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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
CONGRESS AGAINST
WAR TO Be HELD
40 Organizations Respond
to Call of Dresser, Sim
clair and Anderson

New York, July 19.-Forty nine
national organizations of workers,
farmers, youth, intellectuals and
others have signed a manifesto
issued today, endorsing the call Of
Sherwood Anderson, Upton Sin
clair and Theodore Dresser fop a
Natiorsal Congress Against War
TO BE HELD IN N. Y.
The Congress to which all or
CARNATIONS and all opponents of
war are asked to send delegates
will be held in New York Septem-
Der 2, 8, and 4. Il will begin with
mass meeting in Madison Square
Garder, according to the present
plans.
The committee has provided u,
S. Congress Against War buttons
which may be obtained from its
headquarters at 1O4 Fifth Avenue.
Representation at the Congress
is to be on the bais of one dele
gate for each local organization,
plus an additional delegate for
every $50 members or major frac-
tior of $50. National, state coun-
ty and city organizations are each
entitled to two delegates.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
SOWETS WOULD
BUYUSCOTTON
Need Million Bales to Fill
Needs and Buying Power
of Russian Workers

Washington, July 19.-The
Reconstruction Finance Cor
pOration was reported today
to be considering proposals
that it finance sale of 1,OOO,-
900 bales of cotton to Soviet
Russia.
Well informed quarters said the
transaction had the endorsement
of persons close to the agricultural
adjustment administration. The
proposal in its present form calls
for granting of six-year credits
which would give the Soviet an
opportunity to pay without dis
turbing its, present five-year plan.
$5,OOO,OOO DEAL
The R. F. C. recently financed
the sale of $5,OO0,OOO of cotton to
Russia by granting credits to the
American exporters on security of
the Soviet notes. Those backing
the present deal regard this as a
"mere drop in the bucket" COM
pared with the possible purchases
the Russian government could
make here. A 100000 bale deal
at current prices would invoIve
more than $55,OOO,OOO.
1t is interesting to note that the
only country where workers hive
any buying power is the Soviet
Union. This, in itself, should be
proof how superior the conditions
of Russian workers are to worker.
in the capitalist world.
This huge sale of 1-nAn.000 bale.
will be a boon to cotton growers
since they are burdened with a so
called surplus because workers II
thousands of homes in this coun
try are urable 20 buy even snoo
of thread.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
FARMERS IN COLO.
BAR SALE OF LAND
FOR INDEBTEDNESS
Keep County Treasurer at
Julesburg From Taking
Stand on Steps

About $50 farmers gathered at
the notorious "south front door of
the county court house" in Jules
budg, Colo, Saturday morning,
July Is where all the sheriff sales
and foreclosures are held. The
farmers came not to bid on the
sale but to see that no one else
bid.
When County Treasuder Mark
Gyger attempted to take his sHlnd
at the front door to sell the land
of Reeves Loveland of Sedgwick,
he found his way barred. Seeing
that the farmers would not allow
him to sell the land he postponed
the sale fod 80 days.
Later Loveland explained that
he hid paid off more on his debts
last year than he had made from
his crops.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
COTTON PRODUCTS
TO BE TAXED BE-
GINNING AUGUST I

Cotton products, which the
wholesalers and retailers
have on hand on August L,
will be subject to the tax un-
der the provisions of the Ag-
ricultural Adjustment Act.
Every small shopKeeper thru
out the country has been told
to make inventory of cotton
stocks on hand which will be
taxed August 1. Of course
this tax will be handed on to
the working class consumer
who is already bearing the
burden of the crisis.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
GROCERY ORDERS And
flour FOR ALL ARE WON
BY LEAGUE IN MINNESOTA
BERRY GROWERS
GET INCREASE OF
TWO CENTS A LIB.
(BY C. M. b.

