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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
JEWISH BAKERS
AID CONFERENCE
Give 1000 Bread Loaves
to Feed Farm Delegates

CHICAGO, Ill.-One thousand
loaves of bread have been donated
by the progressive group of the
West Side Jewish Bakers for the
feeding of farmer delegates to the
Farmers Second National Confer
ence. This group is affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor.
Through the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, feeding of the farm
ers who are attending the Confer
ence was arranged. Not only the
dining hall of the Peoples Audi
forum where the Conference is be-
ing held, but the kitchens and halls
Of the Czecho-Slovakian Workers
Club and the Russian Cooperative
Society on the north side are being
donated for the Conference.
Collections Of produce from the
farmers at the Chicago markets
IS being organized by the Workers
international Relief as well as col
lections of staples from workers
OF Chicago. Farmers in South Da-
kota report that they are bringing
with them a 200 pound dressed
pork.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
WILL TRY TO PASS
ANTI-ALIEN Bill
Seeks to Outlaw Militant
Organizations

WASHINGTON, D. Com
gresham Dies, of Texas, will push
the passage of his famous anti
alien ball, providing for the ex-
clusion and expulsion of all, "alien-
Communists" in the United States,
at the next session of Congress, he
has announced. Congressman Dick
stein would support him in the
committee on immigration he said.
He denied he would amend it to
include Nazis.
The bill, which only mass pro.
test and pressure has kept from
passing for two years, provides fo1
the expulsion of Communists, and
defines them so broadly that the
least militancy is made sufficient
excuse for deportation.
1t is openly advocated as a pre-
llminary measure to outlawing of
militant trade unions, farm orga-
nizations and the Communist
party.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

than in winning the strike. There
are more members from the U. F.
L. on the picket lines than Pool
members. and more capable lead
ems. And because our program is
more nearly in the interests of the
farmers than that of the Milk
Fool, and because our paper, the
PRODUCERS News. is a far better
paper than the Milk Pool paper.
which consists of a series of oroa-
nlzational speeches and a super
fluffy of advertising. The Pro-
ducers News is bound to be more
effective and more popular than
the Pool paper. The propaganda
OF the U. F. L. is bound to be more
effective than the Pool propa-
ganda. The Pool realizes this. and
that is why they forced such an
agreement.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

ty Plan). Three of them were
delegates just returned from the
Anti-War Congress in New York.
The Nebraska session of the
School On Wheels spent its time,
outside the regular classes, hold
ing meetings to activize locals Of
the Holiday and helping elect dele
gates to the Farmers Second Ma
tional Conference. A total of II
meetings in Sherman and neigh
boring counties were addressed by
the students during the last two
weeks of the School, with &c dele
gates elected to the Chicago Con-
ference, representing locals of the
Holiday Association, the Grange,
one local of the Farmers Union,
and two cooperative associations.
The students also helped in rails
ing money to pay the expenses for
the delegates by giving several
plays and contributing programs
at two barn dances.
To Demand Cancellation
Students at the School on
Wheels report that Nebraska
farmers are rapidly becoming
thoroughly disillusioned with the
New Deal administration and its
promises of farm relief which
never materialize, and are pre-
pairing to take matters into their
own hands, Delegates to the Chi
cago Conference from Holiday To-
Gals madison County Plan) were
instructed by their fellow farmers
to raise the question of cancella-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Some Mistakes In
the Wisconsin Strike

The United Farmers League has
issued several articles on the
united front. and the role of the
United Farmers League in the
united front. In Lincoln county.
Wisconsin. the United Farmers
League and the Wisconsin Co-op-
erative Milk Pool have Joined into
a united front to conduct the
strike. So far they have made this
a real strike in Lincoln county.
They have established some fine
picket lines, with day and night
pickets. and a soup kitchen to feed
the pickets. They have a really
militant rank and file strike move
ment, and are building the strike
sentiment stronger every day. We
are glad to see that the United
Farmers League is in the fore
ranks here as they are everv-
where else. but we wish to point
out some of the mistakes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

