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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15

NNOlIl0UCQ \ 1Oub \ d&Nl
sonally, but he has however made
no public declaration of his po-
sition. Frazier and Nye and Lem
Ike, speaking at county fairs and
harvest festivals, appearing on the
platform with Gov. LANCER sup
porting the tax, do not mention
the mhtter one way or the other,
but give silent support by reason
of fact that they do not derOunce
the measure for what it is.
Only here and there is a paper
az linst or a voice raised against
this wicked bankers bill. The
leading opposition to the measure
is furnished by the United Farm
ers League and its official organ,
the Producers News. Tint orga-
nization fights the nefarious
scheme of the bankers and bond
holders to wiring the money out
of the impoverished farmers and
destitute jobless workers, to pay
the interest and principle on and
of the real estate bonds by levy.
ing a special tax on every crust
of bread of the oppressed toilerl
ard their families. Otherwise al
far as the so-Galled farm papers
and farm leaders are concerned
the whole matter goes before TIL
voters by default, entirely.
Everywhere the farmers or,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
Advance Guard Doings

From letters we get all how the hope for I
for the better that they expected
Conditions are even se'"ns W w r staring
in
need bad But we wait Tor Ge cnge to
we
change for the the farmers themselves and not
andp roGteer
had u F.. L. community cOuo get and
farmers problems lining with other communities for
community WI" W he organization
than anvfhmr week
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
BANKER RAN RELIEF
RACKET

Banker Cunningham, who is al
so chairman Of the Williams
county Red Cross chapter, and so
kind-hearted, took the note and
mortgage to his lawyers. The at-
torneys made out the papers. The
sheriff served them. The sale
was advertised by posted notice
and in a legal paper for Friday,
September 9Th, at IL o'clock,
noon, on the Oyloe farm. Cum
bingham dressed in Boy Scout uni
form, came to the aale early. The
crowd he found awaiting his ar
rival annoyed him. He explained
suavely, personal---very., and with
greht dignity, that Oyloe wanted
this sale, that he had agreed to
it, and that he had come to sell
Oyloe out as an act of mercy. He
did not like this kind of business,
but there wis nothing else to be
done. Besides he had an obliga-
ton to the widows and orphans,
the stockholders of the banks, and
the impoverished depositors who
had intrusted their money to the
Commercial State Rink of which
he was unfortunately the presi-
dent. The bank stood to lose q
great deal of money. He ther
read in slow and measured voice
the notice of chattel mortgage
sale. The crowd of farmers kept
increasing. They came from al
over Williams county, rs mile
long land so miles wide. Harr!
Brown, the agent and auctioneer
finally arrived an hour late, a
arranged. The farmers electe,
Fred Wagner their spokesman an
sale committee. The committe
notified Cunningham in "a kindly
friendly way, TINT he would no
be allowed to bid, that the com
mittee would attend to the bid
ding. ]. Arthur insisted positive
ly that he was going to bid: tina
the sale must go on: he was yer
dignified and very firm. The com
mittee coolly said, "the sale wi
go on but neither you nor you
, agent will bid. We will attend
, the bidding and save you all tn
. bother and WORRY"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
TOWN PEOPLE LINE UP
WITH FARMERS

