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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
LIQUOR ACT WILL
NOT HALT SALE

HELENA. Nov. 20.-The state
liquor control act, Attorney Gen
eral Maggie has ruled will not
interfere with the sale of 80 beer
through the dispensaries set up
unlder the Montana beer act.
Several state officials had ex-
pressed the belief the sale Of any
spirituous liquor containing more
than l per cent of alcohol wound
be entirely in the hands of the
state liquor control board. With
this view. Maggie, a member of the
board. took definite issue.
"It is true" the attorney gen
eral said in a statement, shat one
section of the liquor control law
seems to bring 80 per cent beer
within the limitations of the law
relating to more potent beverages.
However, the liquor control law
as if to leave no doubt about the
matter, specifically states that it
is a companion measure to the
beer law and that it is mot to
interfere with the regulator meas
ures providing for the sale of beer
and similar fermented beverages
contained III the beer act"
He pointed out the Montana acts
were copied, with few changes
from the Alberta law. The latter
he said. expressly provides fol
beer parlors.
'Both Montana laws" Nagle con.
tinued. "were enacted at the same
sessions of the legislature and botl
were approved on the same day."
Ray G. McLanahan of Butte viii
take over the duties of secre
tarv of the liquor board. He will
devote the first few DAYS to /;
close study of the liquor contro
law. then proceed with preparation
of forms. blanks and permits to b
used in the business.
No definite decisiorl has bee
Preached by the board in connectio,
with the sale of consumers pei
mits in advance of the actual ad
vent of repeal, Maggie said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
ALASKAN MINERS DIG
GOLD IN BITTER COLD
FOR MERE PTTTANCE


Fairbanks, Alaska.
Dear Editor:
The Fairbanks Exploration COM
pany has four dredges digging
gold at full blast near Fairbanks
and I suppose that they are get
ting $50 per ounce for their pro-
duct.
The working season is from May
to October, some years longer, de-
pending upon the freezing. About
$50 men are employed including
the office force. The ordinary
working man receives about So
cents per hour for 10 hours work
and his board.
No man over 45 years of age is
wanted, but on one occasion that
| know of, Mn. M. J., IS years
of age, who wanted work at any
wage was employed for $3.50 pei
day and board. He worked three
weeks, "a hours daily, until he
could not stand up so he had Il
quit. Now he is looking for an.
other job at any wage that he car
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Silk Bosses Refuse
to Deal With Workers

PATERSON, n. 1.-The Silk Manufac-
turers Association announced that it would
open up it's mills on November 10 to all
workers who were willing to work on
piece work basis, "A hours week. At this
rate weavers may earn $22 per week.
The Association refused to deal with
the workers, and the thousands of work
ers who have been on strike in Paterson
for several months, now are preparing to
picket the factories until the manufacture
ers agree to deal with them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Morgenthau Now Head
of Treasury Dept.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Henry Nor
genthau, Jr. has resigned as Farm Credit
Administrator to take over the job of
Acting Secretary of Treasury in the alb
sence of William Woodin. Although Wood
knows that plans to shelve Woodin have
been in the making ever since his intimate
connections with the House of Morgan be-
came notorious after Congressional investi-
cation some months ago. Morgenthau is
succeeded in his office by DIR. Myers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Munitions Manufacturers
Get Bic Dividends

WILMINGTON, Del.-Mumtions man.
ufacture is proving profitable these days as
the danger of new imperialist war in
jcreases. E. l. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
huge munitions corporation, declared an
extra dividend Of rs cents share and the
regular quarterly dividend of so cents per
share on the common stock payable Dec.
Is. Millionaire du Pont, who controls the
corporation, is one of the new members of
RoOsevelt's N. r. A. Industrial Advisory
Board.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
SINGLER ENRACEDI
AT CRITICISM ATT
WEST ALLE MEET
Refuses to Answer Dues
tons and Resorts to
Force