Eatonville, Wash.-A report
has come in to the United
Farmers League headquarters
that berry growers in Sumas
were offered four cents a pound
for berries by the cannery
owners. However, the farmers
got together and demanded six
cents which the canneries i'm
mediately agred to. If the farm
ers had struck it is believed
they would have gotten seven
or eight cents.
Farmers: Send stories of your
struggles 20 the Producers
News so that farmers every
where can be encouraged to or
garize to help themselves.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
Hopper Poison and Cattle
Feed Demanded by Farmers
At Meeting In South Dakota

diately and provide funds to OBJ
tain poison and Che necessary ma
terial for poisoning the hOppers.
Furthermore, being that many
of US are at present out of feed
Cor our chickens and livestock, on
which we are dependent for a iv-
ing, we demand that funds or feed
be provided Immediately by the
county commissioners.
eff this feed is not provided we
viii be freed to dispose Of our
only means of hvelihOOp-m which
event the county will be forced Ito
support us and our families ait a
greater expense than the cost of
feed.D
The following resolution was M
tuoduced from the floor and IN
dOrSeds
ssResolvei shat the United Farm
ers League goes on record to use
all the means within their power
10 stop evictiOus and foreclosures
until after the crisis"
A committee consisting OF Ut
J A. Robertson, Knute Waistao
aid Albert Romo was appointed to
present the above demands to the
county commissioners. Since tne
meeting we have learned TINT the
poison is now available at the
court house at cost and informa-
ton for obtaining it can be had DN
seeing the janitor at the cour
house.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
Pennsylvania Farmers Give
Quart Of Fresh Milk Away
TO Allentown Unemployed

this milk be distributed so that
every child of an unemployed work
er receives one quart of milk per
day.
DON'T TALK ABOUT SUR
PLUS AGAIN
"If anybody talks to me about
surplus again l am going to tell
him something" A. M. Slower re-
marked, coming home from the
meeting. Listen" he said, "a
couple of years ago if a farmer
would have come there to distrib-
ute milk on the street, as we did,
he would have had an awful time
getting rid of it. Very few peo-
pie would have taken milk from
the street."
Some girls remarked that they
had had no milk for almost a week
and they looked it too. Children
undernourished, eagerly run to
fetch bottle land then after COM
ing back and having received a
quart of milk drank most Of It
right then and there. "Oh, I can't
do that" a little girl, perhaps 9
vd'rs old, exclaimed eve got lit
tie brothers and sister at home"
The wordless complaint Of these
children forms a verdict Of guilty
against a system where children
s+arve when there Is an abundance
IF everything. But "guiltv" also
IS everybody who is not putting up
ficht to hriro about change.
Within haif ~ horr 250 quarts
If '-'i''r we've gwen awav while the
de~~a~d was still incrAasi~O.
Police vans present at the meet
ing but did in no way interfere.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
ISSUE CALL FOR
CONVENTION OF
CALIFORNIA UFL

MERGED, Calf, July 18.-A
call has been issued by the U.
F. L. of California to all Cali
fornia locals and farmers or
CARNATIONS for a state confer
ence to be held in MERGED July
80. This meeting will set up a
provisional committee to con-
duct a state wide campaign for
a large Farmers Conference
based on the need for farm re-
lief and the stopping Of fore
closures as we'll as other needs
of the farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

They almost started fighting for
it when they feared that the sup
ply might run out before it was
their turn to receive a quart of the
milk fresh from the farm.
Several hundred women, men,
and children had come to the meet
ing called by the Unemployed
Council of Allentown for Friday,
June % at the 14th ward in Allen
town, Pa, where farmers, men,
bers of the United Farmers Pro-
tective Assn, were distributing
more than $50 quarts of milk
NOT CHARITY
Speakers Of the UFPA explained
that "this is not charity" They
stated that they had collected a
few quarts of milk il. order "to
show you what raw milk is like
and because you need it." The
workers were told that both farm
ers and workers, producers and
consumers of milk, were robbed
by the big milk dealers who use
their Health Boards to make rules
and regulations to the effect TINT
only dealers can sell milk.
Leaflets, distributed at the meet
ing, explained that "only if city
workers and farmers work and
fight together can we do away
with under consumption and all Of
the other misery" The leaflet
and the speakers called upon the
unemployed workers to form COM
mitteee and demand from their re-
lief boards that. the boards should
buyemi1k directly from the farmei
at five cents per quart and that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
NORTHWEST SCOTTSBORO TOUR

