at road side stands 2
cents per bushel. Apple cider 8
cents ard grape juice so cents pc
gallon.
u
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
100000 Wounded Vets
Cut off Disability List

WASHINGTON, D. CAS- result of
ROOsevelt's reductions in disability allow
ances to wounded war veterans, more than
90 percent of them will be taken off the
list, it was announced recently. This means
that about 100000 wounded war veterans
will be deprived of their major means of
support.
The Workers Ex-Servicemens League,
a militant veterans organization is fighting
for the repeal of Roosevelts economy"
measure, and for the restoration of full
benefit to wounded veterans.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
WE'LL DO OUR PART

The N. r. A. is just joke,
A ''NeF Deal" way to put the yoke
The better on the wOrkingman
And tOiling farmer of the land.
On bills, in stores, in every mart
We see the sign: I'VE do our part"
Both big and little biz display
The vuIture sign so blue and gay.
What does it mean, if it means not
Another weird exploiting plot?
Yes, they will do their part all right
In rObbing us with main and might.
The prOfiteers, just bet your socks,
Will put us still more on the rocks;
They're still right at the same old stanS
In every hamlet in the land.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Negligence of Mine
Company Causes Three Deaths

McKEESPORT, Pa-Three men were
killed and nine injured today in slate fall
at the Hubbard mine of the McKeesport
Coal and Coke Company Such accidents
happen very often in coal mines because
the companies do not furnish enough tim
Der and other protective devices for the
miners. Plenty of other men available, SO
why spend money protecting those who are
at work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
MANY OF Us WILL.
SUFFER AND LAY.
DOWN our LIVES
Linton, N. Oak.

Linton, N. Oak.
Dear Editor:
Last night one of our unem-
plOyed here in town needed a doc
tor for his wife who was getting
a baby. None of the doctors would
60 because he had no cash.
One of his neighbors drove
around half the night running
down our county commissioners,
and he broke his car. Then one of
the county commissioners went to
the doctor and promised to hold
back for him half of the 81 dole
that the unemployed gets for his
road work to pay off the doctor
bill.
Could a serf be worse off? It's
sure as hell time to bump off this
damrable obsolete system of ours.
It needs a real once over, and l
knew that during that time many
of US will suffer and plenty of us
will lay down our lives before it's
all over.
Jonathan HOft.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Capitalist Justice
IN a Socialist Town

MILWAUKEE, Wis. = Mrs. Edith
WEIGH, 45, who was supporting her three
children, jobless son-in-law and his wife,
by scrubbing in the county building, lost
her S85 a month job Monday when the
county civil service commission learned
that she was recently convicted for steal
ing rs cents worth of bread from bakery
This is Justice in the Socialist city of Mil
waukee where Mayor Hoan gives flowery
speeches on brotherhood and fairness of
Socialists"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
"He Came Home From the War Afflicted
With Bone Disease In His Legs"

lief for the Farmer Through CO.
operation" and then under Hoo
ver's Federal Farm Board program
soon pushed him down the same
route that millions of farmers
have trod; to bankruptcy.
He moved into the little coun-
try town, near which he was born
and raised and after much battling
succeeded in getting a small allow
ance from the government, which
together with the earnings Of his
wife (who has worked like slave)
GRABBED him to live up to the COM
ing of the New Deal "Blue Buzz
zard" which took his allowance
away together with his wife's job
! Now he is penniless and Grip
pied and today the landlord served
notice on him to get out of the
little house which he. has beer
living in ard live in the street Of
build himself a hut out of til
cans and sign boards in Roosevelt
burg.
A desperate situation, a hope
less situation, only for one fact
The workers ard farmers around
Bristol are beginning to realiz'
that nothing will save them fror
such treatment but the power G
: their own organized might, an
through the surrounding countr
< they are circulating the word: "
r must not let them evict Ted Shal
: or the same fate will be awaitir
: US. No more faith in foul smel
: ing "Blue BuzZard" Matched in Il
hell holes of Wall Street. We ha'
got to fight our own war make
for the right to live.
II "A Farmer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27

So everywhere we hear the cry
And see the sign where we go by:
1--WE do our part" - 1--WE do our part"
Oh piOus head with pirate heart.
But some of us have waxen wise
And know they play with loaded dice;
A New Deal from the same old cards
Can put no hope into our hearts.
So we have just made up our mind
To struggle on until we find
In tOilers enough class consciousness
to understand-and SO from thence:
Wen grab the vulture ROUND the neck
And every prOfiteer, by heck,
And pierce his dirty, rotten heart
And shsw the world: Eve do cur part"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Too Many Dead
Newspaper Men

SHANGHAI, China.-Because OF tns
floods of complaints from newspapers and
men high in power" the Marking govern
ment has issued a mandate forblddmg Fy
vincial and other authorities from aTreSE
ing and executing newspaper men. Man!
editors and newspaper men have been =. e ~
cuted in China because some petty OIliC@
was offended by his writing. Only hsss
that pleases the officials can be printed III
the Chinese newspapers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Spanish Peasants
Act Against Landowners