ton of debts for small and busted
middle farmers as the only form
of immediate relief from the pres
ent intolerable burden of interest
and principle payments which are
:uining the farm home.
An extensive tour of the state
in preparation for the Chicago
Conference was arranged by the
students, and who were divided in
five brigades. They held meetings
to help with the election of dele
gates and raising of finances.
Students Active at Meetings
The Sherman county Holiday
members supported the School on
Wheels during its stop here with
generous contributions of food
stuffs. Tents for classroom and
eating-place were set up on the
Pritschau farm, and the students
slept in the Pritschau house and
farm.
Three classes were held each
day, one on social economics, an
other on history and programs of
American farm examinations, and
a third in problems of organiza-
ton connected with the Nebraska
Holiday Assn. madison County
Plan). Special time was given to
discussion of current events, con-
Quoting study circles and library
reading. In addition to volley
ball the students had plenty of
exercise cutting wood and peeling
spuds.
One or two mass meetings were
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Who Gains?

One Of our aims in the United
Farmers League is to educate the
masses. We do this primarily
through The Producers News. We
do not fear the Mix Pool paper or
any other reformist paper, because
we know which is the best paper.
and which is the best program.
We have shown that the United
Farmers League loses through this
agreement. Let us see what the
Milk Pool gains. The Mix Pool
and the Farmers Holiday Associa-
ton called the strike. Thew called
it In support of the reformist pro
gram which viii benefit the bank
ers more than the farmers. Thew
had the benefit Of the publicity in
all capitalist papers. Every Cant
talist paper in the country con-
stantly printed stories about Sing
Ter and Reno, their speeches, in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
No u. F. L.
Demands

In the first place, neither side
is In position to conduct the
strike alone, because they are not
strong enough. That is the onlv
reason the Milk Pool entered into
a united front with the United
Farmers League. In Lincoln conn
ty, the U. T. L. is actually the
leader Of the strike, but they are
striking only for the milk pool
demands. the Frazier bill, cost If
production, and Initiation, and the
U. f. L. has no way of populariz-
ing their own demands, or broad
ening the strike demands so as 10
make them reall 100 per cent Of.
fective. Therein lies the mistake
This agreement was advanced bv
the Milk Pool. and agreed 70 bv
the U. F. L. 'for the sale of
unity" But such an agreement l.
not conducive to unity. but ratbe :
the opposite. It signifies fbe+
neither side trusts the other and
each is afraid that the other viii
pain more members than the other
through the strike. Moreover Il
gives the impression that both
sides are more interested in build
ing their respective Organizations
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

to safeguard the interest of this
dirt farmer.
The sheriff was uncomfortable
when BARLEY told the farmers the
sheriff's lawyer told Mittlestaedt
that eve don't want anything like
this to start down here because
we'll have one helluva time stop
ping them once they get started"
He asked for the election of a
farmer to the Farmers Second Ma
tional Conference in Chicago and
then introduced Max Cichon the
fighting farmer of Walworth couE-
ty who last year shot it out with
the sheriff and 81 deputies, when
he resisted being evicted from his
farm.
Max CichOn Speaks
Cichon pointed out that he
could not stay on his farm by tax
ing individual action, but that by
united action and organization of
the farmers EVERY farmer can
stay on his farm. He concluded
with a stirring appeal for rank
and file unity of all dirt farmers,
and was very enthusiastically ap-
plauded.
An unemployed worker, Soren-
son, then asked for the floor. He
spoke of the necessity of united
farmer and worker action in the
struggle against our common enc
my, the trusts and bankers, that
while the farmer can't get any
thing for his produce the city
worker is reduced to starvation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
8 NEGRO WOMEN
ONE MAN SHOT TO
DEATH IN FLORIDA

ARCADIA, F1a.-The bodies of
three Negro women and one Ne
gro man, riddled with bullets, and
evidently the victims of a landlord
lynch-gang, were found here in a
palmetto thicket by the roadside,
Thursday.
The Negroes had been murdered
elsewhere and their bodies trans
ported to the spot in an automo-
bile, from which they were thrown
They had been missing for five
days.
They were identified as Jack
johnson, Lossie May, Therese Nor
gan and Jessie Strawman.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

