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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
THE ALLOTMENT COMMITTEES
MUST Be MADE TO SERVE YOU

Throuohout the wheat belt county committees are to
be set under the direction OF the Department OF Ag
culture to carry through the program of the New Deal ad
mnistration The task for these committees as laid down
by the Department of Agriculture supposedly to divide
the county aoments among the farmers Actually these
county outfits are designed be stool pigeon outfits to set
off farmer against his neghbors and TO split up Cne
militant front of the impoverished farmers
In North Dakota the Farmers Union leaders have al
ready taken steps to every possible aid to the New
Deal administration in putting across this program AT
meeting of such leaders in Fargo July g. Charley Talbot
president of the North Dakota Farmers Union offered
l. Wilson, adjustment administrator the full facilities OF
the Farmers Union to put this across on the farm
Tn making his bid Talbot described the Farmers
Union as San organization that is complete and ready
to function that will put this job across Tor you
The Farmers Union leaders have made this offer with
one purpose in vewto bolster up their falling preSuge
through the power of the Department OF Agriculture ana tne
New Deal Adjustment Administration. They want to nave
legal strangehod on the farmers of the Northwest
There is only one way by which we prevent these
county setup from becoming organizations against the in
terests of the farmers We elect into them militant
rank and file farmers We must elect into them mpover
shed farmers like ourselves And, lastly, must insist
that any member who to perform the will OF his
neghbors the committee should Immediately resign and
be replaced by a rank and file farmer who will
The United Farmers League urges the farmers in every
county to elect their most militant baters to these commit
tees farmers who have been in the forefront in the fight
for relief aid against evictons and foreclosures We call
all United Farmers League members to take an active
part in the struggle for control of these committees and
for their proper functloning.
The proper functiOning of these committees IN
THE INTEREST OF THE FARMERS will not be to
put the job across for the Roosevelt Administrations
the $4,000 year head of the North Dakota Farmers
Union proposes
Only if these committees fight to the last ditch
against the collectors and bankers despite the rules
regulations handed out from Washington, viii they
the farmers.
Farmers, elect your best fighters to the county
allotment organization.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
Friday, July ID, 1888
FORCE THE REPEAL OF RULING
TOLOOT FARM ACT PAYMENTS

The Agricultural Administration has just issued ruling
by which the interests of the mortgage holders IN the south
under the cotton destruction program will be completely
protected.
The ruling provides that checks for payments under the
cotton reduction program will be issued jointly to the small
farmer and to the mortgage or note holder
This means that payments under the cotton cutting
gram will go not to the small farmers but to the land
lords the fertilizer trust the bankers OF the other
leeches who have lien the farmers crops.
1t is almost certainty that the ruling will be
followed in the payments to the wheat farmers Farmers
everywhere should protest the decision made to rob the
southern Negro and white poor farmers OF the benefit
ent and should demand that this ruling be repealed and
that no similar rulings be made elsewhere Send pro-
tests to President Roosevelt to the secretary of Agriculture
Wallace the Senators and Representatives from your
state in Congress.
Only by nationwide protest on the part OF the small
farmers can this new punderng under the New Deal be
prevented.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
EAGER FOR PAPER
SOVIET REPUBLIC
TOPS SOWING PLAN
IN QUICKER TIME

Moscow, June 18.-The White
Russian Soviet Republic has fin
ished its sowing plan twenty days
earlier than last year. About g.
$50 acres were sOwn as against
5000 acres last year. The sowing
plan has been completed 105 per
cent.
Compared with the steady de-
cline of Polish farming, only a
few miles across the border, this
flourishing Of socialist agriculture
is a convincing proof of the su-
periority of socialist economy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

"unsportsmanlike" because the
speakers could have asked Reno
any question while he was there.
Harris pointed out to the audience
that Taylor had been deliberately
excluded from the program and
no one had asked Reno or the
other high salaried leaders 10
leave. The farmers remained even
though the leaders had decamped.
Chalmers also took issue with
Harris suggestion that the farm
ers needed rank and file leaders
whocould be consulted by them,
without pushing past the butler as
in Reno's swell heme in Des
Moines.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
(BY CHARLES E. TAYLOR, f.
National Chairman)