Word has Just come to the Producers News that
Richard B. Moore, Mrs. Jannle Patterson, mother of
Haywood Patterson one of the Scottshoro boys; and
Lester Carter important witness for the defense who
the same train with the Scottsboro boys will
speak throughout the Northwest beginning August 1.
The tour is being conducted by the international
Labor Defense which has saved the nine innocent boys
from the electric chair thus far.
Richard Moore many friends during his tour
of the Northwest year ago. Since then he has
spoken before millions in the United States and in
Europe. Many call him the "silver-tongued orator."
He and the other speakers will tell the true story of
the Scottsboro case If you heard Moore last year you
will surely want to hear him again; you didn't hear
him, this is your chance Haywood Patterson is to
be retired in the fall. Your protest can him.
Tentative dates are:
Aberdeen S. OAK, July 80.
Fargo, N OAK, July 81.
Grand Forks, N. Oak, Aug. 1.
Minot N Oak. August 8.
Wiliston, N Oak, Aug. A.
Plentywood Mont, Aug. 6.
Great Falls, Mont, Aug. Z.
Helena Mont Aug. 9.
Butte Mont. Aug 10.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. IL.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
SOLIDARITY BRINGS
SUCCESS

A committee of three was ele, ed
a1c instructed accordingly. An
additional 16 angry farmers also
backed up Our committee and went
to Bemidji Saturday, June 10.
In the meantin: he coun,y CT
ganizer of the U. F. L had called
in other committees from different
parts of the county and had asked
the Urcmplov-d Council Of Be-
midi TO back up ne Nehish cal.
The result Wis 'hat the Ncb;sn
local was able to get grocery or
ders, flour, potato-brg poison and
clothing for all.
Solidarity and mass action pay.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

ing prepared in Cleveland to pro-
test the eviction of Sparanga by
the bark In the name of the Co.
600 members Of the Federation, all
of whom stand in danger of fore
closure through TO fault of their
own, protests have beer sent to
Governor White of Ohio and
Mayor Miller demanding that the
evictions be stopped, all arrested
released, ard an investigation Of
the police attack. Among the ar
rested were E. c. Greenfield, presi
dent of the Federation and Louis
Sch, Cleveland, secretary.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
MELON PICKERS
REMAIN SOLID
HOO Stay on Strike to Win
Demands From Big
Ranchers

Phoenix, Ariz., July Ion
strike for nenrly two weeks the
ranks Of the more than 100 melon
pickers here and throughout Salt
River Valley are holding solid, de-
spite terrorism and the arrest Of
ten leaders.
Before the strike, the melon
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

pickers received 10 cents an hour
or 2 cents . crate. Since the strike
the pay has been raised to 20 and
80 cents an hour. The strikers are
demanding so cents an hour right
through, for all fields, and pro-
spects Of q complete victory are
excellent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
COUNTY Helps
Solidarity of Unemployed
and Locals of United
Farmers League Win
REFUSED AT FIRST
When Work Orders Don't
Come Farmers Demand
Necessities
(BY A. L. K.)

Nebish, Mimi, July IT,
On Saturday, July 8, a COM
mittee from our United Farm
ers Local visited the county
relief agent at Bemidji and
placed before him the follow
ing demands.
/. That we be given work on
township roads.
2. That we be allowed to
work on a certain badly need
ed road.
8. That one of our commit
stee be appointed time keeper.
DEMANDS ACCEPTED
Our demands were all agreed to
by the assistant relief faker who
had promised to mail the work or
ders to our appointed time keeper
on Monday, July 10.
But the work orders didn't come
50, on Thursday a number of the
farmers went back to Bemidji tC
see what was wrong. On entering
the relief station we demanded to
see Carney. The door mouse
brought back word that Carny
EmEel nothing to. do with any Of
the Nebish bunch.
On arriving home We hurriedly
spread the news and decided K
hold a meeting to discuss the mat.
ter the following afternoon.
As some of US had hay and the
other crops to attend, we decided
at this meeting to- demand 70
work, but grocery orders, Pari
green, flour and clothing. W.
further decided that if we wer,
asked to work we would deman'
cash.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
CALF. FISHERMEN
WIN PRICE RAISE