WEST ALLIS, Wisc.-Walter |
Singler, president Of the Wisconsin |
Milk Pool, whose courage so pitt !
fully failed him during the Milk |
Strike in May when he went into |
hiding, made a clownish attempt
to camouflage his refusal to par
ticipate in the United Front Con-
ference of Farmers in Chicago by
making a physical attack on Hugo
Fischer, a member of the United
Farmers League, at joint meet
irg of the Milk Pool and the Holt
day Association at Muskeegon
Beach, Wis, November 9.
The "wise-cracking Snowman"
Singler who in his proceeding
speech said that he has been called
a bolshevik and a "Red" resorted
to the same tactics in order to
prejudice the farmers against the
United Farmers League after
Fischer had concluded his ten min
ute appeal for unity. Unable to
arrange his confused talk the for
mer sheriff of Milwaukee county
the socialist AL Benson, who has
more training in red batting had
to come to Singler's assistance.
benson is the same sheriff who
bought those riot guns that were
used later against the farmers.)
The slick Pool attorney, Rubin,
of Milwaukee continued the SLAM
derous attack against the U. F. l..
Wher asked for a chance to reply
they refused to let Fischer speak
again.
! The whole thing started when
the Milk Pool attorney and the
chairman of the meeting had re-
peatedly told the audience that
anyone who wished could get the
floor and that the meeting was al
open forum. The Milk Pool lead
ers then gave ex-sheriff Benson
the time he wanted to speak
Mayor Baxter of West Allis, so
cialist, also spoke for Is minutes
no time limit was set Mr.. Fletcher
bitter enemy of the strikers AMI
agent of the Milk Trust. (He j
president of the Milwaukee Mil
Producers Association). VIII n
Fischer asked for the floor he wa
asked whom he represented,
Singler heard Fischer was of tn
United Farmers League he didn'
want to give him the floor, Blu
noticing the unfavorable impress
sion this made on the farmers, tn
clever demagogue hypocriticall
asked the audience to give Fische
two minutes to speak. Then M
Fischer took the place at the mi,
rcphone and called the attention {
the farmers to the Farmers Sc,
ond National Conference. He r,
Trained from an attack upon Sins
Ter but in his conclusion quote
Singler who said at a conferent
III Marshfield, "The trouble i
getting together is not the farm
ers but the leaders," and said TIL
Singler had a good chance to liz
up to his words and surely, sin,
Singler now had time to spare
go to the jackase politicians
Madison and in Washington,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

would have the time to come to
such an important meeting of the
farmers as is taking place in Chi
cago, Nov. 1918.
Instead of answering the speak
er, Singler grabbed Fischer by the
arm and asked him whether he
knew there had beer a leaflet dis
tributed at Madison in which Sing
.er had been accused of selling out
the previous strikes. When an
swered with eyes" he made the
above mentioned clownish ard de-
| spicable attack on Fischer to draw
the attention of the mass of the
farmers away from the points that
Fischer had raised.
Singler in his speech came be-
fore the farmers with the old
quack remedy for the farmers ills
by telling the audience that the
Holiday ard the Milk Pool were
going to send a delegation to Wal
lace to have him investigate the
farmers conditions. He excused
the calling off of the two previou.
strikes by claiming that the gov
ernor had fooled him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
YOU NEVER KNOW
WHICH WAY FROG
WILL JUMP
Linton, N. D.

Linton, N. d.
Dear Editor:
Our Hunger March on the coun-
ty commissioners on Nov. z, was
quite a success. In spite of the
big snow storm that blocked all
the roads, we had about 500 at
the court house. Standing room
was at a premium. If this snow
storm hadn't come, we woull have
had at least 1900.
Well, mass action worked again.
1t put the fear of hell into the
authorities. The city marshall
made the rounds and closed all the
bootleg joints for fear Of violence.
Unwillingly they did US a favor,
for we know that whiskey only
befogs and dehorns many a good
fighter.
This was the first time for years
that this city of 1900 with over q
dozen bootleg joints was dry as a
bone for a whole day.
At 1870 p. m. the court house
was jammed full. When the com
mittee of action came, they founc
the commissioners gathering in the
courty judges office for the meet
ling. So the chairman of the com
| mittee, Jonathan Hoff demanded
that the meeting be held in the
court room. They told US that tn
wheat allotment board was hold
ing a meeting there. We requeste'
that the allotment committee NOV
to a smaller place and give tn
court room to the farmers, TO
they were here ready for action.
We waited for over an hour
finally the county auditor cam
out of his hole and announced tha
the relief meeting will be held i
the court room and the allotmen
committee will move to the judge
office.
The meeting was soon started
Mrs. Minnie D. Crage, of the stat
relief board appeared on the seen,
She held half hours whisperin
conversation with the commission
ers. Their three men and a W,
man filed in and the whisperin
continued.
Though the committee of actic
was only five feet away from Il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Argentine Moratorium
Held Unconstitutional