Lincoln, Neb., July 6.-Betweel.
three and four thousand folk from
the farms of the state of Nebras-
ka attended the cold fashioned"
Fourth of July picnic at the beau
tiful Niobrara State Park indie
penGenoe day, sponsored by the
Farmers Holiday Association of
Nebraska Madison Go. Plan) of
Knoxcounty.
Al Broberg and Earnest Han
sher of Lindsay, Madison county,
farmers who have played big
part in the organization of the
Holiday Association of Nebraska;
DR.. Hall of Nealey, Harry Lux of
Lancaster county, State Organizer
of the Holiday Assn, Charles E.
Taylor, National Chairman of the
United Farmers League of Mon
tana; and Lem Harris of the Ma
tional Committee of Action Of
Washington, D. c., spoke.
The Niobrara band played and
Holiday songs were sung between
the talks. Jim Ryan, Knox coun-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
800 STRIKE ON
la. RELIEF JOBS
Workers Demand Cash Be
Paid and Hourly Rate
Be Raised to IS cents

Sioux City, Iowa, July 6.-Three
hundred men working on Highway
rs for relief went on strike Mon
day, July 8, demanding that they
be paid in cash and that the wage
rate be increased from 35 cents
and hour to 45 cents. Fifty po-
licemen, who were off duty on
Monday, were sent out to the re-
lief job on their day off to pre-
vent any demonstration of the
strikers.
County attorney Duckworth adj
mitted at might be better in some
localities if the men could be paid
in cash." but gave as an excuse
for not doing so, that the rules
were laid down by the federal
government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
Negro Sharecropper Is Frdtcrnal
Delegate atNebraska Convention
GREET HARRY LUX -.

One of the speakers at the
Nebraska Holiday convention
held In LOup City two weeks
ago was a Negro SharecrOp-
per from Arkansas who came
las a fraternal delegate. He
spoke also ATT the huge Holt
day picnic at NiObrara, Neb.,
where his story of the Oppres-
sion of the share choppers in
the South made IA deep i'm
preston on the farmers.
Below we print a letter from
this Negro. farm organizer:
Dear Editor:
AS Negro share cropper fror
the South I had the privilege t
visit the Holiday convention al
Loup City, Nebraska. There I wa
greeted by an audience of abou
800 farmers of Which there wa
some (of) the best people i
America.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

Coming from the south where
conditions are very bad, unem-
ployment is great, forced labor
and evictions and jim crow and
many other disadvantages prevail
therefore, ! wanted to know how
conditions was in the North. /
find here the workers and farmers
also are oppressed, living standard
driven to low levels. However, l
find in the North a great army of
workers and farmers organizing to
potest the ruling class, to demand
decent living.
shall go back and organize the
south to extent that North
and South in the near future shall
join hands, representing that great
army that John of Bible times saw
that could not be numbered, sing
ing Solidarity for in Union
We are Strong"
Signed,
Negro Share Chopper.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
APPLAUD RANK AND
FILE SPEAKERS

After the program was over
these farmers and Lem Harris
were called back by the farmers
and their wives who displayed a
keen interest in the Holiday pro-
gram, to tell them more about
mass action under the direction of
the Holiday Association as the
means of keeping the farmers on
the farms and in stopping sales
and evictions. These farmers rea-
lizing that another collection and
foreclosure drive is already at the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
CORK DISTRICT IN
SOVIET UNION HAS
FULFILLED PROGRAM

Moscow, June 6-(by mail)-The
Cork district has completed its
sowing plan. In cereals and le-
guminous plants 103 per cent of
the plan was completed and lot
per cent of the wheat sowing plan
was accomplished.
In the preparatory work for the
sowing campaign 124.e00 indi-
vidual farms entered into the col
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

farm workers decided on "a hour
strike if their imprisoned COM
rades were not liberated by the
end of this week.
PREPARE IN 80 VILLAGES
The delegates are making every
preparation for this strike in 80
villages in this district. Meetings
of the conservative trade union
members and the small VINEYARD
workers have decided to join this
strike. It is estimated that about
$4,000 will take part in this ac-
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
COUNTY CHAIRMAN
DISRFGARDED

The Woodbury. county chairman
came out of the committee pretty
mad and stated that the only way
Taylor could get the floor would
be through mass pressure from the
audience.
When the scheduled speakers
had finished the Holiday leaders
tried to ring in the mayor of Sioux
City. A great cry went up for
Taylor, instead. The cry was
taken up all through the audience.
Taylor went up to the speakers
stand and was told that he would
be scheduled after the mayor.
While the mayor was speaking
Taylor could hear the chairman,
and others on the platform whis-
pering about taking out the micro
phone.
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creased twelve-fold.
OTHER PRODUCTS