BARCELONA, Spain.-NumerOus t.vs
lutionary acts of Spanish peasants m ross-
been reported recently. Most OF tne . R Of
ants of Spain are tenants or just SELL
one kind or another. r crOus
They are resorting to seizure u ~ ths
which they are usually robbed Oh " Gases,
big landowners. In a number Oh been
landlords opposing this seizure nave
roughly handled.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27

PARIS, France.-The Soviet-French
trade pact will be completed ssoOn it was
reported here recently. The visit OF All
Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow, with sew
eral French planes, created good impres
sion on both sides it was said, and tne
treaty is expected to be inaugurated by 30
Wet orders for French airplanes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Norris Fears
Farm Revolt

McCOOK, Nebr.-Sen. George Norris,
progressive republican, who left his party
to support Franklin D. Roosevelt in the
last election, said in telegram to the
president few days ago that the farmer
is rapidly losing confidence in rellef at
fenns of the Agricultural Adjustment Adj
ministration. Senator Norris is advocating
currency initiation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
France Still Feels
Effects of World War

PARIS, France.-The affects Of the
last World war are still felt in France, for
the recent census of Paris and its suburbs
showed that women still outnumber men by
20 percent. More than 10000 persons Of
the 100000 population in the Seine de-
partment are over 80 years of age.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Another Organization
to Combat Labor Unions

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Not satisfied
enough with the way the NRA is trying
to crush the laboring masses, the big
industrialists and manufacturers are plan
ming to build a more powerful organization
to combat the power of organized labor.
The organization will be built under leader
shin of the National Association of Manu-
facturers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
The Cats Out
of the Bag at Last

PARIS. France.-An anno sn IGsiatc
was made today that the Fra :tOrests in
bank is joining with japanese In'e company
the formation of a 1,2O0, OOV. yySSnmrcbukuO.
to exploit the gold deposits OF Ms ND been Try
The Franco-Asiatic bank na 8;,o ace East
ing to get an interest in the U rin since the
ern Railway, in north MancnleeriMI onchuluO
establishment of the state OF I.. mg' IS joint
there, it was revealed. The Tat Gor1st Russia
" owned by Manchukuo and 0O'''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Detroit Workers
Pledge Fight Against War

DETROIT, Mich. = Seven thousand
workers and other opponents of war and
Fascism packed Arena Gardens on Oct. IL.
and gave a tremendous ovation to Henri
Barbusse. They pledged relentless fight
against war and Fascism, and for the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union. Nearly $500
was contributed to forward the work of the
newly-fOrmed American League Against
War and FasciSm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
High Living Costs Cause
Birth Rate to Decline

WELLINGTON, New Zealand.-SInSSs q
the passing of pioneer days, New Zeala me-
birth rate has declined by more than nS a.n
In 1888 there were $4,000 children OOiH
and in 1892 only 24,O0O ,oOO
The rate of birth, now IL Tor Ivy ,OS
has shown a continuous decline IN the -. ~,
Is years. The decline is due to the ms5
cost of living and the decreasing INCOME ="
the natives.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
/. l.. D. Forces
Release of Striker

Ell PASO, Texas.-Ja cinto Saeny' a
striking cotton picker, has been released
from Jail through the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings undertaken by the international
Labor Defeise. Saeny has been in jail for
months, the state having postponed his
case four times because of lack of evidence
against him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Man Passes for
Woman for 80 Years

BUDAPEST, Hungary.-After thirty
years at leading position in a big factory
in Neu-Pest, Mary 10th died suddenly
The autopsy disclosed that the supposed
woman was really a man.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Killed on
New Found JOB

MISSOULA, Charles Johnson,
So, former Butte miner had at last found
a lob at the White Cloud gold mines, after
hunting for job for many months. The
second day on the job, Johnson was
crushed to death under tons of rock when
the roof of tunnel fell.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
1000 Southern
Textile Workers Strike

AUGUSTA, introduction of the
Stretch-out, which resulted in laying off
whole shift of workers, caused strike of
1000 cotton textile workers here. The
Sibley and Enterprise mills here and the
Loring, Bath and several other mills in the
vicinity of Aiken, South Carolina are in
volved.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Letters from the : arm
MANY OF THEM TAKE
THE PAPER; PROMISE
TO PAY NEXT TIME
Edgewater, Colo.

