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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

mitted to suffer. But in spite OF
these often repeated promises,
thousands and thousands of hard
working and unfortunate farmers
and unemployed workers did go
hungry and practically naked. Gov.
LANCER did not get a cent of re-
lief for the impoverished farmers
and destitute unemployed workers
except where he was actually
forced. to do so thru the activities
of the United Farmers League and
the Unemployed Councils and the
Farmers Committee of Action.
And when secured the relief was
inadequate and nigsardly and
only just what was forced from
the government in spite of Ian
ger and his agents, proving that
hangers promises were empty and
fblse ard made for political pur-
poses only. Gov. LANCER in spite
of his demagogic promises to pro-
tect the farmers and workers,
actually did everything that he
could do to protect the in
terests of the bankers by holding
down the relief expenditures to the
last penny and loading the burden
Of the crisis on the shoulders Of
the farmers and workers just ex-
actly the same as Gov. Shafer haf
did before him just exactly the
same.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
DrOuth-Stricken S. D. Farmers Demand Relief
MATTERN PRAISES
SOVIET Filler FOR
ANADYR-NOME TRIP

Nome, Alaska, July 22.-on his
arrival here Jimmie Mattern, U. S.
flyer, declared, 81 certainly appre-
ciate the tremendous aid those
Russians gave me. He was
brought from Anadyr to Nome in
a Soviet plane by Pilot Levanov-
sky. "They took wonderful care
of me, and on that flight from
Anadyr, despite the ald weather
and the running out of gas, they
showed they were good filters"
Commander Levanovsky and his
four comrades flew 10000 miles
from their Black Sea base to Ana
dyr to bring Mattern h2ck to U.
S. territory. 49,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
DOings of the
Advance Guard

The u F. L. convention at Minneapolis over and l..
of good work was DONE We must get together and %
ganize bigger and better than before and push &
paper to the limit.
Harvest is here Most places it is not goino 70
amount to much This harvest is not going to make farm
ers any better off than theywere before It only gives the
collectors chance to poster The farmers
must stand together otherwise the collectors going to
get them Our wives and children have the first mort9a
en- our crop.
The Producers News tells about how farmers are nro
tecng themselves all the country. The bigger onr
circulation is the easier fight will be- dollar spent for
the Producers News is the best investment farmer can
make
Right is good time to go after subs and get them
On our bundle orders not doing so we'll in fact
we are losing money In going thru books we find the
bundle orders amount to S252 outstanding and not vaf
paid One way of helping the paper along pay promptly
for your bundles send the money in advance whenever Won
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

the resolution, chat the determi-
nation of how much relief is
needed by zach family shall be
placed in the hands of rank and
file farmers who need relief work
and have no business or political
interests to serve"
"No part of the relief workers
wages shall be deducted for taxes
until they (the farmers) have re-
ceived sufficient money TO feed,
clothe and provide medical and
dertal care for their children"
CASH, NOT BEAN CHECKS
The farmers demand that the
relief be distributed in cash and
not IN bean checks, so that they
ON trade where it is most ad-
vantageous for them
"Whereas certain farmers are
unable to leave their homes to do
relief work because there would be
no one to take care of his stock
Or because they ARE in poor
health" the farmers demand that
"these families be given adequate
cash relief"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
BENEFITS TO THE
BANKERS

These funds, which the farmers
have been told are for them, and
which have raised illusions among
them las 10 the good will of the
Roosevelt administration, will go
to the bankers and to pay off fed
eral loans unleess. a mass protest
Is raised to prevent it.
Out of these "benefit" paymec is
will come government feed, eeeC,
flnd summer fallow loans. The
bankers, machine companies, and
every other parasite will then set
down like a hopper horde to take
every last cent from the farmers.
UNLESS-the farmers every
where organize and force the
government to pay these funds
to She farmers without reduc-
tiOns and in a form that cam
not be attached by the collec-
tor pest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