During this year the works have
also delivered many pieces for re-
pair to the value of several mil
lion rubles for Soviet farms and
machine TRACTION stations. Every
month 100 mower and threshing
machines are produced. In t he
construction department a new
lighting system for tractors was
invented, enabling the tractors to
work day and night. The Stain
grad Works are now turning out
a special type Of caterpillar trac-
tors Of so hp with a speed of as
kilometres per hour.
These figures give the lie direct
To- the bourgeois and socialist press
who owing TO the difficulties Of
the first months, had declared the
Stalingrad workers were a COM
piete failure.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
GERMAN WORKERS
PROTEST FASCIST
REGIME OF HITLER

Berlin, June Ion June 9
about 5OO-600 workers demonstrat-
ed in the streets of East Berlin.
Shortly before { o'clock a bugle
call was sounded and the workers
z aaaaaaa aaas
assembled in the Eldenachers-
trasse. The workers marched down
the street singing the "Interna-
tional" and shouting "Long Live
the Communist Party. Down with
the Hitler government"
Fascist storm troops tried to
break up this demonstration but
the workers defended themselves
and chased off the Nazis. When
the police got there the demon
stration was over.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
STRIKE OF $4,000
FARM WORKERS IN
SPAIN GROWS DAILY

Madrid, Spain, June THE
strike Of farm workers which was
organized during the past week
has broken out and is spreading
every day. In the province of Sc
villa $4,000 farm workers from 70
villages are on strike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
DOings of the
Advance Guard

Our list is longer this week than it has been for som.
time This is not due to any New Deal 1t is due to b
spendd response friends have given to cry for be
# does us good to see how many of friends have J
deep into their pockets and given the last thew ha
in order to keep the paper going.
It isn't that enjoy squeezing the last penny out If
anvbodv but we do think that the best investment that %
farmer can make today is to keep the paper going that fights
for him.
last week we said we had eight friends. We spoke t
soon We are finding friends bobbing up all over beso
praries Hands from California to New York are stretch
mo out to lift us from the quicksands of debt This eek
% more friends have shown themselves to be friends
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
MILK TRUST PRESS DE-
FENDS RENO

In the evening edition of the
Sioux City Tribune there was a
scare headline Farmers Gust IN
truders Here Rival Group At
tempts to Muscle In" This de-
hberate falsehood was not even
substantiated in their own story.
This paper which did everything
in its power to break the mill
fancy of the strike around Sioux
City a year ago, lines up, now as
then, with the misleaders Of the
farmers, and against the rank and
file Holiday members.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

ty Holiday leader was chairman
of the day and introduced speak
ers.
GREET HARRY LUX -.
Harry Lux who had "6One time"
in the Saline county jail for Lead
ing protests against the foreclos-
ure and robbery of farmers, ana
Al Brodberg and Shorty" Han
sher, all active Holiday organizers,
were give ann ovation when they
appeared on and left the platform.
They did not finch, but told the
farmers they were in the battle to
the finish regardless of courts and
jails, that the Holiday Association
was organized to keep the farmers
on the farm, to stop foreclosures
and evictions and that now was a
good time for those who had no
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
,conunueN Iron page ono
the Holiday Assn. to cooperate
closely with the national admin
Stration.
NO MENTION OF
STRIKE

This was Reno's closest refer
ence to the strike. He never men,
toned Townley, the leader of the
strike committee, and ex-oil op-
orator. Later when the Holiday
News was being pushed Reno was
mentioned as the editor-in-chief,
although at the National Holiday
convention it was decided that
Townley be put in charge.
Mother Bloor, secretary of the
Regional Committee for Action,
due to pressure of the farmers
around Sioux City, had been in
vited to speak at this picnic. She
had asked the committee to put
Charles Taylor, National Chair
man of United Farmers League in
her place. The farmer-chairnan
of the Woodbury. County Holiday
Assn. urged the committee to
schedule Taylor. (Sioux City Ia
located in Woodbury. county,. This
the committee refused to do.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
PRODUCTION RISES
IN SOVIET PLANTS
Stalingrad Tractor Plant
Delivers $1,000 Tractors
In S Months of 1888