N. Nelson, Marshall Co. S. Dab
sends twenty 25-cent subs. IA
also writes that they had 300 pes
pie at their UFL meeting, and h.
town people furnished a good S.
lection of music and a very good
time.
Bruce Taylor, Aitkin, Mimi, du
sends five 25-cent subs secured b.
Carl Taylor.
Aarne ]. Pisila, Yakima ca.
Wash, sends two subs.
J. J. Walstad, Roberts Co. SOua
Dakota, sends ten more 25-csn
subs.
VIM. Moxness, Mckenzie Co. n
Oak. sends eight Is cents subs.
Stanley Christensen, Burke ca
N. Oak. sends ten more 25-ceni
subs.
Emil Falk, Mcleod Co. MIN,
sends for bundle.
Melvin Peterson, Perkins Co., s
OAK, renews.
Howard w. Riddle, Cascade ca
Montana RENTS for papers and
programs.
Robert Kirmo, Dickey Co. N. D
sends for bundle.
John, Brandstetter, Suffer @
Calf. renews.
Judge Peterman, Renville q
! N. Oak, sends Us ten Is cent sub
A. Saastamo, Cowlitz Co.. Was
sends two subs.
P. J. Barrett, Mountrail Co. J
Oak. sends two subs.
A. Houge. EDDY Co. N. Dal
serds US fourteen 25-cent subs.
Frank Witty, Burke Co. n Ds
sends two subs.
CLOSE TO HOME
The following renewed and Su
scribed for the county edition;
Reserve: M. Mork, James Mic
els, Elmer Akre, Eng Kampen,
E. Mead, Joe Walkonis, P. c. Z
mer, John Klisis, Karl Jensen
Leer, Knut Knutson.
Redstone: Sanders Knight.
Medicine Lake: Wilfred Pare
Carl Casper, Mrs. I'd. Eng.
Plentywood: Hans Agaard'
w. Lee, A. J. Thumen.
Westby: Walter Erickson, W.
Timbel.
Wanso: A. H. Fadness.
Raymond: E. W. Hannah.
McCabe: James Ostby.
Alkabo: Ed Kruger.
"When your paper gets to Us
surely enjoy it," we hear II
Emil Pozza up in the far nOr'n
Fairbanks, Alaska
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
MONTANA FARMERS
SHOW UP

Just then, big truck and two
cars, packed with Farmers, ar
rived from Quitmeyer, Sheridan
county, Montana, the county Dor
dering on the west. A shout went
up, hurrah. "Here comes the
United Farmers League boys, here
comes the "reds": Lock outl Wiare
saved. On with the SALE" Fred
Wagner wheeled into position. He
and his committee passed out or
der quickly. Banker Cunningham
turned a little pale but stood his
gronds. Auctioneer Brown COM
menced the sale. He offered "a
harness.
A member of the holiday sale
committee bid 7 cents. Banker
Cunningham bid one dollar. The
atmosphere became intense. There
was no violence. The farmers
told Cunningham positively that
his bid would not be needed. A
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15

T. A. McAdams, Patio Alto =.
Iowa. also is a subscriber. "
FROM FAR AWAY
ALASKA
Emil POzza FairbanL.
Alaska, sends us a year .ns
and promises us more. ..
also writes, 81 have eniOv.s
every line of your last is.us
of the Producers News. Nov
Mr.. WOrkingman, are We :,
continue on the same old ROAD
as we did before? Are We n
be slaves because our lore.
fathers were slaves?"
H. E. Perry, Fannin Co. Teu,
sends for sample copy: 81 am ,
farmer here in the south and an
broke by this internal SYSTEM \
writes.
VIM. Tallackson, Walsh Co. \
Oak, renews.
Warner Leaf, Dalbo, MIN
sends us ten Is cent subs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15