Edgewater, Colo.
Dear Editor:
Cash relief has been cut off
here and no one has ny mOney for
even the barest necessities of life.
But they want the Producers News
and many of them take the paper
with the promise to pay next time.
It takes quite a while to save up
the five cents.
w. T.. B.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Nazi Revolt
Called in Austria

VIENNA, Austria. literature
being distributed throughout Austria illeg.
ally, instructs all Hitlers followers in this
country to be ready for Nazi revolt be.
fore the end of next month.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Belgium
Bars Uniforms

BRUSSELS, Belgium. The Belgian
government intends to forbid the wearing
of unauthorized uniforms. The ban will
fall on the Red Guard, the National Union
and on the DinasOs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Sexton Fills
His Own Grave

PRAGUE, CzechoslOvakia. = Because
the girls of Gross-Becskerek did not favor
a grave digger for husband, Stephan ST.
mon, the local sexton dug one last grave
and committed suicide in it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Soviet Union Gives
Turkey Anniversary Gift

ISTANBUL, Turkey Soviet Russ.
has sent five airplanes as a gift to Turksv
on the occasion of this republics tenth an.
niverSary.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
Two to One That
War VIII Come Soon

LONDON, England. = Iloyds f,mo.
British insurance firm, is OFFERING odd tlOuS Is
two to one to any bettor that war gT'T -. u
break out in the next eighteen months VII
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-10-27
A Rain
of Beetles

ROCK CREEK, B. C.-In an astavD,
ing natural phenomenon, BEETLES fell dun
ing three-hOur downpOur here. The fin
brown inserts had wings but did not Seem
to know how to use them. '
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
"Will Cut Your Relief
Unless You Vote for
Tammany' SaysFarIey


NEW YORK.-Capitalizing on the
'nass starvation and misery is the
latest method Tammany politicians
ere using to intimidate voters for the
fall elections
Former sheriff Thomas M. Farley.
Of "tin-box" fame, is sending around
his ward heelers among starving
workers and their families in the 14th
Assembly District around E. 53rd st.
end threatening to cut them off the
relief rolls if they do not support his
political puppets
The local politicians are beginning
to realize the strength of the work
ers sentiments who are refusing to be
bull-dozed by these grafters any
longer and intend to support and vote
the Communist ticket in November.
This militancy and determination of
the workers to throw out the Tam
many machine has scared the politi-
clans into using threats of starvation
and terror.
Eut the workers are determined.
They will go to the primaries in Sep
tember and register their full sup
port of the only working class party
the Communist Party.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
1920 STRIKE IN
SWEDISH NAVY
OVER BAD FOOD

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1o-A strike
of 80 sailors and 400 recruits in q
barracks at the Swedish naval base
at Karlskrona, in protest against
bad food, was followed almost i'm
mediately by a strike of 800 more
sailors in another barracks.
All refused to drill until better
food was guaranteed, The first re-
suit vas that one contractor was
forced to take back cartload of
bad potatoes, and the officers prom
ised stricter food inspection.
Hundreds of sailors who were
questioned singly in a two-day ex-
animation gave out no information.
They had agreed in advance to give
exactly the same replies to the Of
ficerS.
Two days after the outbreak of
the strike, after a farcical trial, the
first of the 'ringleaders" who had
been imprisoned was sentenced to
one months imprisonment. The
mild sentence reflects the officials
recognition of deep feeling of
unrest among the sailors.
The strike was led by the Com
munist cells in the barracks, which
have organized a number of anti
militarist demonstrations in recent
months.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11
BERRY RESIGNS
WITH $4,000 A
YEAR PENSION

NEW YORK. Aug. 10.-The sinking
ship Of New. York's financial affairs
has forced the resignation Of Comp
troller Charles Berry. at a $4,000
year pension. Inability to agree on
the best way to tax the workers made
him quit in the midst of one of the
city's most severe financial crisis.
He had only recently returned from
jaunt through Europe with j. P.
Morgan, studying taxation methods
applied in Europe on IMPOVERISHED
workers and how to get bankers loans
on the basis of this accomplishment.
Vouchers for $4,000 and $500 were
drawn by Berry to finance this trip,
and when it was pointed out the
public is interested in knowing how
he spent the money, he answered:
IT'S none of their damn business
He has been one of the outstand-
ing opponents to corporation taxes
Of any kind and came Out recently
for a 10-cent fare Bankers short
term notes fall due on December II,
but rather than place a tax on high
incomes, Berry with the consent of
Tammany Hall preferred to draw
$S,100 Of city money for a European
pleasure jaunt.
His retirement becomes effective
September 16.
The daily worker., 1933-08-11

2 ! W6lbAild1
three subs and two new Volunteers.
Mary Schneiderman of the Fur
Department of the Needle Trade
Workers Industrial Union, pledged
to organize a corps of Daily Worker
Volunteers in her union.
TWenty-four of the 25 members Of
the executive board attended the
executive meeting Wednesday night.
They resolved in the interest of self
discipline, that any member who fails
to attend two meetings will be
dropped from the executive.
The executive organized itself into
five subcommittee, to have charge
OF circulation and distribution. edi-
torial and worker correspondence,
financial and sustaining fund, cul.
tural, and trade union and mass Or,
ganizatiop.
The Volunteers will invade all ths
workers clubs in New York, and cell
On them to organize Volunteers Col
laetlVas, and to enter into socialist
competition with each other. Every
club in which four or more members
become Volunteers will receive
charter as collective member of
the Volunteers.