Moscow, June 1S.-In the first
three years of its existence the
Stalingrad Tractor Works have
turned out 66,000 tractors. At
present the daily output Of trac-
eOrs is IA. In 1880 only 1000
tractors were delivered, in 1881,
the output has reached 1880, ana
IN 1882 Il had reached 10000.
During the first five months Of
1888 5000 tractors were delivered
The rate Of production has IN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
Harry Lux and Other Militant Organizers Given Great
Ovation By Farmers They Tell OF Need
for Fight to Finish

stomach for fray to retire to the
safety OF the old arm chair be-
hinl the stove, but as for them,
the wives and children have the
first mortgage" .--
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

Mont, sends one sub.
Lugwig Larson, Lyon Co., MINI.
renews.
w. A. Harris, Burleigh Co., N.
d. sends another three subs.
August Berg, Itasca Co., MINI.
renews.
U. F. L. Minneapolis, MIMI,
sends 81 for Farmers Programs.
B. A. Faulkner, Kent Co,
MIMI, pays for bundle of so
to be used at meeting.
P. R. Paulsen, Dagmar, Mont,
renews.
Art Skreberg, Chippewa Co..
Min, says: 81 will send you every
cent l have (35 cents). With the
grain crops all shot for the first
time in the history of this locality,
with pastures all dried up, money
will be very scarce"
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We now have $4529 to apply the $1OO we need for
next ton of paper We still need $5471 and need
bad Thirty of the 100 friends asked for 81 each have
done than their share There still 70 to be heard
from If you want to be among those who helping to
raise 500 for next ton of paper send 5Ocen
subs 81, mark letter for paper fund.- and send
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
MANY MORE BIG
PICNICS

The picnic, excepting the State
Holiday convention held last week eek.
at LOup City, was the midsummer
event of the Holiday Association
and the first of a series of huge
Holiday picnics planned in Ne
brasla. This picnic was remi-
nescent of the old Non Partisan
League days both in the point OF
number and the enthusiasm OF the
farmers attending. Credit for the
success of the picnic is due to
Louis w. Larsen of Niobrara, Al
vert vakoc and Jim Ryan of Yer
digre, the Holiday picnic commit
tee, who left nj stone upturned
that might contribute to making
the picnic the success that it was
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

The platform was left empty
except for Taylor who had a
broad smile on his face. When
the microphone was turned off the
crowd pressed forward into a COM
pact mass. Taylor doomed out,
1--WE can get along without the
machinery since ana a pretty
good loudspeaker myself"
TEARS APART RENO'S
SPEECH
Taylor demolished Reno's speech.
He picked out the main point on
which Reno had been trying to
make - hope in the New Deal
and blasted it completely.
Hardly had he got started when
the blare of the calliopes broke
out to drown his voice. A "cloWn
band" took up the attempt to dis
rupt the meeting.
Taylor's speech rumbled out over
all the noise of the disrupters, and
the audience crowded in still closer
The previous speakers had met
no enthusiastic response from the
audience. Taylor was applauled at
each point he made.
While Taylor was speaking of
Nile Cochran, militant Iowa Holt
day farmer who has been rail-
roaded to jail in South Dakota for
picket duty, a man broke in to say
that he had been thrown into Jail
at the same time Cochran was
framed and had been left there
for six months.
did Reno or any officer of
the National Holiday Assn.
come to see you there7" asked
Taylor from the platform.
"NOt a damned one" was
the answer.
HERO OF NEBRASKA
When he was through, a cry
went up for Harry Lux, fighting
State Organizer of the Farmers
Holiday Assn. of Nebraska (Madi.
son county plan). The hero o.
Nebraska went up and tore intt
the sell-out leaders of the Holiday
Assn. who had permitted Nil,
Cochran TO be framed up and rail
roaded, and had led the LeMar
Holiday farmers to plead guilty II
the struggle against the Insurance
companies.
Lem Harris. Secretary of th
National Committee for Action
was called for nv the crowd whe,
lux had finished. He rointed on
that the actions of Reno an
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
MEETING ADJOURNED
IN HASTE

After the mayor was finished
the chairman hastily declared the
meeting adjourned, although he
had publicly announced that he
would call on Taylor. He then
ordered the loud speaker turned
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14