Julius Walstad, Roberts Co. 8
D., wants 100 extra papers.
NOTHING TO WINTER ON
L. 7. Edwards, Adams Co..
n. d., sends one sub and he
writes, There is lois of farm.
ers here with nothing at all
to winter on, as wen as the
workers in che towns"
Warkers Center, Pierce Co. Wash
RENTS for bundle.
Hilma Maxi, Pine Co. Mimi
sends another sub.
P. j.. Barrett, Mountrail Co. N.
D., sends three more subs each for
six months.
Robert Kirmo, Dickey Co. n. D.
sends a year sub.
Herbert bennett, Polk Co., Ore.
sends US two subs.
Mrs. o. B. Snuggins serbs US
three more subs from 0lniels
county Montana.
Iver Husa, Mountrail Co. Nd.
penews for a year.
w. ]. Husa, MOuntraii Co.
N. d. sends So for two subs
fftO help drive the wolf awavs
Edwin Pfutzenreuter. Brown Co.
S. D., sends stamps for papers
sold.
Bruce Taylor, Carlton Co. MINI.
sends one more sub.
U. F. L. Minneapolis, MINI,
sends one sub and money for pro-
grams and bundle Of paper.
WILL HUSTLE MORE
SUBS
w. E. Bauer, Day Co., S. D.
subscribes. "Send me a re-
ceipt book and I shall hustle
all the subs l can," he writes.
Frank Murtland, Beltrami Co.
MINI. sends one sub and pays fOI
bundle.
Arthur Timpson, Lincoln Co.
Wis. renews.
o. Bell, Trinity Co. Calf, re-
news for a year.
VIM. Moxness, McHenry Co. N,
Oak, orders a bundle Of papers,
Geo. Kentch, Columbia Co., Ore,
subscribes for six months.
Effie Kjorstad, Williams Co. N,
: D. sends Us two more subs.
W. A. Harris. Burleigh Co.
N. D. sends nine subs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

lures figures, about $136,000,O00.
Out of this comes first 100000
to grease the machinery and the
county agents who are going to
run the scheme.
The rest is supposed to be paid
to the farmers in two installments
one of 20 cents a bushel early this
fall. and the other eight cents n
the spring, when they have proved
that they have cut. their acreage
by the amount the Adjustment
Administrator sets.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

capitalism, do not know how they
are going to live thru the winter,
feed their cattle, ard put in an
other crop next spring.
If the government does net fur
nish relief for the Hlrm families
this winter Thousands are going
to starve and freeze to death. liz
many places if hay and feed are
not supplied, the farmer will have
to ship his last cow for what ne
can get on a demoralized market,
taking away the income frem out.
ter and milk US well as the family
supply of those important FOODS
anil thus farther starvation is r.
duced. If the government does not
cancel the old feed and seed loars
and privide money for feed and
seed the coming spring there Is
goirg 10 be not a 20 per cent but
nearly 100 pen cent acreage reduc-
/ ton in the wheat area. And as a
result of the shortage, next spring
the farmers will have to pay the
SPECTATORS plenty for seed.
AND NEW DEAL
! RAISES PRICES
And in the face of poor crop
and low prices for what they did
raise, the farmers face the "pew
deal raise of prices for the things
they must hive in order to live
and carry on.
| WHAT is
| LANCER DOING
| And what is Gov. LANCER doing
to meet the situation? Last fall
in the political campaign he pro-
missed that if he were elected tint
there would be jobs for everybody
He shouted from the platform
"robody will go hungry or naked
in this state with me in the gov
emor's chair" In kilograms to
committees representing destitui'
farmers and IN releases to tn.
press he reiterated aS'in ant
again that no ore would he per
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

The alletments for each state
and county represent that portion
of their average production for
the past five years which the De-
partment of Agriculture has est
nalted will go into domestic con-
sumption.
AIM is so PER CENT CUT
The domestic production which
che Roosevelt administration esti-
mates is "a per cent OF the pro-
duction for the past five years.
The only solution that the New
Deal can find for the wretched
conditions of the farmers is TO
cut production by nearly ONE
HALF, or 46 per cent.
The domestic consumption" on
which these figures are based in
cluGe fourf years, OF crisis. The
working poole whpose consump-
ton has been cut to- a"ba1e exist
ence during these four years do
not count in Roosevelt's "domes-
tic. Consumption" and the goal Of
the New Deal is to cut out every
acne Gown to what the ~ sses of
working people can sill eat at ou1
present hunger levels. They plan
to cut acreage in 1894 by 20 pei
cent-the goal is so per cent.
s9,OOO,OOO FOR OIL
On this domestic consumption
a tar of 80 cents n bushel is being
levied for the "ber eft" of tn,
farmers. This will total, accord
ing to the Department of Agricul
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