The united front is a form of
action in which two or more orpa-
nizations agree to join forces on
an equal basis, to carry through q
struggle. The United Farmers
League organizes such action. and
enters into it whenever opportun-
ity offers. but always on an equal
basis with other organizations.
At Merrill. in Lincoln county
the United Farmers League en-
tered into a united front, but CON
scented to take a back seat and
submerge itself and its program i
blanket of milk pool propaganda
for the sake Of unity. This Is the
way it was done.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Our Aim

We cannot advice the LneoI
county UFL to break its sgIs I.
ment now, and we should mo- >
on as we are because We -
merely pulling the chestnuH Ne
of the fire for the Milk Pcol. :"
are fighting some orgsniEaL.0;5. :.
battles for them. We are ,i nO D. I
terested in building the hllk IN ~
but in winning something lOf
farmers.
This is what should be done I'D =
other meeting should be CAS- ~.
and this agreement should q IN IN
celled, if possible. We Wish = NJ
cate the masses. not nil
ignorance. We wish to Sc e.. s %
tant and educational litera'u,s -.
the picket lines. We want p = 4,
ganda and action that VIII W. W. NJ
strike. The farmers must i' A..
news from their own paper " sip
der to learn better how % .bsp
their struggle, and 60 ~hsr
clearly see for themselves
they are going.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Weekly Organizational Letter
BY ALFRED ITALIA Natl sy United Ave. Minneapolis Mimi
The United Front In Practice

REPRESENTATIVES of both organi-
cations met, and agreed to work
on the basis of the united front
under this agreement that there be
no propaganda from either side for
the purpose of getting members In
their organization, nor shall there
be anv news on the picket lines
from either side. nor any leaflets.
In what position does this place
the United Farmers League?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Mimi. Students Coed
Organizers

Reports received from stud.,..
who attended the Minnesota
sion of the Farm School on W So
at Palisade, Mimi, indicate . az
practically all of them have -.
active in organizing delepationS' ~.
farmers to attend the CHI.
Conference. Four of the M;s-
sofa students are members - -
state executive committee AZ -
United Farmers League and -
toured the state in preparatio, ~ s'0
the Conference. W
The two students who attera..
the School from Wisconsin ~. ~.
elected to the Wisconsin U5;,.S
Farmers League state comm;t,s.
and are responsible for orpan;,.
tional work in two sections Of y.
state.
Seventeen students ATTENDED n.
four-week course in Minneso..
where the school was housed n
large hall belonging to the fam
ers. All Of the boys and girls "a.
attended the school are from fam.
lilies of rank and file farmers sS
must be prepared to devote pas
or all of their time to Organaipv
for the militant farm movempr
after they have finished the scbool
School Made Three Stom
sM7Ea zsnuz sm~<.s smzzaza -.
The three stops of the Fam
School to date-in Michigan where
it helped to train organizers for
the militant Michigan Farmen
League, in Minnesota where If
worked in cooperation with the
United Farmers League, and in
Nebraska where it assisted the
Nebraska Holiday Assn. Madison
County Plan) in developing rank
and file ieaders-prove definitely
that the school can fulfill a very
important task of the militant
farm movement, namely the build
ing up of a corps of trai,ed, en-
ergetic young farm men and wO-
men who are able and ready 70
stand at the head of farmer'
struggles throughout the country.
The School enables the students
to gain a clearer conception of the
real cause of the crisis which is
running the American farmer, and
to help them in developing Organi-
cation of the small and busted
middle farmers which will lead
them along the only road out d
the crisis for farmers as well As
workers-that of militant mass &C.
ton.
Represented at Conference
The Farm School on wheels is
being represented at the Chicago
Farmers Second National Confer
ence, where it will lay plans fOE
work with militant farm organic,
tons in other sections Of the cOun-
try. The school is supported BY
the Farmers National Committee
! for Action and by contributions
from farmers and farm organiza-
TORS wherever it stops. It i
hoped that similar schools ma!
soon be developed so that every
group of militant rank-and-flc
farmers in the United States ma!
have an opportunity to send then
most promising young oCganizer
to receive much-needed training.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

part. and accounts Of neetmgs
etc.
The Pool is constantly Ilayed y
before the masses anyway WheIns.
they publish their own papa =
not. And the UFL Is the ony
farm organization in the s'at
which clearly exposes the faHlH :
the Pool program. and the o1a y.
Ueformist programs. So L
Pool can in some way muzzle
United Farmers League, u
final event it loses nothing ~
gains much. Such is the effee55 =. \
the agreement between the ~
and the U. F. L. in Lincoln eOun"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17

