The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-26

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l.. J9rgenson of McElrov was
appointed deputy sheriff without
salary except when called.
local elevators you cam get it bv
paying market price plus freight
TO the terminal and back again.
II viii take at least three bushels
Ct the wheat you raised last fall
TO buy back one bushel from your
focal elevator. Yes you pay the
freight both ways but the grain
YOU buy never left the elevator
since you and other farmers
hauled it in last fall. Great stuff
wonderful to live under such a
system, isn't it?
Now let's see about the potatoes
such as they raised down. in the
Ned River Valley. Thousands of
bushels of the finest potatoes ever
grown were left in the ground to
freeze and rot because the gn)w-
ers were unable to get enough out
od them to pay the cost of Dig
cling.
Now the corn in Iowa and Dli-
niols is being burned as fuel If
is cheaper to burn corn than to
have fuel shipped in although 400.
OOO coal mirers are looking for q
chance to dig coal and hundreds
OF thousands of railroad workers
who are willing to haul this coal
are On the soup lines.
The thing that keeps the farm
ers from burning coal is the same
thing that keeps the coal miners
out of work and the railroad work
ers onI the sonp lines, namely:
The railroad companies and the
mine owners, both are a part of
this crazy capitalist system.
can understand how it would
De necessary to starve during a
famine but, millions of workers
starve, freeze arid go without
shelter because they have produced
to much. So the big bosses have
Locked the warehouses and turned
them out to starve.
Imagine gopher starving in a
field of wheat, thirsty near a lake
OF water. and shelterless with all
kinds of holes because some farm
er says 81 own this land. this
wheat and this lake.
The rulirlg class know that the
people will stand only so much sO
they set up soup lines and relief
stations which is a kind of starva-
ton on the installment plan. Ir
places where workers organize and
fight for their rights the capital
list class are forced to give them
some relief in order To preserve
this crazy system.
In Sheridan county we have had
to fight for all the relief we have
got. Now old Jacks ves-menl re-
port that no one can get medical
or hospital aid from the r. F. c.
any longer.
I. c. Spaulding, state chairman
of the r. +. G. who is acting nm.
der the orders of Governor Coo.
ney, says that if we don't auit
fighting in Sheridan county he
will cut off all relief.
Now Mr.. Spaulding, we know
you are an old slicker and poli,
tlcian and we are not comparing
your intelligence with old Jacks
and that of his yes-men, but you
know very well that all the relief
got In Sheridan county was got
by the u. F. l..
You did not give us relief be-
cause you loved us so much but
because you were afraid if the
mass demonstrations where farm.
ers were demanding and not beg
ging.
We krOw that old Jacks YES.
men were unable to fool the farm.
ers as they did in Plentywood
Forcing them to gravel the streets
on cold spring days and Their
gave them receipt signed By
Percy Neville, chairman of the
Commercial club, as pay I'M full.
Say, Spaulding, did you know
that old Jack wrote down to Medi,
cine Lake to some poker PLAYING
professor and told him to be ready
to organize a bunch of business.
men (npt farmers) on a minutes
notice to come TO Plentywood a!
he had cleaned up on Salisbur,
and expected trouble from the
farmers.
Suppose he was afraid I'd sneak
up behind him like he did on me
You better watch him or he'll start
a revolution yet and lay it on the
reds. We expect any day to read
in the Great Falls Tribune that
old Jack has stopped a revolution
in Sheridan county.
You will remember Seattle Ole
who claimed he stopped a revolu-
ton in Seattle and was played uL
by the kept press as a hero. Well
he finally got away with several
million from the Seattle treasury
Now the best old Jack and c.
G. Christensen can do is to force
some helpless woman to take some
old shopworn goods ON relief or
der.
"Old Jack" is going to be out
of the post office and he is also
going to be out of the relief sta
ton too. His mistakes are too
numerous. Neither Governor Coo
ney nor the post master general
The son of Mrs, Frank Seba-
stan Of the Walliuar. nol1nfl.,r ic