Marvin Tande, Mountrail Co., N. d. ----s1Oe
Jake o. SalO, ThurstOn Co., Wash. ----------. LOG
Emil FaIk Mcleod Co., MINI. -------------------- Is
William Engebert, Cook Co., ILL., LOO
Anton VOgIer King Co., Wash. ---------------- LOO
E. w. HeIander, COwlitZ Co., WASH 150
N G. BjOrndahl, SnOhOmish Co., Wash 15O
E. l. BOIland Day Co., S. ID. ---------------- 200
Frank Witty, Burke Co., N. D LOO
Irene Young, Skagit Co., Wash. -------------~- so
A. o. Kainu, Carbon Co., Mont 2.5O
A. w. Cramer, PittsfOrd Mich ------------- 200
BrankLangdOn, CIaIIam Co.. WASH -------,-~--- eco
Charles NJ JOsIyn. Valley Co. Mont. 100
Raymond Rowe, Grant Co., S. ID. ------------ LOO
A. G. HendricksOn, Barron Co., Wis. ----------- so
Homer Ayres Perkins Co., S. ID. ------------- LOO
Art Skreberg. Chippewa Co.. MINI. S5
L. BOIand, Marshall Co., S. d. --------------- 600
Joseph Vach, Suffolk Co.. N. Y. --------------. so
A. POpOff, Butte Co., Calf. 200
Julius WaIstad, Roberts Co., S. d. $50
Total week ending July ------------------ $3.50
l Total week ending July ------------------- 1919
Total to date S45.29
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DOINGS OF LAST WEEK
Fred Radons, Montana, renews.
Soren Kristensen, Westby, Mont.
renews.
H. M. LaVadure, Comertown,
Mont, renews.
john hetts, Mara+ho. -, Wis.
sends two subs and pays for a
bundle.
+ D. G. Johnson, KenOsha Co. Wis.
sends stamps for bundle.
r. w. DRllel, Ward Co, N.
d. renews for six months. 81
appreciate your good work
and wish yOH good health, lots
of courage and success"
Emil LOine, Idaho Co., Idaho
renews and sends one sub.
Hans England, Wells Co., N. d
Subscribes.
Matt Haugen, Adams Co., N. D
orders a bundle of 100 papers fol
meeting.
EAGER FOR PAPER
Ruth Bert sold 81 sub cards
anS three so cent subs at the
North Dakota Holiday Con-
ventiOR last week. 'The farm
ers were eager to read the
Producers News" she says,
~and SO u. F. L. Programs
were sold by Others in our
group"
Fred Anderson. Yellowstone Co
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
VINEYARD WORKERS
PREPARE A STRIKE
Won Strike Against Wage
Cut; Demand Release of
Imprisoned Comrades

Paris, June 16.-The small vim
yard workersof Capestand and
some other villages in the Beziers
district have just won a complete
victory in their strike against the
wage cuts.
They are continuing their strug-
gle for the release of 20 of their
comrades who have been sentenced
to imprisonment for their strike
activity. A conference of delegates
of small VINEYARD workers and the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-14
Thousands Attend Holiday Picnic

door. These rank and file speak
ers were soundly applauded again
and again while the host OF farm
ers sand solidarity" Farmers
Unite. )" and lizard Times in Ne
Nebraska"
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CHALMERS DEFENDS
RENO

Then up got Chalmers, presi-
dent of the Iowa Holiday Assn.
and declared that this attack was
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DOING WONDERFULLY
WELL

Lars BOlland, Marshall Co,
N. D., in response to our let
ter dug deep into his own
pocket. He renews for a year
and gives four so cent subs
to his farmer friends, besides
getting a friend from Mime
sofa to take the paper for a
year. Thanks Lars, with live
ones like yOa, we are bound to
go ahead.
Theo. Bilagejs, Bay Co., Mich,
renews for a year and writes: y
had a hard time scraping up this
money, but I couldn't be without
the paper. Under the New Deal
my brother and get 81 day and
2 to 8 days a week, no work at
all in the winter.
CLOSE TO HOME
Mrs. o. B. Snuggins, working IN
Daniels county, Montana, sends Us
ID renewals and new subs.
Navajo: F. N. Jensen, Fred Hal
vorson, G. B. GundersOn, c. d.
Gunderson, C. N. Gibbs, Matt Hat
field, H. K. Jaeger. Flaxville: T.
Cray, Geo. Konschue, Nick Neber'
Pete Karlson, ]. C. Sparkling, Hef-
man Nakken, John Krasine.