asking "whO is paying for the
campaign Gov. LANCER and his
camp followers are waging for the
bankers sales tax?" AS far as
can be determined the state of
North Dakota is paying for the
most of it. The rest is being paid
by the bankers and bondholders-
for the radio broadcasts and the
other items that cannot well be
Aaid by the state. Thus the bank
ers put over a sales tar to pay
themselves, and put the expense of
the campaign largely upon the
state forcing the workers and the
farmers to pay for their own be-
trayal.
Those opposed to the sales tax
have no organization nor means to
carry on the campaign against it.
Those leaders they have looked to
to fight such n measure have be-
trayed them. So the oppositior to
the sales A1x is feeble and weak
The Producers News to learn
whether the Holiday Association
was officially supporting the sales
tax or whether Burdick as part
of the LANCER machine was sup
porting the measure on his owl
responsibility, while giving the i'm.
preston that the Association il
favorable by this sort Of trickery
at which he is so adroit, wired
Bert Salisbury a member of tn
state executive committee for in
formation I7s follows:
TELEGRAM
PlentywOOd, Mont, Sept. 9.
Bert Salisbury
State Board Holiday Assn.
Mfnnewaukan, N ID.
Is the State Board eff the
; Holiday Assn. sponsoring and
supporting the bankers Sales
) Tax to be voted upon by the
: electors of North Dakota Fri
day Sept. % to provide money
= to pay the bOndhOlders inter-
est on the North Dakota real
: estate bonds (stOp) Please ad-
: wise collect.
| Producers News.
ANSWER
q To this inquiry, Bert Sails
q bury answered as follows:
n Minnewaukan, N. D., Sept. IL
s. Producers News
: PlentywOOd, Mont.
o. Personally / am opposed to
: sales tax. Cannot speak for
D balance of board.
t. B. nj. Salisbury.
1t FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOOLS
o SAYS LANCER
Gov. LANCER contends the sal
= tax is proposed to save the schoC
: which must be kept open at a
price. Cornered, he admits Il
the tax is primarily for the ber
fit of the bankers but insists Il
the credit Of the state must
maintained, there must be no {
- fault in the states obligations
= the bondholders, and that the "a
tax is the only way this can
t done. Which means the bank
at must have their money though
tn farmers land workers starve.
be admits the tax is bad, but sa
II. 1--WE must save the schools"
et The last issue of the "Lead,
IS devoted a solid page and more
lie letters from country school d
on trict directors relating the bar
- ruptcy, of those districts becar
:. Of the delinquency of the prope
ed taxes. He uses these letters
gh an argument for the sales tax
keep these schools open
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
Williams COunty,N.D.,
Holiday Assn Holds
Sears ROebuCk" Sale

CONTINUED from page one)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
North Dakota Labor
Federation DenOunces
Sales Tax Of LANCER

Continued from Front Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-09-15
NO STATE LINES CON-
Germ US

Gallagher said: eve are here
from Montana, few of US. There
would have been hundreds here
from there had they only known
of this sale. In the struggle of
the farmers against their Cypress
ors. there is no state lines. The
bankers know no state lines
Salisbury here was born in North
Dakota over in the same neighbor.
hood with Usher Burdick II that
Is any particular credit to him
Some of the bankers who sell vol
ont and send you and your chill.
dren down the road think that
whether farmer who fights Will
YOU against them is from Dakot:
or Montana makes a difference. I,
our struggle, there Is no state
lines. no national lines. An iniur,
TO one farmer or worker Is and IN
fury to all farmers and workers
We must unite and fight our com
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07

Because you have occasional spells
of dependency, don't despair. The
sun has a sinking spell every night,
but it rises again all right next norm
ing.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07

establishes a number of rules the observance of
which is made mandatory. These rules prohibit
employers from paying less than the minimum
wage rates or working employees longer hours
than the code establishes, and from making COM
pany union membership compulsory as the price
Of a job.
In the hearings before the NRA ON practically
every code the organized employers, speaking
through their trade associations, persistently and
miitantly fight adequate wage rates, decent
hours, the right OF the workers to organize in
effective trade unions for their protection and
are especially indicative against the company
union prohibition. In short, while the employ
es are friendly to the unfair practice section of
the codes they are hostile to the labor section,
the proper administration OF which is OF vital
interest to the employees.
In view OF the well-known opposition of most
Of the trade associations to the labor section of
the codes, it seems reasonable and appropriate
that to secure impartial administration Of the
wages and hours restrictions and right-to-organ-
ize mandates that there should be adequate la
Dor representation on the code authorities which
administer both the business and labor sections.
But so far the code authorities consist almost ex-
c~lusively Of the trade associations, which COM
piled the codes without consulting the workers,
organized or unorganized, modified in certain in
stances by the inclusion OF a small v%oteless rep
resentation of the MIRA.
This is an anomaly that should be promptly
corrected. As President Green of the A. F. of
L. said: Labor holds that if there is to be a
partnership between industry, labor and the Gov
eminent, each party should be treated with equal
consideration" This equal consideration 50 vital
to the success OF the National Recovery Act will
only become a fact when labor is adequately rep
resented on all NRA code authorities and labor
policy boards.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07
LABOR REPRESENTATION ON CODE
AUTHORITIES