BUENOS AIRES, Argentine Eal1len
with small holdings here were dealt " "
we're blow when the lower civil court &c
clared the private mortgage mOratO1ss y,
law unconstitutional. The law prOVldleea ~
a two year moratorium and limiting tns u
terest rate to six per cent during the pSlsIs y.
of the moratorium. Immediately on W
passage of the law, a delegation OF Ts wy.
sentatives from banks, insurance uT
panies and other institutions demanO@
be vetoed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
War Lords Plan New
CAMPAIGN Against Reds

SHANGHAI, ,China.-GesnlseIs@ With TIE
Kai-Shek, failing in all his bat 5Ie c%oulrun
Chinese Red Army to defeat the inuo OO 3
list troops, has begun new o" c1lomnuDls
boycott and starve out the nee oSS 200 PEI
territory where more than 0 0S"y,'ers bsr
pie live under Soviet rule UDs oe,llceeed, BE-
all said that his plan canIlos! S Soviet teri,
cause of the great extent OF oO ~ IGenss
tory, the demoralized condition lsa LOYALTY O 90
Shek's army, and the extrel tSs Soviet tg 4.
devotion of the farmers u smT to sInugg'
ritory who will stop at nOtnlns
in food and arms.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

full benefit Of what the Confer
ence really means to the Amer
ican farmer.
As ! remarked to many of the
delegates: If only all the farmers
IN the United States could have
been present to hear the discussion
and meet the delegates from near
~ evsry state in the Union and
bring out all the problems the
farmer has, then and then Only,
could the Conference have been
improved to any markell degree.
The mass meeting on Friday eve
nlng marked a very important
event, when for the first time the
nasfes Of city workers entertained
Lne farmers on national scale
The perfect solidarity of the TIVE
groups of toilers pledging eacI
other support in betterirg the con
dltlons and against exploitation
was Of great significance.
Our delegation appreciates all
the things the city workers an,
their families have done to max,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
RFC on Hot Spot In
Senate Investigation

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Senate
committee investigating loans made by the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to
companies in which Jesse Jones, the RFC
director is interested, will broaden it's scope
to include all loans in which any of the di-
rectors of the RFC might have had per-
sonal interest The Senators have asked
the Finance Corporation for report on all
loans to mortgage companies, the status
of the $9O,OO0,O0O advanced to the Dawes
bank of Chicago and loans of $4,50O,O0O to
companies with which Mr.. Jones has at one
time or another been connected.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
BEET FARMERS PLAN
BOYCOTT SUGAR co.
AT COLORADO MEET

GREELEY, Colo.-A Boycott of
the Great Western Sugar company
was urged and condemnation of
the initial average $4 per tor pay
ment for beets was expressed in
resolutions officially adopted by
the Mountain States Beetgrowers
Marketing association here today.
The beetgrowers organization,
meeting here for its annual con-
vention, called upon producers Of
the northern and northeastern
Colorado beet areas mot to grow
any more sugar beets until we can
secure with the Great Western
Sugar company $3.50 contract in
every sense of the word"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

other items, and the decline in the;
value of the dollar brought about
by the Roosevelt governments ir-
Greet initiation policy.
The retail price of a pound of
flour in this period rose SO per-
cent. Potatoes increased 86.T per
cent. Eggs rose 41.6 percent. The
exact prices are given in the table
below.
The spread between the price re-
ceived by the farmer for his pro-
ducts and the price paid by the
consumer has increased gradually
but steadily since May Of this
year, it was disclosed in the Oct
% Consumers Guide" issued by
the Agricultural Adjustment AID
ministration. On Sept. rs this
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
British King George
Heckled In Public