Voc DOAA vi bAAG SAINT pldCG - .
years ago. He was to lose all his
chattels by the execution of
chattel mortgage through a sher-
ifs sale in order to satisfy judg-
ment for S1400 taken out against
him by Oscar Showers, cattle deal
er of Racine.
Higgins had paid Shower S140C
en- an original mortgage of $500
in the last three years. Through
shady dealings, and continual re-
newal fees of notes, which were
forced on him by his creditor, the
balance now stood at 81, 200. SHOW.
ers secured a judgment against
Higgins and had the sheriff at.
tach all of Higgins livestock
horses, poultry, feed, machinery
etc The sale of which would
have left him absolutely empty
handed.
u. F. L. Gets Busy
This case was brought to tbs
attention of the United Farmers
League local in Kenosha county
We Immediately took steps to SEA
that farmer Higgins stayed on his
farm and kept his personal prop.
erty. We visited Showers, who re.
fused to have anything to do with
the committee that saw him, ever
turning down an offer Of SIS pei
month payments made by Higgins
We got out one thousand hand.
bills explaining the details of the
case and calling on all farmers tt
be present at the sale on Nov. 4
A committee was appointed, which
took steps to call a meeting al
which a real Committee of Action
representative of all the farmers
was to be elected.
Lots of Excitement
As soon as the bills started Il
get out they caused lots of excite
ment around here as this is tht
first case of this kind where tht
farmers were going to take &C
ton. On Nov. 2, the sheriff's law
yer called up lawyer G. A. Mittle
staedt, who has acted for Higgins
long ago, on other business but
who turned down this case a
hopeless"
The sheriff's lawyer asked Nit
tlestaedt to take out an injunc
ton to restrain the sheriff from
holding the sale. They got Hig
gins to sign the request, and
court commissioner granted it, fix
ing the injunction to be in effec-
till December 2 when another hear
ing will be held in Circuit Court
In spite of the news articles anC
I. prominence given the delay, by tn,
local press, over rs farmers from
kenosha, Racine and Walwortl
counties, as well as unemploye,
workers from Racine and Kenosh;
turned out to the sale.
Meeting Held
Sheriff Erickson, of Kenosh,
county showed up and was as mic,
as pie. He kept on telling u
that he was "only an agent, an.
have to carry out the order
that / am given" After he real
the court injunction and called th,
sale off. The crowd all went dow
to the cow barn where a meetin,
was held.
Jack BARLEY, organizer for tn,
United Farmers League addresse.
the farmers, stating that it wa.
not the goodheartedness of the Of
ficials that stopped the sale. bu
the fear Of the organized farmers
He stressed the necessity for or
ganizatiOn, pointing out that afte
the court hearing on Dec. 2 it vii
again be necessary to take stem
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Fearing Action Of Farmers,
Sheriff POstpones Foreclosure
SIN the Chicago Milk Shed We Have the Thin Edge in
Now We are Going to Bust Her Wide Open for
the u. F. l. From Now On Writes Organizer
Sheriffs Lawyer Says of Farmers Well Have One
Helluva Time Stopping Them Once They Start
BY ]. hartley

KENOSHA, Wisc.-The farmers of Kenosha county had
good demonstration recently of the power the orga-
niZed farmer has,
Freeman Higgins is farmer of Kenosha county whose
grandfather settled the farm he occupies and who
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
NEBRASKA SESSION OF FARM
SCHOOL ON WHEELS FINISHED.
MUCH CONFERENCE WORK DOM

arranged almost every event.,
farm communities within a tit.H 4
mile radius of the school, a. my
meetings all students tool -. -aese
leading discussion of - n
problems and speaking On n. ~.
cago Farmers Conference IN q
Anti-War Conference. f.r. 1A
newspapers, and presentino .s
about farm life. pan
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
Thirteen Students Who Attended School for Three
Week Period Were Sent by Locals of Holiday Assn
of Nebraska madison County Plan) -
2 SCHOOL SESSIONS HELD PREVIOUSLY
Plans VIII Be Laid at Farmers Second National Confer
ence for Educational Work to Be Done
In Many Other Parts of u. S.