IL Z dOlOs
F. Corinth, Chicago, H., sends
stamps for papers.
DOINGS OF LAST WEEK
Greta Peterson, PalO Alto
Co. Iowa, sends one sub. "The
New Deal has done nothing
but make things worse" she
says.
Vernon Michels, Archer, Mont,
UNREST AMONG THE
FARMERS
VIM. Clark, Middlesex Co.,
Mass. sends stamps for copies
of the paper. 81 may &c. some
subs among the farmers. l
notice a great amount of IN
rest among them" he writes.
V. Chanak, Croos Co. WyO., sub.
scribes for another year.
Homer Ayres, Perkins co., 5
D. sends one sub.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

TIL now league program
IS out. It is called the aMili-
to-,t PROGRAM for American
E~vr,orS " Get YOUR COPY now
from the Producers News.
brentwood, Mont. Five cents
a copy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
DEMAND FARMERS
COMMITTEES

The farmers demanded that the
county Immediately start relief
work so that the work will not be
dragged out into the cold winter
months" 1--WE demand" reads
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
CASH, NOT BEAN CHECKS
NO DISCRIMINATION

The resolution passed demanded
lastly that 'no person be discrimi-
mated against because they have
no mortgage on their property"
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CONTINUES from page one
have been devOured by the
grasshOppers. Even the gar
dens are gone and in many
places where the grain has
been Gu. for hay it is not Of
sufficient amount to feed the
livestock. As a result the
farmers are facing another
winter of black dispair, of
worry and privatiOn. Because
of the grain shortage prices
are soaring as they usually do
when the spectators instead
of the farmers have all the
grain. This means very high
prices for flour and provisions.
Here in Burke county con-
ditiOns are as stated above.
If extreme misery is to be
prevented immediate plans for
getting relief here must be
drawn up and put into ACTON.
There must be no delay. After
your election promises last
fall, that no one would be al
lowed to starve or freeze In
North Dakota, and further
assurances of the same kind
made a. the time of your in
aHguratiOn and after, the peO-
pie expect sympathetic and
immediate action from you
and they are in no mood to
submit peacefully to starva-
ton or unnecessary hardships.
They are just going to have
food and shelter. They feel
thar the responsibility for
seeing that it is provided rests
upon your shoulders. And they
feel further that if you are
unequal to the task that hey
will be forced to take the
proper steps to provide for
themselves.
The recent congress apprO-
priated $50O,0O0,O00 for the
relief of the needy of this
country. / noticed by the
press the other day that all
this state has gotten of this
Is $4,000. ! was amazed. /
l am sure that if a proper and
sufficient amount Of relief
had been provided this amount
would have been much larger
and that our officials were
very lax in not applying for
and getting more of this
money. Laxity in getting the
federal funds, which are, and
have been, 50 badly needed
to protect the health and CON-
fort Of the people here, is
false economy and only allows
more to be saved for the army
and navy-which are institu-
lions for the destruction Of
humanity in the interests Of
Wall Street.
In view of the near approach
of famine in many areas OF
She state / feel that there is
mo time to be lost and there
fore, In behalf of the North
Dakota Farmers Committees
for Action, which Ia giving
special attention TO this situa.
ton, / request an immediate
letter from you IN the matter
outlining your plans IL yOV
have any for meeting tn
situation.
Yours very truly,
ASHBEL INGERSON,
Executive Sec. N. d. Farmer
Committee for Action
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