Fishermen on the California
coast tied up the fleets for two
days and as q result won the rate
of 5 and s cents for round fish and
s cents and Z cents for cleaned.
Previously the pay was Scents
for round and 61s cents for the
cleaned.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
Three Million and a
Half Bales Of Cotton
Wiped Out Under Act

More than 100000 acres of cotton will be destroyed
under the Agricultural Adjustment Act Although it has
not yet been definitely decided is probable that crop
destroyed will have to be burned to meet the requirements
of the Department of Agriculture Some growers have
planned to the unmatured plants for hay or pick the
partly matured crop for ners This does not meet with
the approval of the administration
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

A Wisconsin farmer gives four
reasons whv he Joined the United
Farmers league IN this new
namphlet. Thew are reasons which
win corvince your nei0hhovs. Or
der package now. Send 80 cents
for a package Of 100, i. ~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

SiSsetOn, S. D., July 21.-
= mass meeting, which was
called by the United Farmers
League committee of action,
was held at the court house
last Saturday evening. The
SOurt room was filled with
farmers from all sections of
the county.
after singing Solidarity" the
I,etlng was called to order by
suuus Walstad. Albert Hanson
as elected chairman and Mr..
Onln' secretary. Reports from
I'era farmers wede heard on the
Upper menace and the shortage
S.n teea' DR.. Robertson was then
N 1 upon, who gave a short tank
S winch ne told the meeting how
~; may be available for poison
toS toe hOppers, after which the
~" I5O"Eg resolutions were read
M, ~, after discussion, were unani-
HOGsly passed:
VIZ, whereas the drought and hot
anu AMOS have ruined our small grain
NOV. whereas the grasshoppers are
NV NV attacking our corn crop in
ny. NY localities, this being our sole
s0, manmg crop and the Oni,
~ "Safse Of feed for our stock an:
with O taI financially able to COP,
resoIv sn1s !. situation; therefore, be 4
wors"u mat we the farmers anc
~ ss.ers Of Roberts county in mas,
eoOes lag demand Of the count,
commissioners the following:
DEMAND POISON AND
CATTLE FEED
we We demand that a. tb,. !. :,
en- sr e, me county com nm I I
eal a speciss meeting INN ~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
Horses Bring lOc
WhenF armersBid
At Montana Sale
Roosevelt Holiday Association and United Farmers
League of Sheridan County Unite to Protect
Farmers Property; Whole Lot Brings 81 80
9OFARMERS GATHER AT SALE
(BY Hans RasmuSsen)

After machinery and horses had been taken aav from
farmer near Poplar Mont and advertised for public sale
farmers met this Tuesday and took charge of the sale
me result is that set of machinery bought by the
Tor $5 and seven horses for IS cents and then
turned over to the farmer owner
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

wanton destruction engineered by
the U. S. government will go to
the big landlords and not to the
small tenant farmers and share
choppers who do the actual work
of growing the cotton.
Prices of overalls and other cot
ton goods have already started TO
go up as a result of the planned
destruction of one fourth of this
years crop. A local merchant de-
clares that overall prices have
been pegged three times in the
last six weeks.
WORKERS AND FARMERS
FOOT THE BILLS
1t is clear to see that the work
ers and farmers will foot the bill
for these new plans. The domes-
tic Allotment for wreat means
that workers in the cities and the
farmers outside the wheat area
will pay double the former price
for flour; workers in the cities
and farmers outside the cotton
area will pay higher prices for
srirts and overalls. It's a great
system.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

100000 BALES WIPED
OUT
The destruction of 10,000,000
acres in the Is cotton states mean
the wiping out of 100000 bales
of cotton of the 1888 yield.
Benefits to be derived from this
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
FILA AND UFL IN UNITED
ACTION