LONDON, England.-For tns mel
time in history, an English king w'S I. 4.
with jeers and cries of Shame as ~ Ia
dressed Parliament. ]. McGOyecrn, , .
borite member of the House OF C y Az sai
greeted King George Of England, I ~ ~ srs [,
of his speech with shouts OF LOU ,:,;rr d
gang of lazy, idle parasites, NV nv,n ouetbii
wealth created by other people. lUu sbSss
to be ashamed of yourselves. IL Ehg
all this, while people are starving les 4
George gathered up his erTnlne I h"sS ai
his jeweled crown straight on MS sly no' hesS
marched out, pretending not 70 nS''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

spread, figured on the IA repre-
sentative foods, was the largest
recorded so far this year and was
greater than the 1882 average.
Last February, reports the A. A.
A. the spread on these IA repre-
sentative commodities was $10.28.
On Sept. II the spread had in
creased to S11.21, while on Sept.
&c it haG Increased again to $11.3S.
From Sept. IL to Sept. &c re-
tail prices On these IA farm pro-
ducts went up Is cents. Of this
increase, II cents went to middle
men.
The figures released by the A.
A. A. are as follows:
Established aV-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Federal Reserve Board
Silent on Conditions

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Monthly
Bulleting of the Federal Reserve Board
has customarily contained an analysis of
current business conditions. Last month,
the Bulleting gave report of conditions
which was not half optimistic enough to
satisfy NRA Administrator Hugh johnson.
A great stir followed. This month, the Fed
eral Reserve Bulletin does not contain a
word about business conditions, but con-
fines itself to comments on President
Roosevelts speeches. Is this censorship?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
SAVING THECO.
BY IMITATION

What does initiation mean? Well
in terms of money it means that !
if the ration goes to work and |
grinds out a whole lot of paper
money, more than it has security
for, then each dollar is worth less
than it was before.
If we grind out twice as much
as we have security for, then the
dollar gets to be worth only 30
cents. That again means that we
would have to pay two dollars for
what we could buy for ore dollar
before.
When the value of the dollar
goes down everything we buy
goes up.
After trying almost everything
under the sun without making a
success of any Of it, it now seems
they are going to try imitation
on a larger scale. B. K. Wheeler
and others are hollering for it as
the last straw for capitalism to
grasp before drowning.
Germany tried it out, and they
made a good job of it too. Under
normal conditions a German mark
was worth % cents. But during the
fall of 1928 one penny could buy
buy 66,666,667 marks. Everybody
in Germany got to be millionalres
and billionaires. But, that didn't
save Germany. Today they seem
to be worse off than we are. Ii
initiation is so wonderfully good
whv didn't Germany stay with 1t
or try it again? They don't seem
to have any harkering for it.
We have initiation with US right
now. If you watch the money mar
ket you can see how the English
pound sterling and the French
| frarc are going up. The pound is
now I'D to $5.46R. In Canada 49,
600 post offices had orders last
week not to accept any U. S. cur
rency. That means that the Ca
radian dollar is now worth more
than ours. A short time ago the
Canadian dollar was worth only
80 cents here.
What is this initiation doing tt
us right now? 1t is making u
poorer than we were before. Tn
farmers and workers are not get
). ting any more dollars than the,
: did before. With our cheap dol
!. lars we can buy less than W
could before. The value of tn
dollar is regulated bv how muc
, it will buy.
= If it was regulated right. the
: salaries and wages and the pric
y of farm produce should go up i
s the same proportion as the dolla
= vert down. but that is not tn
wav it works. If it did it woul
not serve its purpose as skinnin
l. game.
The MIRA has served its purpos
? and given the manufacturers 9
al excuse for raising the price G
: goods. thereby lowering the Walt
= of the dollar, but YOU have
~ heard of any salaries or wages b
ing raised on that account. 0
8 public works they are not offerir
x larger wages than last wear, whit
again mearF, that working Deop
- are gettirg closer to starvatio
% than before on account of this /
3 flation that is supposed to sa'
% the country.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

get.
The Fairbanks Exploration COM
pany charges every employee 81
per month for aiHospital fund.
If the workingmen were orga-
nized these things would not hap
pen to them. These conditions
exist here in the Interior, the
Golden Heart" of Alaska where
there is plenty of gold but lots of
brOkenhearted people, too.
e. P.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24

BRUSSELS, Belgium.-ExcesSIVe TAX
alton in Belgium was the occasion for !
spectacular protest procession Of miles Of
tractors from every province in Belgium
but one, which lined the streets OF the
capital to demonstrate against the hg
taxes on motor transport. Banners dis
played slogans like 1--WE refuse to pay taxes
600 per cent higher than those Of 1881
and ''The auto pays for repairing the road
fifteen times over"
EEEs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
State Refuses to
Act in Lynch Case