Burke county, operates a farm
near FlaxtOn. Last winter he
acted as the secretary of the call
committee of the North Dakota
State Farmers Relief Conference
held at Bismarck, March 1, 2 and
8, which conference grew out of
the famous Farmers National Re-
LIEF Conference which was held at
the national capitol, Washington,
D. c., December z to 10 last, where
the farmers themselves drew up
national relief program. The
Bismarck relief conference COM
posed of actual farmers from ali
farm organizations in the state set
up an organization under name Of
the Farmers North Dakota Com
mittee of Action, and elected an
Executive Committee of actual
farmers, and Ashbel Ingerson as
the Executive Secretary. Sec.
Ingerson acting for the Farmers
Committee of Action, recognizing
the crisis resulting from the third
successive drought in tbs section,
took immediate steps 70 start the
necessary action to secure the
needed relief in the above letter
to Governor Langer.
PROMISING HARVEST
IS BLIGHTED
The promising harvest of a few
weeks hgo in North and South
Dakota and Montana Is blighted
The hopes of the farmers fer a
good crop at somewhere lear de-
cent prizes have withered under the
scorching rays of y burning sun
the blistering blasts Of the parch-
ing hot winds, the devouring appe-
tite of the invading swarms of the
grasshoppers, and the crash Of
prices in the grain market which
smashed the hope in the new deal
to smithereens.
The farmers and their familie.
have looked forward fondly to
big crop and good prices; to som,
good food again, some new warn
and substantial clothing, some new
quilts and blankets for their bed
next winter; for had not tn
Moses Of Wall Street, the Tam
many Roosevelt, promised them
"new DEAL" which meant to then
needed food and clothing, offer
four years Of want and misery.
But alas the drought and hop
pers have destroyed most of tn
harvest, the potatoes and garden:
And now it is evident, tho the sur
wind and hoppers have reduce
1.-The acreage even more drasticall
than the President and mis- 'brai
trust" had planned, the marke
tumbles and tumbles from til
peak it had climbed to in earl
summer when the farmer had \
grain to sell so that IN spite of a
the great Roosevelt's fine an
brave promises, the few bushels (
wheat and rye there may be Ie-
viii hardly pay the expense of Il
harvest, leaving absolutely notl
ing for the toiling farmers ar
their families.
ANOTHER YEAR OF
WANT AND DESTITUTION
So again the thousands of farr
ers in he northwest wheat ar
must go hungry and ragged, mu
face another coalless winter; aga
the children must go shivering
school in the bleak zero wins. T
fourth years Of the drouth Al
the fifth year Of the wanicl
The farmers mortgaged to Z
federal government to the Ia
grain Of their crops for two
three seed loans and to the L
calf for feed loans and to t
mortgage companies for me
: than their land Is actually wor1
II M ever win he xvow4h acv,sv, ,,rs
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
STATE And CO. ALLOTMENTSFOR
WHEAT DECIDED ON::.FARMERS
!. MUST FIGHT TO RETAIN BONUS

Washington July 27-The allotment of the 456 1888
bushels of wheat which bonuses will be distributed
made today by Secretary Wallace This production for 1888
has been allotted to 2233 counties in AZ states.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
STARVATION AT THE
DOOR

The drought and grasshoppers
have taken the crops and relief is
necessary to keep the people from
starving. 1t was evident from the
vote of the farmers that they are
&C. interested in dams or in $50
600 bathtUbs for the President but
are interested in relief work on
the roads in their respective vi
entities.
Resolutions and demands were
drawn up by the mink and file
farmers. Every paragraph was
read by the chairman, Luverne
Johnson, discussed and passed
unanimously by the dirt fErmers
present.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
STRIKE OF N. Y. :
DAIRY FARMERS
Woodhead, Dairy Leader"
Attempts to Control
Movement