The recommendation made by the Labor Adj
yisory Board to the National Recovery Admins
tration and by William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, for adequate
labor representation on all MIRA code authori-
ties and labor policy boards %eXemplifies such a
just principle that the wonder is it was not APP
piled when the first code was established.
NRA codes consist of two major sections. One
section prohibits various forms OF unfair practice
which business concerns have resorted to in order
TO swipe trade from each other. These practices
run all the way from price cutting to commercial
bribery. This section OF the codes attempts to
%ciyilize commercial transactions. and largely con
Germs the owners of industry.
The other major section OF the codes is the
labor section. This section guarantees the right
OF the workers to organize into bona fide trade
unions without interference from employers and
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07

If you would convince a man that
he does wrong, do right. Men will
believe what they see.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07
as HOUR WEEK is.
CONDEMNED BY
GREEN
CONTINUED from Page onel

employers to establish the 50-hour
week "for a large majority of the
workers in the industry" and the 3D.
hour week for certain employees. He
expressed the conviction that the As
to 55-hour week will give no re-em-
ployment to jobless laundry workers
and consequently is a denial of the
National Industrial Recovery Act,
whose major purpose is to relieve un-
employment.
Repeating his previous declaration
that "the 30-hour week must be estab-
lished in all industry if we are to get
out of the depression" the executive
head of the A. F. of L. added that al
though the 30-hour week must ulti-
mately be applied to the laundry in
dustry, for the practical consideration
of the immediate present he urged the
maximum 35-hour week with a maxi
mum 7-hour day, extended to 40 hours
and the S-hour day for deliverymen.
As Hours Will Not Relieve Unem-
plOyment.
Turning to unemployment in the in
dustry, Nh. Green presented data COM
piled by the U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics showing that since 1929 the
number of employees in the industry
had decreased from 215,000 to IT'S, 900,
which indicated 10000 jobless laun-
dry workers.
Il should be happy to see in the
code submitted" he said, ian indica-
ton that the industry is conscious of
its responsibilities not only to the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery program,
but to its employees and to society. I'm
fortunately | am unable to find such
indication in the proposals incorporat-
ed in the CODE"
Citing also Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics data showing that while in De-
cember, 1929, the average work week
in the industry was AZ hours, in Sep
TENDER, 1888, the average hours work
ed were only 1873 hours, Mr.. Green de-
clared:
ut is all too clear, from a study of
the laundry industry, that the 45-hour
week will do nothing toward the crea-
ton of jobs and the consequent re-
employment of those persons former
ly attached to that industry. The fig
ures of the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics show that at least the 35-hour
week is necessary if any employment
pOSSibilitiee are to he onanad NM
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07
R
CODE HEARINGS
ARE OFF

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Hearings
on the construction industry code,
scheduled to be re-opened Dec. 4 have
been indefinitely postponed, and the
legal advisers of NRA are understood
to be rewriting its labor provisions, to
which union officials had taken vio-
lent objection.
Negotiations between the unions
and contractors, ordered by the NRA
code administration after recent hear
ings failed to bring them together,
have made no progress. The Con-
struction League, which sponsored the
code, refused to yield. Thereupon
NRA authorities rewrote sections of
the code, which will be offered to con-
tractors and the unions for approval.
tenn be abolished entirely and we
should be glad to cooperate to that
end. 1t is a relic of feudalism, a dis
graceful thing, an unfair practice. We
would prefer a fair and directly paid
wage. No such wage is proposed and
we despair of being able to secure it
at this time. But in its absence it is
the heighth of unfairness to propose
that those who have been compelled
to depend upon tips for their living
should now be deprived of that neces-
sary s~ustenance by an industry which
has throughout its whole history rec
ognized and fostered that system.
"TO put the intended result briefly:
If any waiter, not protected by a I'M
ion contract backed by a union strong
to enforce that contract, re-
.ceives, for example, as much as SIS
a week, his income will actually be
reduced by the operation of this pro-
posed code"
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07