BALTIMORE, Md.-Although nine per-
William Preston Lane as the leaders of the
lynch mob that murdered George Armwood
Negro worker, in Princess Anne, Somerset
county, the states attorney for Somerset
county, John B. Robins, has refused to
make any arrests on the grounds that it
would probably cause mob violence The
State declares it will not force the arrest
of the nine murderers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Hitler Uses Ships to
Smuggle Propaganda

VIENNA, Austria.-The captain an,
first mate of German steamer were sa, u
and arrested in Linz, Upper Austria '' "
charges of transporting Nazi prOpausDS ~
secret correspondence and Nazi unifoms
The police found out that boats on n.
same line had been used systematieaTv ~ :
smuggle in German Fascist propaganda
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Japan Launches New
Submarine DEPOT Shin

YOKOHAMA, Japan-More than 1M
QUO cheered wildly as Japan's new 75O0i%
submarine depot ship, the Taigei or ri,
Whale" slid into the water near YOkOhams
Five submarines are also under cOnStuc
ton and 10 more are to be built. JaUsD
does not want to be left behind in the
struggle of the imperialist nations for nsVs
power.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
WHAT THE SECOND
CONFERENCE MEANT
TO A PENN. FARMER

GreencasLle, "a.
Dear Editor:
| viii endeavor to express in part
my opinion of the Farmers Sec
ond National Conference. 1t is
impossible for anyone to tell or
write ;n such a manner that the
readers or listeners could get the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
N. MONT. COLLEGE
OPENS BIB. SEASON

The first call for basketball men
at Northern Montana College has
been made by Coach Douglass.
Preliminary to the selection of the
varsity squad, a series of intro
mural games is being played.
Every man in college who wishes
to participate is afforded oppor-
tunity. The policy of "athletics
Tor all" is part of the Northern
Montana College program.
Among those participating in the
ntra-mural tournament are: Paul
Connole Of Reserve. Leonard Nor
gan. ard Elmer Doe of Outlook.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Spanish Soldiers Refuse
to Break Strike

BARCELONA, SPAIN SPANS best
disciplined semi-military police force the
Civil Guards, refused as body to serve as
strikebreakers against the striking trans
portation workers. More than 1000 Of
them remained in their quarters and re
fused to do police duty. The government
was forced to call in the marines to man
the street cars.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Exports of War Materials
Increase

OTTAWA, Canada Exports If -,
an important metal in the manufac, %cSs
munitions, have more than quadrunIsSS' q
ing the past six months. EspeciaIVvO !. ull'
and increased shipments were msaa
Holland, an important port of entr, SV - .
Fascist Germany. l'O
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Exposed Graft, Then
Found Murdered

PORTLAND, Ore.-Because he uncov-
cred graft and crooked activity in the af-
in his bed here Akin had been appointed
by Governor Meier to investigate the books
of the port commission.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Unemployed Sicken
investigators Find

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Families of
the unemployed suffer from disabling sick
ness so per cent more than families of en-
ployed workers, report of the U. S. pub
lie health service shows. A special survey
made in New York City shows that more
children of the employed are undernourish-
ed than are children of employed workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
New Cuban Revolt
Exnected Soon

HAVANA, Cuba.-President Grsu San
Martin ordered the guards in Havana IN.
creased and full martial law enforced as
rumors of a new revolutionary outbresk
were circulated. American Ambassador
Welles returned to Cuba after conference
with President Roosevelt and faced the a.
most unanimous hatred of all Cuban fac
tons.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Czechs Ban German
Brand of Fascisn

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia-B.N
have been officially dissolved bo rne Nazis
Czech government. All radio ny oy the
are strictly censored to keep Ma, ;;OsranR
ganda out and already 18 Germon' plOpa,
have been banned from circulation papeN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-24
Big Railroad Strike
Looms ON Bic -Four

HOUSTON, Texas.-As 5000 union
men, members of the Big Four Railroad
BrOtherhOOds, were voting to strike, the
Southern Pacific Railroad lines advertised
in newspapers for railroad men who were
willing to work under strike conditions.
This strike will be the first big railroad
strike since the early 20's.