RAVENNA, Nebr, Nov. The Farm School on wheels
recently completed its third session. held the farm of
William Pritschau here Thirteen students attended
the school for the threwee period All of these students
delegated to attend by locals of the Holiday Assoca
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-11-17
SCOTTSBORO CASE
WILL BE RESUMED
ON NOVEMBER Y
Negro Defense Witness
Dies of Poison Just Be
fore New Trial Is Set

DECATUR, Ala.-The Scots
boro boys will for the fourth time
face the electric chair in a lynch
trial before special term of court
here November 81, it was an
nounced last week by Judge w. w.
Callahan.
Judge Callahan, notorious men,
Der of the Ku Klux Khan, who has
been picked by Attorney General
Thomas E. Knight to preside at
the hearings, said the announce
ment followed a conference be-
tween himself, Knight, and Judge
James E. Horton.
Since the April trial, Decatur
has been the scene of a reign of
continual terror against the Negro
residents. One has been lynched,
at least two have been murdered,
and one has been railroaded to a
death sentence on a framed charge
of rape.
CHATTANOOGA, Tem.-E. l..
Lewis, Negro defense witness in
the Scottsboro trial, died here
October II, of poisoning.
An Investigation is being con-
Quoted into his death by the In
ternational Labor Defense. The
circumstances around the sudden
death by poisoning, two days be-
fore a new trial was set for the
boys, of this important Scottsboro
defense witness, who has been
threatened with death by the Ku
Klux Klan, indicate that he was
done away with in preparation for
the Scottsboro trials.
1t has been established by the
l. L. D. that Lewis was visited by
strangers IN his home the day be-
fore he died.
Investigation Hampered
An attempt is being made by
the authorities to forstall an in
vestigation and examination, by
putting forward the theory that
Lewis died, not of poisoning, but
of an apoplectic stroke, although
all the indications are that this
was not the case.
Lewis testimony at Decatur last
April, that he saw Victoria Price
and Ruby Bates in company with
Lester Carter and Orville Gilley
in the jungle at Chattanooga the
day before the train ride from
which followed the arrest and
frame-up of. the nine Scottsboro
boys, was very important in break
ing down the perjured testimony
of Victoria Price.
While he was in Decatur wait
ing for the trial of Charlie Weems
which was to follow that of Hey.
wood Patterson, but which was
indefinitely postponed, his home in
Chattanooga was burned down BY
incendiaries.
Threatened With LynchinR
Twice since his life has been
threatened by Ku Klux KlansmeI
and emissaries of Attorney Gen.
eral Thomas E. knight of Ala
bama and ex-senator Thomas ]
Helm. Each time he succeeded
in escaping from them. He has
courageously declared his willing
ness to brave the terror of the
white landlord Klans Of north.
ern Alabama to return at any
time to repeat his testimony.
A demand is being raised by the
International Labor Defense fol
an open, public investigation of the
death of Lewis, which is seen az
a development of the campaign Of
terror and intimidation against the
Negro witnesses in the Scotts5orC
case.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-10-13
PROFIT IN MILK DISTRIBUTING

Testimony before the Legislative
committee investigation IF milk
marketing in the Philadelphia area,
given by William ]. Brennan special
investigator for the State Depart
ment of Justice, showed that over a
five-year period net earnings of the
Philadelphia Dairy Products corpor-
alton, which now controls the Scott
Powell Diaries, were 1879 per cent
with the 3-year average before the
firm was taken over by holding
company being fixed at 20.S per cent.
Abbotts Diaries earned an average
of II per cent on it's capita, ization
over a six-year period, while Sup
plee Wills-Jones, in the last eight
years, piled up" an average of 25.5
per cent a year. HARRISON Diaries,
smallest of Philadelphia big A"
had net earnings of 81 per cent a
year over an eight-year period.