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

Last week Mr.. T. c. Spaulding
had sent the following letter To
the PlentywOOd Herald for publi-
cation. The Herald spread itself
ever quite a space against what it
calls our Communist agitation"
Helena, Montana MAY IL, 1888
Mr.. Spaulding's letter:
Mr.. Hans Rasmussen
Plentyw0od. Montana
Dear Mr.. Rasmussen:
Your letter of May 8 addressed
TO Governor COOney and myself
has been received.
| sincerely hope that no serious
difficulties will arise n Sheridan
county through part of the popu-
lace against the other part. Should
such a situation arise, there could
be only one thing that the State
relief Commission could do. and
that is 10 withdraw all relief from
Sheridan cOurty until the citizens
OF the county get together and
work together. AS you probably
know, this same animosity has
been carried into your elections,
has been directed against Judge
Paul, has led 10 the entering of
the Red Gross warehouse without
permissiOD of the head of the Red
Cross, and in many ways has
shown a lack of cooperation ON
the part of some of the people TO
both the Red Cross and the r. f.
G. relief work in your county.
Of course | know nothing rela-
tive to the provOcationV Mr.. Ben
nett had i'm making his alleged
attack on MIR. Salisbury and YOUR
self.
Yours very truly,
t. c. SPAULDING,
Director of Relief.
Mr., Spaulding, you admit in
this letter that you "know moth
ing" about our troubles in this
county. You might tell the pub
lie that, but why doTPt you Inform
yourself on our conditions? |
wrote YOU a letter about two
months ago in which told you in
behalf Of our people, that if you
did not remove Jack Bennett from
the Relief Committee at once, he
was the one who would create
trouble i'm Sheridan county.
Had you listened to my advice
at that time | gave it to you in
good faith, we would have had no
trouble in Sheridan county. 1t is
the man that you appointed and
uphold that started it.
Now you say that withdrawing
the relief is the only thing you
cam do should further difficulties
arise. Just because you appointed
a trouble NAKED as the head of
your commission is that your ex-
cuse for withdrawing relief?
Do you know that your man,
Jack Bennett, is expecting to start
more trouble? Lately he wrote a
letter to the professor of the
Medicine Lake high school, telling
him to lime up the town people
and be ready to come to Plenty
wood on short notice to help fight
Vile ldlliiCIOs OSl NfJAAoN bii
these things and find excuses for
them if you can.
That some luminosity" has been
directed against Judge Paul is also
mentioned i'm the letter. When
anything of the kind is done there
is always a reason for it. Judge
Paul is the head of our local Red
Cross, he is also the main spoke
in the relief wheel, he was the
one who recommended Jack Ben
hett's appointments.
You are mentioning "coopera-
ti0n," it is Just what we have been
wanting all the time but never
had. Poor people can never ex-
pect cooperation from $500 per
month postmasters and $500 a
month Judges.
During the coolest part of the
winter warm underwear was piled
up in the relief station behind door
and locks. Many people applied
again and again without getting
any. There was was no coopera-