When the horses and machinery
were advertised by the 1. H. c.,
TO be sold at public aale on July
25, the Roosevelt county Holiday
Association got busy and notified
its members to be there. The
call was taken up by the United
Farmers League in Sheridan coun-
ty AMI other places.
Although it wis a busy season
for the farmers, with hayirg in
full swing and harvest just start
ing, 500 farmers responded to the
call, mostly from Roosevelt, Sheri-
dan and some from McCone coun-
ties. In country where there ire
CONTINUED on rage Tvo)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
MARKET CRASH
CAUSESLOSSES
Drop of 80 Cents a Bushel
on Wheat; Stocks Drop
% Cents In Day

Speculation on the Chicago
Bohrd of Trade and on the New
York Stock market caused the
greatest fall in prices ever ex-
perienced last week.
Trading in stock on July % was
the heaviest since October 80, 1929
the first plunge of the crisis now
in its fourth year. Stocks de-
clined up to % points in one day.
TRADE SUSPENDED FOR
TWO DAYS
The decline in the price of the
wheat in Chicago aaused suspen-
sion of all trading at the Chicago
Board of Trade last Friday and
Saturday. In two days the price
of wheat declined 30 cents and the
Governors then decreed but prices
could not take dip of more than
8 cents in one day. Further regu-
lations decreed that wheat and rye
could not go below Thursdays
closing which was 80 cents per
bushel for July wheat in Chicago.
These regulations mean little to
the farmer who has no grain to
sell. 1t is significant that the
government and Board Of Trhde
did not step in to peg the price Of
wheat last winter when 1t was the
farmers wheat that was being
sold. When IT'S the speculator's
| IT'S another matter. WHIT prices
are sti11 N'r below the cos. Of
production.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

p-oS--~c-e Nc--e-So 49, 1902
The Producers News g 3 year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
WILL PULL UP TREES

The outlook for the apple and
Dear crop is excellent but the mar
ket seems to be the same as for
cherries. Several farmers have
told me shat if they don't get a
reasonable price this year, they
will have to- pull up the trees and
try something else.
Ninety-seveE per cent of the
farmers are mortgaged and behind
in taxes. Many are going to reed
relief this winter unless prices
pick up.
The condition of the farm la
borer is bad. They work 10 hours
a day for $3.50. Many farmers
would like to pay more. They
realize that workers must receive
jobs and good wages if they are to
sell their crops at enough to pay
expenses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
WASH. CHERRIES
ROT ON TREES !!
No Market for Three
Fourths of Crop In
Yakima Valley
(BY w. FL

Yakima, Wash, July 20.-This
is new territory. No organiza-
tor here yet, There is good
chance for front line fights and
plenty of ground to fight or.
Lights are i dollar and Ia half a
month. Cherries bring two cents
a pound. Three fourths of the
crop is on the trees ana buyers
will not take the rest of the crop
at any price. The trees are just
loaded and the crop must rot
Some farmers have not picked at
all
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
POISON AND
CATTLE FEED

en.r - demand n that as this is an
e. 8. sS1ey me county commission
a Speciaa meeting imme-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
/. 81. GRABBED THE
MACHINERY

Last spring the International
Harvester Co. grabbed his machin-
cry, a tractor, drill, disc, and a
plow hauled it to the city of Pop
bar and stored it in the yard Of
the Fort Peck Mercantile Co., of
which Mr.. Lundeen is the man
ager and dealer.
Later on the 1. H. C. completed
their cleanup by taking his seven
horses, on which they also had a
mortgage. The horses were Ialso
taken to Poplar and put in a Hv-
cry barn, close to where the ma
chinery was stored.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28

Howard Brickbill, is the Roos-e
welt county farmer who has had
his machinery returned through
the help of his neighbors. Brick
bill has been producing wheat be-
low cost of produtionc, just like
the rest of US. When the time
came for him to meet his pay
ments on machinery, he simply
couldn't meet them. In that re-
spect we are lall alike.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-07-28
COUNTY EDITION

your paper is the best way
to educate the people. Let
them read the truth and
facts" says w. r. Miller, of
Twin Falls County, Idaho.