Utica, N. Y, July pa
threat of strike by New York
State dairy farmers was
made by Albert Woodhead,
president of the Empire Milk
Producers Assn. at a meeting
held here today. The strike
date was set for August 1.
The meeting was typical of
the previous activities of Wood
head and his friends. The meet
ing was held behind closed doors.
The farmers at the meeting were
outnumbered 8 to 2, there being
IS Independent distributors and Is
farmers present.
WOODHEAD TO 'ARBITRATE'
An arbitration committee" con
sisting of Woodhead and three
others was appointed to discuss
the demands Of the farmers with
the Milk Board. This prepares
the WAY for another betrayal of
the New York farmers by Wood
head similar to his betrayal of the
strike around Rochester during the
spring.
At that time WoOdhead called
off the strike by promising the
farmers that Governor Lehman
would have legislation passed to
remedy their situation. The re-
suit was the Pitcher bill Under
which the Milk Board was set up
which has legalized the robbery of
| the farmers by the dairy trust.
WANTS TO CONTROL
STRIKE
Woodhead's move at this time
is to head off the strike sentiment
spreading among the farmers anc
to put himself in a position tc
control a strike If it does break
out. AS part Of this campaign
Woodhead has asked Governor
Lehman to remove two of the
three members of the Milk Board
The third member, who is part o.
the very same machine, Is, accord.
ing to Woodhead, the %oniy friend
of the farmers on the board"
The milk board has set up /;
complicated classification Of min
prices to fool Tire farmers. Onl,
: after some experience with this
; system have the farmers learne'
that they are no better off thai
. they were before. The increase i
? prices to the city workers ha
: gore to swell the profits Of tn
milk trust.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04

Drought and Grasshoppers
Ruined Crops; Face
Starvation ms
III Et-4 ~ sat- 80
CASH NOT BEANS
Demand Farmers Commit
tees to Distribute All
Relief
CASH NOT BEANS
(BY NJ. H.

Hettinger, N. D., July %.
hundred fifty farmers
of Grand River township I'M
der the leadership of the
United Farmers League met
for the purpose of discussing
relief work for the needy
farmers of Perkins county,
South Dakota. The speakers
included Tobia Koch, the lit
tie fighting farmer of Blu
cyrus, North Dakota, who
opened the meeting and Ho-
mer Ayres of Strool, South
Dakota.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
ONLY DIRT FARMERS

Some aristocratic farmers who
thus far have been able to keep
the wolf and sheriff from their
door tried 10 run a cow doctor in
as a speaker. Tobia Koch, how
ever, made it plain that this was
strictly a hank and file, plOw-
handled, dirt farmers meeting, and
that the veterinaries and medicos
had their own organizations, and
that neither they nor the lawyers
or bankers had ever called upon
the rank and file farmers to lead
them in any of their meetings.
They have in the past fooled the
farmers. Those dhys are over,
Koch pointed out, AMI from now
on the farmers are going to run
the farms and the COW doctors car
run their own business.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
COMMITTEE OF ACTION
TAXES FIRST STEP

Ashbel Ingerson, the son Of for
mer Senator Ralph Ingerson OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-08-04
s9,OOOOOO FOR OIL
N. D. State Committee Of Action Demands
Relief for the DrOuth Stricken Farmers

Continues from page one
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-21
Big Navy MEN ARE
HOPEFUL Of ACTION
House Committee Chairman
Wants Provision For More
Ships and Planes

Washington, March 2l.-(F-The
men who want q bigger navy are
hopeful that few words in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's general employment
relief program will allow expenditure
Of 6O.0O0, 900 a year for 10 years on
new ships.
This became known Tuesday when
Chairman Vinson OF the house naval
committee said he had been working
to that end and added:
Il am making some headway."
As soon as Rooeevelt'S plan fol
making start on the jobless prob
lem through a reforestation plan Is
out Of the way, he intends to submit
to congress another employment pro-
gram involving construction Of public
works. Wilson's idea Is to include
these words in that program:
The president IS hereby author
lied further, in aid Of relief of un-
employment. to undertake the con-
struction of vessels within the limits
established by the London naval
treaty of 1880. and Of airplanes with
in the total number now authorized
by law
This, vinson asserted, would permit
completion Of three 8-inch gun, TO-
000-ton cruisers; five flying deck
cruisers: replacemtnt of 5O,l6O tons
and $50 new airplanes as we'll as
other ships.
The big thing to remember" Vim
son said. lis that there Is nothing
else on which the government could
spend money for unemployment re-
lief and provide so much employment
Out Of every dollar We spend on new
ships, IS cents is for labor"