vision in the code still further re-
duces the opportunity for re-employ-
ment, Mr. Green said:
Section 3 of Article III, would
make it possible for a large majority
of workers in the industry to work
fifty hours per week, while certain
employees might work fifty-five hours.
| do not believe it necessary to point
out how inhumanly long are these
hours, even though we were not in
the midst Of an unemployment situa-
ton which continues so serious that
all the resources of our nation are TO-
cused upon its solution.
st has been shown again and again
that such long hours are not econom-
ical from the point of view of indus
try itself. The operations in the laun-
dry trade are arduous, and require
great physical exertion. Many of
them require standing all day. The
majority of the workers are m
A large percentage of them are women
between the ages of 25 and "A years.
Many of them are married, with fam
lilies to care for.
"The long hours proposed there
fore become a social menace from the
point of view of the worker and from
the point of view of the family of the
worker"
Code Exemptions Criticized.
Mr.. Green also criticized vigorously
the many classes of employees which
the employers proposed code exempts
from hours regulation and insisted
that the exemptions be limited to de-
liverymen. He said:
81 cannot see the need of longer
hours for engineers, firemen, jani-
tors, and maintenance crews Except
in emergencies) and | can most en-
phatically not see why watchmen
should be excluded from any regula-
ton of hours. There is nothing in the
nature of these jobs to make the
thirty-five hour week and the seven
hour day either difficult or imprac-
teal. Certainly here is one place
where the industry might add a sig
nificant number of persons to its en-
ploy.
Let me urge, then, that the thirty
five hour week be made applicable to
all employees except deliverymen and
employees engaged in emergency main
tenance, and that overtime pay at the
rate of time and one-half be used as
the method of enforcing these provi-
sions and spreading work"
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07
$9.72 Minimum" Pay in
Restaurant Code "PalpabIe
Fraud" Ed. FIore Says
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down in some $50 codes thus far APP
proved, the document before us is an
outrage and a ridiculous affair. AS
a matter of policy as disclosed in the
utterances Of the President, it is a
tinsel thing in the presence of shining
armor. In the face of logic it is a
palpable fraud.
COmpels Public to Pay Half of
Minimum
ITO return again to the wage let
us point out the astounding provision
by which the restaurant owners would
compel the public to pay one-half of
the minimum wage of those who COM
monty receive gratitudes. That
means, in this case, walters. These
workers are singled out by the employ
ers for discrimination in a manner that
is deceptive than it seems.
Applies Minimum to Skilled Workers
1.-THE minimum wage is presumed
to apply to the very lowest paid class
of workers. 1t is not presumed to be
a wage for skilled workers. 1t is the
fixed bottom of all wages in an indus
try. But by the strange device of
bringing %gratuities into the case, the
employers in this proposed code seek
to apply the proposed minimum wage
to skilled workers.
"They do this by providing that
%gratuities shall be deducted from the
amount Of the minimum wage, until
80 per cent of the minimum wage
shall have been so deducted.
"As we understand the strange pro-
posal it is this: If the minimum wage
is $40 a week and if the employee re-
ceives So in gratuities or tips, then
the employer shall pay the employee
only S..
"This produces two results. One is
the destruction of the stated minimum
wage, for the employer no longer pays
the full minimum wage as given in
the proposed code. The second is a
real and drastic redution in the total
pay of the waiter, who until now has
been entitled to receive his wage and
his %gratuities, both seldom amounting
to a living income.
eve are surprised that this proposed
code zones to this hearing with such
a provision included. We shall not
know what to think of the policies of
NRA if that provision energies in the
code as ultimately approved.
Creates No Employment
Zone of the objects of a code is to
improve the conditions of the workers,
that employment may be increased
and so that buying power may be
raised.
This proposed code will create no
new employment and, while it may in
crease buying power in some of the
more miserably paid cities, will actual
ly reduce buying power in other
cities, largely by reason of the strange
proposal relating to gratuities.
mot only are these things true, but
it is further true that no other indus
try has had the colossal effrontery to
come before this Recovery Admins
tration proposing that the buying pub
lie shall pay, directly and without sub
terfuge, a large portion of its wage
bill.
Tipping Should Be Abolished.
This organization would prefer
above all things that the tipping sys-
Montana labor news., 1933-12-07
Tipping Should Be Abolished.

This organization would prefer
above all things that the tipping svs-